30+ DIY Projects to Upgrade Your Garage

Your garage is a super useful space in your home. After all, a place to store things and work on big projects like car repairs can come in really handy as you go through life. Still, like any workspace, it's easy for a garage to get a little messy and disorganized. Don't worry — we have some DIY projects that can help with that!

Classic Garage Additions

When you think of ways to organize your garage, a pegboard may immediately spring to mind. For this, you can buy a pegboard and cut it to size or drill holes into plywood, but this is more time-intensive.

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Pegboards are handy because, with them, you can use metal pieces to create the perfect size to hold whatever you need. To save even more space, you can mount the pegboards on hinges to store layers of tools at once in a small space.

A Similar Idea

This Reddit user saw the idea of a pegboard and saw an opportunity. So, they expanded on it in a way that would help keep any garage workplace organized.

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Instead of screwing peg holes, this tutorial tells you to screw holes big enough that you can slot your screwdriver into them. If you leave a little space on the front, you can place sets of interchangeable heads accessible right with their corresponding tools. From there, just mount it on the wall!

Upcycling for Storage

A lot of us are looking to limit the garbage we create in our wake as we become increasingly aware of the importance of environmentalism. What if you could take that idea into your garage?

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With this idea, you can get rid of old plastic bottles when you're finished with them without sending them to the landfill. With a hole cut in them, they make easy-to-organize devices for small items. By adding an eyebolt, you can even hang them on the pegboard. Just remember to file those access holes down.

Everyone Needs Shelving

If there's one thing that any space can use, including a garage, it's shelving. Taking advantage of vertical storage space can go a long way! In this one, you'll just need some wooden boards.

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You can cut them to whatever size you want your shelf to be. Then, all you have to do is put the boards together to create the shape and size you want and mount them to the wall. Now you have a convenient, versatile storage space!