nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

In our third bedroom I have a desk with a desktop windows computer on it. My photo gear currently consists of 4 bodies and 14 lenses and 5 camera bags. I have two Nikon speedlights and three whitelightning studio strobes.
Most of the bodies and lenses are in the bags and locked in the safe(also in the room). Since I'm in Florida the AC is pretty much always on so humidity isn't a problem.

SonyBug

In a fireproof standup gun safe. With guns, cameras, electronics, important papers. It is just about full, so it limits my buying power...

Largobob

I am lucky to have both a spare bedroom and a den. I purchased a dehumidifying storage cabinet on sale at B&H several months ago. It has a locking glass front hinged door; interior lighting; adjustable (digital) humidity level; digital thermometer; 5 padded pull-out shelves and a bottom permanent padded shelf; padding on top shelf is contoured to hold lenses horizontally; and leveling feet. My cabinet is made by "Rugged"...and they seem to come in a variety of sizes , volumes and price points. It is a very handsome addition to my den....and fits nicely behind a door, and beside my computer desk. When I go out to shoot, I load whatever gear I need into a LowePro backpack for the day.

I'm sure you know that dust, moisture and "the environment" can be hard on optical equipment. Balsam separation, mold, mildew and haze can form on, inside and between lenses stored in humid or high temperatures. This dehumidifying storage cabinet provides a convenient safe storage area with added peace of mind of controlled low humidity.

Now, if your 14 year old can cook, do laundry and clean the house...maybe we can negotiate? <big grin>

scubadoc Loc: Sarasota, FL

Dining room table for cameras, lenses. Floor under dining room table for all other bits and pieces, arranged in Amazon cardboard boxes and labeled as to content. My wife now wants a new dining room table.

mrtaxi Loc: Old Westbury NY, Fort Lauderdale, FL

I have a home on Long Island where I have two rooms dedicated, one with a video studio set up that has 6 LED lights on tripods, a video tripod , a sound boom with mic and a couple off camera mics with cables back to the video recorder and off camera monitor. Oh I forgot the backdrop set up with many choices. Across from this backdrop is 5he photography studio. Here I have 3-4 Einstein flash units on large rolling tripods with modifiers. My office has photo printer, scanner, color corrected monitors and computer - basically a gaming computer with very high end Nivida card and 32 Gb of ram for and two on site back ups and one off sight for editing. The equipment is filles up the entire top of a 7’ long dresser. The camera bags grew to 6 or so. Our second home is in florida where I also have a duplicate computer editing set up, and a space about 2’x 5’ long for camera’s and gear. About 7 Tripods with heads are split north and south. I have been thinking about downsizing the big Long Island house and combing the video and photo studio into one space.

katz3030 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX

I bought a safe to keep all of my gear in. Then it is protected from theft and fire as well as misplaced stuff which I was famous for.

We bought a huge one which at the time I thought it was too big but now I am thinking I could use another.

ppkwhat Loc: Gibsonton, FL

aschweik,
This one seems like a crazy advice, but since I also do a lot of target shooting with
my rifle, I purchased several surplus military 50 caliber metal cans to store my ammo and I'm using them to also store my camera stuff. They are totally sealed with rubber seals, so I throw a couple of silica gel packs inside and place my equipment wrapped on paper towels, close the can label it and stack them in a shelf. Also these cans comes in two sizes: for 30 mm (narrow) and 50 mm larger. The good thing is that they have the same length and hight so is easy to stack them if needed. They cost surplus around $10 and new around $15 to $19 bucks. I usually place the camera and flashes and any bulky equipment in the larger cans and the lenses in the smaller ones. they are really good and totally seal the humidity - just my "two cents" advice, but works for me.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

One space saver rule I adopted was not to keep the original packaging for anything other than cameras and lenses. In the beginning I saved everything and soon realized it was more efficient and a space saver to store accessories in a zip lock bag with any instruction manual.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Kids move out but the junk stays behind! Getting to be a problem here as houses are being built on postage stamp footprints (for those that can afford to buy one).

I leave all mine in a Think Tank Streetwalker, ready to take out - so long as I've remembered to put it away!

ctsteps5

on a shelf for all to see my passion

Fotomacher Loc: Toronto

I built shelves behind the door of the furnace room. Warm dry no humidity and unlikely that any B&E crooks will look there.

W5RA Loc: Walker, Louisiana

I use a Gun safe. It provides some fire and water protection plus some anti-theft protection.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

I use the best photographic equipment available to anyone (Nikon) so I store my gear in a Ruggard Dry Cabinet designed to keep my treasured equipment safe. I waited until B&H put this one on sale for much less than list. They do it about twice a year on their daily specials. I just waited until the sale and snatched it up. It is an outstandingly good product.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1348545-REG/ruggard_edc_120l_electronic_dry_cabinet_120l.html?sts=pi

Marilyng Loc: Lorain,Oh.

I purchased a three bin plastic container on wheels.It has three large drawers where I keep my cameras,lenses,extra batteries,chargers, & anything camera in these drawers.I purchased it at Walmart.I never misplace any of my camera equipment because it is all in these drawers!

mgoldfield

Maybe you have too much STUFF!

Perhaps you could go through it item by item; if an item hasn't been used in more than 6 months, sell it or dispose of it.

The way you describe your accumulation of gear suggests you might be suffering from an advanced case of Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS).

M. Goldfield