If there is one part of a home that gets more cluttered, more often, than all the others, it is the family garage. It is a well known fact that a high percentage of garage owners in America cannot fit their car in the garage, due to its use for household storage. Even two car garages suffer almost as much.
It seems such a shame to confine the poor old family car, or cars, to the elements outside, while their home is overrun by things that are mostly not to do with autos at all! But as with any modern problem, modern solutions have developed.
Starting to solve the problem, though, lies with attitude. A determination to tackle this overwhelming clutter issue is needed, and a will to carry on until the garage is neatly organized, around and above the cars, not instead of them. You may see a garage organizer advertised, but initially that is what you need to be.
When you have decided to sort out the garage once and for, then take a good look at what is dumped in there, and first of all decide if there is anything you can get rid of altogether. What remains, and cannot be moved to the wood storage shed in the garden, needs to be properly accommodated in the garage.
How you do that depends, of course, on what it is you have to store. But whatever the clutter might be, you have to find the solution on the walls and the ceiling. In many cases, overhead garage storage is the key.
There are many designs of overhead garage storage solutions that have been developed simply for that purpose. It is because they are purpose built that they can solve many of your storage problems in one installation. The best come in easy DIY form, and sometimes with the alternative of local installation. For ceiling racking, you need heavy duty materials, plus a heavy duty ceiling of course. The supporting beam must be sufficient for the load. However, it is all worthwhile, as the end result can free up your garage more than you can imagine.
Garage shelving on the walls can also contribute a great deal, as the garage organizer pictured above demonstrates. There is usually a lot of space on garage walls that can be used for storing both small and large items, and even a garden tool rack if you have no wood storage shed, or have a shed but it is too small. Just choose sufficient shelves for the remaining items to be stored, and ensure the shelving brackets are sufficient support for whatever it is you are storing.
Some people have odd items that seem to give a special problem, like fishing rods and bikes. However, most of the common problems have been dealt with by responsive manufacturers, so look out for bike hoists and fishing rod racks to deal with those.
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