Take Back Control of Your Garage: Tips for Organizing

1. Wire Shelving In the Garage

Wall-mounted shelves are one of the easiest small garage storage ideas. Maximize your garage storage space quickly and easily with simple and inexpensive shelves, baskets, and hooks. These garage storage racks will only take you one morning to set up.

2. Stack Bins Vertically To Save Floor Space

Plastic storage bings are one of the best storage systems to separate and organize your equipment by sport or season. Unfortunately, they usually get stacked against a wall somewhere, which makes getting to the bottom bins difficult, especially for your household’s littlest teammates. Luckily, a permanent DIY garage solution is only a weekend away with easy to build storage towers that are an attractive and ingenious way to provide easy access to your bins. Consider different color bins for each sport to make finding what you need a breeze, and utilize the sides of the wooden frame for wall-mounted accessory items such as fishing rod holders or utility hooks for lightweight equipment.

3. Small Garage Overhead Storage

The ceiling of the garage is a perfect place to store light and medium weight seasonal items, like holiday decorations and camping gear. Get those big plastic storage bins up off the garage floor and onto the ceiling! You can build a garage ceiling storage system in a day.

4. Use an Epoxy Floor Coating

That dingy concrete slab will look even more drab once you’ve tidied up. An antiskid floor coating resists oil stains and wipes clean as easily as a kitchen countertop does—plus the color chips and paint disguise any imperfections.

5. Create a Workstation

After a successful decluttering session, you may find yourself with room for a small workstation. This doesn’t have to be an expensive or time-consuming project. Repurpose an old chest or desk and — voila! — you have a new garage workspace. Now you can tackle projects without messing up the kitchen table!