Garages can be one of the most useful rooms in your home. A well-organized garage can provide storage for a variety of items including your new car. However, these spaces can easily become cluttered and overrun with items that homeowners do not want inside their home.
If you have a luxury car, but cannot park it into your cluttered garage, it may be time to start thinking about how you can organize the space. Below is a list of creative ways you can start organizing your garage today!
1. Stackable and Clear Plastic Bins
One of the simplest, but often most overlooked, ways to organize your garage is to use clear and stackable plastic bins. These bins allow homeowners to fully utilize more of their garage’s space, as they can be stacked on top of each other and placed against a wall.Homeowners should look to purchase clear plastic bins, because their transparent design will allow for easy identification of contents. This identification prevents unneeded searching and rifling through already organized materials.
2. Clear Jars
Similar to the function of clear plastic bins, clear jars will allow homeowners to store smaller materials in an organized and easily identifiable way. Jars are great for small objects like hardware and tools, but really anything you need to store tidily can make good use of a jar.Homeowners also might be able to utilize old food jars that they have washed out for this purpose. Pasta sauce and peanut butter jars are great creative options for storing smaller materials in your garage.
3. Extensive Shelving
Nothing is more important for a garage’s organization than extensive shelving. The best practice for purchasing and installing shelving into your garage is to choose shelving that supports a variety of items. For example, long, skinny shelves are perfect for the smaller clear jars you will be using for tools and hardware. However, large shelves may be important to store larger bins or boxes.
You may also find it necessary to purchase an array of both horizontal and vertical shelving to support a variety of items found in your garage. Hooks can also be a godsend in the garage, so keep them in mind.
4. Lockable Cabinet
Purchasing a lockable cabinet is a great investment for your garage space for a variety of reasons.
First, such a cabinet will allow you to store cleaning, landscaping, and other bulky items that you will use frequently. Second, the lock feature of the cabinet will allow you to keep these chemicals and pesticides away from your children and pets.
For added organization, homeowners should look for a cabinet that provides exterior storage as well. The more options you give yourself, the better your garage space can look.
5. Build a Workbench
For homeowners who work in their garage frequently, a workbench can provide necessary organization and room to maneuver. This bench will allow homeowners to work on a variety of projects such as installing acrylic countertops, landscaping maintenance, and general home repairs while still maintaining an organized garage. An at-home workbench can also be customized with additional storage items like shelving, pegboards, and smaller lidless plastic bins for easy item retrieval.
6. Portable Label Maker
A portable label maker can provide the perfect finishing touch to any organized space: precise and legible handwriting. In your garage, this label maker can be used to mark your clear bins, shelving, or jars.
Enjoy Your New Garage!
All of the creative organization tips listed below will allow homeowners to transform their cluttered garage into a usable and organized space. Items like a workbench and label maker can also continue to be used throughout the time you live in your home to complete projects around the house.
Now that you have organized your garage space, you may be looking out your garage door and thinking it’s time to renovate your driveway. If so, you should check out these driveway paving ideas.
Author Bio
Skylar Ross is a contributor to the Innovative Materials blog. He is a content writer for the construction and home improvement industries with an interest in landscaping, outdoor remodeling, and interior design. Skylar is focused on educating homeowners, contractors, and architects on innovative materials and methods of construction that increase property value, improve sustainability, and create a warm and welcoming ambiance.
