Features of the choice of furniture for the garage

In the garage, as in any other room, you need furniture, but a kind and to the maximum functional. It can be racks equipped with hooks, workbenches for repair, cabinets, cabinets and most importantly - racks for storing various parts, fasteners and tools. Every car owner furnishes a garage to your liking. Many people who do not have a car, use the garage as a workshop, which also requires order.

Garage space is used not only for various accessories related to automotive topics. It contains all that is undesirable in the living room, both necessary and unnecessary, which is simply a pity to throw out.

The furniture itself must also meet the basic requirements:

• free to wash off dirt of any nature;
• be of little damage;
• be resistant to chemical and natural influences.

Very good if the garage is divided into functional areas. With the rational use of the situation, the items that are stored in the garage and the vehicle do not impede the free movement, and well-installed equipment will not harm either the car or the person. The most important thing is the location of the tool, which should have its place and was always freely available.

Before you put things in order, you need to think out a plan of the situation, taking into account the acquired furniture. It is also necessary to take into account all the nuances of the arrangement of the room.

To achieve this, certain actions are necessary.

• Sketch a floor plan with the parameters of length, width and height.
• To decide on the design of the gate. The choice should be such that their opening is convenient and safe.
• Think over the location of the vehicle so that it is convenient to perform the necessary actions related to its operation, and there is enough space around it.
• Calculate the possibility of installing various furniture (shelves, cabinets, etc.) to store different types of items. If the room has a small area, then you need to think about mounted shelves, given the height and location of them for the greatest security.
• Pick up all the necessary materials for the arrangement and calculate their consumption. Decide on the design and make a final estimate.

A work desk equipped with plumbing fixtures is a must for the garage. Usually it is made a little more than half a meter wide and not more than one and a half meters long. These sizes are considered the most optimal. Each owner of a garage selects height individually, taking into account growth and convenience.

The most comfortable height is considered at the level of the hip joint. It is more appropriate to place a workbench in a place farther from doors and gates, so when working, no one and nothing will interfere. Not bad next to him to equip the sink. And, accordingly, and a cabinet with hygiene products and towel hooks.

On the desktop, usually installed bench vise and various stops. Naturally, the workbench area must be provided with appropriate lighting.

For convenience, the working area can be equipped with perforated panels. This is a great way to keep a small tool in order, and it will always be at hand. Perforated plates are a very useful and versatile garage fixture. They can equip all the free space of the walls. Various mounting system options will make the entire panel area functional.

Another, no less useful fixture for the workbench is the magnetic strip for lightweight metal objects.

For items that are often used it is better to build shelves without doors. First, it will be seen - where and what is, and secondly, do not slam the doors every time. It is better to make the shelves removable from the wall. For more functionality under the shelves can be attached hanging banks for various bolts, nuts, screws, etc.

To do this, take the banks, better plastic, with screw caps. Covers are fixed under the shelf with threads threaded down and cans are screwed into them, filled with necessary items.Such a device allows you to unscrew the container and get the desired part with one hand. This device is convenient and does not take up extra space.

This piece of furniture is very comfortable. The upper part can be used as a work surface, and inside to contain the necessary items. It takes up little space, and with a neat and high-quality performance, it gives coziness to a garage room. You can place it near the workbench as its add-on.

The curbstone can be easily made with your own hands on a ready-made or individual project. The main thing is to be comfortable to work and have everything at hand.. Now on sale there is a huge variety of mobile bedside tables of any performance and size, for the garage will be very useful such an item. It will relieve from the running around for those or other tools and hardware. A bedside table can be easily moved if necessary to the area of ​​work.

Shelving designed around the free perimeter of the garage. Most often, full-wall shelving is done in spacious garages, where, in addition to items relating to the car, you need to store various things and household items.

It is desirable to buy or make racks so that the shelves can be installed at any height. So they can be adjusted for storage of items of different dimensions, and this will significantly increase the usable area. One or, if necessary, two spans can be left completely without shelves and equip this niche for garden and snow removal equipment. Make it for convenience is better near the street entrance.

With regard to suitable materials for the manufacture of garage furniture, the most commonly used wood or metal.

• Wooden furniture for a garage room is made simply, but there is one drawback - it does not last long enough. Indeed, in the garage, almost all pieces of furniture are filled with various spare parts and often unsuitable. As a result, the appearance of storage systems suffers from these dirty and oily parts. Such dirt from the surface of the tree is difficult to remove, and often fails at all.
• Metal racks, shelves and cabinets will be an excellent option for arranging a garage. Periodic painting of such structures will solve the problem with their appearance. Make such furniture is easyenough to be able to handle the welding machine.

What kind of furniture is needed for the workshop in the garage, see the following video.