How to increase home storage capacity

Once the prerogative of warehouse-based businesses, mobile shelves are now available for domestic use, offering homeowners a convenient and effective way to increase the potential of their garage storage.

Shelves that Move

Warehouses required to know just where stock is and access it quickly have relied on the ease of mobile shelving for a long time. These innovative storage solutions allow businesses to increase their organization and maximize their efficiency. Many homeowners are faced with similar problems, although on a much smaller scale. With garages perceived as an extension of home storage, their true use is often lost and, with it, their potential to optimize home organization.

Mobile shelf units are available in many sizes, allowing them to be used in a variety of environments ranging from industrial to domestic use. Not only do they increase the amount of floor space available, but they can also make even the most awkward of items much more accessible. Depending on the size of the garage, there are a range of systems available to cope with things such as basic tool storage to the accommodation of bigger, more inconvenient items.

Types of Mobile Shelving

In its most basic form, mobile shelving appears as a series of shelves mounted on a track. Operated by a handle, the track can rotated both clockwise and anti-clockwise, so that the operator can quickly access the item he is looking for. Using a domestic garage, this can provide a simple solution to finding items that would otherwise become lost or inaccessible. They are perfect for housing items that are used infrequently, such as camping equipment or heavier, bulkier objects that would otherwise take up space which could be put to better use.

Pallet Racking systems are more appropriate for those with bigger garages. Typically, they are used in warehouses to stack pallets holding heavy materials or items and are loaded and unloaded using fork-lift trucks. However, many hobbyists and those using their garages as miniature warehouses for small businesses have found the benefits of using smaller versions of pallet racking systems. These storage solutions are sturdy and strong, again optimize the floor space available to the owner.

There are even types of mobile shelving designed with particular storage ideas in mind. Those with plenty of books to store could easily benefit from archive storage systems that are not only constructed to house books and documents, but are also designed to offer them protection. Alternatively, those with small catering businesses can investigate the ranges of storage systems that are built to accommodate both sturdy and delicate types of equipment that are associated with this business. Other mobile shelving uses include the potential to turn a garage into a miniature wine cellar; shelves constructed specifically to house and protect bottles allow safe storage and convenient access.

However, mobile shelving is also available for those who simply want to make the most of their garage space, no matter how large or small it may be. While industrial units are neither cost-effective nor appropriate, those designed with domestic garage owners in mind are a fantastic method of preventing potential storage space becoming dead space.