When people look to find more storage space in their home, they often neglect to take advantage of their garage. While your garage can be a little colder during the winter, it is still a dry and safe place to store items that need to be out of the elements. If you want to put your workshop in the garage, then you will need extra storage as well. There are plenty of good ways to create more storage options in your garage.

Overhead Storage

Most garages have unfinished attic space that looks like connecting boards running across the top. For relatively little effort, you could put floors on those crossing boards and instantly create excellent storage space. If you don’t like the idea of accessing that space with a ladder, then you can buy a pull-down stairway kit that you would use.

Storage Cabinets

Instead of wasting time and money on floor-based cabinets or small wall cabinets, you should invest in full floor to ceiling storage cabinets for your garage. Many of these types of cabinets can be customized to meet your specific needs, and they will protect any of the items you store in them.

Peg Boards

A peg board is an inexpensive piece of fiber board that has symmetrical holes in it where you can put support pegs. There are many different designs for these support pegs, and they can hold a lot more weight than you would think. The convenient thing about peg boards is they are very easy to reconfigure to meet your immediate needs. This is an inexpensive way to create storage space in your garage.

Collapsible Work Bench

If you are really tight for space in your garage but you want a work bench, then you can use some hinges to create a collapsible work bench that will also be able to make room for your vehicles. A collapsible work bench plus floor to ceiling cabinets can combine to create the kind of work space you have always wanted in your small footprint garage.

Your garage is a place where you can do much more than store just your vehicles. With some work, you can install storage options that will free up floor space and give you the opportunity to turn your garage into the multi-purpose structure you have always wanted it to be.