What constitutes a good storage or utility area?
Well depending on where you live, there is a number of spaces that are great storage or utility areas. If you are living on the East coast, you might have a great basement or a great attic area. On the West coast, you are limited when it comes to space in that you might have an attic but basements aren't that big. But all around, I think garages are great areas for storage and utility. They tend to be big, they tend to have three walls that you can utilize to put built-ins, they are generally, believe it or not, can be very clean once they're organized if they're cleaned out and properly organized. They just really have lots and lots of space that you can use, and you can have space going across and up and down which is always a nice way to go. I love setting up garages, because I can put shelves in from wall to wall and really create areas where things can be stored. You can have the area where all the sports equipment is or the area where all the tools are and the area where you are keeping all the bulk items that are not necessarily perishable and you can keep them out there. It might be a little trickier to keep things like that on the East coast if things get very cold, but it's just such a great space to keep all these things that you're not really sure what to do with them but you need to keep them and you actually do use them, but there is no room inside your house to keep them. So, I think garages are fantastic for that and I always encourage people to invest in some good solid shelving in garages, and maybe even sometimes if they are really beat up investing in some drywall in there, or even treating the floor so it's finished a little better because, in the end, it becomes this whole area you never realized that you had that you can utilize so well.
