Tidy Single Car Garage

[apartment dan]

My username doesn't apply anymore, about 3 years ago I bought a house with an attached single car garage. Since then just been trying to find the best way to organize all the junk in my garage. A week or so ago I picked up the tool chest from my dad (who also frequents this board) at a very reasonable price as he decided to go with the glossy finish rather than the matte. Anyway I cleaned the garage out in preparation for the chest so I thought I would post some pics to share what I've done and see if anyone has comments or suggestions. I don't plan on doing too much more as I won't be in this house for more than 4 or 5 more years.

Coming into the garage from the house

From the driveway

Right side

Left side

New tool holder strip deal, keeps all this stuff off the ground

New tool chest, don't have quite enough tools to do it justice yet

Pegboard with random stuff

 

[UN4GTBL]

Looks good, thats a nice tool box!

 

[Derrickwade]

Neat little loft area up there.

 

[vartz04]

put up a shed if you can, gets you some extra space to store lawn and garden stuff. Prolly the bikes too.

Looks great though.

 

[andyaus]

looks like a functioning garage to me, nice.......

 

[cgall]

Very nice, reminds me of my first house (1980). Is that ladder wood? If so, I would junk it.

 

[apartment dan]

put up a shed if you can, gets you some extra space to store lawn and garden stuff. Prolly the bikes too.

Looks great though.

I've been thinking about this... I don't want to spend $1k+ though, and I'm concerned that the pre-built plastic ones that go for $400-600 won't keep the elements and critters out nearly as well as the garage.

 

[apartment dan]

Very nice, reminds me of my first house (1980). Is that ladder wood? If so, I would junk it.

It is and its pretty scary climbing up to the roof with it

Gets the job done though.

 

[drooartz]

I've been thinking about this... I don't want to spend $1k+ though, and I'm concerned that the pre-built plastic ones that go for $400-600 won't keep the elements and critters out nearly as well as the garage.

I bought a used plastic shed from a friend about 6 years ago. It has survived the Utah mountain winters pretty well, and keeps the lawn mower and such dry. Only thing I have to do in the winter is make sure the snow doesn't pile up against the door -- one winter I had some leaking in through there as the snow melted and got through the door opening.

Otherwise it's been a functional/cheap answer for sorting the yard ****.

 

[Laredo]

Nice space! Thanks for sharing.

One tip - get those jack stands out your trafffic path, could be a tripping hazard.