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Take advantage of garage storage space this winter

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Tired of trying to keep all those scarves, mittens and other winter items organized?  We hear you. Just because you’ve battled through the first half of winter doesn’t mean you have to battle through the second. With several more weeks to go, it’s worth taking a couple of hours to get organized.

If your hallway closet is overrun with winter coats and snow pants, make room by removing fall and spring items. You won’t be needing those for a while so pack them into airtight containers, and store them in your garage for now. Once you’ve freed up a few inches of rail space in your closet, insert a multi-shelf canvass organizer like this six-shelf hold-all, and allocate one compartment to each family member for hats and gloves, etc.

Looking for other ways to lighten your winter load? If you find yourself washing your entranceway or mudroom floor every day, buy a large, forgiving mat – one that camouflages winter’s debris. Sure, big black mats may not be beautiful, but they’re a whole lot prettier than salt-stained, slushy tiles, and request much less maintenance!

For more ideas and solutions for your home, check out the National Home Show from February 18 to 27, 2011. Come browse products from more than 700 retailers, and get help from celebrity and industry experts, including Garage Tailors Garage at booth 2044. Hope to see you there!

Garage storage system or oversized junk drawer? You choose.

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Custom Garage CabinetsIf you’re like most homeowners, you probably have a junk drawer in your kitchen that houses all the twisty ties, rubber bands and other miscellaneous items you can’t find a better home for.

Chances are you also have a junk drawer that houses sports equipment, gardening gear, tools, bicycles, camping equipment and more. Granted, this junk drawer is much larger than the first. It’s big enough to house a car, in fact. Yes, I’m talking about your garage.

While few would consider tossing an expensive piece of jewellery into a messy kitchen drawer, most of us park our second most expensive asset amid total chaos, and dangerous chaos at that. Poorly stored garden rakes, skis, bikes, and more not only put your car at risk of dings and dents; they put your family at risk of injury.

In our next post, we share how custom garage cabinets helped one family bring order to their over-sized junk drawer. If you’re interested in doing the same, check out our products soon because we’ve decided to cover the HST on the first 25 garage makeovers we book following the release of this post!

Surefire Garage Organization Ideas

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In the last post, we gave you the basic plan for any sort of organizing project – get rid of what you don’t want or use, sort what’s left and create garage storage systems that will work best for your needs.

This time around we’re expanding that quick tip into a full how-to:

  • On a nice dry day, pull everything out of the garage and lay it out on the driveway or in the backyard.
  • The things that are broken and unfixable – throw them out right away.
  • Broken and fixable but unwanted things go in a give-away pile.
  • Add to that pile anything else that you don’t want or won’t use.
  • Look at what’s left and decide on categories and group like items with like.
  • Give the garage a good cleaning and put everything back in, still grouped together.

While you do that, we’ll be here working on the next issue of Garage View from Garage Tailors where we’ll talk about the difference between DIY and expert organizing solutions for your garage and what it means to you.

Spring Fever and the Itch to Organize

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Spring and flowers have sprung and you know what that means – time for a good airing out of the garage.

Get the outdoor season started out right with a garage that has space for the car, bikes, sports equipment and even gardening tools.

But how to create efficient garage storage? Ideas you have, and plenty of them. Time and the right garage storage systems, however, are lacking somewhat.

For the second part, that’s what people like us are around for.

As for time, there’s plenty you can do and it’ll take just a day. Then you can call in a expert in garage organization products and relax.

It starts with tossing and giving away what you don’t need any more, and ends with sorting what’s left into like-with-like piles of stuff.

Stay tuned for the next post to find out the detailed process. And in the meantime, check out what Mary R did with all the stuff in her basement. The same principles apply to garages just as easily.

Garage TailorsGarage Applications – Locker

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A Locker

3 car garage, aurora - golf locker, garage cabinets lockable, overhead storage, electrical panelEllen G was desperate. Her son was a sports fanatic but an untidy – and in her words “smelly” – sportsman stemming from all the equipment that he used, including:

  • hockey sticks,
  • skates,
  • helmets, and
  • pads.

As well as football gear including:

  • yet another helmet,
  • more pads, and
  • another complete outfit.

He also kept

  • tennis rackets, and
  • basketballs

(Thank goodness the basketball hoop was outside the house).

Ellen G finally had to let her son use the spare room as “his locker” but the more space he had the more “stuff” he accumulated and the worse the mess got.

Finally Ellen G stand it no longer. She contacted us and within 3 days we had everything off the floors and on the walls – everything was visible and easy to have access to.

Although her son was at first furious with his mother for touching his stuff, when he saw how much more space he had – he had a change of heart without having to have a change of habits.

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