7 Easy Ways To Organize Your Garage
Picture this. You open your garage door to get a hammer. As it rolls up the tracks, you stare into the void of tools piled on one side and plastic totes on the floor, blocking your way. Your neighbor gets to watch you jump over boxes, yelling “parkour”.
We’ve all been there. However, your garage doesn’t have to look like a storm raged through. You can maximize your garage space by using the right organization systems.
Here are 8 of the ways that you can use pipe and fittings to provide a strong, durable, and good-looking organizational system for your garage.
Racks for Garage Organization
First things first, get those plastic totes and boxes out of the way. You can install a u-shaped shelving system like the one above if you have the space. That’s the joy of using pipe and fittings for shelving units.
If you have the space…if you don’t, then design them differently. You can make them more narrow or shorter. You create as many shelves as you can fit or only use a few and add more later as needed. Design the shelving unit to wrap around a post or turn a corner.
Are concerned about the weight? Then add an extra support post or use thicker pipe. Galvanized pipe and fittings are robust and an ideal solution for storage shelves of many designs.
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- Height: 72 inches
- Width: 24 inches
- Length: 108 inches
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Use Mobile Shelves for Easy Access
Employing a rolling shelf is a great way to move heavy or cumbersome tools, fasteners, and other materials. Have what you need on hand without having to wear a cumbersome tool belt or move back and forth in your garage.
Mobile shelves are perfect when you have a wall that doesn’t get used often but needs to be accessed from time to time. Push the shelf in place, lock the casters, and move the shelf when you need to.
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- Height: 48 inches
- Width: 12 inches
- Length: 36 inches
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Add Shelves to Your Work Bench
If you’re not using the space above your workbench, then you’re not capitalizing on some prime real estate. The good news is that adding shelves is super simple. The shelving unit can mount into the wall or onto the workbench itself.
You can adjust the height, quantity of shelves, and length of the shelf that you need. You can even extend it beyond the length of your workbench.
These are perfect for storing your common use items, like drills and battery charging stations. The pipe is a perfect place to install some lighting for your workstation as well. If you’re like me or the above customer, then you’ll store your boombox (I know I dated myself) on the shelf too. Music makes the work so much more enjoyable.
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- Height: 36 inches
- Width: 12 inches
- Length: 36 inches
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DIY Garage Workbench
Don’t have a garage workbench? Then build one!
Why use a simple plywood when you can build a heavy-duty workbench? These work benches are perfect for mounting your drill press, grinder, or vises to.
Need a clean space to draw the next big DIY project you’re working on? Use the heavy-duty workbench so that you can be near your tools and materials for inspiration.
Maybe you have one of those nice mobile tool chests that can double as a workbench, but you just don’t have the workspace that you need. Build a workbench over the tool chest. The mobile station can still be moved, the drawers are still easily accessible for use, and you have the counter space that you need.
Specs:
- Height: 36 inches
- Width: 18 inches
- Length: 48 inches
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Build an Equipment Storage Rack
If you find yourself constantly moving your air compressor and hoses out of the way, then build a mobile rack to store them. You can use this rack to hang clamps, heavy-duty extension cords, jigs, guides, or anything else that seems to not have a standard place on your shelf.
This also makes it so much easier to get these items into your driveway to fill those tires or build larger projects, like a wooden fence gate.
Specs:
- Height: 48 inches
- Width: 18 inches
- Length: 36 inches
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Make it Easy to Move Those Monster Cabinets
Groans can be heard whenever someone thinks of having to move an old behemoth of a cabinet. My back hurts just thinking about it. Kenneth decided that wasn’t going to work for him so he built this custom dolly cart to make moving it around easy as pie. No more calls to your friends who start ignoring your calls in fear of having to move this beast.
This cart will allow you to move heavy cabinets around your garage when you need to reorganize the layout. Probably because you just built a nice new workbench!
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- Length: 36 inches
- Width: 18 inches
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Store Your Firewood Properly
Keeping your firewood dry is important when you want to enjoy s’mores with friends or a cozy fireplace Christmas morning. This often means that the wood is stored in your garage, tumbling over every time you take the wrong piece like in a game of Jenga.
Not anymore! You don’t have to stack your firewood in the shape of a pyramid or worry about critters making homes underneath your firewood. Just like with the shelves, you can even add casters to the structure so that your firewood rack is able to be where you need it to be.
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- Height: 48 inches
- Width: 12 inches
- Length: 60 inches
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Wrapping Up
Garages don’t have to look like a scene from Hoarders. You can have a happy garage space by using the right combination of storage solutions.
You also don’t have to do it alone. Connect with one of our experts to get a consultation on how you can organize your garage and enjoy working in a clean space.
