Your garage is intended to protect your vehicle, but it tends to accumulate all the junk of your household. This can prevent you from even fitting your vehicle inside of the garage! Keeping your garage organized can help to ensure that your garage is a comfortable, functional environment. It is also important to ensure that the garage door stays in good condition to protect this functionality. Our team at Advanced Door can help you to do so. Here are a few tips for keeping your garage organized.
Organize Lawn Equipment
It is likely that you have an accumulation of lawn-related equipment in your garage. After all, you likely don’t want to bring the dirt-covered tools into your home! These tools can fall into disarray, especially when they are just placed leaning against various walls. You may want to consider organizing your lawn equipment by hanging it on a pegboard panel in the garage. This will both prevent the disarray and keep the equipment organized and easily accessible.
Vertical Bin Storage
Vertical bin storage can often be implemented to help you maximize your use of space. By making use of the wall space of your garage, you will be able to more effectively organize your belongings. When you implement this storage system, you will want to ensure that you label each container in order to make it easy to find what you need. You should also ensure that you organize the items by their frequency of use. This will make it easier to access the items that you need more frequently.
Hanging Bike Storage
Hanging bike storage can further help to save space in your garage. However, you will likely want to use bike storage on the walls, rather than the roof. When you store your bikes up by the ceiling, it will be difficult to access them when you need them. With a storage system adhered to the walls, you will be able to more conveniently access your bikes, while ensuring that they are out of your way.
Ensure you Take Enough Time
It is essential to ensure that you block out enough time to thoroughly organize your garage. Garage organization usually takes more than a few hours. You may want to consider taking the entire day or even the weekend to ensure that you can complete the process thoroughly. This will enable you to clean out all of your belongings, organize them, then return them to their new designated location.
Organize Belongings into 3 Piles
Decluttering is an important part of keeping your garage organized. In order to accomplish this, you will want to gather all of the items in the garage and sort them into 3 separate piles. One pile should be the necessary items that you intend to keep. Another pile that will contain things that you don’t need but are still in good condition should be devoted to donation. Finally, you will want to throw away things that you don’t need and aren’t in good condition.
Be Prepared
To effectively organize your garage, you will want to ensure that you prepare everything that you will need before you begin the process. Gather enough trash bags for any belongings that you intend to discard. You will also want an array of cleaning supplies so that you can thoroughly clean garage while all of the items are removed. Storage containers can also help you to ensure that you are able to implement the ideal organization system that you desire for your garage.
Keeping your garage organized can be a difficult undertaking, but it provides a broad array of benefits. Following these tips can help you to keep the garage organized and ensure that it is able to function as it is intended to. It is similarly important to care for your garage door to prevent damage and further protect your garage. For more information about garage door maintenance and the services that we can provide, contact us at Advanced Door today!