It’s quite rare to come across well organized garages in America. The reasons are simple to guess. Most of the times garages are used as a dumping place for any and all the items that are not needed most of the time in the main home. The result is that all such items get cluttered up and in the event of your wanting to use one of those, you end up spending unusually long time in locating it and get irritated in the process. With spring around the corner, cleaning of garage is on the list of “things to do” for most of the homeowners. Here are four important steps for organizing your garage that yield more space at your disposal for storage of household items.

NUMBER ONE

The first step is to bring out everything from the garage. You’ll be surprised to notice so many of unwanted things that you might not even be able to recall of having ever dumped them there. Then, you’ll find items that have not been used for may be a year or even longer. All such items constitute and add to the clutter. Get rid off all these items. Some ways of doing the needful would be to organize a garage sale, gift some to your friends and family or donate the rest to a thrift store. Once you have executed this activity, you’ll find the forthcoming steps 2-4 very simple to execute. So, it’s very important to follow this step.

NUMBER TWO

Bikes occupy a lot of floor space and are very obstructive, more so because they are not generally used all thru year. They are better taken care of by having ceiling mounted bike racks that can accommodate kids’ as well adults’ bikes. You also get bike racks for being fixed on the walls. If the bikes are not used for a good part of the year, it is good to have stand alone bike stands that can easily be used by kids whenever they like, thus saving you the botheration of moving them in or out of the garage at times that you least expected.

NUMBER THREE

Make an inventory of items to be stored and categorize them as per size. That helps you to buy the right-sized shelf that can accommodate most of your small or medium sized items. You can accommodate all your landscaping tools, pots, bagged earth, and other handy gardening tools, leaving only your lawnmower out. Should your budget allow, you better go for shelving that has provision for a door over the shelves themselves? Such an arrangement keeps the stored items out of eyes, but organized all the time.

NUMBER FOUR

Loose sports items like bats, balls, and helmets or other such items are ideally stored in a sports rack, available at most of sports shops. Some of these racks come with plastic mount shapes that facilitate convenient storage and easy retrieval at the same time. Else, be prepared to waste your time and get irritated while looking for soccer balls and the like that have a tendency to reach the not so convenient points of the garage. Having sports racks saves time, reduces clutter, thereby giving you more space.

Garages are meant for storage and not for getting dumped with items. If you take the above four steps, you’ll have a clean and well organized garage to the envy of all. Come on now; get started for a cleaner welcoming garage.