New member here, who's hoping The Garage Journal can help inspire me to finish the job. My journey started 2 months ago, before I knew about this site. Basically, I was fed up with having an over stuffed 2 car garage, that could barely fit a single car in it. I had stuff all over the ground, including bikes, lawnmower, buckets, kid's toys, tools, and all the random stuff that my wife and I didn't want in the house.
I also had a lot of very deep Gorilla Shelf like shelves that were over stuffed making it very difficult for me to find anything.
I wish I knew about this site a few months ago, because I would have taken "before" pics, but alas you guys will have to settle for "mid-way" pics.
Right now i'm trying to convince my wife that putting up a flat panel LCD in the garage is a good idea, and that the floors need to be spruced up somehow.
I hope to get lots of suggestions and feedback as i'm kind of out of ideas, and i'm still not happy with where my garage is at.
Anyways, here's some pics...
Entering the garage from the house:
Installed some "hangers" on the ceiling to store longer pieces of wood, otherwise they were just laying on the ground:
Left side wall (haven't done anything with the shelves...i want something a little more modern, and maybe more cabinet like)
Turn your head to the right side of the garage and this is what you'll see...We took apart the some of our Gorilla shelves and turned them into work-bench/storage units that I put on wheels. I wanted to be able to move them around easily so that i could configure the benches as needed, i.e. large island, long bench, etc.
Another view of those movable benches, and also I should mention we build some very shallow shelves on that wall. My wife came up with that idea, because she knew I have problems with over-stuffing deep shelves.
A better view of how shallow those shelves are:
Geez, didn't realize how over-loaded that shelving unit is...It's all of our Christmas, Halloween, and camping stuff...
Bungied my ladders to the wall...
Nasty floors...need help with this one guys
My wife and I put up a shed right outside of the garage, which is where we now store our bikes, lawnmower, and other misc. gardening stuff.
Oh yeah, and see that blank wall back there. That's where i want to put a flat panel TV that's attached to a garage PC and internet.
Anyways, it's been a long and hard two months to get it to this state. I know it doesn't look like much, but it's such an improvement.
I also had a lot of very deep Gorilla Shelf like shelves that were over stuffed making it very difficult for me to find anything.
I wish I knew about this site a few months ago, because I would have taken "before" pics, but alas you guys will have to settle for "mid-way" pics.
Right now i'm trying to convince my wife that putting up a flat panel LCD in the garage is a good idea, and that the floors need to be spruced up somehow.
I hope to get lots of suggestions and feedback as i'm kind of out of ideas, and i'm still not happy with where my garage is at.
Anyways, here's some pics...
Entering the garage from the house:
Installed some "hangers" on the ceiling to store longer pieces of wood, otherwise they were just laying on the ground:
Left side wall (haven't done anything with the shelves...i want something a little more modern, and maybe more cabinet like)
Turn your head to the right side of the garage and this is what you'll see...We took apart the some of our Gorilla shelves and turned them into work-bench/storage units that I put on wheels. I wanted to be able to move them around easily so that i could configure the benches as needed, i.e. large island, long bench, etc.
Another view of those movable benches, and also I should mention we build some very shallow shelves on that wall. My wife came up with that idea, because she knew I have problems with over-stuffing deep shelves.
A better view of how shallow those shelves are:
Geez, didn't realize how over-loaded that shelving unit is...It's all of our Christmas, Halloween, and camping stuff...
Bungied my ladders to the wall...
Nasty floors...need help with this one guys
My wife and I put up a shed right outside of the garage, which is where we now store our bikes, lawnmower, and other misc. gardening stuff.
Oh yeah, and see that blank wall back there. That's where i want to put a flat panel TV that's attached to a garage PC and internet.
Anyways, it's been a long and hard two months to get it to this state. I know it doesn't look like much, but it's such an improvement.
