Garage Remodeling

Organizing your garage can seem like a never ending task, and many companies take advantage of that by selling you all kinds of storage systems in an attempt to make your garage just a little bit more organized. There are much more inexpensive options for organizational tools, and we are going to share our favorite with you:

Use a dresser to organize your garage?Designate each drawer as a place for one category of supplies, and mark the drawers with an index card, which can be stapled to the front with a staple gun. We have designated one drawer for electrical items, including outlets, outlet covers, wire crimpers, pieces of lamps, testing equipment and anything else we need that relates to electricity. The second drawer is designated for paint supplies, like brushes, rollers, handles for rollers, sand paper, and so on. The third drawer is for nails and screws, which are kept in plastic floss organizers, or fishing tackle organizers. One organizer is used for nails, and the second is used for screws. There is still room in the drawer for whole boxes of nails and screws that are used more often.

Cords are also a problem with us, so we have designated a single drawer just for cords. In there, we have lamp cords, phone wire, cable wire and other cords. You can coil them, and slide them into a toilet-paper roll in order to keep them separate from the other cords. There are also drawers for batteries, glues and adhesives, and light bulbs. There is also a drawer for miscellaneous hardware, which includes felt chair legs, door stops, baby locks and other odds and ends that would not fit very well into the other drawers. There is also a drawer for miscellaneous tools, which includes tools that we do like to use, but certainly do not use every day. This drawer is used mainly for channel locks, socket sets, a wire brush and pipe wrenches.

And do not forget that you can also use the top of your dresser for organizational purposes. We have placed several rectangular plastic ?shoebox? containers on top, and each one holds something different. One holds hammers, another holds screwdrivers, and there is a box for pliers in addition to one for crescent wrenches. There are four or five of them all together, and they hold nearly all of the tools we use on a daily basis.

Think outside of the toolbox!

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