When i was looking for paints storage it took me a while before i found the sort of thing i was after. The option i eventually opted for was this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-ultimate-paint-rack-by-massive-voodoo . If you want one you’ll need to petition them to make more as the orders for the batch they had made are done for this indiegogo campaign, but it’s worth looking at to see the utility of the rack they designed. Their video explains why it’s a good option so i’ll let that do the talking. What follows are my thoughts on the other styles of paint racks and why i was reticent to buy them.

Whilst i thought that the ‘artai’ tiered style of paints storage you linked to is probably the best option when using my paints because it allows me to see all the paints at any one time, the problem i think i’d have with it is when it comes to storing a lot paints as that style of rack takes up a lot of space per paint pot. For each extra row of paints you have after the first the rack takes up double as many rows worth of space as it already takes up in rows of paints in addition to the extra row of paints in order to get the height for the tiering; that is you need 4 rows of space for 2 rows of paint ( 1 ( the ‘ground floor’ row ) + 1 ( the ‘first floor’ row ) + 1 ( the empty ‘first floor’ support row ) + 1 ( the empty space above the ‘ground floor’ row ) ); or 9 rows of space for 3 rows of paint ( 1 ( the ‘ground floor’ row ) + 1 ( the ‘first floor’ row ) + 1 ( the ‘second floor’ row ) + 1 ( the empty ‘first floor’ support row ) + 2 ( the empty ‘second floor’ support rows) + 2 ( the empty space above the ‘ground floor’ row ) + 1 ( the empty space above the ‘first floor’ row ) ). The artai paint rack you linked to takes up 16 rows of space for 4 rows of paint. You can fit 40 GW paint pots on that rack, so if you had all the GW paints you’d need around 4 racks, which means you need 64 rows of space for 16 rows of paints. That’s a lot of storage space taken up by nothing.

Another option i looked at was was the ‘flat rack’ style paints storage, which is good for storage ( if it comes in a box and can be stacked ) but isn’t so good when in use as i found that with all my paints laid out horizonally i need to get up and look over the paints each time i want another paint, and then i need to search over a largely homogenously organised flat landscape of pots to pick out the paint i want. This situation is made worse if i’m not actually certain what it is i want in terms of colour as the intrinsic discrimination in the rack between groups of paints in criss-crossing rows is less obvious than with tiers, and the situation is made worse again if the paint pots i’m using don’t indicate the colour on the top.

Another option was the vertical ‘wine bottle’ style rack in which pots are stored like wine bottles, which essentially i could see having the same issues as the ‘flat rack’ style paints storage.

And then finally i looked at the vertical ‘bookcase’ style storage in which pots are stored upright. This, like the tiered system, i though looked like it would be good when in use for selecting paints, and also it doesn’t take up so much storage space for ’empty’ support space, though if you have a banister preventing the paints falling off the shelves some empty space is needed above the pots of paint to enable you to lift them up and over the banisters to take them out for use. The other problem i found with option was that it wasn’t available commercially so that means i’d have to make it.

So none of the options available appealed to me until i found the massive voodoo option. I’ve bought 2 of their racks and they are due to arrive sometime this February or March. I’ll endeavour to give you some feedback when they arrive and i’ve had the chance to use them.