No tying room, how to organize

Go to Walmart and grab one of those tall plastic drawer units. They are about 4' tall with a handful of drawers of various sizes. I have a couple of them and then a couple smaller ones for small items and they work well.

My house is tiny. 2 bedrooms one bath, 1100 square feet. As such my tying area is stuck in one small corner of our small living room. It's not ideal, but it works just fine. And this way I can still be out with the family while I'm tying flies and not locked away in a tying room.

@SERE Nate - my comments are based on this and another of your posts about buying materials and only tying a certain number of flies.... first of all: good luck with that certain, limited number of flies. Perhaps you're very disciplined and can keep it that way. I doubt many of us are that well trained, disciplined. It's just too addictive to not try and tie something we see and read about as "the fly". I mean just this past week I've seen some really cool stuff from @SilverFly and @Nick Clayton. Innovative, creative, useful and undoubtedly fishy. So don't think you're going to limit your purchases (it would likely be more economical to buy flies - but where's the fun in that?).

I use something similar to what Nick posted plus I have totes and bins with 40 plus years of accumulation. I really don't like keeping all my thread out like Nick shows because I live in the desert, it is really dusty here and thread attracts dust; dust magnet and the dust does, in my not humble opinion, transfer to my ties. But I'm pretty much a 'git her done' tier, not the prettiest of ties. That said, I do have a small table top "bench" with dowels for thread that I keep handy. I stuff it in the closet when I'm not using it. The little cabinet on the left is something I store hooks, beads and a few other items in. The little bench is in the closet in the picture.
Do you have a good lamp?

Oh, @Old406Kid sent me a nifty youtube for a balanced leech. @Mike Ediger has been tying some awesome midges, @Dustin Bise posted some midges that I copied (after I went and bought more materials) and have caught fish on. @Methow shared a pattern with me yesterday that I'm trying to figure out how to tie (not sure about the head and eye construction but let's keep it on the down low).

Good luck keeping it minimal!

I have a crap load of stuff in the basement but rather than being in the cave use this to be in the same room as my wife.


It folds up, rolls, and easily stores in my closet when not in use.

for what its worth here is my old humble tying table., i installed peg board on that wall and and hung most of my materials on hooks. i liked that setup. bigger stuff went in the dresser.