What storage ideas are going to work best for you depend a great deal on the space you have available for storage. For my lighting cable storage I installed several large hooks along the
stage right wall of my
stage. I purchased several work bench height cabinets which
line the same wall just below my cable hooks for storing
gel frames, adapters, twofers, threefers,
dmx cable, and lense tubes. In my office, I have several 18 inch deep steel shelves along with a number of wall mount cabinets. In other storage areas I've got custom built shelving and racks because nothing comercially available would meet my needs.
Basically what I'm getting at here, is that in order to figure out what storage solutions will best meet your needs, you first need to figure out what your specific needs are. This coupled with the limitations of the space available to you will determine the best course of action. I know this all sounds rather vague, and it is, but without more specifics from you on what you have available to you, I really can't get any more specific.
Consider the following questions.:
Are you storing lighting or audio cables? 12/3 SOOW cable requires stronger hooks than mic cables.
Where could they store other than a box?
How big is the room where you store your paint, tools, lights and other things?
Is there anyplace else where some of this stuff could store?
How much paint are you storing? There's a big difference between a few 1 gallon cans and 5 gallon buckets of every color under the sun.
Same question for your tools and lights.
Answer these questions, and we might be able to provide better answers to your storage issues.