That was mounted in the garage when we bought this house. It looked to be very old, works great, moved it to my workshop. Also whoever had mounted it in the garage had it mounted about 6 feet from the floor. I could never figure out why. It was mounted above a standard size door. There was no evidence of a platform ever being there and if there was, it would have been right in front of the door.
I have an old school pencil sharpener mounted on the door facing of my shop at about 6 or 7 ft up.... I'm about 6 ft tall and the sharpener is high enough that I don't hit my head through the door. It's in the upper left hand corner, very near the door header, where I don't hit my head as I walk under it....It's very handy to keep a good point on my pencils.
I like the cabinets under the work benches... good use of the space.
I have a crude set of drawers under a portion of my work benches that I built around the end of the shop with a right turn under the window.... shelves fill the other open sections. I also have another crudely built set of storage drawers in the open space under the ways of my lathe that holds my chucks, extra face plates, drill bits for the pepper mills, and anything else I need for the lathe.
I say crude because I'm not much of a carpenter... they are utilitarian, but look as if a child might have built them.
My original work bench that LOML bought for me from Home Depot or Lowe's years ago also had open wasted space under neath... I enclosed the ends and front, put a 3/4 plywood top on it and doors on the front that stores my power tools.
My shop is messy, dusty and cluttered, but I put tools back where they are stored immediately after use, otherwise I spend too much time looking for them when I need them next.