There’s a great article in today’s Toronto Star about a Garage makeover by HGTV’s Colin and Justin.  It’s a great Before and After piece, showing how you can reclaim that space!  Many of the products shown - overhead storage, slat wall and cabinets - are available from us.  In fact, our StoreWALL product is a more versatile product than the slat wall they used in this reno, coming in more colors and with more accessories.  The cabinet line they used is RedLine garagegear, for which Space Solutions is the exclusive Toronto dealer.  We have garagegear cabinets and StoreWALL on display in our showroom - visit our Garages page to learn more about what we do for garage storage!

Well, we’re at that time of year again.  Spring has indeed arrived; the weather is - generally - beautiful, things are sprouting, and it’s time to turn our attention to the outside.  For many of us, it’s now also time to turn our attention to the Garage. We’ve put away our snow shovels for the winter (We think. And am I the only one who never used his this year?) and time to dust off the lawn mower, hedge trimmer and garden gloves; and also it’s time to swap the skis and toboggans for the golf clubs and tennis rackets.  Many of us forget during the winter just how much we are storing in our garage, and now that we’re looking for that patio chair or barbecue tank, we’re stumbling over all the other things we keep in there.  That may mean that it’s time to have a garage sale - it’s that time of year, too - but maybe you’ve purged enough already. What you need is a better system.

Space Solutions has the means to let you reclaim the space in your garage. If you live in the city of Toronto, you’re likely lucky to even be able to park your car in the garage, as many older homes have garages that date back well before the dawn of the minivan and SUV.   Even with a larger space, a family with children will find that bicycles, skateboards and hockey nets take up much of the space that would otherwise house your vehicle.  Getting as much of the kids’ things off the floor as possible will go a long way towards freeing up that space.  StoreWALL’s slat wall system is a great place to start. With holders to hang bicycles, baskets for sports balls and hooks for all sorts of sporting goods and garden tools, you can have a better organized space in no time.  A wall covered with StoreWALL looks great too, and is resistant to weather damage and mildew. The patented locking mechanism on StoreWALL’s accessories keep things secure on the wall, because you need your garage to be a safe place, too.  Hang Mom and Dad’s bikes up high, and mount the kids’ bikes lower where they can reach them, and be amazed at how much floor space you recover.

RedLine’s garagegear cabinets provide a great solution for tools and smaller items.  Not every Toronto garage is going to have the space for cabinets, but even if you can get a small series in one corner, all those cans of paint, hammers (if you’re like me, you have 4 of them), light bulbs, Christmas decorations - they can all have a neat, tidy home.  Garagegear cabinets are powder-coated, making them also resistant to moisture and most chemicals.  Include a heavy-duty workbench top, and the hobbyist or home handyman has a durable, convenient place to work.  The best thing about about our garage cabinets is that they’re mounted off the floor to the wall, so they are away from wet, sloping garage floors.  Our trained installers guarantee to get it right, so you don’t have to worry about your things, your car, or your kids.

The Garage page on our website features more pictures of garage ideas, as well as links to our garage suppliers’ websites and color options. Visit our showroom to our offerings in person, we’ll also be happy to do a site visit and come up with a proposal for your space.

There’s a terrific article in today’s National Post about Garage Organization, prominently featuring our RedLine garagegear cabinets, StoreWALL slat wall panels and other options.  As the article notes, we are the pros when it comes to layout and installation, and are always ready to help with your garage project.  Here’s a link to the article on the Post’s website: National Post Article.  Even better - come in to our showroom at Bayview and Eglinton and see the systems in person!  Then set up an in-home consultation, and one of our designers will come out and measure and help you sort out your garage!

It may still be winter, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to think about sorting out your garage.  You may think of us mostly for our closets - well, think of the garage as a closet for your car.  Everyone will have their own assortment of miscellaneous things in their garage: workshop tools, sports gear, lawn and garden equipment, automotive parts.  We can help with all of these things and more, with a variety of solutions for you.  Our RedLine garagegear system offers heavy duty powder coated cabinets for stashing away all those things that you need, but don’t want left out in the open.  For the “grab-and-go” items - rakes, brooms, hoses, etc - a wall system of hooks and racks will usually suit the bill.  Schulte’s Activity Organizers system offers the ability to interchange a variety of organizers on a metal grid.  For a larger wall space and a more finished look, StoreWALL slat wall panels are a great alternative to traditional mdf slat wall.  Stronger than mdf, StoreWALL panels are made of a heavy duty PVC to prevent warping.

We recently did a cabinet installation with RedLine garagegear that posed an interesting challenge.  The customer’s garage had a jog in the corner, and the request was to build cabinets on the adjacent walls around the jog, and leave a small counter space next to the door to the house.  If the cabinets are too close on either side, the doors won’t open.  Similarly, if the cabinets are too far away from the jog, a deep space is created that things can get “lost” in.  So we put a filler panel in between the cabinets, to create the proper spacing and to complete the look.  Closer to the garage door, the customer installed some of our StoreWALL panels and hooks, for the grab-and-go things.  You can see the finished installation by clicking on the thumbnails below.  The cabinet color is called Sandstone; the slat wall color is Cedar.  You can get more information about our garage offerings by viewing our Garages page.  We also have examples of all of our offerings installed at our Eglinton showroom.

You may have just received our garage flyer in The Globe and Mail, or through our mailing list. Please have a look at the Garages tab on the site and you will find some of the same images as well as some others. We’ve put up a little information to get you started, and you may also link to our suppliers’ sites from there as well. You will find that at this time only Activity Organziers are available through our web store - other product lines are available through our stores, and may require installation by one of our expert installers. We have recently installed full displays at both stores of RedLine garagegear cabinets, StoreWall and Schulte Activity Organizers. You may view color samples and get more information there. We are very excited to show you our Garage Solutions program, and look forward to answering any questions you may have. Email us for more information, or call us at 416.489.1055!