Garage Organization & Renovation Tips

Keeping a clean, organized garage is infinitely more satisfying than allowing it to become a cluttered mess. If you're tired of tripping over your motorcycle in the dark while trying to find your car keys, it may be time to upgrade your garage.

Watch Chris Duffin transform his garage into the ideal workspace where he can keep his tools safe and easy to access.

We know what you’re thinking: “My house isn’t big enough to have a dedicated storage room!”

Bike hooks are among the most misunderstood DIY home organization tools. How much weight can bike hooks hold? Can you hang bike hooks in drywall? Our team has answers.

Proper planning is a key to any successful project, and part of the planning process is developing a system of organization. This is particularly true for auto mechanics.

What’s the garage for? A place to park the car? Somewhere to hide garbage in “storage” that you’ll promptly forget about for the next half-decade? A spot to sneak off to hide from the kids and eat junk food?

How do you organize your workshop tools? Are they lying askew on shelves or shoved into drawers, forgotten and abandoned?

As a homeowner, you know the garage is a part of your house, but sometimes it gets so cluttered. Many of us have no idea what to do with that part of the house. Chemical stains left from cars are challenging to manage.

Keeping your house in order and looking nice is a job of sorts. When your home is organized, you feel less chaotic and more at peace. After all, you spend most of your life inside your home, and its organization is within your control. Here are ten simple and effective house organization ideas.

When society transformed from a daily commute and school drop-off to a work-from-home and virtual classroom setting, so many of us thought, “Oh yeah! I’m going to use that commute time to keep my house neat and clean!”

Most of us have hoarding tendencies, particularly, it seems, as we get older. What would have been tossed without a second thought as a young adult suddenly becomes an inner monolog: “I know I should recycle this box, but, I mean, it’s a really good box.”

For most of us, the garage has gone from a place to park your ride to an extension of our living space. We’ve put together some cool garage accessories that will help you make optimal use of all your space, both horizontally and vertically.

It’s easy to dismiss your garage as simply a place to park the car and throw stuff when you don’t know what else to do with it, but we all know you’re smart enough not to waste valuable square footage like that—right?

Those dust bunnies and box towers have been staring you down for a couple of years now, and you’re finally ready to kiss them goodbye. “Operation Garage Organization” is about to commence!

If you’re combing the internet for garage-building ideas, you’re probably not that guy who only passes through the garage to get in and out of the car. Nope—you’re the type that sees the garage as an extension of your home. And rightly so.

What can I turn my garage into? Is converting a garage a good idea? Can you convert a garage yourself? How many Hemsworths are there, really? These are all excellent questions—and Flow Wall has the answers in this ultimate list of garage conversion ideas.

It only takes one basketball to the face to realize your garage sports equipment storage situation is not working. Raise the white flag and send help! When balls come flying at you every time you pull something from the shelf, you have a problem on your hands.

If you’re Googling around wondering how to have a dust-proof garage, you must be pretty hardcore—that rare, elite kind of man cave dweller who cares about stuff like heavy-duty overhead storage, perfected garage lighting, and even garage dust control. (Now we’re really into the weeds.)

Ah, winter. That time of year when the air is crisp, you get to put in some time working on that dad bod, and your garage . . . well, it somehow starts to feel infinitely smaller. All the gear comes inside for those wet, cold months, and suddenly—you’re just not sure where to put everything.