How to Make the Most Out of Your Home’s Neglected Garage Space
Whether your garage barely fits your car into it, or you are lucky enough to have acquired an excessively roomy space fit to be featured on Orange County Choppers, having a garage that is impeccably organized with clean-lined storage units and that boasts a shiny, epoxy coated floor to boot, is something that many individuals find is just out of their reach if attempting to finish this huge project themselves. Most people will finally give up, leaving an unfinished mess behind them, or they may just take many years to finish what could have been professionally completed for them in mere months. Does this scenario ring a bell? If so, there are a number of things that you can do to enhance your garage’s three main purposes:
- car storage
- stuff storage, and
- work space
How to Have the Best Garage in the Twin Cities
If you are asking yourself how you can possibly turn your dilapidated, old garage space into something even close to the “best garage in the Twin Cities,” you are certainly not the first to bring the issue to attention. If you have opened the door to your garage and have almost broke down in desperate tears, thinking how this room ended up to the point of possibly making it onto TLC’s Hoarders, you are not alone. There are many garages that need help. After all, the garage is where everything that doesn’t find a home in the house is thrown, forgotten through the years, only to reemerge out of a box while being looked through after moving to a new place. Even if you can’t imagine it, there are garages in a lot worse shape than yours.
Using a garage storage optimization system can greatly improve the design, structure, and efficiency of the space. Organizing in a strategic manner may even free up extra space to design and construct into your garage space what has been a long-desired wood-working shop, gardening station, or whatever extra space you may think of, according to what your personal hobbies may be. In order to have the best and most efficient garage space available to you, your options must first be researched and weighed against each other.
Making a list of what you currently use your garage for, and then creating a separate list of what you eventually would want to purpose your garage for, is imperative in discovering what are the most important elements to building your dream garage. Next, visualize what your garage will look like when it is entirely finished. Even if you are a less than poor artist, draw your interpretation on a piece of paper and tape it up on the door to your garage. This simple act will remind you of the finished product, and will inspire you to push through until the end of the project.
Some Common Garage Storage Solutions
Amazing garage storage solutions have three things in common: They are clutter-free, they are clean (most of the time), and they have several durable, easy-to-use storage units in place to make the garage space more efficient. The garage doesn’t have to be huge in order to properly utilize these highly desired attributes.
Clutter-Free Garage Space
Having a clutter-free garage simply means that there is nothing out of its place for long, and because of this, even a small garage will look bigger. In order to accomplish the clutter-free look, storage units are usually installed and used to house different things such as shovels and rakes, kayaks, snow blowers, chainsaws, and tool collections.
Clean Storage Space
If anyone takes the time and money to turn their ugly garage into a type of masterpiece that it could be, it better be kept clean. Keeping a garage clean can be a tough ordeal to accomplish and stick to. It is easier to clean shelves and laminate or metal work benches and desks, but a lot harder to keep the garage floor looking good for obvious reasons. In order to make this task a lot easier, having a professional installer come to your home and coat your garage’s concrete floor with color-enhanced epoxy coating, can really prove to make a huge difference in the overall look and feel of your garage environment.
More Free Space
It is a big accomplishment when you are able to create space in your home without spending the money to add on to it. Storage units that are worth their weight in durability and aesthetics will certainly cost you some money, but definitely nothing even close to adding on a room or two to your house. So, when you can move around a few new storage units and wire racks, strategically placing peg boards on the walls, in order to free up some much desired garage space, you will be saving a lot of unnecessary time and money.
An Experienced Twin Cities Company
Harkraft Builders has been in the design, construction, and restoration business for over 40 years, making them one of the most well-known and highest rated businesses in the region. Their certified installation representatives will come to your home and get a feel for what you are looking for in a new garage space, and will, according to your specifications and needs, customize a design that will utterly blow you away!
Not only do their products come with a lifetime guarantee, but also the handiwork of the actual product installers. If a unit is installed incorrectly or is damaged somehow, an installer will come and fix it, free of charge, every time! With high standards of professionalism and industry knowledge, it is no wonder why Harkraft Builders should be your next garage restoration project handler.