3 car attached on home with limited storage

[nosrac]

In the process of moving into a new to us home with an attached 3 car garage. Unfortunately aside from a 6x14 furnace/utility room, there is no storage for our families immense collection of plastic junk/toys/unwanted things we just might need.

As such the garage was already fitted with some rather large storage shelves on the front of the garage.

I will be using on of the bays for light mechanical/woodworking/fab&repair work, and I generally make a mess and cover everything in the garage in a layer of dust/dirt/grindings/etc.

This combined with my desire to have enclosed storage - hate open shelves with stuff piled everywhere - has brought me here.

Would you use the existing shelves and simply turn them into cabinets? My plan was to put a frame around the bottom, and split the current verticals by adding another vertical half way, and attaching swinging doors to them.

Any thoughts or comments? They are made of decent lumber.

My other plan is to do a separate set of doors on the top of these to take them all the way to the ceiling.

 

[The J]

If you like the size and location of the shelving, definitely throw some doors in front. The hard part has already been done! Enclosed storage is much nicer than battling dust all the time.

Tough to tell the height from the pictures. Are they at workbench height? I would enclose the bottoms, use the workbench surface, then add some more shelving on the wall above.

 

[nosrac]

not the right height for work bench, and too close to the next shelf. Thanks for the feedback. I am going to notch a 2x just like the existing verticals to split the areas up, tighten them up with some screws (all just nailed together now) and put doors on them.

My ceiling joist are running with the shelves so I am unsure how I am going to do the top portion and tie it to the ceiling. I guess I will run some 2x4's across the ceiling joist and turn another on end to create my front. This set on top will require a ladder for access but should be good for the once a year items like christmas lights, etc.

thanks!

thanks!