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Michele and Denise,i
I can relate to your problems of space. I recently lucked out and renovated an old feed grainery on my property to my new studio.(24' x 24') But, beforehand, I searched and searched for a way to store my wet paintings and also my students' wet paintings, as I try to keep them for the students due to the transporting in their cars, etc..
We have a business just up the way from me and he sells used refrigeration racks, parts, etc. from huge markets like Kroger etc. He resells them and has acres of them. You have to walk through it (rather we drove a sort of golf cart) through. I knew what I wanted.
End result: A tall bakers rack, about 6 ft tall and maybe 24 in. wide. It has wire slots running up and down the 6 ft. span and these slots are about 3-4 inches apart. Remember the racks in restaurants , the kind that are buffet style and one would place their trays within those racks? Or in a hospital, the food trays will fit in layers? Well, mine was in that yard , all rusted and a little twisted (a little) so he just gave that to me (felt sorry that it was in bad shape, I guess) and then he had very nice hard plastic trays that would fit and slide into all of those slots. ($3 each) The trays are only 1 inch deep. So I can store up to a 24" painting in it. And I have about 20-25 slots into which I can store paintings.
I know that is a long shot but I knew what I wanted and tried to build a wooden one (with my hubby) but found it too heavy and all sort of problems. I should also mention that the bakers rack is also on wheels and I can move it with ease. I spray painted it 3 coats of black paint and now it looks like wrought iron instead of a mess.
I also use it to store my panels which I have cut to size and ready for gesso.
Good luck - if you do not find this it may give you other ideas to that effect.
One more hint. I put everything in my studio on casters or rollers so I can move easily. I bought an inexpensive unfinshed cabinet about 5 and 1/2 foot tall with shelves for storage and I set it too on a board as wide and deep as the cabinet and added 4 rollers . Voila! I can move it with two fingers across the room.
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