How to Top 5 Garage Storage Ideas

Get the top 5 garage storage ideas to help you get your garage organized.

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1. A garage is often one of those areas that needs help. There are usually too many things competing for too little of a space and it often ends up as a dumping ground for those things that you just don't know what to do with. You can stop the madness with a few simple garage storage ideas.

2. Open Shelving vs. Closed Shelving
   Whether you decide on open shelving or closed for your garage depends on personal preference and how easily you remember where something is.

   With open shelving, it is easier to see where things are to label them. If you easily forget where things are, this may be the perfect solution for you. If you are more visual, this also may be a better plan for you. Open shelving also allows you to more easily grab what you need.

   If you want a cleaner look to your garage, closed shelving will work better for you. But you will need to clearly remember where you put things to make this garage organization idea work for you. Labeling the outside of your closed shelving can make it easier for you to find what you need the first time.

3. Peg Boards
   Peg boards are good garage storage ideas for the space beside your car. It is likely that shelving will not work for at least one side of your garage. Here is where peg boards are useful garage organization helps. They can store those large items like shovels, brooms, and rakes.

4. Tool Storage
   There are many different ways that you can store your tools. Toolboxes, open shelving, closed shelving, and peg boards are all ways that you can store your tools. But more importantly than what you use to store the tools is the way in which you organize them. Organizing them by use is one good way to do it. If you use certain tools for certain things, storing those items together can be helpful. For example, if you use a certain screwdriver for just one type of screw that you have, storing that screwdriver with those screws can be helpful. Another way to organize your tools is by type. So storing all of the screwdrivers together, all of the hammers together, etc.

5. To Bin or Not to Bin
   Bins can be helpful garage storage ideas for certain situations. Small ones are good for storing small like items together. A plastic shoebox can be helpful for things like storing random toilet repair parts together. Be careful about getting very large bins for the garage. It can be easy to just throw things in them that do not belong together and then just shove that bin in a corner of the garage.

6. Hidden Storage
   The garage is both a great and dangerous place because of the hidden storage that is everywhere in it. The rafters in a garage can be a great place to store items that you do not need access to very often. But do make sure that anything stored in the rafters is either well sealed or that you do not mind it getting dirty. Just make sure that you do not just shove things up into the rafters that you want to forget about!

7. There are many different ways to organize your garage and there are a lot of great garage storage ideas out there. Figure out what works for you.

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