Garage Organization Articles
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My Garage is a Mess but what are my Options in Garage Organizers?
Our garage is a mess! The last house we lived in, there was no garage. So we were excited when we moved two years ago into a larger house with a garage. How wonderful for winter weather! We would not have to go out and defrost and clear the snow from the car. How wrong we were! Last year we were dumped on with snow, the worst winter in decades, and our car was outside in the driveway. What about our garage? It was a being used for storage, both organized and unorganized. - read entire article -
Garage Organizers Are Fun!
Wheeeee! Yippy! Hurray! Isn't that what you think when you think about garage organizers? I didn't think so. But it isn't all that bad is it. I know some people like to keep all their camping gear, tools, family collectibles, Christmas decorations, food storage, sports equipment, and other miscellaneous goodies in a, shall we say, "creative" storage system. Believe me, I understand. - read entire article -
Yes, Dear, Just Store it on the Ceiling: Garage Overhead Storage Options
Just when you think you have run out of storage area, because all of your wall and floor space is taken up, somebody comes up with an innovative storage option. Now, I have to admit that I have heard jokes about putting stuff on the ceiling, but I did not really consider it as a serious option. But somebody did. Yes, that is what makes a really good entrepreneur, they take the ideas we joke about and make it a reality, then years later we can say, “I thought of that!” and regret our missed opportunity. - read entire article -
Garage Storage Solutions Keep Dad Happy and Sane
Does this sound familiar? "Can someone please go to the garage and get me a hammer and a phillips screwdriver?" "Sure, where are they?" "They should be right there on the shelf." These are the hopeful pleas that escape your quivering lips. You know that you own a hammer. You know you own a screwdriver. And, you know they are both in the garage. What seems to be a continuing mystery is where these things live. Of course, if everyone else in the family would just be as conscientious as you are about putting things where they belong, all this useless frustration about where things are could be avoided. Argh! - read entire article -
Garagemaid Garage Storage
Q: How cool would it be to have a customized garage storage solution of your very own? A: Way cool! To be able to mix and match cabinets and wall hook units the way you want to with a product made out of a high density polyethylene that doesn't require painting or other maintenance is a dream made true by Garagemaid. Truly innovative do-it-yourself garage storage! - read entire article -
The Evolution of Garage Organizers
Eons ago when the first garages were built, it was with the intention of storing wagons, horses and tack and was called a barn. People did not horde a lot of stuff so they did not have a lot of need for storage. Those who were wealthy and had stuff, had big houses and servants to worry about where to put it all. With the advent of the modern age and the invention of the automobile, the modern garage was born. But the modern garage wasn’t just used for cars. Slowly the modern generation became pack rats, after all, there is just so much neat stuff that we need! With the computer age, not only were there a lot of advances in technology, but we have also become a society that loves our recreation and new forms of recreation are constantly being invented. We also have a lot of hobbies, from wood and metal working to landscaping and gardening. So what do we do with all this stuff? We put it in our garages and before we know it, our cars do not fit. - read entire article -
The Evolution of Garage Organizers
It seems like it happens four or five times a year when my husband recruits a handful of us to be garage organizers. The garage is a unique place in the house. If you don’t know where to put something, put it in the garage. It is the universal dumping ground of our home. This is compounded by the fact that we seem to think that the garage is also the multi-purpose room as well. This double use leads to a regular need to organize the garage. - read entire article -
Looking at Your Options for Garage Storage Solutions
It is safe to say in most parts of the country that spring is finally here and the desire to get outside and start getting some things done is in the air. The last few weekends I see people everywhere working outside, hauling stuff to the landfill and limbs to the local recycling area where they accept yard waste to mulch down to compost. Besides the yard, another area of focus for spring clean up is the garage... - read entire article -
Looking at Your Options for Garage Storage Solutions
I am an amateur woodworker and I love tool chests. It's funny, but one of my earliest memories is of watching my Grandfather show up at a work project with his tool chest. It wasn't particularly fancy or even that deluxe. It did, however, capture my imagination. When he opened the wood top there were all these wonderful tools that made it possible for him to fix, adjust, and even create things that he otherwise would not be able to do, and it was the chest that held all that potential... - read entire article -
