Garage Shelving

No longer just used for parking vehicles, most garages seem to have become a place to dump everything that overflows from their home. Items such as bikes, lawn tools, shovels, cleaning supplies, Christmas ornaments and boxes of things you just cannot part with, seem to take over the garage and with all this clutter, your vehicle soon has to stay out in the elements. Although there are some impractical and expensive possible solutions, such as building onto your garage or building a second storage shed, with a little organization and garage shelving, your car will be parked back in the garage in no time.

Garage shelves are the perfect solution to maximize your garage space, arrange, and organize the clutter. Garage shelving units provide enough space to keep everything in its place, from tools to seasonal Christmas and Halloween displays. Shelving is available in several different materials, such as adjustable wood garage shelves, wire or metal shelving, and plastic shelving. There are garage shelving plans available to teach homeowners how to build garage shelves and garage shelving kits available for people that are not very handy. Be sure to consider garage ceiling shelves for storing seasonal or seldom used larger items.

If you are not interested in building shelves for the garage from scratch, wire or steel shelving is a great solution. These shelves provide valuable organization and storage of clutter, take very little assembly time and are quick to install or set up. Steel garage storage shelves are available in free standing or wall mounted styles and most are adjustable and strong enough to hold heavy equipment and tools. Sturdy hanging baskets and hanger rails that hold small items such as tools that attach to the metal shelving are two, great garage shelving ideas.

Adjustable wood garage storage shelving is another way to remove the clutter sitting on your garage floor and put it onto accessible shelving. Some of the best materials for building garage shelves are plywood, solid pine or fir, and particleboard. If you build garage shelves more than ten or twelve inches deep, plywood is your best choice. Pine is less expensive but fir is a stronger wood. Particleboard has a tendency to sag so you must keep the lengths short.

When looking at garage shelving systems, solid plastic shelving is a great way to store small items that could fall through wire shelves. They are stain and rust resistant, durable, and easy to clean.