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I tend to be a little OCD about organising my chests and wondered how other people do it. Do you just chuck anything in anywhere, or have chests laid out in a specific way? I label all my chests and have chests for...

Wood
Tools
Ores
Electrics
Stone/gravel
Sand/glass
Gardening supplies
Nether stuff
Potions
Animal produce
Food
and one hidden away with diamonds and TNT, etc.

Of course, there are always the odd item that I am never sure which chest to place in.

What you have is very similar to what I usually do. On one world I have individual chests for most items in a large storage area. I found out that that many item frames causes a lot of lagginess, so I won't be doing that again.

I have a chest for raw materials (usually all things that come in cube-shaped blocks). One for refined materials (iron, gold, redstone, or anything that is a building material not cube-shaped). One for built materials (fences, glass panes, doors, etc.). One for tools and weapons. One for treasures (saddles, records). One for food. One for farming materials. One for Coal. (I stockpile a LOT of coal). One for potion brewing.

I'm very compartmentalized.

I eventually make a storage room or vault on my worlds that I play. That way I can have things organized, even if others don't know the system in which I organize it. Usually each chest has a specific thing in them. At first I have to chuck everything in a chest or two; at least till I get a storage worthy of sorting.

Might be old but on my Arcavia world presents this with ease, even though on that I call it a vault. Several corridors lined with chests each relating to each other in some form or fashion.

Something I go over the top about is storage, so I can very well say my storage usually ends up pretty big; however it is not big as some I've seen. I only add chests when needed. If there is an empty chest, then it doesn't belong or has not be designated for something. I have that latter bit in my Arcavia world, which I was thinking ahead for "new" stuff that I would eventually put in storage, as I go back to that world on occasion to do this and that.

I usually group my chests by type then alphabetically. For instance, Wood - Birch, Jungle, Oak, Spruce.

I like to keep the amount of stuff I have in storage to a minimum in many worlds (one-chest challenge, for example). Inside that single chest, I try to keep the most used items in either the top row or the bottom row and the more stagnant items in the middle. Where I allow myself more than one chest, I tend to make many of them project oriented... For example, if I'm building a structure out of a certain type of wood, that may be the only type of wood I'll have stored in the chest near the build site and I'll avoid collecting the other types of wood until the project is complete.