Finish It Friday: The Garage

Happy Friday, y’all! It’s that time again…Finish It Friday! Today: the garage.

At the beginning of the summer, I cleaned out and organized our garage, as you can see in this POST. It was a wonderful thing. As you can see from the pictures on that post, though, we still had a storage room door at the back of the garage (although I had emptied the storage room in anticipation of our big pantry build – wahoo!).

Then the kitchen renovation happened. Our garage turned into a construction zone first (when the pantry was being built), and then a storage room for all the kitchen stuff while the rest of the renovation got done. It was a mess. I didn’t take a picture of it as a mess, because, well, it was a mess. It was embarrassing. You just gotta trust me that it was a disaster area.

I haven’t been able to park my car in the garage since June. Sigh.

Now that the kitchen renovation is complete, it was time to clean up and reorganize the garage again. It took the better part of a morning, but here it is:

I organized by zones (I like organizational zones). On the far right shelves, the top shelf has tools (out of the reach of little hands). Then I have two shelves with paint and paint-related stuff (like primer and polyurethane). Then I have garden stuff, like soil, tools, boots, etc. Then I have heavy stuff on the bottom, including painting supplies and extra tile.

On the middle shelves, I have coolers on the top shelf, since we don’t use them all that much and they’re big. Then I have plastic shoe boxes, labeled, with various stuff, including picture hanging hardware, switchplates, garden stakes, and random extra parts. Then I have our “picnic stuff,” which is a container with a blanket; smaller, soft-sided coolers; and seat cushions. Then the bottom shelf has a basket of the kids’ balls and a container for beach toys.

On the left side are tools, both hardware and gardening. I also hung the ladder on the wall using heavy duty hooks.

This picture (above) is of the left side of the garage, and you’ll see the table I bought at the Decatur First Baptist garage sale. My plan is to turn that side of the garage into my work space, where I can do projects and gardening as well. The shelves next to the door hold the kids’ toys and bike-related stuff, like helmets, air pump, and locks.

I have already parked my car in the garage, just to make sure it still fits! Wahoo! Love that. (It’s the little things.)

So, that’s my finished Finish It Friday project for this week.

What are you working on?