Our past two garages (that is, both fixer upper house garages) have been totally disastrous and embarrassing. I mean, our townhouse garage wasn't beautiful either, but at least we had three small, organized cabinets of a few tools and paint cans, then room for a car and our full garage gym. Nowadays we have WAY more tools, supplies, yard stuff, and... honestly, unfortunately, books and other random stuff still in boxes... I needed a storage solution! Of course being in the middle of a reno project, I don't have time to devote to making the
garage look great--that will probably be our last project! Ha! So, I came up with a SUPER simple, fast solution!
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The tool storage at our 90's fixer upper was basically just a few overflowing baskets on a couple of piles in the garage, and then I packed everything into clear plastic storage tubs with NO organization. It was a very stressful day packing up the last house by myself after work for some reason, and I remember just throwing everything into these 6 plastic boxes just space-efficiently, not grouped. Chaos.
Then we moved everything from our storage unit to the apartment garage then to this house's garage, and then we started painting, so the mess got worse.
I am so tired of not having room in our garage for our car OR gym setup, and literally tripping over tools and paint supplies! So when Fred Meyer reached out to promote
Fred Meyer Direct... when I think Fred Meyer, I think (besides food) home office, tools, garden supplies, great basics. (Those 6 plastic boxes we packed our tools in last fall were a Fred Meyer purchase!) I looked all the storage options on
Fred Meyer Direct and found the classic clear plastic Sterilite drawers and thought they would be a great garage/tool storage system!
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