Garage Storage

Our garage spilleth over, and the garden shed is brimming, too. Spring's here and it's time to start throwing out the stuff that's just sitting around taking space. We have a wall full of excellent Ikea wooden garage storage shelves. But that garage shelving is crammed with crates of long-forgotten goodies.

We need more garage storage, that's clear. A good floor-standing bicycle rack is at the front of the list. I'd rather that the kids bikes stay on the ground--rather than hang them from the walls--to make it easy to get them in and out. I'm looking for a unit like the ones you might see at the park--heavy-duty galvanized steel would be nice, but I'm wondering if it might be possible to build something similar out of cedar 2x2s.

I penciled out an idea along those lines a few months back. Penciled as on paper, which I'm not likely to find. Now if I had knocked it out on the computer, I could have easily found a file named "garage storage - bike rack" ... alas, that's not the case. If I have time, I may try out some ideas in Maya, but I'll have to start the designs from scratch.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to hire a garage organizer to just come in and take charge of those messy garage storage details? While they're at it, perhaps they could lay down a nice coat of garage floor paint, too ...