Life hacking for the garage: interesting ideas

The garage is a very important place in the life of every motorist, motorcycle owner or even a simple moped. But many people for not quite understandable reason believe that it can be limited to just building or buying space for storing vehicles.

In fact, this is not so: almost every garage can be improved with their own hands. And if you are thinking about selling it because of inconvenience, the simplest recommendations will help you find the right solution. Even in the absence of visible problems, a new approach to the design of the garage room is sometimes necessary.

Special features

The opinion of most people is unequivocal - for the garage, only two roles are assigned: the storage of personal vehicles and the storage of unnecessary old things. Those who “are sorry to be thrown away, but there is no longer any desire to keep them at home”.

Meanwhile, it is enough to spend a few hours to radically change the situation and make it so pleasant to go into the garage.

What can be done?

Layfkhaki to improve the garage space are diverse, but the most important among them will be the organizer for storing small tools and fasteners. Even a cupcake mold is suitable as an improvised drive.

Many garages already have different shelves, but they can easily be improved. Bottom harmoniously hiding a secret tank, which is made from cans with removable lids. These covers are attached to the shelves on the screws, and then wind the banks. Nails, screws and other minor metal objects are put there.

When this decision is not pleasant, or it is not enough to accommodate all the accessories, It should be mounted on the wall magnet. He will quietly hold the nozzles on the screwdriver and a number of tools.

You should not hang a screwdriver on such a mount; it is not very convenient to use them after magnetization.

And if you do not limit yourself to what you can do yourself, it’s worth thinking about perforated racks,hooks and trays.

A number of garage owners have discovered that this item alone can solve all their problems for a long time.

In the room for the vehicle will always be various adhesive tapes and tape, the benefit of which people have long appreciated. But so that such devices do not roll back to the farthest corners and do not stick to different places, it is worth using a kind of box for such products.

Extras for storage

As you already know, a magnet is not very suitable for holding screwdrivers. It is not necessary to take a special box under them, where it will be more practical to make a shelf with holes with your own hands.

You should also think about:

PVC pipes cut into pieces (after fastening to the wall, they will keep garden tools);
organizer pockets for shoes (they will include aerosol cans and brushes);
laid out tables (it is very important to ensure a good working area, sufficiently spacious and comfortable);
towel holder (even when in the garage there are no conditions for washing hands, it is worth storing trash bags on it).

How to work better?

Not all car owners and motorcyclists are real craftsmen. But everyone can use the simplest secrets of effective work. When there is no funnel nearby, an old, unnecessary screwdriver will help to gently pour the lubricating oil. If the screwdriver itself is needed for its intended purpose, but it is not strong enough, you should use a wrench as a lever. For each other, wrenches are also faithful helpers.

In the workshop you need to use a magnetic knife holder, with its help it is easy to expand there different drills, wrenches and the like.

If you have to keep garden chairs, will be invaluable wall wooden brackets: and free space is used more fully, and there will be no littering on the floor. Almost every garden uses a wheelbarrow, you can compactly place it, if you mount a pair of heck on the wall.

Additional tips

In the garage must be allocated separate areas for each type of thing. That is, for the garden and the garden - one plot, for working tools - another, for spare parts - the third, for the consumables of the car - the fourth and forth on the list.

That there was a place for a container with detergents that helps to avoid their falling and spilling, metal pots should be used (both on their own and on the shelves).

Improving the garage according to the rules: strategy and action

To realize our plans, you must immediately take care of convenience in the garage, which means that you will need:

determine the purpose of its use;
clearly take one or another zone for certain tasks (it is better to even plan it on a full-fledged paper drawing);
examine all the things you have, figure out how to group them and which storage systems to put.

Car owners should first consider the option of using the garage as a workshop. It will take relatively little space to equip the site for work.

Buy or make yourself a corner table that occupies an empty corner. On top of the table from the various scraps of wood and metal waste build shelves for frequently used things. Right away get rid of the habit of putting items on these shelves in an arbitrary wayotherwise the result will be worse than before.

Think about your storage systems yourself, because no one can better determine what you need to do in a particular garage. It is recommended not only to lay out tools and spare parts in boxes and boxes, but to sign them with a marker (it is safer than continuously peeling paper stickers). In addition to the shelves above the desktop, it is desirable to fix the board (cork or magnetic), which will serve for writing reminders, attaching business cards and phone numbers.

Garage as a warehouse

Almost any house or apartment is full of things that can be stored somewhere else. In the garage there is a place for:

home photo collection;
children's toys;
seasonal clothing, shoes, hats;
reserve cleaners and detergents;
bicycle, scooter, other sports equipment;
car accessories and repairs.

When the goal is set to “store anything,” the shelving system is perfect. Plastic options are long lasting, relatively inexpensive and even in unheated premises retain their valuable qualities. However, it is worth bearing in mind that plastic shelf and bottom will not withstand loads of over 50 kgso you have to look for another place for rubber, batteries and heavy tools.

Metallic solutions, if only they are made of good metal, will transfer any stress that occurs in living conditions. But keep in mind that moisture and cold almost inevitably provoke corrosion, and this significantly limits the applicability of such products.

PVC shelving - almost perfect. They are inexpensive and strong, but they should be protected from infection by mold. If it appears, the chances of removing the fungus are very small. Among the purchased shelving you need to give preference to mobile and easily disassembling modifications..

When a car changes, an additional bike is put in the garage or a cardinal shift is made, they turn out to be more convenient than others. It is possible to move such constructions without assistance.

Very small light racks fasten to the walls firmly., so that not only the storage system itself does not fall, but individual things do not collapse.

It is necessary to accumulate rubber and car disks on the highest shelves, made strictly to the size of the object. It is better to abandon the sides, protection with wire mesh is much more effective.. And with the availability of free assets, wheel brackets turn out to be a valuable acquisition, which look more aesthetic than a simple shelf and can be easily adapted for storing rubber of any format.

Regardless of these nuances, the car and tires must be separated by at least 1 m of space, only then safety requirements are complied with.