Garage Storage Ideas

By Ken Wilssens

You may need some garage storage ideas if your garage is cluttered and you can’t find the things you need. More and more people are using the garage as an extension of the home and are spending more time in the garage. Therefore they need the garage to look neat and tidy and have the tools they need at their fingertips when they want to use them.

Wall mounted shelves in a garage are a great idea for storing everything you need where you can easily see what is on each shelf. Some shelving units can cover the entire back or side wall of the garage and you have nothing scattered on the floor when you have the shelves organized.
You can have the shelves labelled so that anyone will be able to see where something needs to go when they put it back and it is much easier to find what you need. There are also free standing shelving units that are suitable for garages. You just have to make sure that the floor in the garage is level and the shelving unit will stand on its own. The benefit of using this type of storage is that you can move it around the garage when you need a certain part of the garage to store something else.

Other storage ideas for your garage include having hooks and brackets on the walls where you can hang work clothes, shovels, gardening tools, bicycles or even your golf clubs. There are special units you can purchase that will safely store sports equipment, such as tennis rackets, baseball bats and balls and even snowshoes.

If you have dangerous chemicals and pesticides in the garage, you do need to have storage cabinets with locking doors. This prevents any children from gaining access to these hazardous materials. A pegboard installed above your workbench will easily accommodate your tools and when you have the outline of the tool drawn on the board you know exactly where to put a tool when you are finished using it. You can also consider overhead storage units that hang from the beams and do not take up any of the workspace in the garage.

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