Hope #5 - A GrOoVy Garage Space

Hope #5 - A groovy garage space, where everything is grouped according to use.

Today was a great day to trim those bushes and clean out the garage. We have this enormous group of bushes at the edge of our house. I'm assuming they were put there to create some privacy by the driveway, but they're ginormous. I got out my trusty loppers today and trimmed away at those suckers. I tend to bonzai-ithai (my word for overly clipping my bushes) the bushes. Wish I would have taken a before shot..but I must admit they look a million times better. I bet the bottom of those beasts haven't seen the light of day in years.

After the trimming, I felt the sudden urge to paint. I remember I brought some leftover paint from our previous house and my daughter and I grabbed some rollers (paint rollers, not hair rollers..but you knew that) and started painting our peg board in the garage. The current pegboard was tired...dark and dated..(can pegboard be dated?) We had some leftover gray-blue paint and brightened it up. I used some leftover green paint to paint a stripe on the bottom..just for fun. The result? A fresh new much needed happenin place to hang brooms and rakes and tire pumps and softball gloves and helmets......I'll have to bust out my camera to take an after shot. Unfortunately I didn't get a before shot, but you could just imagine how old dark peg board must look.

My mission is not yet complete, but check out some inspiration photos of some groovy garages.


I've got to have some kind of workbench in my garage. On the to do list.


I love the idea of storing bins up above.

Thank you Martha for some colorful garage inspiration. My peg board is now blue and green.

Thanks again Martha. Gotta love the reminder to screw lids onto the bottom of a shelf to hold odds and ends. GREAT way to utilize space.

I wish...


Another great way to utilize the space above your head that is so common in garages.

This is a great organizational system for all those rubbermaid tubs you like to store all those Christmas decorations in. If you can't store high, take advantage of some of that extra square footage toward the front of your garage.

You can put shelves above doors and all around. Don't be afraid to get bold with color and climb those walls for prime real estate and you'll have a place for everything in no time...and LEAVE ROOM FOR THE CARS!