Did you know that 57% of people with two-car garages don’t have room to park cars inside them — or have room for only one vehicle?
We throw all stuff out in the garage except for the garbage. Garages need to store many household goods: lawn care devices, recycling bins, car parts, cleaning supplies, sports equipment, and general hardware.
So if you want to take the challenge of tidying up and organizing your garage, it’s time to dive in. Here are 10 Best Small Garage Storage Ideas on how to organize a garage step by step.
How to declutter garage quickly?
- Depending on the size of your garage and the amount of clutter, choose a full day or a full weekend to dedicate to decluttering and organizing your garage.
- Make cleaning your garage a family project. Include family members, relatives or a few close friends. This will help speed up the process.
- Go through every single item and sort into four piles – Keep, Donate, Sell, Toss.
How to organize a garage cheaply?
The whole process of garage organizing and cleanup could be stressful and kind of pricey, when you decide to invest your time and storage gadgets.
But you can do it on cheap and as efficiently as possible. Here’s how to organize a garage cheaply:
Organize before you buy.
Many make the mistake of buying a bunch of bins, filling them and then forgetting about them.
Use Garage Track Systems for Those Don’t Site nicely on Shelves.
Track systems offer vertical storage options that can be used with hooks (as well as shelving) and customized to your needs. No more mess-up.
Use pegboard for light and small items
You can use pegboards and add various hooks to the pegboard to hold tools, shoes, ski poles and more.
Buy in bulk.
The Costcos and Sam’s Clubs of the world are made for garage domination. Save for 30%-50% than retail.
Think vertical.
Make the most of vertical space with wall shelves. Shelves can be freestanding units, anchored to walls or attached to ceilings. Ceiling and wall shelving offer the advantage of freeing up floor space.
You can pay around $4 to store bikes on the ceiling via heavy-duty hooks and plywood. It keeps things much tidier.
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