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Karley & Ben DeCocker of Timeout Homes give their garage the ultimate Flow Wall makeover. Watch them eliminate clutter and turn their garage into a functional storage space and an organized workshop.

Proper planning is a key to any successful project, and part of the planning process is developing a system of organization. This is particularly true for auto mechanics.

What’s the garage for? A place to park the car? Somewhere to hide garbage in “storage” that you’ll promptly forget about for the next half-decade? A spot to sneak off to hide from the kids and eat junk food?

How do you organize your workshop tools? Are they lying askew on shelves or shoved into drawers, forgotten and abandoned?

As a homeowner, you know the garage is a part of your house, but sometimes it gets so cluttered. Many of us have no idea what to do with that part of the house. Chemical stains left from cars are challenging to manage.

Keeping your house in order and looking nice is a job of sorts. When your home is organized, you feel less chaotic and more at peace. After all, you spend most of your life inside your home, and its organization is within your control. Here are ten simple and effective house organization ideas.

When society transformed from a daily commute and school drop-off to a work-from-home and virtual classroom setting, so many of us thought, “Oh yeah! I’m going to use that commute time to keep my house neat and clean!”

Most of us have hoarding tendencies, particularly, it seems, as we get older. What would have been tossed without a second thought as a young adult suddenly becomes an inner monolog: “I know I should recycle this box, but, I mean, it’s a really good box.”

For most of us, the garage has gone from a place to park your ride to an extension of our living space. We’ve put together some cool garage accessories that will help you make optimal use of all your space, both horizontally and vertically.

It’s easy to dismiss your garage as simply a place to park the car and throw stuff when you don’t know what else to do with it, but we all know you’re smart enough not to waste valuable square footage like that—right?

If you’re combing the internet for garage-building ideas, you’re probably not that guy who only passes through the garage to get in and out of the car. Nope—you’re the type that sees the garage as an extension of your home. And rightly so.

It only takes one basketball to the face to realize your garage sports equipment storage situation is not working. Raise the white flag and send help! When balls come flying at you every time you pull something from the shelf, you have a problem on your hands.

If you’re Googling around wondering how to have a dust-proof garage, you must be pretty hardcore—that rare, elite kind of man cave dweller who cares about stuff like heavy-duty overhead storage, perfected garage lighting, and even garage dust control. (Now we’re really into the weeds.)

Did you know that a family can spend up to fifteen hours per week on laundry from start to finish? That’s a lot of time to spend in the laundry room! If you want to make your laundry time more efficient and enjoyable, check out these laundry room storage cabinets ideas for organization.

Halloween is hands-down the best holiday of the year. It gives us permission to embrace our inner child and enjoy the perfect balance of tricks, treats, and tomfoolery. It’s an ideal opportunity to be the talk of the neighborhood by delivering some thrills with your spooky decor.

Sometimes, making the long trek to the mountains, lake, or desert to enjoy a good outdoor hobby can be enough for anyone to call it quits before even getting started.

If you’re like many homeowners, you rarely hang out in your garage. Instead, you dash in and out only when necessary, giving unwanted critters the side-eye along the way.

Storing climbing gear in the garage can quickly turn into a tangled web that feels impossible to organize. And when your storage situation gets really out of hand, you’re less likely to be getting out on those climbing adventures you had your heart set on in the first place.

The garage is your territory. Whether you retreat there to fire up the power tools, jam on the drums, or tinker under the hood of your hot rod, it’s a place you want to be.

Whether you’re into tinkering under the hood of your car, building furniture, DIY projects, or anything else that requires a power tool, the facts are pretty straight-forward: Men who work with their hands need a home garage workbench.