Garage Organizing
Keep Your Car In

The absolute worst place to do any garage organizing and put any storage is along the left hand side when you are looking at the garage from the big garage doors.

This is the side the driver door opens on. If you put stuff here, every time you get into and out of your car you will have to walk sideways. You will be forever bumping into things, hurting yourself, scraping your arms and bruising your shoulders. You will be snagging your clothing on things and dropping what is in your hands. It is just so totally frustrating. These problems can be totally eliminated by leaving that side totally open from the back by the big overhead door to in front of where the driver side door opens.

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Your garage organizing should be done with your car inside.

Most people look at their garage as a huge expansive storage room because they look at it without their car or cars inside.

That is a huge mistake.

It is unusual for a garage to be much bigger than for cars. Most 2 car garages are about 20 feet wide. Each car is about 6.5 feet wide. So you only have 7 feet extra on the 3 open spaces. If you divide 7 feet be 3 you only get 2 feet 4 inches. That is not that much space.

It is less than the width of a normal door in a house and much narrower than a normal front door.

There is really only enough room to walk, not enough to store stuff or do garage organizing on the side of your garage.

If you have a super wide garage, that is great. That really helps but for most people that is not the reality.

You will be better off not having anything along the side of your garage. That way you can get into and out of your car with less difficulty.

Sure it is possible to get in and out of a smaller space. But think about it, you will be doing this twice a day for years on end. It is just so much extra frustration to deal with just for the sake of storing extra stuff.

Put your storage units, cabinets and shelving in the front of the garage right in front of where your car is parked. If you have a longer vehicle, there will probably not be much room here. You could also store things above so that you can walk below it and not bump your head.

I found a great website called GarageStud. This site has really good products to not only help you get organized with overhead storage and other storage devices but also products to make a great looking garage floor.

I have been fascinated with good looking garage floors for years and really want one some day. Click on this link to learn more about the overhead storage units and click around on the site to see what other interesting options they have to help you get the garage you want:

GarageStud

Think about it. Your car is one of the most expensive things you have. It is your stuff too. It deserves a special place.

Plus a car is the most important thing anyone has. Can you think of anything more important? You can live in a car, you can't drive a house. Your house can't get you to safety. Your house can't drive a loved one to the hospital. Your house can't get you to work or to see someone or to do something.

Leave your car inside when you look at garage organizing. Then see where there is room. You will see that there is really not that much room in your garage.

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