Curbing The Chaos In The Garage

MY GARAGE has many storage features. Sixteen feet of cabinets with workbench on top; all pegboard walls with 40′ of storage shelves above; metal cabinets, and storage in the rafters, and yet it is full! If your garage is in chaos, you might want to call in a garage storage expert to get all those storage items off the floor.

Here is my garage:

Here is what I’m going to do: reorganize all existing storage, throwing away 10 types of tile I have just in case I of something; taking to Goodwill the five pieces of extra luggage I have not used in five years; 10 fishing poles might be too many; there are bazaar kitchen appliances like the instant ice cream maker, the universal juicing machine, the deluxe bread maker, the wizbang unused turkey oven, two countertop electric skillets, and the calfragalistic crockpot, all of which could go somewhere along with several discarded coffee makers. Then I’ll throw out a couple of unused exercise machines I should use, but don’t.  And note the miter saw on the workbench that could go.

You can call an expert to organize your garage, and pay several thousand dollars to have it done for you.  But there is a less expensive way to do this.  Call a kitchen contractor and see if he will install a set of recycle kitchen cabinets in your garage.  For under a thousand dollars you can have a $10,000 set of kitchen cabinets. Install shelving above eye level all the way around the garage wall.  Prices in the $2500 range for the cabinets and storage shelves is about right.  More storage can be added, or pegboard.  This is a less expensive way of curbing the chaos in the garage.

If you are handy at all, an organized garage is a prerequisite to efficient jobs around the house.  Start in the garage first.  If you need a list of tools, all the tools a handyman needs, send me an email me for McMurdie’s tool list!  A basic set of tools, list A,  runs about $185 including handy dandy bucket.  The complete A&B list of handy tools costs about $850 today, including circular saw, jig saw, and cordless drills.  These are all the tools handy owners needs.   The supercalifragilistic woodworking tools in List Magnum XX,  including band saw, table saw, router, nailing guns, super sawsall, laser beams, and the fun stuff costs about $14,000.  And they’ll all fit in your garage with the cars!

See ya at the hardware store!