In the garage of most homes, old toys, sports equipment, tools, seasonal items and unwanted junk waste accumulate in the dust in untidy and uncomfortable piles. After a few years, you can even clog your garage from the accumulated stuff in your home so much that your car is kicked to the curb.

Want to avoid tripping over baseball bats and cold winter mornings by pinching ice off the windshield? Then it’s time to equip your garage.

Ditch and Donation: Do you really need a bucket full of broken hockey sticks or all five snow shovels? Will you ever use that pile of wood? Realize on your own and get rid of articles you no longer use or don’t need. Organize a community yard sale, or collect and discard unused items at your local donation drop.

Organization up: In order to provide your car with a comfortable space in the garage, we recommend that you save as much space as possible. Build to save floor space. You can use Ikea’s shelves specifically designed for garages, or you can finally use the wood waste and build it yourself. A few simple shelves make it much easier for containers to find tools, toys, and seasonal clothes.

Lift it up: Outdoor fans with bikes and kayaks, for example, find that their hobbies occupy most of their garage space. Instead of preferring Trek’s bike to his car, he makes a compromise. You can use ceiling hooks or beams specifically designed for bike storage, so both your vehicle and bikes are protected during the cold winter months.

Dedicated Zones: Are you a do-it-yourselfer, a fan of yard work, or do you have a breed of multi-talented athletes? Are all three valid? If so, you want to play zone protection. Select the garage sections for each category. For example, tools, building materials, and paints should be sorted by category in the “workshop”. It can essentially be a pegboard and workbench in one corner of the garage. Here you can keep your nails, screws, washers and screws in labeled containers and display everything by category to make your project run more smoothly.

Be creative: Objects often found in the garage can be embarrassing and take up too much space. Do not allow these objects to fall over. If you want to save your garage from chaos, you have to be creative. Here are some hacks:

If there is a gallon toner container on the shelf that contains only a few ounces of toner, transfer the remainder to a small mason jar.
Replace this stubborn, bulky hose with new, malleable, bellows-style hoses that take up less space and are easier to hang.
“Winter clothing”, “tennis equipment”, “beach toys”, etc. Labeled trash cans make them easier to identify. Do you have a container full of camping gear and don’t plan on camping soon? Lift this trash can to a less accessible location and make room for the most commonly used trash cans.
Use wall hooks to hang rakes, shovels and brooms.

For easy access, show screwdrivers, wrenches, scissors and other metal tools on the magnetic strip above the workbench in the designated “workshop”.
Bulky extenders are the cord of many existence. To avoid spending hours, unwind the cord and hang it on the bungee on the wall.
Is the pot full of basketball, soccer balls, tennis balls and football? Instead of spinning these through when you want to play a catch game with kiddos, use bungees and columns to create an impromptu ball cage.

How to organize and simplify your garage depends on your interests, hobbies and what kind of garages you load. The goal is to maintain the same, organized, functional, easy-to-use and navigable space for all of us – but most importantly, a safe and secure home for your vehicle.