Garage Organization 1-2-3

With warm weather comes the need for better use of your garage space. Follow these 1-2-3 steps to make your garage space work for you…

(1) Zone your space – zones are essential to keeping order in your garage. Automobile supplies, sporting equipment, gardening, and lawn care tools, off-season items, spare household supplies – define the zones that make sense for you.

(2) Sort Your Stuff and toss the Trash. Sort all items into three piles: keep, donate/sell, and toss. Separate your gardening tools from the car maintenance supplies and sporting equipment; extra household cleaners don’t belong mixed in with your holiday decorations. Putting “like” items together allows you to see what you really have and what you want and need to keep.

(3) Store Like Items Where You Use Them and in the Right Storage. Keep the items you use most in the easiest to reach locations. In harder to reach places, store items you don’t use as often — like holiday decorations. A mix of open and closed shelving and wall-mounted hooks and pegs work well in a garage. Food and household items are best in closed cabinets while tools and sports equipment are easy to access on open shelving – find the mix that works best.

Check out these photos of a garage organization that started as chaos and ended up calm, cool, and collected!