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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.

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?

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.

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.)

There are plenty of reasons you may be wondering about how to keep a fridge in the garage. Maybe you want to save yourself the 30 extra steps when you’re doing man stuff in the garage and have the itch to pop open a cold one.

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.

Winter is almost here, meaning you’re likely off the hook when it comes to the weekly lawn care. (Fist pump!) But it also means that new household chores are here to replace those summer duties.

Did you know that a family can spend up to fifteen hours per week on laundry from start to finish? That’s a lot of time to spend in the laundry room! If you want to make your laundry time more efficient and enjoyable, check out these laundry room storage cabinets ideas for organization.

Your garage is supposed to be a shelter for your vehicle, right? So how in the world did it become this chaotic tangle of toys and tools and basketballs and bicycles? Now is the perfect time to redefine (and reorganize) your home garage storage potential with easy-to-install storage solutions.

Halloween is hands-down the best holiday of the year. It gives us permission to embrace our inner child and enjoy the perfect balance of tricks, treats, and tomfoolery. It’s an ideal opportunity to be the talk of the neighborhood by delivering some thrills with your spooky decor.

These days, there’s a holiday for everything. You’ve got Hug Your Cat Day on June 4, World Smile Day on October 1, and National Brownie Day on December 8. Heck, there’s even a holiday dedicated to a great American tradition: the garage sale.

Sometimes, making the long trek to the mountains, lake, or desert to enjoy a good outdoor hobby can be enough for anyone to call it quits before even getting started.

If you’re like many homeowners, you rarely hang out in your garage. Instead, you dash in and out only when necessary, giving unwanted critters the side-eye along the way.