Well organized garage

Are you tired of a garage that looks more like a pantry? Dear readers, if you are ready to remake this tiny (or not) dump into a useful, well-organized room, then this article is for you. Our plan will help to split a huge monster of big business into simple steps, so that you can easily change this place and start, finally, use it again!

Garage can be filled not only with car supplies and chemical means to care for the car: it usually brings things that interfere with the house, but they are a pity to throw out. Here's how to fix this situation.

Draw up an attack plan

Depending on the condition of your garage, you will need a "cleaning" of varying degrees - to quietly move around the room. If necessary, ask for help. And do not forget to find out the weather forecast before you're going to do something!

It will be necessary to take out everything on the street or in the house that will interfere with the cleaning. The first two days will continue the most difficult work; The rest of the week will be needed to accommodate the things you decided to leave, only now not on the floor, but in specially equipped places for storage. Read the whole plan before starting work and make corrections to it.

Before you get started, take a moment and imagine that you want to get how the garage should look in a new light? For what purpose will you use it? Do you need a place for a car and a new workshop? Or do you want to organize the space for storing different equipment, off-season clothing or equipment? Keep your goals in mind - this will help you stay focused for the entire week.

Day 1. Liberation

Before starting, create several areas, for example, with large garbage bags or cardboard boxes for hazardous waste, garbage, recycled items, things that you can donate, sell or leave. If necessary, you can rent a large garbage can. But remember that everything unnecessary should be removed from here. And do not rely on "and suddenly need"! After you have the above zones, you can start taking everything out of the garage and sorting it. Advice: do not try to do it inside - you can not achieve a truly clean and organized place.

What to keep:

• important memorabilia;
• items that you have used in the past 12 months;
• things that you are going to use in the near future (for example, simulators, about which you forgot);
• spare building materials like paint or tiles.

Classification:

• holiday decorations;
• everything for gardening;
• instruments;
• all for repair;
• car care;
• memorabilia;
• seasonal goods;
• sport equipment;
• Other.

Get rid of all that is superfluous. To think that you can ever use it, and until then to hold a thing in yourself - it makes no sense. Each element that you store and do not apply, in fact, takes a precious place that can be occupied with something more valuable. Give, sell, give ... let go.

Garage Design (California Closets)

Day 2. Cleaning and close inspection

Because the things that are stored here, from the car to the paint cans, can be very dirty. Sometimes too much. In any case, you will have to rinse everything that's left here, process it from parasites that could have settled, for example, in old coats, and wipe the dust off all the old lamps. The garage itself will also have to be cleaned. And do not be lazy to do it! Today is a day of full harvest.

• Remove everything from the garage, if you have not already done so.
• Examine it for the presence of rodents, pests and damages caused by water. Wear a face mask if you are sensitive to dust.
• Friable detergent is abundantly poured on oil stains, which are left on floor covering, and rub a hard brush with warm water. Rinse and allow to dry.
• Carefully sweep the floor.
• If you want to get a really clean room, use a hose and an old mop with a brush, rinse everything and wipe off excess water. Allow the garage to dry completely before returning items.

Arrange tasks: while everything inside dries, visit your heaps of things that have remained since yesterday.

• Move items from unreliable boxes and packages to strong plastic containers. (Another minus of the cardboard: rats and other rodents can easily "chew" their way and get to your property to make a nest there.)
• Use small tanks with lids to store commonly used items.
• Buy color labels to identify the content.
• Do not mix! If you started to box souvenirs from your childhood, do not throw your swimsuit there. So it will be very difficult for you to find what you need.

Boxes with labels (The Design Den Homes Inc.)

Day 3. Make a storage plan

Standing in the garage with a notebook in your hands, draw an approximate plan of space. Mark where a certain category will be, so to speak, more convenient. Once you complete the task this week, fill out the information about where and what you store. And be sure to keep this plan with you - it will come in handy when you are ready to pull out your jewelry for any holiday and you will need to find them.

A rack with containers and wall hooks (One Man And A Hammer)

Day 4. Remove everything from the floor

Storage of things on the floor of the garage assumes the appearance of mold on them and damage to water. And they just get dirty! If you have not bought yet storage systems, it's time to buy them.

• Use the vertical space. How about high racks and ceiling platforms?
• Use the walls. If you have two walls with racks, mount in the third hooks. Or make simple shelves. Bicycles, tools, shovels, rakes, sports equipment can be hung on the wall, avoiding the terrible cluttering of the floor.

Method for storing bicycles and other large items (SafeRacks)

The ceiling-mounted system offers us an excellent use of space. Stacks of plastic containers (just make sure that the label with the signature in front) spread on the top, and bicycles and similar units can be left on the hooks under the shelf.

Another way to organize space (Monkey Bars of Wichita)

Stack things that you rarely use at the top

• Top level: children's memorabilia and old documents that need to be stored for a long time.
• Average: holiday decorations and seasonal things.
• Lower: Garden and vegetable stock, home improvement, sports equipment.

Возможно, такая же картинка сейчас и у вас (Pure & Simple Organizing)

Day 5. Shutdown

If you have about the same heap, as in the photo above, do not be angry and do not get angry. Now is the time to finish the work, so you can move on to more important things-reward yourself with an ice-cold drink!

• Move what has to be disposed of, to where things are taken for recycling. Maybe you will be surprised, but you can even recycle old clothes and textiles, hangers for things, sneakers and broken household appliances.
• Run to a local charity and make a donation.
• Arrange a sale in the yard if you have things that you can sell.

Вход в гараж (Closets & Blinds)

Day 6. Make an entry

If your garage is connected to a house, you probably use this door as an entrance, which means that you can organize a mini-hall there. Lay a mat, install a shoe rack and attach several hooks for outer clothing.

Beautiful and correctly organized space (Garage Envy)

Day 7 and beyond. Keep your work!

Organize tasks

• Stop thinking about the garage as a place where you can throw garbage! Do not leave everything that badly lies in the house. It is better to learn to perceive this premise as a useful storage place.
• When you put something new, make sure that this item belongs to at least one of the categories that you recorded when you were cleaning.

Purge tasks

• Look at oil stains. As soon as you notice at least one, immediately sprinkle it with powder, so that harmful vapors do not penetrate into the house.
• Keep a container in the garage where you will collect items for special disposal (for example, engine oil and paint) and empty it when it becomes full.
• Set the date when you will be held general cleaning of premises.

Гараж (Sarah Greenman)