Downsized and making the best of my storage options

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Not sure if this is the right place to post but we recently moved from a 2600 sq ft house with a 16x12 shed that was my domain (aside from the occasional wasp). I now have an amazing waterfront location in a wonderful neighborhood with my beautiful wife, but my storage is down to a 25"x24" closet and a 48"x30" closet.

That's it.

For the lawn mower, weedeater, leaf blowers, saws, power tools, shop vacs, and the big stuff, the ever growing detailing collection.

I don't have tons of pics but I got some of those sterelite drawers and a Plano plastic shelf today and had to modify it but the shoe hanger is my greatest innovation ever. I'm very proud of this and think that it will help lots of folks.

It cleared 2 of my 22x14 shelves and I am trying to stay organized not cluttered.

Any tips would be appreciated.

I'm also including some pics of my shelves i built into the outdoor storage closet. View attachment 27870View attachment 27871

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I also got one of these and bolted it to the wall. I caulked the interior and also used some plasti dip to make it as waterproof as possible.

$79-10= 73 after tax for the cabinet.

Had the caulk and plasti dip.

Outdoor version made by suncast was $149
 
That's some great space saving, I am sure it will help a lot of guys. Thanks for sharing.
 
cshamilton said:
Not sure if this is the right place to post but we recently moved from a 2600 sq ft house with a 16x12 shed that was my domain (aside from the occasional wasp). I now have an amazing waterfront location in a wonderful neighborhood with my beautiful wife, but my storage is down to a 25"x24" closet and a 48"x30" closet.

That's it.

For the lawn mower, weedeater, leaf blowers, saws, power tools, shop vacs, and the big stuff, the ever growing detailing collection.

I don't have tons of pics but I got some of those sterelite drawers and a Plano plastic shelf today and had to modify it but the shoe hanger is my greatest innovation ever. I'm very proud of this and think that it will help lots of folks.

It cleared 2 of my 22x14 shelves and I am trying to stay organized not cluttered.

Any tips would be appreciated.

I'm also including some pics of my shelves i built into the outdoor storage closet. View attachment 27870View attachment 27871

Before:
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Halfway
View attachment 27873

After
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Congrats on the new house! And great idea using a hanging shoe storage unit! Lot of weight hanging off the door though. You might want to make sure there is at least one long screw grabbing into the jack stud on each hinge.
 
Thanks guys. I originally had planned on using small bottles but got carried away. Weight was definitely my first concern.

I will take the door out tomorrow and see what length screws are in there. Any recommendation on what size I should use?

I was going to take a 4" PVC pipe and cut sections out to hold spray bottles but they would weigh more than the shoe hanger.

If anyone is trying to adapt this, it's sill a good option to use on the wall. I have some 3m mounting tape across the sides and bottom to prevent it from flying all over the place
 
It's been raining so I had a few days to continue with my organizing. I tacked a few small nails in the door frame to hold some brushes out of the way.

Hung an old towel bar inside the door on the top, can hang 6 griots bottles from that. I'll probably get some smaller bottles to make room for one or two more.

I also put all of my brushes in the small toolbox on the shelf.

All of my microfiber is in the wash and now organized into tubs and drawers. Bulk interior and "Gary dean" towels are in the big drawers. So are my drying towels (in the wash) the small tubs hold my qd/polish/wax removal/compound towels. Glass towels are in the drawers too.

Lightened the load on the door, put all of my products I use more frequently on the shelves.

Gallons found their own home above the laundry room. Then there's the extra products that I've outgrown or don't use anymore. They're in a three large tubs under the guest bedroom. The pw, shop vac, air compressor etc all made it to the storage room outside.

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Edit: DA is in the tool bag and the bag on the floor has my pads. Not many. 24 or so
 
I'm always amazed at what one can do to reduce space when needed. At my previous house I had come from a 2000 sq ft garage with 3 bays to a 28'x32' garage. When I started every wall was lined with toolboxes, welders, cabinets, carts, ect.

I slowly got it whittled down to only one wall covered by storage 24" deep. :)
 
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