So I'm lately bringing a lot of stuff back from adventuring and exploring, and it's all starting to pile up, even though I store it all in a trunk upstairs.
First of all, does anyone know if the storage spaces (trunk, end table, satchel, etc) alotted in a house have a limit to the amount of items that can be place inside?
Secondly, how do you all keep your stuff - do you have a separate storage place for say potions, another for armor, another for raw materials, and so on...?
Looking for ideas on how to keep it all organized.

Oh yeah, the Inventory Mod: does it work with the house storage places too or just with the Character's carried inventory?

There is no limit on a container's storage (except for giving a follower gear). I myself to split things up so I don't need to dig around for ingredients or other crap, mainly because containers are no longer sorted. I just devote one chest to clothes and weapons, one to food/potions/alchemy, one to enchanting, and one to misc.

As for the mod question, not a clue.

No limit to storage and it's all stored in groups of things like weapons, armour, potions, in alphabetical order.

Yeah, I divide my items by chests, dressers, baskets, etc. I like to keep all similar items in one place so I know where to go if I need them.

I absolutely store items by category; I'd go crazy otherwise. And if they're pretty enough, they go on one of the etageres (fancy shelving units) that I've cleared of all the useless bowls and whatnot that they "decorate" my house with by default. Dwemer gyro cores (or whatever they're called) are something I always put on a shelf. They tend to stay put. Cool weapons I'll try to arrange, but they don't seem as stable. Those claws that seem to be a part of every other Shout quest are another example of something I'd like to display but will never seem to stay put.

For organizational purposes, all my blacksmithing mats always go in the shelving unit all the way in the back of the Whiterun house. All my extraneous weapons and armor (which usually feed my enchanting efforts) go in the first little table on the left in the Whiterun house.

edit: Helpmeout, are you sure about that? Doesn't sound right to me, though I'll have to verify tonight. I don't think items stored in a container get the same auto-organization that items stored in your character's inventory do.

I'm waiting for the construction kit. I'm going to make a basemant in Whiterun with separate named containers for everything. Iron armor in one, steel in the next, ect. In my armory I'll probably have 20 chests on each side of the room. Maniquins displaying each sort of armor. My mages storage will have named containers for ingredients, potions, poisons, soulgems, staves, enchanted clothing, enchanted jewelry, scrolls, spelltomes, books. A chest of quest rewards and mementos, another of unique oddities.

I always wonder why we never get a building like that to own in the vanilla game. It can be expensive, idc. I'll save for the awesome mansion.

There is no limit to how many things you can store in a chest, but they don't always all appear in the list when you open it. This was also true of Oblivion. The solution is to take things out until you find the thing you want. Very frustrating.

I noticed after putting a certain number of items in a chest that performance would suddenly drop, as in adding or taking out another item. It was very noticable, and seemed to have a threshold. Under it, things seemed fine. Past it and it got slow.

It might matter that the chest in question was for all my unique and finished-quest items, so maybe they incur extra processing?

My chest of ingredients didn't seem to have the problem but I never compared the numbers.

I keep mine all separate, books,armour+weapons,potions,food etc are all in their own containers. I also keep a lot of stuff out on display in my home.

None of the homes have enough storage for my liking so i'll be building my self a fort once the CK is out.