I finally got my dream garage mostly cleaned out so I can actually begin using it. I filled it full of household stuff while I was building the house and so could only stare at it and dream of the day it would be useful.
It's 34 x 55 x 12' high with an office and a full bath in the front and a loft over that.
I've been in insulating it and adding OSB walls and now it's time to put stuff up to do my organization. But I'm hitting a dead end. The dead end is my brain. I can't figure out how to set it up.
I have an L shaped set of kitchen cabinets and formica counter top in the back left hand corner where the lift will one day go and a series of 3 sheets of mostly empty peg board that begins just past the lift area. It is amazing how few peg board hangers Home Depot and Lowes have.
I cut in some recessed shelving down one wall to keep all my oils and fluids in.
Where do you guys keep your power tools? They are all jumbled up on shelves and too hard to get to and find what I want when they are in the kitchen cabinets. All I've found for the peg board are drill motor hangers.
Since my car cant use the space, I built some shelves about 10" deep and 8' long to where my car wont hit if I pull straight in. Its 8' high, with 3 shelves. 10" deep shelves dont sound like much, but they allow me to "park" my miter saw, my circular saw, my wet/table saw, a pressure washer, my electric trimmer, a leaf blower, my toolbox of tools I dont use too often, and various other stuff (junk). I purpose built a few extra shelves in there to organize the tools so they dont look like a mess. I also plan to put a set of shelves above the garage door opening to put the stuff (junk) thats on my existing shelves, to make room for more of my tools and other gardening/lawncare stuff. That way I have tool only storage, and then storage for other things like paint cans and plastic bins of old stuff (junk), to help make the organization even more apparent.