Don't be Jealous of my Ultimate Garage
I have no idea what the ultimate garage means to you, but I suspect that most people don't have the perfect garage that they like to dream about. It's an evolution of sorts. Let's think about this for a minute: when you don't have a garage at all, it's just nice to think of having some place that is enclosed. You know, somewhere to keep your car and stuff (in my case, just the stuff). When you get a small garage you want a bigger one. When you have a bigger one, you want one that has cabinets and storage bins. See how this is going? - read entire article -
Garage Accessories for Every Home
We are getting ready to move in the next month, and my garage has been on my mind quite a bit lately. It seems like whenever we move, a bunch of stuff gets dumped in the garage waiting to be moved into the house and organized. Anything you don't know where to put, remains in the garage, and it becomes the cluttered place in the house. I was thinking, it would be best to go to the new house a week before moving in and set up all the nifty garage accessories first, before moving in everything else. - read entire article -
A Garage Floor Deserves More
My poor garage floor deserves better. It has done nothing to deserve the abuse it has suffered at my sometimes careless hands. There it is just minding it's own business, when, "Wham!", a hammer or other heavy tool hits it and chips away part of the concrete, just because I wasn't being careful. Or, right when it thinks everybody is being careful and there is nothing to fear, "Slosh!", there goes about a quart of stain splashing out of the gallon in a moment of careless mindlessness when I forget to pay attention and knock the can into the bench when I turn to soon. I feel bad, I really do. - read entire article -
3 Garage Floor Coverings You Will Love
Garage floor coverings may seem about as exciting a topic as your next dental visit. If you are like I was, you probably haven't even really given that much thought to your garage floor. It's just a common concrete floor after all. Just a space to park on, or to store some things on, right? Oh no, that's not exactly true at all. It turns out that a garage can actually be much more than that, and the floor can actually be made to be quite attractive. When you use the right covering in your garage you can actually change the space into a place that is as nice as the rest of your house. - read entire article -
A Garage Floor Mat may Save your Marriage
Let's take a look at what purposes a garage floor mat serves, along with some of the options available to you if you are interested in covering your garage floor with something other than stain, paint or epoxy. - read entire article -
Garage Floor Mats: Top 10 Reasons Why You Need Them
Our house was built in the 1970's, and the inside has been mostly updated, but the garage is still a bit of a throwback in time. There is no dry wall, and the floor is looking its age. It is time for an update, and garage floor mats is the perfect solution. So what is wrong with the concrete surface? Why would anyone want to put a special floor down in their garage? Well, here are the top 10 benefits of using garage floor mats. - read entire article -
Different Types of Garage Flooring Takes Different Levels of Work
There are a lot of different ways to protect your garage floor with a variety of different types of garage flooring. Though there are many questions to answer when you are trying to decide which garage flooring system works best for you, one of them is, "How much work do you want to put into the project?" - read entire article -
Applying Epoxy Coating to Garage Floors
I have been looking at a lot of different garage floors lately, and am really impressed with the Roll on Rock epoxy floor coatings. This floor system can give your dull concrete garage floor a new life, a floor with a great granite look finish. It comes in four different systems, most take about two days to fully apply, except System 4, which should only be professionally installed. But if you want a system to apply yourself, then you should go with System 2. - read entire article -
The History and the Future of Garage Organizer Systems
The original garage organizer system was just some basic shelves that were put up along the garage walls, usually just using scraps of plywood and pine that were lying around the house. I have to admit, this is still the type of garage organizer that we use today. It works fairly well for boxes, but not good for all the miscellaneous, odd shaped items that end up in the garage. - read entire article -
Garage Organizers - Simple or Complex
Garage organizers have evolved over time. What once started out as maybe just a simple shelf at the end of the garage, has now become a huge industry. Gone are the simple days. Now we have OPTIONS. As the American lifestyle has become more and more affluent, and people are living with more and more products and services that make life easier, and more pleasant, they are also confronted with more and more choices about what products to include in their lives. - read entire article -
