I am beginning a search for decent overhead cabinets for the garage. I know there is a very wide range of options out there and I am looking more fore quality than price. Having said that, price is always a factor in any sort of purchase. What would your choice be? I would love Strongholds but way out of the budget for me, at the other end of the spectrum there are the cheapies that the big box stores sell, I don’t want those. Given those parameters, What would be your recommendations? I need 8’ of cabinets with possibly more after.
Your use will determine a lot. I see you are speaking of overhead/wall hung over bench cabinets. Do you wood work? Obviously making your own customs will be best in most cases if you can. You can size to the space, You can size to a specific tool or jig or kit or whatever you want to store and access.
Are you storing heavy items? Items that can leak? Large items?
In my shed I used the bare wood cheap self assembly cabinets from a box store I wiped on a couple coats of shellac on the fronts I had lying around that need to be used up. I store a lot of lighter weight stuff in them. I have them mounting through their backs and through their tops into a continuous 2x4 that runs the length of them across the ceiling joists. I also added a 3/8" bolt rod in the center where the two doors meet to help prevent sagging.
I used these basically in a shed, above my tough system boxes that only had a 7ft ceiling height.
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They go together fast. They were cheap enough at the time (they were on sale for like $70 a cabinet?) and with a little effort you can improve them in some ways. Add some construction adhesive during assembly. Add some additional screws to where the box edges join. Make sure they have solid backing on the backs and possibly tops to improve. They are still cheap particle board ikea boxes however.
If time and aesthetics are not important, plenty of home remodels chuck the old cabinets. Would keep an eye out for some old solid wood trash cabinets. Lots of solid pine and oak cabinets are getting chucked with plain solid face doors. Might even consider calling around to kitchen contractors and see if you could get hired as labor to demo the cabinets from a job or two of theirs and go that route.
I don't have any information about heavier duty metal cabinets to offer.
Might also consider going a wall mounted packout or dewalt or rigid or other plastic tool box storage depending on your needs. Or open shelves.
You sort to need to define the use for yourself and go from there. Also remember that almost any storage solution can look clean if its kept similar and cohesive. All the same size and shape and color milk crates or whatever on shelves can look clean and neat if the storage solution is kept cohesive. Function should lead form in a garage though imho.
