Organizing Ideas for Your Garage

If you're like many Amarillo homeowners, your garage stores everything BUT the car. Are you looking for more storage and a covered parking space? Here are a few ideas to get your stuff off the ground and your car back in the garage.

1. Shelves, shelves, shelves. Simple wooden shelves can be bought at your local home improvement store, painted or stained and hung on the walls quickly, easily and affordably.

2. Pegboard; the old standby. Pegboard is quick to put up and easy to use. Adding hooks can help you store small gardening tools, hammers, etc. out of the way but in easy reach for future use. You might want to avoid using regular S-hooks, though, because they have a tendancy to fall out of the holes in the pegboard. If you want to be even more organized, outline each tool with black marker after you hang them up so you know where to put it when you are done.

3. School lockers aren't just for schools anymore. Mounting small school lockers to your walls give you extra space to store power tools or a secure location to put hazardous chemicals when you add a padlock.

4. Peg Racks. Keep large garden tools, such as brooms, rakes and shovels at arm's length by mounting a peg rack on the wall and securing it to the studs for more stability.

5. Clear Jars. Use your old mayonnaise or pickle jars (cleaned out, of course) to organize your nuts, bolts, screws and nails. The see-through glass allows you to see exactly what each jar contains.

Get more information on organizing your Amarillo home by contacting me today at 806-678-1031.