How to Use a Notice Board and Pegboard Together
Some things need somewhere to be stored. Others need somewhere to be seen.
That is why a pegboard and a fabric Notice Board can work so well together. A pegboard keeps the practical things you regularly reach for within easy reach, while a Notice Board holds the information you need to remember: appointments, invitations, school letters, photographs, lists and the little pieces of paper that otherwise disappear at precisely the wrong moment.
One is for the things you need to reach. The other is for the things you need to remember.
Used together, they can turn an overlooked section of wall into a genuinely useful part of your home—without making the room feel like an office or attempting to organise your life into submission.
Why a Notice Board and pegboard work well together
Although both products use wall space, they perform quite different jobs.
A pegboard is useful for objects. Depending on the room, it might hold scissors, brushes, reels of thread, headphones, small shelves, kitchen utensils or the bag you need to remember when you leave the house.
A Notice Board is better suited to information and visual reminders. Notes and photographs can be slipped beneath the crossed ribbons and kept visible without requiring drawing pins.
Putting the two together gives you a simple division:
- The pegboard holds equipment and everyday objects.
- The Notice Board holds plans, paperwork and reminders.
- Shelves or baskets can contain things that do not need to remain visible.
That distinction matters. When every type of item is expected to live in the same place, even a well-intentioned organisation system can become cluttered surprisingly quickly.
A useful wall does not need to hold everything you own. It simply needs to make the right things easier to find.
Start with what the wall needs to do
Before deciding on colours, baskets or hooks, think about the job you want the wall to perform.
In a craft room, the priority might be keeping tools within reach while giving current ideas and plans somewhere visible to live. In a hallway, it may be about gathering keys, bags, post and reminders in the place where people naturally arrive and leave. In a kitchen, it might hold utensils and ingredients alongside meal plans, appointments and family information.
Ask yourself two questions:
- What do I regularly waste time looking for?
- What do I regularly forget because it has been put away?
The answer to the first question belongs on the pegboard. The answer to the second probably belongs on the Notice Board.
Create a practical craft-room wall
Craft rooms are particularly well suited to this combination because they contain both physical tools and works in progress.
Use the pegboard for the equipment you reach for regularly: scissors, brushes, tapes, small containers and frequently used materials. Reserve the Notice Board for sketches, fabric samples, measurements, reference photographs, colour combinations and notes about current projects.
This keeps inspiration visible without allowing it to become mixed up with the equipment needed to act on it.
A Notice Board can also make a practical craft room feel more personal. Photographs, postcards and pieces of artwork can sit alongside project information, so the room still feels creative rather than purely functional.
The Duck Egg Blue Notice Board works especially well with soft greens, blush pinks and warm natural wood. It introduces colour without overwhelming the quieter pastel shades often found in sewing and craft rooms.
See how a Notice Board can work in a calm home workspace.
Use the same principle in a kitchen
A kitchen wall has to work rather harder than most.
It may need to accommodate cooking equipment, shopping information, appointments and the general administration of everyday life—often in a room where worktop space is already valuable.
A pegboard can hold pans, utensils, herbs or small shelves. A nearby Notice Board can keep meal ideas, invitations, reminders and family information visible without allowing paper to spread across the worktop.
This is not about creating a complicated household command centre. It is simply about giving practical objects and important information different places to live.
The result can be useful without feeling clinical. Fabric, ribbon and colour soften the functional appearance of a pegboard, while the pegboard gives everyday kitchen equipment an intentional place on the wall.
The Tobacco Gold fabric Notice Board shown here brings warmth to the aubergine wall and works naturally with copper, timber and dark painted cabinetry. It demonstrates that practical organisation does not have to be pale, minimal or carefully hidden.
For more room-specific inspiration, visit Kitchen Notice Board Ideas for Busy Homes.
Make better use of a hallway or entrance
The hallway is where useful systems are tested most severely. Bags are dropped, keys vanish and post arrives with no obvious destination.
A pegboard can provide hooks and small containers for the physical things that need to leave the house with you. A fabric Notice Board can hold the reminders that prevent you from leaving without them.
The Notice Board does not need to contain every piece of household paperwork. It should display only the things that are currently useful: an invitation with an approaching date, a school reminder, a collection note or a list that someone genuinely needs to see.
Once a note is no longer relevant, remove it. A Notice Board works best as an active part of the home rather than an archive of paper from six months ago.
Keep the arrangement visually calm
Useful does not have to mean visually busy.
A few simple decisions will help the two boards feel connected:
Repeat one or two colours
The ribbon or fabric colour of the Notice Board might echo a painted cupboard, storage container or small accessory on the pegboard. The colours do not need to match exactly; they simply need to look as though they belong in the same room.
Leave space around both boards
Filling every available inch usually makes the wall less useful. Leave some open pegboard holes, some clear sections of ribbon and enough wall around the arrangement for it to breathe.
Keep everyday items within reach
A beautiful system is no help if you need a step ladder every time you want the scissors. Position regularly used objects and current reminders at a comfortable height.
Let the room have some personality
A practical wall can still include a photograph, postcard, favourite mug or small plant. Your home does not have to behave like a filing cabinet simply because you would like it to function properly.
If you enjoy using colour rather than hiding every practical item, you may also like Colour-Drenched Interiors with Fabric Notice Boards.
Choose the right Notice Board
Think about what you genuinely want the board to hold rather than choosing purely by the amount of empty wall available.
The smaller 40 × 48 cm Notice Board can suit a compact workspace or a focused group of reminders. The larger 48 × 60 cm size provides more room for household information, project notes, photographs and invitations.
Both sizes can hang in portrait or landscape orientation, which makes it easier to fit the Notice Board beside an existing pegboard or into a narrower area of wall.
Colour can help the board settle into the room:
- Ivory is soft, warm and easy to place with natural materials.
- Scandi Grey works well with pale timber and quieter contemporary rooms.
- Duck Egg Blue brings gentle colour to craft rooms, bedrooms and workspaces.
- Rose or Blush Pink adds warmth without feeling overly sweet.
- Tobacco Gold works particularly well with deeper paint colours, timber and brass.
- Charcoal or Black creates more contrast in industrial, colourful or contemporary interiors.
Notice Board Store boards are handmade in the United Kingdom, fully covered on the reverse and supplied ready to hang. Notes and photographs are held beneath the crossed grosgrain ribbons, so no pins are required.
Browse handmade fabric Notice Boards at Notice Board Store.
A simple wall that earns its place
The best home-organisation ideas are not necessarily the largest or most elaborate. They are the ones that make ordinary life slightly easier without demanding constant maintenance.
A pegboard and Notice Board work together because each has a clear responsibility. Tools and objects remain within reach. Information remains visible. Worktops and desks have a better chance of staying clear.
More importantly, the arrangement can be adapted to the way you actually live. It can be practical, colourful, quiet, characterful or a little of all four.
That is far more useful than creating a flawless organisation system that nobody in the house can be bothered to use.
Would you like a little more help creating a calmer home?
The free Calm Home Starter Kit offers simple, practical ideas for making everyday spaces feel more manageable, without expecting your home to be empty, beige or perfect.