A garage is the perfect home for all sorts of items and activities  from storing sporting equipment to tools and machines; and it’s original purpose for car parking to activities like a home-office, a gym or a workshop. If your garage is only used for storage rather than other activities it really needs some shelves for organization.

Usually garage shelves can be found in two main forms: site-built  and prefabricated. Site-built shelves are usually less expensive and  allow you to adapt the sizes to the space available. You can find  everything that you need at the local home center, lumber yard,  discount store or hardware store.

One of the basics of the garage shelves is made of a simple piece of  ¾” plywood or a length of 1x or 2x lumber on a set of heavy-duty  shelf brackets. This is mounted by attaching the brackets to the  studs directly using long screws then by attaching the shelf to the  brackets. To strengthen the shelf you can add a brace at each stud.  Read more...