The garage has never been a place for simply parking your car. Ever since garages were introduced in the homes of everyday men and women, they have been utilized for a variety of purposes, from additional storage space to home offices to entertainment areas. Depending on the size of your garage and your actual needs, you can use the space provided by it in every way you can think of. The important thing is first to come up with a redevelopment project that you wish to complete, then assess the necessary resources and skills for it, and finally, just before you start, prep your garage for the upcoming transformation.
Alternatively, you can just want to optimise the way you use your garage now. In both cases the following tips will definitely come in handy:
- First and foremost, fight the clutter in your garage. It is easy to fall into the trap in which you use the place for just dumping unnecessary items that find no other place at home, but this is a mistake you should not make more than once. Go through everything that your garage contains and you will find things that you neither need nor you can use in any way. Gather all of them, call your local rubbish removal company and have the specialists that they are going to send drive all that junk to the landfill or the recycling depot. Once you have made that simple yet important step you will be able to move on to the next.
- Think about the items and tools that you most frequently use in a garage. Those things belong together. Just move them to a frequently used section – a series of shelves on one of the walls, or a number of drawers where those everyday items can easily be arranged and found upon need. A good shelving system will make you much more organized and will free up valuable space in your garage that you can utilize for other purposes.
- Long term storage is one of the main purposes for which garages are used (in addition to parking one’s car naturally). Long term storage is used for items that you will not need in the foreseeable future, but neither you can dispose of. It does not require easy access to the items in question, which is why the space just below the ceiling is perfect for the job. There are many ready to use overhead storage solutions that are sold in your local hardware store. Pick up one from a respectable brand and enjoy the optimized storage capacity of your garage
- It is not said that your garage should be a boring dull place where grey is the predominant color. Have fun with the colors and texture. You can use the garage for training ground for your upcoming big house redevelopment project and experiment with different solutions for the walls in terms of painting and decoration. Try to be creative and you will be satisfied with the results – it is guaranteed.
