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For many people, a garage is a place for storage. When cleaning your house, attic or basement, the garage often gets the brunt of everything. Before you know it, it’s a jumble of old sports supplies, tools, and boxes containing lord only knows what. Most of it is kept because it has more value to you then it is worth to sell. Though you haven’t gone skiing in years, your friend did just get that cabin in the mountains, and though you’re not an avid fisher, it is a fun pastime once or twice a year so you don’t want to get rid of those poles just yet. The end result is usually very little floor space around your garage.

Now how do you keep your equipment and still have a garage floor? Bicycles are rather bulky, and so are things like skis or snowboards. Many people think it inevitable that their garage floor will be stacked high with things they just could part with in good conscience. The truth is that is it not. Shelving units and hoist systems will turn all that space along the walls and overhead into effective storage space, leaving your floor free for things like a workshop, or even a car!

The area directly overhead and up the sides of the walls is usually known as dead space. This means that while it is empty, there isn’t a practical way to use it. But by putting a shelving unit up, you suddenly have more useful storage. Or by using pulley systems to use the space above you. You have maximized the storage space in your garage so you can walk around. If even using this, you don’t have enough space, free standing shelves can make better use of your remaining floor space.

With a surprisingly small monetary expenditure and use of time, you can make your garage a functional storage space instead of just a jumbled mess of boxes and fishing gear.

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