The Dream Garage (thedreamgarage.net), a Markham, Ont.-based company, can also help you organize your garage with cabinetry, grid storage and more, all guaranteed for as long as you own your home. Individual lockers made of furniture-grade particleboard lockers and hung on a wall-mounted steel rail are also useful for storing sports equipment. I love this idea because even my son understands how to organize his belongings in his cubby at preschool.
5 Lateral thinking maximizes vertical storage. In other words, utilize every surface for storage, including the walls, support posts and ceiling. Bill boxed the posts in his garage with the panel system and used a ceiling-mounted shelf for storing off-season tires and other objects that aren't used regularly.
6 Keep it neat, treat the concrete. Coat the floor with white or light-colour epoxy paint. The idea, he says, is to create "a light, bright, inviting environment" that makes the garage feel like a multipurpose room that's part of the house. It will be obvious when the floor needs to be cleaned, and an epoxy coating makes it easy to mop.
7 Put it away and the garage will stay that way: organized. For every action of not putting an object in its place after using it, says Bill, there is an opposite and undesirable reaction when attempting to locate that object again, resulting in time wasted.
8 Your ride belongs inside. Once you organize your garage, you'll actually have room to park in it, too.
9 Don't be hasty, practise safety. Proper ventilation and locked, elevated storage of poisonous material and dangerous power tools are just a few ideas that should be part of your garage-organizing plan.
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