Reinventing Your Space: Easy Garage Organization Tips
In this article, we offer a few tips to reinvent your garage space and it’s quite easy, really.
21/02/2020
A garage is usually classified into how many cars it can hold. Now, as much as this may be a fairly good assumption, we all know that the garage is for much, much more than just vehicles. We’ve got old luggage in there, bicycles, boxes upon boxes of photos from the pre-digital age, and even some trophies we may have totally forgotten about. Either way, the garage is a free space for absolutely anything. The only issue with the garage is that it’s never big enough. There’s never enough space to fill all the stuff we think we can fit in there. So here are a few tips to reinvent your garage space. It’s quite easy, really.
Measure Wall Space
The first thing you need to do is figure out exactly how big your garage is. You can eyeball it, sure, but that’s going to end up being you in the butt later on when you’re trying to figure out how to rearrange things to make everything fit. You can either play Tetris or measure up. For example, if you need storage for bicycles and you’re planning on putting a rack up on the wall, you’ll want to know where you have the kind of room. There are options to have it suspended from the ceiling, sure. But sometimes that takes up more room on the side closest to the wall. Measuring out how you can put said bikes flush against the wall of your garage spells the difference between clean and neat aesthetics and a hodgepodge of things nailed to the plaster walls.
Measure Floor Space
Just as important as wall space is floor space. You’re undoubtedly going to have boxes you'll need to fit properly, correct? Well, in order to do that you’re going to have to figure out how much space you actually have once the cars are in the garage. There’s a simple trick that you see in a lot of engineers’ and contractors’ homes. It’s a tennis ball attached to a string dangling from the ceiling. Pull in slowly and have a buddy tell you when you’re a good six inches from hitting the wall in front. From there, have the tennis ball just touching the windshield right at the driver’s side and suspense it from that point. From then on, every time you pull into your garage, you know how far in you are. Furthermore, with that measurement, you can make adequate estimates on the floor space.
Foldable Or Rolling Shelves
You don’t need to have to keep all the bulky shelving you’ve had in there for a decade. You’re more than welcome (and encouraged) to upgrade that to a more ergonomic and space-saving type of shelving. The foldable shelf is similar in design to a lot of bike racks, except their shelves. You can retract them when not in use, pull them down when necessary, and turn your garage into a modular storage space.
Making sure your garage is organized is a matter of measurements and efficiency. Make sure your storage implements can either save space or serve multiple purposes. This way, you can be confident that you’ll be able to fit everything needed for years to come.