A garage can be a convenient dump for everything that cannot fit into your house, but with a little organisation and some good quality garage shelving units you can transform your garage from a dump to a well ordered storeroom, increasing your storage space many times over.
Rather than just clearing the clutter and boxing up all of your stuff, take a few minutes to plan your storage needs for the whole house. This is a great opportunity to sort out your house and shed storage and repurpose the space.
Plan your storage requirements, and you may be able to clear space to create a workshop, hobby area, larder or a play area for your kids.
Clean and Clear
It's time to be ruthless and clear out anything you aren't going to use again.
The easiest way to clean and clear is to create three separate piles: Items to throw away, items to keep and those which can be donated to charity or recycled. Get rid of anything faulty or broken, sell items you don’t need on E-bay or donate them to charity, and trim down your stored goods as much as possible.
When you have cleared as much as you can, it’s time to organise all of your items that need to be stored. Try to keep similar items together and create separate piles for different categories of items such as gardening equipment, tools, food, household items etc. Similar items should be stored together as it will make it far easier to find what you want.
When you have sorted all of your kit, you will have a good idea of the amount of storage space you need and you can measure up and order your shelving, racking and workbenches.
Reorganisation
The same level of thought and consideration that goes into planning the layout and storage space in any room in the house should be applied to the garage. Plan where you want your stuff stored where it will be easily accessible and make sure that you factor in space to move around and use the space easily.
Even small garages offer plenty of scope for storage. The key to using this space is to think volume rather than area, and vertical space rather than floor space. Calculate your storage requirements to make sure you have ample space to keep all of your equipment, and factor in extra space for future storage needs. It’s better to have too much storage space than too little.
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