Garage: Using a Locked Storage Cabinet to Organize Hazardous Items and Valuables

A storage cabinet with doors will keep hazardous items like garden chemicals, paint, and pesticides out of the reach of children, especially if it’s locked.  If you have valuable tools in your garage, you may want locked storage.  Before we organized my client’s garage, she had pesticides sitting next to macaroni and cheese they stored in their garage.  At least her food wasn’t infested with bugs:)

The cabinet has some nice shelves.  We used labeled dish tubs, yes you read that correctly, dish tubs, to hold her spray paint and garden chemicals.   Other items for her car and garden were grouped by category and placed on shelves.

Where would you use a cabinet like this?  Hint: it’s not limited to use in a garage.  Don’t keep your organizing ideas and tips to yourself, please share your comments below.