Scraps of lumber are always tough to manage. You constantly are sorting through, looking for the piece that will work for your current project, and it ends up in a mess. My first pass at managing this problem was to build the brackets below the windows for long pieces. this is a minimalist approach that helps but definitely does not solve the problem. Most recently, I built the carriage below the brackets. This is essentially an open ended box made of welded uni-strut. the kicker, though, is that it pivots on a "lolly column" salvaged out of the bone-yard. the column is bolted to the slab at the bottom, and the screw-jack top is captured in a uni-strut bracket at the top. A pipe is slipped over the column to form a hinge. Uni-strut is welded tot he pipe-hinge with a cable run down diagonally to the opposite end to serve as a brace. The whole unit can support a lot of weight (I can stand on the end with it fully loaded and swing without rubbing the slab) and swings freely away from the wall to give better access to items from the end or the back, accommodating loading and unloading long unwieldy objects. Works great.
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