Throw me your garage storage hacks!

[Mtneer]

You can free up ceiling space by replacing the overhead garage door lifts with wall mounts (like Genie B6172H), side-benefit much quieter. Then install overhead garage storage racks and use plastic bins for camping stuff, etc.

[battlemidget]

My best garage hack I learned from Caddy Shack, Bill Murray's character Carl used the leaf blower to clean out his garage apartment. Brilliant.

[MarkCO]

Heavy Duty Brackets, plywood. I have the equivalent of about 8 sheets of plywood used for shelving in the two garages.

[O2HeN2]

I basically put Elfa Top Track on all the walls of my garage (screwed it into the studs, which required that I drill the top track) and all the shelves are based on that.

Allows me to adjust shelves both horizontally and vertically with ZERO effort - no drilling or screwing, just move the components around.

Not cheap, but worth it!

https://www.containerstore.com/s/elf...-easy-hang/123

O2

[funkymonkey1111]

Paint the walls and ceiling and upgrade your lighting before doing anything else. The family handyman website has all sorts of garage storage tips, including ceiling and shelving

If you are planning on treating the floor, with epoxy or any other product (including raised tile) do it now

[ray1970]

Everyone seems to do shelving. I opted for custom built in cabinets because I don?t want to look at my junk.

The best thing I ever did to organize my garage was to purchase two quality storage sheds for the backyard for things like bicycles, the wheelbarrow, lawn and garden tools and equipment, hunting and camping gear, luggage, and any other bulky, seldom used items.

[MarkCO]

Everyone seems to do shelving. I opted for custom built in cabinets because I don?t want to look at my junk.

I had cabinets at my first house. It looked better, but I could not remember where stuff was. Guess I need to be able to see it.

[FoxtArt]

I once made racks to hold uniformly sized plastic bins, effectively turning them into a floor-to-ceiling drawer system. Just build a frame out of 2x2s of the appropriate width for the bins to barely slide in (with their lids), then nail on equally spaced chunks of trim the right dimensions so that the bins are supported by their lip, not the lid. Basically turns plastic bins into large drawers. If using appropriately sized bins (not gigantic) it does not take as long to build as it sounds, clamp a guide on a mitre saw and you can spit out 100 chunks in 5 minutes or less.

Then use a separately cut spacer to quickly nailgun them or even brad nail them to the vertical supports is good enough. Stain it, looks nice - then you can label the drawers. I used trim board for my "chunks" to make it nicer.

[O2HeN2]

I once made racks to hold uniformly sized plastic bins, effectively turning them into a floor-to-ceiling drawer system.

Yhea, I've lost count of the number of times I decided to "standardize" my storage on a particular long-lived, well known and large company's bin.

Only to have it IMMEDIATELY discontinued, making everything I had standardized upon the wrong size.

Rubbermaid, Sterilite and more. They've all shafted me.

The Elfa system I pointed to a few replies back has been working for me for many years.

O2

[TheNash]

Everyone seems to do shelving. I opted for custom built in cabinets because I don?t want to look at my junk.

I don't know about anyone else but I don’t want to see your “JUNK” either. ����