Life hacks for the garage: interesting ideas

The garage is a very important place in the life of every motorist, motorcycle owner or even a simple moped. But many people, for an incomprehensible reason, believe that they can be limited to simply building or buying space for storing vehicles.

In fact, this is not the case: almost every garage can be improved with your own hands. And if you think about selling it because of the inconvenience, the simplest recommendations will help you find a suitable solution. Even in the absence of visible problems, sometimes a new approach to the design of the garage space is needed.

The opinion of most people is unambiguous - only two roles are assigned to the garage: storage of personal vehicles and storage of unnecessary old things. Those who "feel sorry for throwing away, but there is no longer any desire to keep at home."

Meanwhile, it is enough to spend a few hours to radically change the situation and make it really pleasant to enter the garage.

Life hacks for improving garage space are diverse, but the most important among them will be an organizer for storing small tools and fasteners. Even a cupcake pan will work as an impromptu storage device.

Many garages already have various shelves, but these can be easily upgraded. Below, a secret reservoir is harmoniously placed, which is made from cans with removable lids. These covers are attached to the shelves themselves with screws, and then the cans are screwed on. Nails, screws and other insignificant metal objects are put there.

When such a solution is not pleasant, or it is not enough to accommodate all the accessories, it is worth fixing the magnet on the wall. It will calmly hold the screwdriver bits and a number of tools.

And if you do not limit yourself to what you can do with your own hands, it is worth considering shelving with perforated panels, hooks and trays.

The vehicle room will invariably contain a variety of adhesive tapes and scotch tapes, the benefits of which people have appreciated for a long time. But so that such devices do not roll back to the farthest corners and do not stick to various places, it is worth using a kind of box for such products.

As you already know, the magnet is not good for holding screwdrivers. It is not necessary to set aside a special box for them, where it will be more practical to make a shelf with holes with your own hands.

You should also think about:

• PVC pipes cut into pieces (after screwing to the wall, they will allow you to hold garden tools);
• organizer pockets for shoes (they will include aerosol cans and brushes);
• folding tables (it is very important to provide a good working area, spacious and comfortable enough);
• a towel holder (even when there is no handwashing facility in the garage itself, it is worth keeping garbage bags on it).

Not all car owners and motorcyclists are true craftsmen. But everyone can use the simplest secrets of effective work.When there is no funnel nearby, an old, unnecessary screwdriver can help to gently pour the lubricating oil. If the screwdriver itself is needed for its intended purpose, but is not strong enough, it is worth using a wrench as a lever. For each other, wrenches also turn out to be faithful helpers.

If you have to store garden chairs, wooden wall brackets will be invaluable: and the free space is used more fully, and there will be no clutter on the floor. Almost every garden uses a wheelbarrow, you can place it compactly if you mount a couple of latches on the wall.

There should be separate areas in the garage for each type of item. That is, for a garden and a summer cottage - one site, for working tools - another, for spare parts - a third, for consumables for a car - the fourth and further on the list.

So that there is room for a container with detergents, which helps to avoid them falling and spilling, it is worth using metal pots (both by themselves and on the shelves).

To bring your plans to life, you need to immediately take care of the convenience in the garage, which means that you will need:

• determine the purposes of its use;
• clearly assign a particular area for certain tasks (it is even better to plan it out on a full-fledged paper drawing);
• study all the things that you have, figure out how to group them and in which storage systems to put.

Buy or make your own corner table that occupies an empty corner. Above the table from various scraps of wood and scrap metal, build shelves for frequently used items. Straightaway get rid of the habit of arranging items on these shelves in an arbitrary wayotherwise the result will be worse than before.

Think over the storage systems yourself, because no one better than you can determine how and what needs to be done in a particular garage. It is recommended not only to lay out tools and spare parts in boxes and boxes, but to sign them with a marker (This is more reliable than permanently peelable paper stickers). In addition to the shelves above the desktop, it is advisable to fix a board (cork or magnetic), which will serve for writing memos, attaching business cards and phone numbers.

Almost any house or apartment is full of things that can be stored somewhere else. There is room in the garage for:

• home collection of photographs;
• children's toys;
• seasonal clothing, footwear, hats;
• a reserve of cleaning and detergents;
• bicycles, scooters, other sports equipment;
• accessories for the car and its repair.

When the goal is to “store anything”, a shelving system is ideal. Plastic options serve for a long time, are relatively inexpensive and retain their valuable qualities even in unheated rooms. However, it should be borne in mind that plastic shelf and bottom will not withstand loads over 50 kg, so you'll have to look elsewhere for rubber, batteries and heavy tools.

PVC shelving is almost ideal. They are inexpensive and tough, but must be protected from mold infestation. If it appears, there is very little chance of removing the fungus. Among the purchased racks, you need to give preference to mobile and easily disassembled modifications..

When the car is changed, a bicycle is additionally placed in the garage or a radical rearrangement is made, they turn out to be more convenient than others. You can move such structures without assistance.

Fasten very small light racks to the walls firmlyso that not only the storage system itself does not fall, but also individual things do not collapse.

It is necessary to accumulate rubber and car rims on the highest shelves, made strictly to the size of the item. It is better to refuse the sides, protection with a wire mesh is much more effective... And if you have spare funds, wheel brackets are a valuable purchase, which look more aesthetically pleasing than a simple shelf and can be easily adapted to store rubber of any format.

Regardless of these nuances, the car and tires must be separated by at least 1 m of space, only then the safety requirements are met.

Check out the following video for even more garage storage ideas.