These home storage solutions can add many square feet of useful space to your house!I'm not kidding, see how my home storage solutions transformed piles of clutter into usable space. Every horizontal surface in my garage and workshop, including the floor, were piled with tools and supplies. Obviously, finding anything was difficult, cleanups were impossible! Inside, our closets suffered from too much jammed in too small a space! Our kitchen cupboards were stuffed with dinnerware and cookware that had to be unloaded to find the right pot or pan. They always seemed to be on the bottom! The small space left over was our pantry - packed front to back, and bottom to top; equally impossible to find anything we needed! In this section I'm going to show simple home storage solutions you can build with inexpensive manufactured closet organizers. I'm also going to give you the custom plans I designed for my shop's garage storage cabinets, weatherproof outside cement-board lockers for lawn equipment, ladders, and garden supplies, and a paint and chemical locker. These are things I've done in the home, the garage, and the yard!
After my garage conversion, I needed somewhere outside my shop to store all of my yard equipment and supplies, my longer ladders, and most importantly, safe exterior storage for paints, gasoline, and pool chemicals.
These home storage solutions really helped organize every area. The closet organizers were family projects where everyone went to The Home Depot, or Lowe's Home Improvement center to look at their displays, mix and match to fit the dimensions, and make each of our boys happy with their closet designs. Everything else, I designed and built myself. My home storage solutions were complicated by my garage conversion project. Without a two-car garage to stuff overflow into, I had to be creative! The shop's overhead storage lets me get very long material, up to twenty feet, off the floor, yet accessible. The garage storage cabinets are only one foot deep, yet with six shelves in each three foot cabinet, I now have the space, and logical organization, to store all of my bulky tools and materials. Now, all of my workshop's horizontal surfaces are free to use for their intended purpose! The outside storage is really special and gets rave reviews from any visitor. I can now safely store thirty gallons of gasoline for my generator and yard equipment outside of the house! I get an insurance discount every year that equals the original cost. I also get weatherproof storage for all of the yard equipment and supplies, plus a cool shelf with a separate end door for my 8' step, and 16' extension ladders! Things are piling up everywhere. It's time to Do-It-Yourself-Better and get busy on Home Storage Solutions!
This next home storage solution is a weatherproof storage locker for things you don't want in the house! This is where I store gasoline, liquid chlorine (pool-shock), paints, and solvents that either smell bad, or are just too dangerous to be inside!
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Here are two other designs for garage organization! The tall storage cabinet is for fishing gear - poles, tackle, even a spare prop! The rolling scrap box makes a convenient seat, and let's you keep shorter cut-offs you know you'll need later.
