Garage organization is essential to ensure the place where you store your vehicles, use as a workshop, and walk through on most days is in good order.
When your garage is in disarray, you spend too much time trying to find a needed item from last season or sports gear for a game starting soon. Avoid these problems by following this quick guide to organizing your garage and keeping it that way.
Start With the Aesthetics
It may seem counter to your organizational efforts, but having a put-together garage means also ensuring it looks good. Start from the ground up by looking for the best protective solution with garage floor coatings. Opt for a kit that works well in your environment and has the protective qualities and color you want. Not only do garage floor coatings protect the garage floor, but they are easy to clean and look great, too.
Next, clean up the walls by filling in holes, dents, and scratches before giving them a new coat of paint. Lighter colors are generally preferable in a garage to reflect the lighting and help you see your way around tools for ease of use and overall safety.
Look Up for Space Saving Solutions
If you have open rafters in the garage, look to this as an ideal area to store anything you use infrequently. Items, such as extra wood for projects or rubber totes with items you cannot quite part with will sit up there for years out of the way as long as they are stored carefully along the beams with evenly distributed weight.
Another ideal solution, if the garage ceiling is finished, is to build shelves anchored from the ceiling above the garage door. You can even extend them around the perimeter of the garage to maximize the available space without interfering with the garage door mechanism. Slide rubber totes in and out with ease or store off-season gear out of the way.
Watch this video for a do-it-yourself shelf idea.
Add Storage Solutions
Every garage has a lot of things in it that range from donation boxes to tools and sports equipment to household supplies. Adding storage cabinets and wall racks will provide the organizational possibilities you need to tackle the disarray.
Install industrial cabinets on one wall of the garage to house all of your tools. Select cabinets in durable metal that can be secured to the wall. Include a built-in workbench with lights if you like. On another wall, install adjustable and customizable wall racks you can easily configure to fit odd items, such as rakes and brooms. On a separate rack, add more hooks to hold sports gear, helmets, and anything else you can hang to keep it in order and off the floor.
Organizing your garage with these simple steps will give you satisfaction every time the door opens. You will be happy to step onto the new floor and see all of your garage tools and supplies neatly organized on shelves after this helpful makeover.