Garage Overhead Storage: The Pros & Cons
Garage overhead storage may be the best thing for you to use in your garage for your organizational needs, or it may not. If you are like millions of other homeowners who have garages filled with stuff, you are likely interested in using the best storage solution you can find. Nobody likes a cluttered mess, and a garage is so easy to just let go because most people don't even think of it as a part of the actual living space of their home... - read entire article -
Garage Shelving - A Must Have
Garage shelving really isn't an option. It's more of a necessity really. If you have tried living without shelving in your garage you know what a cluttered mess it can get to be. Not only does it help keep items up off the floor and organized, it also helps you keep your sanity. That's why it is a must have. I don't understand everything about feng shui, but I do know that it is supposedly a good thing to try to create in your living spaces. If you can't feel at ease in a space, walk easily through it, or think straight while you are in it, then it isn't very feng shui, and that is a bad thing. So here are three ways that garage shelving can help you keep your mental space clear, as well as the floor. - read entire article -
A Garage Storage Cabinet - You Gotta Love It
A garage storage cabinet is just a thing, right? It's not alive. It doesn't talk, eat or breath. Some would argue that it doesn't even have a personality, and further, that it is something certainly unworthy of such a thing as love. Well, I disagree. Not only does a garage storage cabinet have a personality, there are more than enough reasons to love it. And if you love it, it will love you back. - read entire article -
Gladiator Garage Works is Always Designing New Products
Gladiator Garage Works specializes in all things for making your garage a better place, from workbenches to cabinets, full wall systems and wall components, to appliances and flooring. But as a company that strives to be the best, they are continually coming out with new products that fulfill various needs or improves on other products. A majority of these new products are designed to hang on their wall slot system. Lets take a look at some of these handy ideas. - read entire article -
Gladiator Garageworks Manufacture a Large Variety of Garage Storage Options
Gladiator GarageWorks is a company that puts out some of the coolest garage organizers and systems on the market today. Since everyone wants to have a nice organized garage, and nobody likes clutter and mess, it is important to take a look at what sorts of options you really have when it comes to making sense of your garage space. - read entire article -
Gladiator Garageworks Manufacture a Large Variety of Garage Storage Options
A tool box is a central and important part of practically every garage and workshop. But not all of them are the same, not by a long shot. These useful implements in the shop are not created equal for a reason. I know I don't really need one of those mega red multi-drawered wonders that seem to be the envy of every aspiring mechanic. - read entire article -
Tool Boxes come in all Shapes and Sizes
I remember my Dad having a tool box when I was a kid, and it was never really that organized. But for my husband, one is not enough, he has three tool boxes. To me they do not really look that super organized, but I know that there is some method to the madness as to what is stored in each box. And though I do not understand the system, I do know what box to look in for the basic everyday tools such as screwdrivers, wrenches and hammers. Anything beyond that and I just dig, or ask my 11 year son who seems to have a natural radar for finding any tool. - read entire article -
A Tool Cabinet for People Who Have More Tools than will Fit in a Tool Box
Where do you keep your tools if you have so many (either for your work or just because you are obsessed with tools) that two or three tool boxes just are not big enough? A tool cabinet. Though it sounds fairly basic, even a tool cabinet is more than it sounds and can come in a variety of sizes, configurations and materials. - read entire article -
Tool Chest: 3 Ways to Go
You can go out and spend your hard earned cash on a nice metal tool chest with all the bells and whistles. And for many people like shop mechanics, this is just the thing they should do. But for others, the thought of going out and buying what they can just make themselves just doesn't settle right. These folks will find the most satisfaction from making a nice tool chest from plans or from their own design. And there is yet another type of person who wants something unique or special that can only be had at an auction house, or in an antique store. Lets take a closer look at these three options. - read entire article -
Historical Tool Chests and their Owners
Craftsmen of many trades during the 1800' s would carry their tools in wooden tool chests. Some were open and others closed. The tools carried inside could tell you a lot about the trade of the owner, but often the chest itself would say something personal about the owner. - read entire article -
