Storage Garage

Most people want to keep their car in the garage and therefore garage overhead storage is extremely practical to them. But, some people want the garage space for something entirely different. No matter how you look at your garage it is still a valuable storage location that should be taken advantage of. An overhead storage solution can help you have the garage of your dreams whether it is for storing your vehicle or for transforming it into one of these simple ideas:1) Music studio: this is a fine idea for a garage because it is larger than most rooms in the house and all of the instruments will no longer get in your way inside the house.2) Laundry room: obviously a laundry room will not require every bit of space in the entire garage, but you can always dedicate part of the available space to a laundry area because sometimes your current room is too small or it somehow is not meeting your needs.3) Game room: what better place to have fun than a game room in your own garage? There can be a billiard table, foosball, ping pong, old arcade games, pinball and much more! This will keep your guests entertained and keep your kids cheerful.4) Home gym: everyone and their sister wants to get in shape these days, but not everyone has the money for a gym membership. The garage is a prime location for gym equipment and you can even set up a stereo system out there to keep you pumped up throughout your entire workout.5) Play room: I am sure your kids would be very appreciative if you made the available garage space a play room and filled it with games and toys of their liking. Set up a little fort out there and they will be entertained for hours.6) Office: as with the laundry room an office does not have to take up the entire garage but it is a fine location if you do not have room in your house. Make sure you buy a heater or a fan depending on what the weather is like in your city because nobody wants to work in extreme conditions.7) Sports room: want to invite all of your buds over for a beer and to watch the game? Make the garage your man cave; put a big flat screen in there with a couch and some bar stools and everyone will want to come watch the game with you.This is just a list of ideas to get you thinking for what you want your garage to be. It is always a good idea to be creative with your space and make sure you cater it to yourself. Just remember that a clean garage, no matter how it is being put to use, is always better than a garage stacked with boxes and filled with a big mess.

While setting up my garage of the new house after I changed cities, I was in a dilemma. On one hand I remembered how much clutter my earlier garage had acquired. I did not want the new one to look like the old one – it had become a challenge to find anything and store anything further there at the latter stages. But then I did not really want to throw away anything – I knew quite well that most of the items in the garage would come handy for me sometime or the other. In fact, I was at a complete loss about what to do.Over my first weekend when I was still setting the new house up, I happened to call my mom on the telephone. She kept asking me whether the new house I had found was good, how was my kid finding it and so on. I brought up the dilemma about my garage storage, and then what she suggested completely changed my thoughts. She asked me a simple question, “if land is scarce, why not the sky”?Well, I knew what she meant. Of course not the sky – but she was hinting me to use overhead garage storage. Now that the thought had dawned upon me, I started carefully evaluating the option. Apparently everything but one small thought all were in favor of going ahead with implementation of the suggestion.What were the positive parts of the thought? I realized that my garage overhead space would anyway remain unused. So I could store a serious amount of goods there if I could install a storage system. It would significantly reduce my floor clutter. I could space out well enough to store better – finding things would be easier. Additionally, if I fix good-looking cabinets then my garage would look better rather than worse.What was the negative thought that I had? It was that I would not want to store garage items that I still need frequently enough at those heights. There were a few such items but not too many. But since most of the items were not used too often, it was a relatively small hindrance.So I installed an overhead garage storage system. And I still think it was one of the best decisions that I had taken while setting up my new house.