here is a problem most people face with their garages and it doesn’t seem to matter how big your garage is: you can always fill it up with stuff! Sure, you can hire some professional organizer to come help you clear a path to the car doors, if you can even get the car in the garage, but that costs money. How about I just give you some tips instead? You don’t even need to pay me $100 an hour, or whatever it is de-clutter-organizers are making these days. So, without further ado, here are five ways to help you clear up space in the garage:

1. Hang things from the ceiling.

Garages mostly do have plenty of headroom, so that leaves many cubic feet of space you can exploit. Is your family full of sports nuts? You can buy ceiling-mounted racks designed specifically for outdoor recreational equipment, everything from snowboards and bicycles to canoes and kayaks. You can also get platforms that go up and down with a crank of a lever. These allow you to tuck hundreds of pounds of junk–er, valuable family heirlooms–up amongst the rafters. If you use this method please make sure that you secure it adequatly to the rafters least it comes falling down on you or your car.

2. Make use of wall space.

I know that you’ve probably got at least one pegboard in the tool area of your garage, but that’s no reason to limit yourself. You can attach your own homemade brackets, nails, and pegboards, or you can buy special panels designed to support hooks, baskets, and shelves. At least this is a good way to get some things off the floor.

3.Cabinets are for garages too.

A lot of garages have enough room on the sides or in the back to where you can install banks of cabinets, while still leaving enough space to get in and out of the car. Even if there’s only enough room for 12″ deep cabinets, that’s still a lot of extra storage if you run them from floor to ceiling. Also, cabinets look nice–all your clutter gets hidden behind the doors, where you don’t have to look at it every time you drive into the garage.

4.If you have too many vehicles, try a car lift.

If you’ve got really high ceilings, 10-12 feet of height in your garage? With the average car is less than five feet high, right? Well, there are systems out there that let you stack them over each other. Granted, these are very pricey, and raising and lowering the top car can be a hassle if the vehicle is driven every day, but if there’s a car you don’t drive that much but that takes up space, it might be something to look into. Car lifts can make a lot of sense in houses with one-car garages.

5.Think garage sale.

If you’ve really tried your hardest to find storage space for everything, but you’re still tripping over stuff, it may be time to clean the garage out. Chances are you have toys, boxes, tools, etc. that you bought many moons ago (and which your family probably hasn’t used in almost as many moons) that you don’t need to keep around. So, clean it out and throw it out, or better yet, have a garage sale. At least then you make some money and are rewarded for your efforts. I hope that you enjoyed this post today

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