How to organize and optimize a messy garage space

So, you’re set on that big garage cleaning and reorganization. Great! But then what? Here’s how to not only achieve lasting uncluttered order but create a space that readily adapts to suit pastimes and activities.

A neatly arranged garage wall with equipment and accessories in a black BROR storage combination, lit by a TERTIAL work lamp.

It’s all about the floor space

It’s no secret that storage capacity is key to freeing up the floor. But it’s just as much about preserving accessibility. Here, hefty BROR cabinets, pegboards and more let you clear the room, introduce a much calmer mood, and still allow for quick scenery changes.

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Video: A GIF-style image carousel showing how a messy, empty garage corner is organised with the help of a BROR storage combination.

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Your next activity is at your fingertips

With the clutter munchers at the ready, we can move on to the final touches. Sorting and finding a designated spot for each intended use. Add lighting, hooks, a wheeled box and the details that make things easy to take out, and easy to make disappear. Even better – this is already a place you want to spend more time in.

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A garage interior with things kept tidy by a black shelving-unit-and-cabinet BROR combination and a black SKÅDIS pegboard.

A corner with plants in a window and gym accessories on a pegboard, a PINNIG hook rack, and an IVAR storage unit on wheels.

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Efficiency isn’t everything, so soften things up

Small additions – like a few pots on the sill or an unexpected patch of artificial plants – can truly help transform the mood. In a garage, with a natural roughness to it, the effect is even more prominent.

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A corner with plants in a window, accessories on a pegboard and hooks, all beneath a FEJKA artificial-plant-wall arrangement.

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A toolbox for calm and order

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BROR Shelving unit with cabinet, black, 33 1/2x15 3/4x43 1/4 "

IKEA Family price

All together now

With a system for easily getting the props in and out established, you can tend to more subtle things. Like an air purifier, soft materials, LED candles, ability to adjust lighting from activity mode to mood. If just for a fleeting moment, it’s a space to totally relax in.

This solution is about garage reorganization making room for a gym and wellness corner. But remember, the principle works just as well for a gardening station on a patio, a gaming set-up in a basement, or – you decide.

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