Your garage is finally shaping up. Contacting Garage Design Works and having our experts design the perfect space for your vehicle and goods helped organize your belongings. At the time everything was organized, though, you did not have bicycles and the only ladder you had was a simple stepladder. With the addition of items, you find it difficult to find room to place these items. Below are a few Orlando garage organization ideas that may work magic in your garage.

Bins for Tiny Items

Many homeowners save baby food jars, peanut butter containers, and mayonnaise jars because the clear glass jars with screw-top lids are ideal for storing nails, bolts, screws, and other small odds and ends. Screwing or nailing the lids beneath a shelving board saves an immense amount of space, and the jars can be situated single file at eye level. The problem arises when you have a glass jar full of tiny objects that you are trying to screw back into a non-moving lid. Have you tried this? It is definitely not easy. Instead, invest in wire baskets on a Gladiator slatted wall system to store these jars. You still have the ability to hoard the jars – you know you want to – and now you can safely find and replace the jars without worrying about rusting lids that no longer cooperate.

Hang Ladders From the Ceiling

Storing a ladder is completely different than safely storing a ladder. Ladders take up very little floor space when they lean against a wall. The problem arises when your exuberant two-year-old decides to climb the ladder, or when you knock against it with your shoulder and it careens into your car. Invest in a Gladiator slat wall system with a few panels or an entire wall of panels. A big hook slid into the slat system can safely elevate the ladder off the floor and stabilize it so it will not fall onto the floor. If you use your ladder infrequently, consider storing it in an overhead storage system, such as ONRAX Enduro-DeckTM System, over the garage door where it is out of the way while still being easy to locate.

Magnetic Strip to Organize Drill Bits

The worst place to find drill bits is in the tread of your vehicle’s tire. These tiny objects so easily ping from their storage area to the floor never to be located again in the dim garage lighting. Your drill may be magnetized to assist in handling screws, so why not take that idea a step further and add a magnetic strip to your storage area? A Gearwall Modular GearChest or GearDrawer can easily be outfitted with a magnetic strip in one of the drawers, or the slat wall behind the cabinet can hold a magnetic strip. Either method will allow you to quickly locate the bit you need.

Hang Bikes Vertically or Horizontally

Gladiator slat wall systems have specialized hooks to fill almost any need. Bicycles are no exception and have not one but three distinct methods of storage. If you have an empty corner and would like to store your bike (or bikes) perpendicular to the wall, mount them with both tires against the wall, dangling from a hook. The second option is to use two adjustable hooks to support the frame of the bike as it is held parallel to the wall. Want another option? Invest in a heavy-duty Velcro strap with a metal clasp. Run the strap through the bike’s tire – front or rear, your preference – and hang the strap from a hook. This protects the rim from damage and gives you the option of hanging your bike in any direction you choose. Since many bikes now have easy-to-remove front tires, you can hang the wheel on one hook and the frame on separate hooks to keep the bike flush against the wall.

Remember, Garage Design Works is ready to answer your Orlando garage organization questions. Give us a call at 407-447-8890 and read the blogs on our website for fast answers to your garage design questions.