Garage attic

As the seasons change, the challenge of indoor storage arises, and the garage becomes a hub for stashing belongings. A popular place for storage is the rafters. But how much weight can a garage truss hold?

To minimize clutter, it’s tempting to store off-season items in a hard-to-access place like the attic. Out of sight, out of mind, right?But because of their location (at the tippity top of a house) and because many are unfinished and uninsulated, attics are prone to high heat and humidity in warmer months and freezing temperatures during colder seasons. Those unregulated conditions make attics a lousy place to store a lot of the things you’re inclined stash away for most of the year.

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Squeezing one office space into a home is tricky enough; when you have two people working from home indefinitely, you have to get creative.For four months, Kris McDonald and his wife both crowded around the dining room table to work from home. It was, as he says, “no longer working.” But when his wife put in an order for a new desk to call her own, they both realized that they didn’t actually have a place to put it—yet.

Ideas on how to convert your unused garage attic space to valuable storage. Plus, check out the secret access door for easy access from inside the house!

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As the seasons change, the challenge of indoor storage arises, and the garage becomes a hub for stashing belongings. A popular place for storage is the rafters. But how much weight can a garage truss hold?