{"id":36924,"date":"2014-05-03T01:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T05:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=36924"},"modified":"2014-05-03T02:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T06:01:18","slug":"i-clear-and-organize-my-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-clear-and-organize-my-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"I clear and organize my garage!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I did a massive cleaning\/clearing project last week!\u00a0 It was motivated by a couple of feng shui questions. I’d wondered if I needed a remedy for the iron security bars on my windows and sliding glass doors.\u00a0 (Yeah, I’m from Miami<\/em>.)\u00a0 I learned the remedy is what I’d already done: soften the inside with window treatments, and the outside with bird feeders and tall plants that move in the wind.\u00a0 I also wondered how might I lay out my feng shui bagua<\/a> if I have an integral garage? I have a built in two car garage, so it is in the No. 6 Helpful friends, Travel and Guides sector. I read that entering through a messy utility space “can lead to issues such as always putting other people\u2019s needs before your own.” I had an awakening in that moment. I went out to the garage, which I’d last cleaned in 2011. I could get to everything, but it was in much disarray.\u00a0 I’d slowly let it become a real mess, and I walked past my garbage bins, pest control, tools every time I came in the house.\u00a0 Enough! I moved the car out and took photos of the garage, my “before” photos. The next morning, I began moving everything out of the garage and onto the driveway. That’s the fastest way for me to organize — clear and clean the room, then decide what goes back in there.
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I set up my trash and recycle bins, and set up a table in a staging area.\u00a0 Everything out, I swept the floor and cleaned it.\u00a0 My main storage unit is a frame made of two by fours, with waferboard shelves.\u00a0 I shored it up with a few 1x2s to keep the shelves from sagging in the middle, and I sanded and painted all the wood white.\u00a0 It was looking better already.<\/p>\n

While the paint dried, I began sorting and discarding.\u00a0 I have plenty of paint and painting supplies, caulking, tile adhesives, joint compound. I have plenty of metal shelving brackets, gardening supplies, automotive, tools, small bins of sorted nuts, bolts, screws, nails, scraps of wood all sizes.<\/p>\n

I filled two bins each of trash and recycle. I spent an hour breaking down cardboard boxes. I was getting a good arm and shoulder workout.\u00a0 The paint dry, I began putting things back on the shelves.\u00a0 I had plenty of room.\u00a0 I stacked my long wooden shelves by size along one wall.\u00a0 I stacked my various lengths of wood and scrap wood on a rolling cart that made it easy to see at a glance what I have.<\/p>\n

\"0rganized!\"<\/a>

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I moved the garbage and recycle bins to the passenger side of the garage, and I made my entrance into the house a welcoming, ordered space.\u00a0 I made it easy to ride the bikes in and out. Much better feng shui! Now, as I drive up and come in the new entryway, I feel welcome, I feel invited, I feel like someone has created the space for me to be there.\u00a0 It feels more like home than it has in a long time.<\/p>\n

RELATED: How to lay out the feng shui bagua in your home<\/a><\/p>\n

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