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2 Techniques to Help You Organize the Garage Like an Engineer

July 12, 2013 by Laura Blodgett 2 Comments

There is comfort in seeing that my parents are still coming up with innovative ways to organize. This means that there is hope for me still and that ideas don’t stop when a brain turns 50. It is encouragement to keep brainstorming for better and more convenient ways of doing things. Like how my dad recently came up with how to hang his canoe using a pulley on ceiling garage storage method.

I may never be able to or need to store something just like my dad, but just seeing what he came up with made me think of how to use the hooks in the ceiling and walls of my garage. My husband, also an engineer, put them there for things like hanging bicycles, bike trailers, lawn chairs, electrical extension cords. Now, I wonder about just having a box suspended by bungee cords from hooks. Or a net full of hard to stack frisbees that seem to collect.

Having recently dealt with post-disaster clean-up in my garage, I am in the mood to keep it cleaner than before. Without spending a lot of money on fancy shelves. Maybe it’s like the refrigerator, in that there will always be those deep corners that collect scary things, but I’m going to try to as best I can.

Photos of various uses of hooks:

Junk yard hooks come in useful varieties for garage storage, like the long flat extension to store folding lawn chairs.
Junk yard hooks come in useful varieties for garage storage, like the long flat extension to store folding lawn chairs.

Given my recent training in bending metal, I might be able to make some of these!

double hook system to hang bike trailer from garage ceiling
double hook system to hang bike trailer from garage ceiling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hooks catch under the hardware that attaches to the bike, so it is a secure way to hang it.

 

 

Bikes take up less garage space when hung vertically from a hook.
Bikes take up less garage space when hung vertically from a hook.

I am able to get my road bike down from here. My daughters heavier mountain bikes are a little more difficult, but they say it’s no big deal.

Big nails are great to hang electrical cords.
Big nails are great to hang electrical cords.

 

 

 

 

The over the door towel rack is handy for keeping track of rags and not losing them to corners or mixing them with other laundry.

 

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