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Build Your Garage: The Three Solutions To All Garage Problems
Tue 19 Dec 2006 - 11:31
Build Your Garage: The Three Solutions To All Garage Problems
By JB Anthony
No doubt, most homeowners believe in the functionality of garages. Garages can be a parking area for vehicles. Garages can serve as a workshop or a workroom for a particular messy hobby such as painting, woodworking, or carpentry and as storage for gardening tools and equipments. Garages can also serve as your kid's playroom or your teenage son's band practice room. Aside from these, garage can be used as a place of storage for most of the heavy and bulky things at home which we do not need everyday.
Being multi-purpose, a garage can accumulate a lot of items over a period of time. It can also depreciate, and deteriorate due to constant use or wear and tear. And because of the fact that garages are mostly one house room that guests do not usually go to, most homeowners take their garages for granted.
However, a wise homeowner would always think about maintaining his garage relative to its functionality, its constant use and to the amount of time being spent inside it. For most garage problems, there are usually two easy and common solutions left for the homeowner to consider: extending, remodeling and organizing.
Garage Extension Garage problems can come up because of lack of space. Some homeowners lack space not because of disorganization reasons but simply because of a growing family. The more members are added to the family, the more items may be stored in your garage: baby's crib, a new bike, a new car for a son who just graduated, etc., etc. No matter how many garage sales you may hold, in this case, space becomes a problem that cannot be addressed by re-organization and garage sales. Garage additions and extensions may be necessary. Some garage additions or extensions may be to accommodate a guest apartment or home office extension.
Garage Remodeling Garage remodeling is excellent for garage owners who have acquired a new hobby, a home-based business or work that require a small office area but have a limited home space. Thus, garage can be the perfect place to install a mini office or workshop. To achieve this, remodeling may have to be necessary. Remodeling may require a new garage flooring, garage roofing and garage door. Remodeling may also entail the necessary addition of accessories that you may need for the purpose which the remodeling is done: an office desk, a garage heater, storage cabinets, work table, and other items and accessories or gadgets that will make the garage more comfortable for the occupant. Some garage remodeling may be for turning the garage into a home office, a laundry room, a music room or a kid's play room, or the addition of new storage systems.
Garage Organization - Garage storage and organization may be summarized into three major steps: categorize, segregate, and sell (or throw!) Make a survey of what you have stored in your garage: sporting equipments, garden tools and equipments, old albums and photos, old clothes, hobby tools, etc. How often do you need these items? Weekly? Monthly? Seasonal? Next place these items into labeled boxes while new storage systems are installed: shelves, cabinets, hangers, etc. Sell what you can and throw what can not be sold.
JB Anthony is the webmaster of http://www.buildyourgarage.com. To browse affordable garage storage cabinets, find out more about garage organizing and garage maintenance, please log on to http://www.buildyourgarage.com.
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