Tools Needed

  • None
This is a measure of how much of pain this project might be.

Tools Needed

  • PC or Tablet
  • Drafting Application such as SketchUp

Materials Needed:

  • Pen & Paper

Start with an Organization Plan

Welcome to our first episode in our series on organizing your garage! In this series, I’ll show you how I transformed my disorganized, chaotic mess of garage into a dream garage.

You can find the planning spreadsheet here: toolboxdiy.com/garageorg

Organize Your Garage

The key to successfully organizing your garage is to create a solid plan. This plan will ensure you choose the right storage systems as well as preventing you from wasting money on storage solutions that may not work for you. Most importantly, this plan will give everything a “home” so when it comes time to actually organize, you already know where to put everything.

I follow a process I’m calling I.D.E.A.

I – Inventory: take an inventory of everything in your garage

D – Design: design a plan, your storage solutions, and your process for implementing your plan

E – Execute: acquire or build your storage solutions and get them installed

A – Arrange: purge, sort, and store your stuff according to your plan

I’m not going to sugar coat things though…organizing your garage is hard work! But a lot less difficult (and less frustrating) than spending countless hours searching for things, tripping over things, or buying duplicate things. You’ll thank yourself after you pull this off.

 

The Garage Organization Episodes: