Making top use of overhead storage space

Most home owners with an attached garage will suffer the problem of clutter - a mess, disorderliness, or general loss of control over the organization of garage space. Your garage becomes the storage space for so many items that aren't needed on a daily basis - it's only reasonable, since doing this leaves the living space of the home less cluttered.

But all that stuff can get piled up, so much so, that you can't even find the stuff that you do occasionally need. Or your workbench becomes unusable from all the clutter that's stored there. Navigating the clutter to find needed tools and items can even become risk of injury or fall as you climb over the clutter looking for the item that you know is out there, but where...

Most garages actually have a vast amount of unused storage space - overhead. The loft or attic of a garage can provide ample amount of storage space if setup to do so. There are several different approaches to take from the do-it-yourself solutions to products that are specially designed to help make use of this waisted space.

Garage Overhead Storage Systems

One of the most effective do-it-yourself overhead garage storage systems is to utilize the rafters as a second story, an attic, or loft. Sheets of no less than 3/8 inch thick plywood can be nailed to the top side of the rafters to form a floor. For access to this area, you can either use a standard portable ladder or attach 2x4s to the studs of the garage to form the kind of ladder you might have had leading to your tree-house when you were a kid. To get really fancy, you could do a fold down or retractible ladder or stairway. The designs will depend on your space available and your comfort level with designing and building this kind of construction.

Once the space is prepared, it's time to consider how to use it. This space will be available as crawl space only, so your storage containers should be arranged in isles like a supermarket, all aligned in one direction. You leave enough space be able to crawl between the isles to the isle of interest. MAke your way down the isle to access any container needed. Wallah, you're done. You can even draw a map of the isles showing what items are located where - things like Christmas decorations, Halloween costumes, luggage, all of that stuff has designated container space.

Overhead storage products

If creating a loft space is a little too ambitious a project, then worry not. There are still countless products available to make good use of overhead storage space. Lots of products are available for simple items like  hanging bicycle storage or garden tool organizers. Overhead storage systems are available from companies like Slide-Lok. Slide-Lok offers a wide range of high quality options for garage organization and storage products for optimizing that unused overhead space in the garage. Their verity of different solutions, combined with the high quality product makes them a quality choice for your garage storage organization needs.

Organizing the garage may seem quite a large task, and the truth is, that making that large overhead space more usable will probably take more than a day or two, no matter which way you decide to go. But once you're done, you've greatly increased the amount of garage storage space available, and you can forget about using one of those storage yard space rentals.

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