Garages are often the most neglected space in the house, becoming more of a storage dumping ground than a usable room. But they don’t have to be!
Ours has needed plenty of attention over the years, from sorting out drainage to finding better storage solutions, and I share what I’ve learned along the way. Whether you’re looking to reclaim your garage as usable space, improve its storage, or just stop it becoming a black hole for clutter, you’ll find practical, budget-conscious ideas here.
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Winter isn’t exactly kind to our homes. The heating works overtime, windows steam up, and gutters clog with leaves and ice. But one part of the house that often gets overlooked is the garage door. It’s not just a big slab of metal that goes up and down. Your garage door has springs, rollers, hinges,…
I painted our uPVC front door and was obsessed with the difference it made to the front of our house. It took our front door from a boring, faded brown to a gorgeous summery green sage. It was so easy, I decided I wanted to tackle our garage door, too. I hadn’t painted anything metal…
Ah the garage — it’s kind of like the ‘drawer of doom’ where everything gets thrown in and forgotten about, only on a much bigger scale. It’s only when you have to go in there to find something that you realise how bad it actually is. Where on earth is anything? How can a place…