How To Organize A Small Garage

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A garage can be used for much more than parking. Your garage can also double as an important storage space, a workroom for all those household projects, and a place to keep next season’s holiday decorations.

However, organizing a small garage is no easy feat. The last thing you want is to deal with is years and years of clutter crowding your space, leaving no room for any of the other garage essentials.

Simple Steps To Start Organizing Your Small Garage

Within a small garage, it is way too easy for old clothing, furniture, toys, tools, games, dishes, decorations, and endless miscellaneous trinkets to get thrown into your space.

As the stuff stacks up, it makes it difficult to keep your small garage organized and spacious. However, with a strategy, you can create more room for work and play.

Step One: Sort What’s Visible In Your Small Garage

Step Two: Sort What’s Hiding In The Depths Of Your Garage

Now it’s time for the fun part — going through items hidden away. Similar to an attic or a basement, it’s all too easy for your small garage to become a dumping ground.

Dig in the back of garage cabinets, under tables, in drawers near your tool wall, inside of stacked boxes, or in any other storage areas you may have in your small garage.

Take out all of your extra clutter and gather it on your driveway or in the center of your garage floor with the rest of your items. Make sure you categorize things as you go and create piles while you dig through every nook and cranny.

Step Three: Declutter What You Don’t Need

Once you have everything sorted, it’s time to dive into the decluttering process. It’s important to declutter your belongings before you organize them so you can get rid of everything you don’t actually need to keep around in your small garage.

I like to go with the Four Box Decluttering because of the way the approach is set up. I find the method to be incredibly simple, yet highly effective for getting the job done.

Step Four: Reorganize Your Small Garage Layout

Organizing a small garage goes beyond sorting the stuff you own. A huge facet of the organization process involves layout and design.

If you aren’t intentional about the way you organize and lay out your small garage, you’ll create a space where you have to work much harder to feel like you have the room you need. With an intelligent design, you can have room for your cars, storage, and work table despite the challenge of a small space.

There are several functional ways you can organize your small garage. Typically, you’ll have your work table area against the furthest flat wall, away from the car area. You can design your work table set up however you please, depending on how much of a handyman you tend to be and how large your projects are.

Against the perpendicular wall, it’s wise to add in extra storage. To do that, you can install cabinets, add floating shelves, or buy storage bins and some kind for rack for all your miscellaneous storage needs.

Step Five: Categorize Items By How They’re Used

I’ve found that the best way to categorize items in any room is to [BOLD]sort your items by the specific purpose they serve. This way, you know exactly where everything you need is at all times.

Be sure not to forget about key categories in your small garage. This might look like keeping all of your pool toys in a bin on the backyard side of the garage, keeping your bicycle and air pump by the garage door, or keeping all of your car repair gadgets by your parked cars.

Organization Guide For Each Room Of Your Home

Tips And Tricks For Organizing A Small Garage

When trying to organize your small garage, it’s important to think about the little things you can do to maximize your space and make the most of storage areas.

1Clear Everything Off Your Small Garage Floor

2Make It Easy On Yourself By Using Labels

3Store Items On The Underside Of Surfaces

4Repurpose Old Furniture To Use As Storage

5Outline Your Hanging Hardware Tools With Paint

6Organize Hand Tools With Magnetic Strips

7Hollow Out PVC Pipes To Hang Rakes, Brooms & Shovels

8Use Painter’s Tape To Map Out A Walking Path

Inspiration For Organizing A Small Garage: Storage And Cleaning

When you don’t have a ton of space in your small garage, you have to be creative with the ways you maximize the space and the storage products you invest in to help you create room.

Not only are storage products essential for keeping your small garage organized, but also you don’t want to lose the mojo once you finally get your space clean. I’ve linked some cleaning products that are helpful in keeping your garage organized in the long term.

Make It Easy To Keep Your Garage Clean

Minimalists Checklist When Organizing A Small Garage

Organizing your small garage in a way that makes it feel larger than it actually is will give you the room you need to complete all of your household projects, park your cars, and keep things in storage.

Your Turn!

• What tips will you use to keep your small garage organized?
• What steps will you take today to begin maximizing your small garage?

By Ryan Mitchell on July 25, 2022   /   Minimalism   /   Leave a comment

Tags: Minimalist, Organization, Storage