The Best Garage Storage Solutions

Garage Storage Solutions

Finding the right garage storage solutions can be all it takes to affect a complete makeover of your garage, turning it from an annoying thicket of bric-a-brac into an orderly space where you’ll never struggle to lay hand on the tool or product you need. The best such garage storage solutions are simple, mechanical methods of getting innately awkward items up and out of the way.

The Bicycle Rack

Perhaps the most useful such item is the bicycle rack. Usually, such racks provide one or two brackets to support the bicycle by its frame, which, depending on the quality of the rack, may or may not be padded to prevent wear and abrasion on the frame.

Vertical Storage

  • Vertical storage racks are known for being a little difficult to work with, and are not really appropriate if you’re over the age of fifty.

  • If you’re racking more than one bicycle, they’ll often call for you to stack the second and third bicycles over your head, an activity that’s bound to be at least a little awkward even if your bike’s made from lightweight titanium or carbon composite.

Horizontal Storage

For anyone a little less interested in maintaining power lifting skills into their old age, horizontal storage racks are going to look a lot more attractive.

  • These racks actually rack bikes either by their wheels, or by their seat and handlebars, thus eliminating any cause for concern for your bicycle’s paint job.

  • To install one, all you need to do is have four pulley wheels attached to the ceiling of your garage.

  • The ropes of the pulley system will attach to the platform on which the bicycles are arranged.

  • By means of a winch mechanism, which is easy enough for a small child to wind, the platform can then be made to ascend to the garage ceiling, with the bikes stacked out of sight until you need them.

  • The amount of space such garage storage solutions can free up around your car will surprise you, making leaving the garage when you arrive home feel a lot less like traversing an obstacle course.

More Garage Storage Solutions

Another common awkward and clutter-some item that tends to make a mess of any garage is the ubiquitous golf bag. Most resorts don’t provide house clubs, yet there’s really no aesthetically pleasing arrangement to put them in when you’re not out on the driving range, right? Wrong. A little searching online will reveal no end of garage storage solutions for golf clubs, from simple pulley platforms similar to the one described above to beautiful golf club storage racks, which, aside from getting your clubs off the floor and high up onto the walls, present them in appealing symmetrical configurations.

If purchasing a ready made garage storage rack represents more of a cash investment than you’re willing to make, don’t despair. How-To’s for building golf bag storage units are also readily available on ezines such as ehow.com and require you to purchase nothing more than

  • a bit of lumber (a 4 foot by 8 foot sheet will do)
  • some strong wood glue
  • a few L-brackets
  • a jig saw
  • some wood stain or varnish

and if you haven’t got one, to rent a circular saw and a spirit level from your local tool rental house. Again, vertical racks are going to present you with difficulties if you’re racking more than one set of clubs, unless you rack them horizontally along the wall, so keep this in mind when figuring out the ideal designs for your personalized garage storage solutions.