Did you know that if you store your vehicle in your garage you can often get a discount on motor vehicle insurance? The problem is that so many people use their garage as a fantastic storage space for all their seasonal stuff. Before you race out to buy a cargo container to clean up your garage, what about just organizing your space – you were going to move everything anyway.
What Can You Do With An Organized Garage?
If you are trying to justify using a good garage organization company it may be worth thinking about what you can do with the space once you have organized your garage. Obviously getting the car undercover is a serious consideration – and it will certainly make it easier for you to upgrade to an electric vehicle if you can find a place to plug it in and charge it when you need to. But why limit yourself to just having a bedroom for your car, when your beautifully organized garage can be so much more.
Home Gym
You probably have free weights, maybe even a multi-station bench or full home gym. But can you find it? With the investment of the right type of shelving systems, storage units, and maybe even an overhead lift system, you can designate an area that will become your workout space. You can even find space to put down mats, hang a punching bag, and once you’ve got your space sorted you can use your newly installed organization system to store your gear when it’s not in use. If you make the system easy to access it will be used – and this is a key to any good organization system, it has to be useable.
Kids Playroom
Speaking of easy – moving all the kids toys into the garage is a great way to allow them the space to build projects without constantly standing on LEGO blocks or Playdough. However, if you just designate them a cupboard and tell them to clean up after they’re done, you’ll be fighting another losing battle, just in a different room. Talk to the company that will be installing your system about solutions that they might offer. Tables that slide out to create useable workbenches for all that creativity can be marvelous. Add cupboards above or drawers below to store all the supplies and your kids will be so thrilled with being able to easily access everything they need, right at their fingertips, might just inspire them to have a whole new obsession (like this).
Hobby To Hustle
Thinking of organized obsessions; we all have hobbies, but have you thought about taking your hobby and turning it into a little side hustle? That pottery wheel you picked up after doing lessons years ago, the easel and watercolors that are in a box, or those shiny wood chisels, all could be relocated to a useable spot and help you make a little extra money. Even that welding gear could be put to use making wrought iron candle sticks and coat hangers.
There are lots of ideas on Pinterest, so while you’re procrastinating have a look and see what other ideas you can come up with. Then think about exactly what your needs are. Do you want a space with lots of shelving? How about out of sight out of mind in drawers or cupboards? Do you have chemicals or equipment that you need to lock away from small fingers?
Start The Organization Process
Household organization is one of those things that once you’ve decided you want to do it, you’re motivated. So while you’re waiting for your garage organization company to come and give you a quote, don’t let your momentum stop. You’ve dreamed about what you are going to do in your garage once it’s sorted, but before that happens why not get a box of things that you can donate to goodwill or even sell on eBay. Make use of your local www.freecycle.org page or Facebook Free pages to offload those projects that you started, the chairs that you wanted to recover, the watches that you intended to fix one day. You have a purpose, don’t clutter it up.
