Put one of these over your bed? Or make a bunk bed with the top being tool storage?
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at that point a trip to IKEA might help
Great idea, @Barkydog. I wonder if the landlord would let the OP drill into the ceiling? Given the weight of tools, ramps, etc. the screws would have to use the joists I feel there are any. Commercial construction can be different than residential construction.
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Not if he’s sane…
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That’s why I asked the question.
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The restrictions on some apartment leases will not allow nails in the walls for picture hanging so drilling into ceiling joists is not going to be allowed.
I found it almost impossible to do much of my own work when I lived in a single room or small one-bedroom apartments. The repairs I accomplished with my small toolbox of assorted screwdrivers, pliers, combination open and box end wrenches, soldering iron and a Husky 3/8 drive socket set that came in a little red rectangular box was all I had room to store. Yet, I managed to change the generator, fuel pump and even replaced shock absorbers by driving one side of the car up on the curb, replacing shocks on that side and then driving the other side onto the curb. Changing oil wasn’t possible.
However, the single room I rented was $8 a week. After I was married, the first apartment we lived in rented for $88 a month. The next apartment was $90 a month including utilities. A house at that time would have rented for two to three times what the apartments cost. The money I saved by living in the small apartments more than paid for oil changes at the local gas station.
At the time, I was either a student or a contract faculty at a university and was also going to school in the evening. My simple tools allowed me to do minor repairs on the car and keep our.television and stereo system working. What I do remember is that while I was living in my $90 a month student housing apartment while in graduate school, there were students who were on my program who started the program a year or even two before I started the degree program and were still there a year or two after I finished,. These students had rented houses off campus and had to worry about parking and commuting to campus. I stepped out of my apartment building, jumped on a campus bus and was at my classes in less than five minutes.
Our son began working on a doctor’s degree and is also teaches full time. He sold his three bedroom house that was 35 minutes from his teaching job and campus and moved into a two bedroom apartment five minutes from both school and work. Both my son and I realize that you give up some things moving into an apartment, but you also gain time to do other things than car and house maintenance. If time is money, the move to an apartment is worth it IMHO.
Would you really be willing to sleep under something that heavy suspended from your ceiling? I sure wouldn’t.
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I remember trying to change plugs on my 59 Pontiac parked on the street. I got 7 of them out and back in but the 8th one I couldn’t get back in for anything with the tools I had in my trunk. Luckily it was only a couple blocks to the gas station that I used for general repairs. It made quite a racket when I drove up there but the guy only charged me a couple bucks to put the last plug in. After that I discovered the foot long piece of tubing with a stiff wire in it that enabled getting that last plug in. I think its probably still in my tool box somewhere 50 years later. I’ll have to label some of this stuff so my heirs will know not to throw it away.
Do you think your heirs will be working on a 59 Pontiac? 
OK, how about bunk beds, with the top bed area used for storage?
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Now that’s an idea.
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I agree. That’s a fantastic solution.
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Good as long as the person is not tall.
If he is tall, he could sleep on the top bunk and store the tools on the bottom bunk.
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Less chance of an errant socket falling on your head also!
Good points above . . .
But if you sleep on the top bunk, you have that much further to fall, if/when you roll out of bed in your sleep 
I looked at the picture rather carefully. And yes, I do know people whose luck is so lousy, they’d manage to roll out of even that bunk bed 
I don’t think anyone would want jacks and tools in their bed, put them in the closet.
I just made a bunch of shelves out of pallets we had after re-shingling our roof. They are sturdy and look much better than you would expect. You can almost always find pallets for free if you look. Lots of shelves= lots of storage
Careful though if those pallets came from China. They can have bugs in them.