Save Your Spine With Garage Storage Cabinets

If you want to make the task of keeping your garage a tidy, useful space, you couldn’t do much better than purchasing a few good garage storage cabinets. Essentially, what they do is provide you with an orderly rubric by which to divide and conquer the clutter of tools, accessories, bits and bobs that so frequently render peoples garages into an impossible, panic-inducing mess in which nothing of use can be found. If you’re willing to spend a little time with a magic marker, some grade-school text-book stickers, and your tools, odds are you’ll be able to put a significant dent in the task of turning that mess of a garage into a haven in which to make, fix, or store anything you please. In addition, garage storage cabinets offer the benefit of allowing you to circumvent the weight-bearing activity of moving things around in your garage, allowing you to smoothly wheel objects of just about any weight from one location to another, with no stress on your knees or back. The most successful, and in many professionals’ opinions, probably the best manufacturer of garage storage cabinets, is Coleman. Coleman generally make cabinets of great sturdiness, capable of holding up under rough workshop conditions, while still maintaining their fine, shiny finish. If you’re looking for something to put into a proper professional workshop, or if you know that for whatever reason you’re going to be moving your cabinets around a lot and subjecting them to a fair amount of abuse, then it’s probably advisable to go for metal cabinets. This is doubly the case if your garage is in any way afflicted with problems of damp or humidity, as wooden cabinets will suffer under such conditions, the varnish peeling away with the constant swelling contraction of the wood, unless, of course, it’s very well sealed indeed. If you do go for metal garage storage cabinets, you’re going to be faced with a toss up between stainless steel and aluminum products. Now, in case you, like most people, don’t remember the lessons of high school chemistry, aluminum is renowned for its anti-corrosive properties, along with is beautiful, silvery finish. Indeed, it’s now a little know fact that when aluminum was first discovered, it was believed to be a very rare metal, and this, along with its beauty, saw it being coveted by the wealthy landed nobility of the day. When new mining methods revealed that, far from being the rarest of minerals, it was in fact one of the most plentiful, it came as a shock to many, including the royal family of England, who were by that time both wearing aluminum jewelry and eating with aluminum cutlery, never dreaming that it would one day be the choice for crafting garage shelving units and plumbing pipes. The thing is, while aluminum is incontestably good looking, and has all the corrosion-resistant properties attributed to it, it may not be the best choice of metal for garage storage cabinets. Indeed, if you’ve ever found your aluminum tent poles bent by strong wind while camping, you’ll know that aluminum is, as far as metals go, actually relatively weak. As such, if you need a product capable of dealing with tough, pit-stop-like conditions, you’ll want to go for something more along the lines of stainless steel. Stainless steel is essentially steel mixed with various additives so as to prevent its corrosion. Consequently, it’s known to ‘stain less’, which is not to suggest that it doesn’t stain at all. That said, its an order of magnitude stronger than aluminum, and if you’re looking for garage storage cabinets that are both strong and attractive, you’ll be delighted to find that aluminum cabinets often come with baked-on ceramic coatings, a finish that both allows them to take on any color, and any sheen (matte or glossy) you prefer. Of course, these options are often fairly expensive, but they’ll last you an age, and be vastly better looking than aluminum storage cabinets all the while.