I use two 60-drawer plastic parts storage cabinets, 12 drawers tall and 5 drawers wide. When they're stacked vertically, I have 5 columns of 24 drawers, very nice since there are 24 5% values per decade, giving me access to 5 decades of 1/4-watt resistors, one drawer per value -- no dividers used, each drawer holding 300-400 resistors. The first column is 10 thru 91 ohms; second is 100 thru 910; third is 1K thru 9.1K; fourth is 10K thru 91K; fifth is 100K thru 910K; and the sixth is 1M thru 9.1M. I have a pretty massive parts inventory and values less than 10 ohms, greater than 9.1M or wattages other than 1/4-watt are in other storage (albeit just as organized). That, of course, works out fine since the 1/4-watt parts are the ones used 99% of the time, especially when breadboarding. The "bulk" storage system uses heavily-divided drawers, each steel drawer about 4" x 3" x 16" and handles from around 0.01 ohms to 100M ohms. There's no vertical/horizontal organization at all. Values just run progressively from lowest to highest, divided sections varying in size according to quantity/size of resistors. 1K and 10K are the larger ones. Each section will have 1/16-, 1/8, 1/4-(bulk and used parts), 1/2-, 1- and 2-watt resistors mixed together along with high-power wirewound units, the only commonality being the value. SMT "chip" resistors are in plastic parts boxes, one box per significant digits, 24 total boxes, each containing one decade for a certain set of significant digits, e.g., 22, 220, 2.2K, 22K, 220K, 2.2M ohms in that decade. Each box has six compartments, so it's pretty compact storage for teensy parts that would otherwise scoot around drawer dividers. Metal film "precision" resistors are stored in coin envelopes, one value per envelope, using two drawers in my big metal drawer system.
I have written an article describing my parts storage system that includes resistors, capacitors, lamps, ICs, transistors, diodes, hardware, et. al. if you're interested. PM me and I'll send you a copy. Or I could post it here, but in just a few days it would get lost in the fray unless a moderator could be persuaded to make a sticky topic for component storage system topics.