Reclaiming The Two-Car Garage
by ALAN J. HEAVENS, Knight Ridder Newspapers
"Then the garages end up stuffed, and they can't figure out why. "Getting rid of a percentage of what's in the garage, even if it means filling a dumpster, is a crucial first step to getting it organized, Robison said. "It's hard to do." Garage organization products are among the fastest-growing segments of the white-hot home organization market. Walls and ceilings are being underused in garages, organization expert Leslie Robison added.
"A lot of the clutter - bicycles, lumber, and garden tools - can be hung on wall hooks or on the ceiling," she said. "Like things should be placed together, such as tools, which tend to be scattered all over the place." In its research, O'Sullivan discovered that the typical garage owner was willing to spend less than $1,000 for a garage-organization system, Franks said.
"Uses are diverse, to say the least. Garages are both project centers and storage centers, formerly a male domain centering on the automobile but now used equally by men and women, since women have begun to dominate outdoor-related tasks such as gardening. The garage is much more useful for storage than the basement,” he said, "because it is typically on the same level as the rest of the house. The garage has less of a chance of getting cluttered if you make it a pleasant, enjoyable space."
