5 Reasons to Give Your Garage a Makeover
Winter is the perfect time for many home improvement projects, and while it’s easy to imagine why you might want to paint or do other indoor fixes while you’re already stuck inside, a garage makeover should make the top of your list. There are several practical reasons why it makes good sense to focus on this important hub of the home, and it shouldn’t just stop at organization.
1. Get Spring-ready Before Warm Weather
While it may not seem like it yet, the warmer months are not that far away. Except for getting the cars in and out, your garage is basically cold storage during the winter. Want more room to work on your cars or at your workbench? Want to be able to get out the lawnmower or that outdoor tool you need without crawling over piles of stuff? A garage renovation can help you achieve those goals.
2. Can’t Find Anything? It’s Time for An Overhaul!
How often do you step into the garage, thinking you know right where something is, only to find that it’s nowhere in sight? Sometimes, it can take you so long to find something that you simply give up and make a trip to the store to buy a replacement. Then, a few months later, you stumble across the original item while searching for something else. It’s too late to return the replacement you bought, and now you’re stuck with a duplicate you don’t really need, which adds to the clutter already taking up space in your garage. This snowball effect wastes time, money and energy that you could save by organizing your garage.
3. Garages Shouldn’t Be a Dumping Ground
The purpose of having a garage has expanded to mean many different things, but it’s an extension of your home and it should be a place of pride, just as any other room in your home. The garage, like the basement, is another empty spot just waiting to get filled with stuff. Garages can be many things, but a dumping ground shouldn’t be one.
4. Garages Are Not Just For Cars
Garages were meant to be a place to park your car, however, many times we just park in the driveways, leaving our garages unused. That’s some valuable real estate going to waste. A garage makeover can turn some or all of your garage into an extra playroom, a hangout room, a makerspace, a gym, or another utility room that you otherwise wouldn’t have space for in your home. The possibilities are endless.
5. Your Garage Floor Could Use Some Love
Your garage floor takes a lot of abuse from moisture, oil drips, chemical spills and road salt as it ages. When making over your garage, don’t ignore the flooring! It sets the tone for the entire space. You’ll want something that is not only appealing, but also useful and able to withstand the traffic that goes on in your garage. From Epoxy floor coatings, to polished concrete floors, giving your garage the TLC it needs should start at the bottom.
Elite Concrete Systems can help you makeover your garage with a variety of flooring options to give it that polished look.