AWESOME Hanging Garage Shelves | DIY Garage Storage | Garage Makeover pt. 4

As a part of my garage makeover I show how to install these strong hanging garage storage shelves above and around either side of the garage door to reclaim wasted space.

This can be a cheap and easy DIY home improvement project for anyone looking for more storage in the garage. The best part of these shelves is they hang from the ceiling and make use of otherwise wasted space above the garage door.

These shelves have been awesome so far a one of the best garage storage ideas that I have found.

If you have any questions please let me know in the comments

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[darrenknudson]

I’m glad you show good techniques for building alone 😀. Seems like every project I end up doing is alone but it actually works out better as it gives one time for the thought process and you feel that sense of pride that YOU did it.

[Josephfahrney]

I just moved into a new house and have watched ~1000 DIY garage shelving builds. Yours takes the win by a long way! Super clean and super squared-away; well done! Thank you for the ideas!

[patmcgowan]

I've been planning to use that space in a similar way, but dude, you could hang a Cadillac from that arrangement. Thanks for the video.

[wendygodin]

When we built our house and had extra siding, we installed bars, not shelves to hold the long long cardboard box with the extra. Worked great. And the cats loved to get up there and sleep. A great use of normally unused space.

[DavidMathew]

I did a similar system but don’t have attic above. A neighbor recommended pipe hanging lag screws. They have lag screws on one end and a coupler for threaded rod on the other, rated for 800lb each. Worked well for me. My shelves are otherwise similar to yours. Definitely great to gain the floor space!

[HiVizCamo]

Looks great, like the design details! I have done similar, and (don't you hate armchair QBs?) what I used for vertical hanging supports were 1.25"×1.25" steel angle brackets, the kind I notice were used by our garage door opener installers. I made plunge cuts through the ceiling drywall with a knife to send the verticals up into the attic after attaching the bottom ends to the outside corners of the shelf framing. Up top, I extended the tops of the angle brackets past the ceiling joists right to the roof rafters to attach them, to prevent ceiling bowing and to send the load of the shelf weight to the walls via the rafters. Like a snow load hanging from the bottom of the roof if you will. Super strong, and I also climbed up there to do a capacity test and had a celebratory snooze while I was at it 😀

One detail I wish I had worked in was to not use flat sheeting for the shelf surfaces (I used 3/8" OSB) but to use plywood slats to make all of the inner shelf framing, cut into 3.5" slats mated to the shelf frames using half laps to avoid using fasteners. An idea I got from another YTer, I could name. Having these pieces installed edge up, and spaced about 3" apart would be lighter, stronger and provide ventilation for what ever is up there. I've got camping gear up there, and to provide adequate ventilation I wound up blasting 3" hole saw holes through the shelf sheeting, which was a waste, not to mention a giant mess and PITA.

[NickCampbellCampbeln]

I did a very similar shelving system in my garage, though I used eyelets and a chain for my single unsupported corner (I like your threaded rod solution better!). We've had ZERO issues with storing a TON of stuff above the garage doors and around the top parameter of the garage. Also like you, we painted after getting the shelving up and I was amazed how much stuff was actually up there (the garage looked like everyone else's for the week it was down - 2/3rd full of stuff).
One other change I made was I ran 6" plywood strips rather than full sheets for the top of the shelves. It was cheap (as it used half the material), I was concerned about crap getting pushed to the back corners and I didn't want easy spaces for anything to setup shop. Plus it allows us easy visual access from the garage floor (as some of our shelves are double and triple deep). Lastly, I too used 4" decking screws (well, 3.75") supported on 3 sides (with the one exception mentioned above). I'd stop short of hoisting a car up there, but we've had no issues what so ever over the 3 years of use.
Lastly... Danish Oil!? Ha! I thought my shelves looked good :) Overall excellent execution (though I'd be extending those side shelves down the whole wall :)

[moishescz]

We just bought a home and your video tutorial is by far the best I've seen! Thanks for posting it!

[alejandrodjart]

The best I've seen on YouTube. It takes some intelligence and loving what you do in order to make something excellent.

[zacksgaragedoorserviceandr]

I can tell you’re very detailed about your work and I’m really happy to see someone who actually has detail about their work and it proves how strong it is because even you’re up on it keep up the good work it looks really good

[taylormcintyre]

I’d love to see how you got that snow blower up there, and how you plan on getting it down!

I definitely building these in my new garage

[pziemann]

Love the anchoring system in the attic - great idea

[Zoetropeification]

I put up very similar shelving in my garage. I used chains and lag screws on the first sections above the door and then threaded rods like this on later sections along the side wall. Like this I have an opening in the frame over the door opener guide. One difference is that I laid plywood across that opening. Also I did not fasten the plywood to the 2x4 framing. I simply lay the plywood on the frame after cutting grooves in the plywood to fit around the threaded rods and chains. The threaded rods keep the plywood in place and will never let it slide forward. I also painted the plywood and have had no issues with any warping. I did have to replace the spring later on and being able to simply lift off the plywood made that process much easier.

[ianjoyce]

Looks great, nice work! You're a perfectionist like me so I appreciate your attention to detail. You should get some 1/2" or 3/4" PVC to put around the threaded rods to dress it up a little. Wipe the PVC down with acetone first to remove the printed lettering and you'll have some nice perfectly round little stanchions from your beautiful shelves to the ceiling.

[ECIA]

Great solution! Very well thought and incredibly well executed. It gave me a ton of tips and inspiration for embracing a similar project on my very small garage. Thanks a lot!!! All the best!!! Emanuele from Ancona, Italy

[jamesschmidt]

I think this is a great idea and the aesthetics are fantastic! Question though is how do you tighten or replace the springs to the garage door?

[HardCoreGarage]

When you make access to your garage door spring more difficult, don't complain when the bill is twice as much. Signed, a garage door guy! (;

[jimsvo]

Great idea. Years ago I pulled a bunch of new threaded rod out of a dumpster thinking someday I would use them for a project. Now I finally figured out the project.

[thanehouse]

Looks great! Better than the ones I did. I actually found some white electrical tape and covered the threaded rod with it. Very low-profile. It would make your theme even nicer, I think.

[dwightrider]

Great video. I used your idea of the threaded rod and it made the shelving much stronger than screwing into a 2 X 4 secured to the ceiling. I pulled my shelves out and left some open space to access the coil spring of the garage door as that has to be replaced about ever 8 years or so. I also put 2X3 boards secured on their edge around the sides and back of my shelf to prevent items from being pushed off the edge or back of the shelves.