Garage space. How can I use it better?

It gets up to a buck 20 here in the summer fairly regularly. That sun kills even a good paint job in a few years. Blazing Blue, while a looker for sure, is known to have trouble standing up to the sun even in mild environments.

 

And then dyno into the pool! DO IT.

 

My Tacoma is a classic.

 

^FIFY

 

I find jamming a 12 cylinder Jaguar into an already crowded garage works for me...

 

Kick your other vehicle out of the garage..instant space . Put up a Tacoma only parking sign lol .

 

Please put a cover on that so it don't get scratched, do it for me...

 

Do what I'm doing... build another one to fill up.

 

Bikes.......ai ya.

We have 2 bikes, daughter's and wife's, both are required to have a non-shared parking location on the floor. Neither bike has moved in nearly a year. Flat tires on both and great for spider webs. Yet, as soon as I try to relocate the bikes...........

Non-shared means nothing else can egress into the bike's parking spot. Reason, the females don't want to move anything so they can ride their bike. Tools, equipment, motorcycle fairing and storage items get stacked on shelves, hung on walls, above garage door. If I need to use the garage for maintenance on vehicles, then I begin shuffling stuff to make a work area. Some items are just floor bound ie: snowblower, lawnmower, tiller, motorcycle...... I have a 16' wood strip canoe hanging on wall brackets.

Its a small single car space sheltering a '19 Honda CRV.

I feel the space shortage.

 

I'm sure it's well secured, but that box above the truck makes me nervous. All of our holiday decorations live in the rafters above my truck. I imagine that after an earthquake my truck will be very festive.

 

pro tip: hang a tennis ball from the ceiling on a string so it lightly contacts the windshield when parked. Simply pull in until the tennis ball touches the windshield and you know you're in the right spot

*or whiffle ball, rubber chew toy, etc

 

No need, she doesn’t have a mark on her after all this time. 1988 with only 80,000 miles. There is a good 6” between the car and everything else

 

I'm looking at doing bike mounts like this for the main bikes that my wife and I ride. Might work for you to free up wall space:


As for everything else, it doesn't look too bad. I've got a strong genetic streak to hoard, plus I'm constantly tinkering, making, building things, etc. My wife is completely opposite. Our compromise was a crap ton of plastic storage bins and a label maker. The bins are grouped by hobby/project/type of work and just happen to fit on the shelves like it was planned.

 

We switched to a piece of 2x2 on the floor after I watched my wife hit the tennis ball so hard that it bounced about three feet. Told her to go slow or the 2x2 would rip out her oil pan and blow her engine up

 

That is pretty cool. My road bikes I could easily hang upside down and keep the heavy bikes low. Hmmmm

 

If you parked the Ford outside, you'd have room for ~5-6 more motorcycles. Just a thought.

 

Yep, but I only have the 5' bed on the Tacoma and it ain't gonna be too comfortable to live in.

 

I did this for my MTBs. I used these for hooks https://www.homedepot.com/p/Tornado...oated-Steel-Wall-Mount-J-Hook-48034/202639947 and then just made little blocks for supporting the wheels.

 

Wife parks outside just like me. We are an equality house lol

 

Can't see the front of your garage, but make use of pegboard and also the ceiling if you have stuff that can hang there.