UltiMATE Garage Cabinets Offer Strength, Function and Style
With spring cleaning, there are many possibilities on projects to attack, and you want to start with the most important ones first in case you get burned out and don't finish the list. What is important will vary for each person, but for me, the top of the list is organizing the garage. With a little shopping around, I found UltiMate garage systems. They claim their systems are built to be strong, functional, and also with a bit of style. So, lets take a look at these three qualities and see how UltiMate fulfills their claims. - read entire article -
The Ultimate Garage 8-Point Checklist
If you have the money to collect a few classic or fancy cars, then you can probably afford the ultimate garage to store your cars in to help keep them nice. "No," you may say, "I only have one car that is my baby." But, if it truly is your baby, then you have to keep it in the right environment to keep it in pristine condition. An ultimate garage can range in price, from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars. There is a lot of flexibility in how much you spend, but let’s take a look at some of the things that you should consider when designing your garage. - read entire article -
6 Manufacturers of Garage Flooring
Besides there being a variety of types of garage flooring available today, there are also a handful of top garage flooring manufacturers. Lets take a look at who they are, in alphabetical order, and what type of flooring they specialize in making. - read entire article -
Garage Organizers Take Away All Your Excuses
Garage organizers are not all created equal, not by a long shot. When you have stuff to store, but not enough space to store it in, then you know a lot about storage - or the lack of it. Many garages are used to solve this problem with simple plywood shelves. This works, but isn't very attractive. It also isn't very efficient. There really isn't all that much difference between a pile of stuff on the floor and a pile of stuff on a shelf. It can be nearly as frustrating and as equally irritating. Creating a truly organized garage space takes a little bit of planning and thought... - read entire article -
Tool Chests by Craftline Solve Problems
Craftline tool chests solve a big problem. Nobody likes the feeling of frustration when you need a tool and can't find it. With the right tool chest, you no longer have to spend all that valuable time and energy looking for the tool you need. Of course, you have to put stuff back when you are done, but just think of how you will feel knowing that the next time you need that certain screwdriver or wrench, you'll know exactly where to go to find it... - read entire article -
A Versatile Garage Organizer
When it comes to ways to organize your garage these days, there are a lot of great systems out there, and a lot of different components. There are many different brands of cabinets, shelves, storage closets, hooks and pulley systems. But my favorite garage organizer is the Flow Wall system. There are several components to the Flow Wall, so lets take a look at the individual components and their benefits in helping you to become better organized. - read entire article -
Creative Garage Storage Solutions
Garage storage solutions usually come packaged in some pretty plain colors. I mean, everyone gets it that shelves are a good idea; but that's so drab. Everyone also gets it that cabinets are good - can someone please pass me the Nodoz. I am not suggesting that shelves and cabinets don't have a place in solving your storage problems. I am just saying that we can all go beyond these basics. Let's take a look at some creative ways to store things in your garage that go beyond shelves and cabinets. - read entire article -
The Differences Between Tool Chests and Toolboxes
Sometimes I hear the term tool chest and toolbox used for the same item, but tool chests are definitely different from toolboxes. So what are these differences? - read entire article -
Top 5 Reasons to use your Garage Overhead Storage
I am not sure when it all started, maybe in 1986 with Lionel Richie's hit song, "Dancing on the Ceiling". Perhaps a young child looked up and dreamt about dancing or walking on the ceiling, and though they may never have actually done that, they did realize that the ceiling had potential for other uses, like storage. Maybe someone discovered the use of ceiling space before then, I really don't know. But I do know that there are a multitude of garage overhead storage options available today. - read entire article -
Garage Organizers - The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Garage organizers make great gift ideas because they come in such a large variety of styles, colors, price ranges, and options. With the holiday season fast upon us, who isn't looking for great gift ideas? Right, we all are. Consider these ideas and see if they help you find just the right thing for that special someone in your life. - read entire article -
Tool Chests: How Much Do You Really Need?
