My wife I taked about getting a great garage for years. We finally did it. We hired GarageTek for they job -- and we are very pleased.
They covered the walls with their white panle (no maintenance material!) Then we choose a combination of cabinets , shelves, hooks, brackets, baskes and racks -- all of which attach to the wall panel.
This is key, as now our garage floor is pretty empty and all the clutter is gone! Our kids (and our stupid mutt) cant get to the dangerous stuff any longer as its high on the wall and out of their reach. Now we can get both cars in the garage too -- even the big SUV fits.
The install was pretty easy. We met with a designer named Pam and she created a plan on the CAD software system. We tweaked it a bit until it looked about right. Then they came back 2 weeks later and installed the system in 2 days. Everyone showed up just when they said they would and (bonus!) they all speak english (so do we!)
Once the system was installed we tweaked it a bit more. This easy since it is all modular and the storage bits can be swaped and exchanged readily. Now it looks they way we wanted and we have storage space for all of our stuff.
Also, they use high qualithy materials like PVC and other special advanced plastics we dont have worry about rust or warping or rot.
Total cost for our regular sized 2 car garage was just under $10k, but we plan to add the flooring in the spring to complete the room and really have the whole enchilada. So the cost is not cheap, but it was about half of what we spent on remodeling our smallest bathroom -- and it gets the cars off the street so we can finally use the 400 square feet of garage that we paid for when we built the house. My brother in law is an appraiser and he receommeded Garagetek because he said these systems pay their own way at resale time.
We are very pleased with thie system.
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