Let us admit that our garages are the most disorganized and cluttered corner of your residence. We need to keep it clean and refreshed for the entire house to feel picture perfect. As it is also a prominent part of our houses, we can't afford to overlook it all the time. Maybe the guests won't walk in there, but it should not be the only reason for us to tidy up a place.
It needs to reek hygiene and cleanliness all the time for healthy living. Since the prospect of organizing your garage is on your mind let me help you through with this wise decision. Here are some easy steps to get your garage organization in order.
Abandon the idea of dumping ground
First and foremost you need to do away with the idea that your garage is your dumping zone which it isn't. Change of mind for a change in attitude. Be aware that the garage is the place where you park your car and not dispose of all the metal waste of the house.
Segregation
- You have to start with clearing up the mess. The jumble needs to be sorted. You have to segregate trash from useful materials. For instance, if you have important tools, childhood albums, toys and garden equipment, separate them from broken junk and things you cannot reuse again.
- Next step you need to arrange for cartons. You can get them from local shops by using the boxes left over at your place unoccupied.
- Now arrange the cartons into categories. For example one for tools, machinery, another for childhood goods, and one for miscellaneous. The more categories you make, the easier it is to sort objects. Keep one labelled as the discarded which you will use for all the things meant to be thrown away.
- Similarly, get another for recycling objects. This one can have old newspapers, glass bottles, tin cans, broken television sets, parts of other devices. You can put them up for scrap dealers.
- Do not leave sharp tools and objects lying around casually. It might harm the skin of the car by scraping or creating a dent.
Cleaning
Following the segregation, you need to broom the area and disinfectant the room. Use antimicrobial sprays and insect killers to dust the area clean.
You can dust off the cobwebs and spray room fresheners to make the place smell fresh and fine.
Repaint
If you are planning to revamp your garage, painting is the best way to give a rejuvenated look to your garage. You can try vibrant shades and abstract patterns. Wallpapers are also a quick fix to your problem if time is a constraint. Make it look bright and colourful.
Redecoration
Lights and bulbs should also be installed to brighten the garage. Corners can be decorated with fairy lights
As reuse and revamp idea, you can decorate the place with DIY projects. Say, for instance, used glass bottles can be filled with fairy lights and placed on the shelves. This will give an aesthetic look to the surroundings.
Smart Hacks
- Buy wooden shelves to stock up the cartons and arrange them neatly along the walls. Sometimes in monsoon watery seep in and damages the paper boxes. Shelves are effective ways to avoid such a casualty.
- You can create a separate table for all your hardware work with a drawer to store the sharp machinery and drilling equipment.
- You can drill in holes and insert hooks to hang some of the garden axes of the shovel or even the small keys. This idea is very useful especially if you have a small garage with limited space.
- Plan to have wall hanging cupboards or shelves if the garage has limited space. These won't take much area and will accommodate all the boxes vertically, leaving the floor empty.
- Canvas storage bags are beneficial for storing seasonal goods which you won't be needing always, for example, Christmas trees and house party decor items.
- Wall fixed cabinets and corner shelves will also be effective in decluttering the garage and utilising the place judiciously. The cabinets can accommodate books, tools, albums, surplus kitchen utensils, excess grains and ration, etc. The corner shelves will look stylish and simultaneously house small objects which you always need in handy.
- You can also use your DIY skills to design long cardboard rolls to store hockey sticks, rackets, broomsticks, shovels, etc.
- Balls and game items should have a separate rack for you to easily locate the stuff you need for an outdoor match on weekends.
- You can arrange small jars to hold nails, needles and. These are the objects which easily get lost and are hard to spot. Label the jars each with name tags for hassle-free jobs later.
Proper planning and good DIY skills can save you the cost of hiring hardware mechanics to declutter your garage organization.