Top 10 Garage Organizing Hacks

Raise of hands: Anyone else fail their goal of tackling the chaos that is their garage this summer? It happens. Warm weather hits and suddenly not being able to park in your garage seems totally fine compared to all the better ways you could be spending a sunny day.

Organizing Your Garage Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult

Here’s a little something to help give you that final push before the snow begins to fall: my top 10 favorite and easy garage organizing hacks. Pick one or more and your garage will be picture perfect in no time. At the very least, your car will thank you.

Favorite Ways To Organize Tools

1. Pegboards

Pegboards are a great and inexpensive way to give your tools a home. No more will you suffer the frustration of trying to find that one specific wrench in your pile of miscellaneous hardware.

Here’s an example of a pegboard that I worked on this summer. This family had an amazing wall-to-wall pegboard that was begging for some love. All that was needed were some inexpensive peg hooks to bring the board to life.

Tool aficionados may worry about the impact of humidity on their tools. Here are some tips that I’ve received from helpful followers:

Invest in a de-humidifier if you live in an overly humid area
Even simpler: clean tools with coconut oil a couple times a year to keep these puppies in fine form

2. Inter-locking Drawers

If you don’t have the space for a full pegboard, consider building your own tool station with these interlocking stackable drawers. They come in several sizes to fit random hardware from nuts and bolts to saws and hammers. Bonus points if you add small bins within each drawer for even more structure.

3. Bins

If you’re one of the lucky ones with built-in cabinets, don’t forget to spruce these spaces up as well. These clear multi-purpose bins are great for storing your random assortment of small garage hardware like renovation materials, paint supplies, and more. Don’t forget the labels to help you easily spot what you need later.

Favorite Ways To Organize The Big Things: Yard & Sports Equipment

4. Wall Panels

If you do anything this year to spruce up your garage, let it be this: get your things off the floor.

These white Proslat wall panels are a beautiful way to do this. These panels even come with their own hooks that are sturdy enough to hang everything from yard tools to bikes and snowboards.

Garage Organization: Proslat Wall Panels

5. Sports Bin

If your garage is anything like mine, you’re tripping over balls on the daily. I recently used this ball caddy and track from Gladiator and have to say that it’s the perfect home for sports equipment. It secures to the wall and its openings make getting balls in and out a breeze.

6. Wall rack systems

If you’re looking for a tried and true way to get things off the floor, try these Rubbermaid FastTrack wall systems. Here, we used them to hang miscellaneous yard tools.

Favorite Ways To Organize Bikes

7. Wall rack systems (cont’d)

My mantra of keeping things off the floor holds true to bikes, too. This same Rubbermaid FastTrack system hangs bikes like a charm. Because these bikes aren’t used frequently, not having them within kid reach was just fine for this family.

8. Free-Standing Bike Racks

For the big kids (i.e. you), try a free-standing bike rack.

9. Parking Lanes

If all else fails, give bikes a dedicated parking spot away from high-traffic zones so kids know exactly where to put them once they’re finished speeding down the sidewalk. Save even more storage space by hanging helmets on the bike handles.

Organizing The Random Things

10. Standing Storage Shelf

Much like a junk drawer, garages hold dozens to hundreds of random things making it tricky to find intuitive homes for everything. In these cases, you’re best to sort them into categories and store them in large airtight ins. Label them up and store them on sturdy shelves like this Saferacks shelf. Bonus is that they’re available in several colors should you be looking to make your garage pretty as well as functional (just me?).

Shop The Look

Proslat Wall Panels

Rubbermaid FastTrack

Gladiator Ball Caddy

SafeRacks Storage Shelf

Free-Standing Bike Rack

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