Tool chests are a pretty basic idea really, something to put tools and assorted shop supplies in for storage and easy retrieval when needed. They are more than a simple tool box. They are more like an expanded, larger version. How many of us as children just threw our few plastic toy tools in a small shoe box and felt like we were really something, with our fancy tool boxes and chests? - read entire article -
Get Control of your Garage with a Variety of Garage Storage Solutions
It usually starts off slow, just a few boxes here and there, a bike, a ladder, lawn equipment, basketballs, soccer balls, golf equipment, fishing gear, a few tools, holiday supplies, etc., and before you know it your entire garage is jammed packed. It is typically the most cluttered room of any home. The garage is famous for being the most used and undervalued space available. Despite the proliferation of 2 and even 3 car garages, families seem to be in need of garage storage solutions more than ever. - read entire article -
Getting Creative with Garage Shelving
Garage shelving may not be something you equate with creativity. But if you think about it, home owners all over the world bring a wide range of ideas to how to best manage their storage needs with the help of shelving. There is a huge range of options that you could go with. It can be as simple as basic wooden shelves, or as complex and deluxe as you can imagine. Products are available that will serve nearly any conceivable storage need. Use creativity for how to best use your space. - read entire article -
The Right Garage Organizer is Something you Both Want and Need
A garage organizer is something you not only want, but you need. I get it. I can hear the desperation in your voice as it yearns for some sort of solution to the sprawling clutter and mess that the monster of a garage is morphing into. Take heart and never fear. I am here to give you hope and ideas for how to manage what, for many home owners, is one of their biggest storage challenges. - read entire article -
The Lazy Man's Guide to Garage Storage
Let's face it, not everybody has the desire, time or energy to set up a real nice and organized garage storage system in their garage or shop. Any super organized system is going to cost some money; granted, some are very affordable and others are more expensive. And they all allow you to put everything you have in its own special little place. But let's face it; some people just don't want to go to all that trouble! I had a neighbor once who had his own garage storage solutions, I studied it a bit, asked him some questions to help me solve some of the mystery behind his thinking, and came up with some basic guidelines to what he does. I call his system The Lazy Man's Guide to Garage Storage, and here are some basics in a nutshell. - read entire article -
The Right Tool Boxes Make All the Difference
When you start thinking about tool boxes you are thinking about storage solutions. Since stuff has a way of migrating all over the place anyway, having somewhere specific to store it all sure can help. If you are an auto mechanic you know how important your tools are to you. It just makes good sense to have the right tool boxes you protect your investment. If you work on job sites, you also know how important the right tool storage solution is for you. Even if you are just a person with lots of tools around the shop or garage, you understand that having the right tool boxes can save you lots of grief and frustration. - read entire article -
Garage Shelves Help us Avoid "Mike Droppings"
Garage shelves are a small but important part of coping with the clutter and mess that is so often a part of our everyday lives. For better or worse, our modern style of living means dealing with lots of stuff that has to be stored somewhere. Are you one of those who tends to just dump your things down with a casual mental note as to where you left it, only to later go through the frustration and irritation when you can't remember where you put something? Or are you one of those people who has great intentions to finally put up some storage solutions but never quite seems to get around to it? If so, take note and resolve to do something about the stuff and clutter in your garage. - read entire article -
How my Dad Taught me the Importance of a Tool Cabinet
A tool cabinet can be a handy thing. I had to learn this the hard way, along with my dad, grandpa, and great-grandpa. It makes it so much easier to work; I wouldn't have believed it had I not tried it for myself. Well actually this is the story of when I was a young girl and my dad tried to imprint upon me the importance of keeping you tools organized. - read entire article -
Garage Overhead Storage to the Rescue
Garage overhead storage is about helping people stay sane. I mean, is it just me, or does stuff piled up all over the garage just make you want to go ballistic? Seriously! Mystery boxes of junk that I have to keep kicking to the side, or stepping over, just makes me want to freak out. Okay, now that I have that out of my system, let's talk about some solutions to this common problem that nearly all home owners face every day. - read entire article -
Different Types of Garage Shelves
Almost every garage in America probably has some form of garage shelves in it to help store all the items that we have and need to access on an occasional basis. Types of things kept on shelves include sporting goods, seasonal holiday items, gardening supplies and tools. The types of garage shelves can range from ones that hang on the wall to free standing shelving units. They can be ones that you build yourself out of plywood and 2x4's, or purchased shelves from the local store. - read entire article -