In the past 24 months I know a lot of us have had to change our plans. In California we have been really hit hard in our home values. Instead of buying a bigger home we have had to make due with the smaller one that we have. Lacking a buyer for our house, we can't even consider buying another one.
Are you like my family and need extra room to store things at home? We could built on to our house since i am a contractor, but that wouldn't seem to make any sense given economic conditions and the housing market. We had previously increased storage space by installing closet organizers in the master bedroom and my oldest daughter's bedroom and that has helped us a lot.
We decided to install a closet organizer in our other two bedrooms. By doing this we are receiving us as much extra room as if we had built an extra closet. However, even with the additional storage space we were still coming up short. We were required to go to phase "2" of our scheme.
I'm absolutely sure that lots of others continue to have the exact same problem my family had when we could only fit a single car in our two car garage. The Garage desperately needed organization and we needed to throw away all the items we really didn't need or use. Then we could start taking items from the house and put them in the garage.
Our scheme was to transform the interior of the garage by placing storage cabinets on the walls and adding a workbench. We had also planned to utilize a portion of the garage wall to hang bulky items like bicycles from hooks. We also determined we needed to move our garden equipment to an exterior storage shed we had built. This allowed us much more floor space in our garage.
We hung pre-fabricated wall cabinets and storage racks on around 70 percent of the available wall space. On the remainder of the space I installed wall panels that utilized a hook and track system so that items can be hung on the wall. This is ideal for bicycles so that they won't take up floor space.
The most important element of a project is the proper planning. If you are to effectively and efficiently execute organizing your garage you must first plan it correctly. This is the most difficult phase. By executing this the right way you will guarantee that your efforts will result in a perfectly organized garage. Hanging the cabinets, shelving and installing the wall panels will be the easiest part of the job.
No matter what the circumstance you can usually find a solution if you work at it. My family has attained quite a bit from a minimal invest and under 40 hours of work. This small investment has returned great dividends in our life by giving us more usable space and affording us to wait for the right moment to move up to the larger home we need.
Space and storage problems can be solved with an easy do it yourself project. It won't cost you a small fortune to get it completed. Take a little time and see if a garage organizer can solve your problems.
