I spent a lot of time last month cleaning and organizing the garage for the July Household Organization Diet.  This has been something that I have been wanting to do for years, but kept putting off due to pure, overwhelming, organization paralysis.  I am happy to say that it is now 95% done with just a few little details to finish up!  If you want to catch some sneak peaks, you can head on over to Behr’s Instagram page – I’m taking it over for the week to show off some of my garage projects!


For today, I am going to show you on of my favorite little projects that I did in the garage – our new sports equipment storage!  This will mostly be used to hold all of our hockey sticks but a baseball bat and a couple of light sabers have also snuck their way in there! 

This was a very simple and basically free project – you can’t get much better than that!  We used an old pallet that came with a shipment of paint that we had delivered and all of the rest of the supplies we had on hand.

 
The pallet was in fairly rough shape so I glued down a couple of spots where the wood was splitting and clamped it together while it dried. 


I then gave it a very thorough sanding using an orbital sander and a sanding block.  Once it was all smooth, I stained it with a dark walnut finish.

It was looking a lot better but I wanted to add an extra little touch.  Using my Silhouette, I cut out some stencils and painted the words on with some white paint.   I always find that a sponge brush works best for this, applying the paint in a dabbing motion rather than actually painting it on in strokes. Once the paint had dried, I sanded it down to distress it and lightly went over it with a rag that had some left over stain on it {just to “dirty” it up a bit!}.


Load it up with all of your gear, and you are ready to go!  If you have crazy kiddos like we do, you may also want to secure it to a stud using a screw.

Stay tuned for lots more garage organization ideas!  I can’t wait to show you all of the befores and afters! 

If you missed all of my inspiration ideas, you can find them here…

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