7 Steps to Organizing Your Garage

Now that you have a new St. George, UT home from Ence Homes, plan ahead to keep your new garage organized as you unpack. With a little reorganization, your new garage should be able to fit all of your workshop tools, gardening equipment, recycling bins, holiday decorations and other miscellaneous items as well as your family cars.

1. The best way to start organizing your garage is to sort through all of the stuff you will be storing there. Make separate piles of gardening tools, work tools, sports equipment, etc. Keep things that are similar together or things that you will use the most often together. Create a system for organizing your garage stuff and stick to it.
2. The next step to keeping your St. George, UT home, with a great garage, organized is to clean the space. Sweep and mop the floor. Wipe down any pre-existing cabinets or shelves. Start fresh with a clean space. If you don’t like the color, paint over your existing walls and make the space unique, creative and fun for you.

3. After cleaning and sorting, the next step to organizing your garage is to de-clutter. Donate any items that you have not used in a long time or will probably never use on a future project. Donate any old toys that your kids have out grown or never play with anymore. If the items are too worn out, expired or old to donate, then trash them. Donate and getting rid of old items will help make space the items you have left and any new items you might acquire for future projects.

4. The best way to organize your remaining piles of equipment and tools is to find shelving units to store them on. Either buy new or used shelves at the hardware store or repurpose old shelves from other rooms in your house or garage sales or thrift stores. Adjustable shelves are great for items that are items that are not standard sizes. Remember to place items you rarely use on higher shelves and items you use regularly at an easy height for you to reach.
5. Hooks are a great way to store other items that might not fit on a shelf. Place bikes on hooks from the ceiling or a bare wall. Hang brooms, shovels or other tools from hooks on a peg board.

6. Label everything in your garage so that you can find items you are looking for more quickly. Labels will help you stay organized in the future.

7. Get creative in the garage of your new St. George, UT home. Repurpose recyclables and other items you might throw out to help you stay organized. It’s your space, so keep things simple and fun so that you can enjoy your space to its full potential.