Uncluttering & Organizing Your Garage

Organize Your Garage
Michael Holigan's website is a resource for home building, buying and remodeling, but this site offers tips on do-it-yourself garage organization. He says that garages become messy because there's no place to store tools, sporting good equipment and yard accessories. You can watch a garage organization transformation on video or read the transcript of the makeover. Tips include installing cabinets in the garage out of high-density particle board. And here's a handy tip. Organize the items you put in your cabinets according to how often you use the item. For example, put seasonal items like Christmas, Easter, and Halloween decorations in the top cabinets or up high in your cabinets. Things that you use several times a year like camping gear can be placed at the bottom. Keep items you use a lot, like tools, in the middle... that way you have easy access to them and they'll be easy to reach.

Garage & Storage
This series of articles brought to you by About.com is primarily concerned with garage storage. Get tips on organizing the garage and storage areas. Gain the ability to find items in storage once they are needed. Maybe you'll even compact the stuff in the garage enough to drive your car in and shut the door. Articles include how to set aside a garage clean up day and actually make it fun for the whole family. Learn how to store seasonal clothes properly so they are bug and dirt free when you need them again. How to organize a garage sale, how to clean a garage, starting with the stains on the concrete and working your way up from there. There are tons of tips from a variety of experts on organizing and cleaning your garage and even your attic.

Organizing Home Office and Garage
HGTV does a makeover of a home office and a garage. By adding color and texture to the room, it downplays the masculine heavy oak furniture. Sorting through everything to establish what needed to be kept and creating categories for items was key. Installing home office storage fixtures was important as well. The garage was cluttered and filled with boxes and products. Shelving specialist Skip Barrett has a heavy-duty paneling system installed to help get items off the floor and take advantage of all that wall space. It's waterproof, impervious to insects and features horizontal grooves every three inches. Modular accessories can be added/removed as needed, so all agree it's a great long-term solution. Racks and wire baskets were installed to organize items in the garage.

Organize Your Garage into a Useable Workspace
According to this site, a garage is meant as a place to keep and repair a vehicle, like a car. For many people, it's been a lot of years since their car has seen the inside of their garage. If that describes your garage, this site recommends putting your garage back in order and returning it to its original function, housing an automobile. The first step is sorting. Start by throwing out anything that you haven't used in the past year and don't honestly see yourself using any time soon. Be ruthless. The more you toss the less you have to organize. Next purchase ten large plastic tote boxes with lids. Label the plastic boxes and begin separating items into the boxes. Labels might include such things as Garden Tools, Car Repair, Plumbing Parts, etc. Shelves are easy to put up and can hold lots of small items. Purchase shoebox-sized plastic boxes and label them for holding small items such as Nails, Screws, Sandpaper, Screwdrivers, etc. Things like shovels, brooms and rakes can be hung on the wall with special clasps made just for such a purpose that you can find in your local hardware store. Take car batteries and old oil to a recycling center, then sweep and hose out the garage, replace any burned out light bulbs—and move your car indoors!