Garage Storage on a Budget

One of the biggest problems when trying to decorate your home is seeing through

the clutter to the bones of your rooms. Without eliminating the clutter, you will never get a good picture of what the positives and negatives are, and therefore be able to come up with a good decorating plan. This is even more important when decorating on a budget, because every decision counts! However, we all have stuff. I’ve got it, you’ve got it, and we love our stuff! Luckily, most of us have garages so that we can store all that stuff! But we don’t just want to move the clutter from one place to another cluttered place, that never helps. Developing budget garage storage ideas can help you eliminate the clutter from inside, while keeping it all orderly out in the garage. Our featured project, above – ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy Keep Learning’ shows us how to make garage shelving from reclaimed wood, a great budget project to get everything out of the corners and off the floor!

These DIY ideas are easy, and best of all, inexpensive. Remember three things…

1. Don’t store things you haven’t used in over 6 months, a year for seasonal items. Donate.

2. Don’t store things you use all the time out in the garage…you will get tired of trekking out there in January when it’s 0 degrees to retrieve that pancake griddle!

3. Don’t forget to organize your existing garage items first. You want an orderly area to store all your “stuff” from indoors….. also, if you neglect to neatly organize your tools and other garage type items, when you need them for those DIY projects, they will be MIA! So organize that garage!

‘Anyone Can Decorate’ made this custom garage organizer on a budget, with pegboard and inexpensive shelving. Anyone can do this! Good tutorial, lots of photos.

From Family Handyman, here are a few good garage storage ideas! Use pie tins cut in half to safely store those circular items you need… This might also be good inside cupboard doors to store tupperware lids!

A tie rack from the discount store is a great way to store wrenches!

Also from Family Handyman, follow this tutorial on how to create recycle bin hangers, and get those all important bins off the floor and out of the way!

Work surface cluttered with miscellaneous nails, screws, hardware, whatever? Clean it up and still keep that stuff at your fingertips. Attach a muffin tin under a shelf with a single 1/4-in. x 1-1/2-in. flat head machine screw. The tin pivots out from beneath work surfaces to organize and serve up any little doodad you frequently use. And you store all that little stuff without using up a single square inch of workspace. From Family Handyman.

Use inexpensive Glad storage cups, some glue and some magnetic strips to create this magnetic mini storage.

From Martha, this peg rail organizer is easy and inexpensive to make. Easy to understand tutorial.

From Woodworking Tips, how to make a tool shelf. This one is really customized, but just uses inexpensive plywood.

‘Hi Sugarplum’ has this great idea for organizing spray paint (I take up an entire cupboard for this, great idea!) with an inexpensive shoe organizer.

Lastly, from ‘Premeditated Leftovers’, this DIY garage shelving unit will take care of all the storage needs you have. Step by step drawings in this tutorial. Get to storin’!

Image Credits: don"t worry be happy keep learning, Anyone Can Decorate, Family Handyman, Family Handyman, Family Handyman, Family Handyman, Martha, Woodworking Tips, Hi Sugarplum, Premeditated Leftovers

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