When I moved in a year ago, the garage was, obviously, just a catch-all and staging area for all of the junk, etc. I did a minor attempt at organizing so I could find the things I need and just left it at that. Over the last year, I figured what things need to be handy and what needed a better long-term home so I could find it if I need it but I wasn’t digging through the same boxes, piles, etc. when I was looking for stuff. My other major hang up was with the cupboard next to the furnace. This thing was probably built in the 60s and has the solid-as-a-Mack truck construction typical of the era but because of the spacing of the shelves is kind of useless — nothing seemed to fit right.

Just piles of stuff everywhere

I wanted to do real hooks on the wall for the garden tools.

This is pretty organized but I just wanted to show off my badass washer and dryer — they sing to me!

So during a random November vacation when it was generally a little too chilly to be outside I decided to tackle this project. I started with grand ambitions of one of those TV DYI shows and then got bored and just ended up doing a basic tidy. I did however clean out the cupboard and put in shelf paper (already purchased when I thought I wanted to line the back of my open kitchen cabinets with it and then decided that would be too busy.) Shelf paper in, I organized all of the random stuff that wanted to get out of the way, mainly painting stuff and bottles of project goo — spackle and hole patch, WD-4, paint thinner,  etc. Looks pretty good.

Not much in here cause nothing fit but what did, was a mess.

Cleaned out and lined with shelf paper

A detail of the shelfpaper. Pretty cute. but should ponder the idea of painting the wood.

All filled up again. Used paint trays from the other project during this vacation.

I gave up on the hooks for now. Maybe later. But I did hang the broom holder.

I put away all of my random buckets of project supplies and reserved the tables for the tools I use a lot — aka the drill bag, etc.

Good enough for now.