How Do You Use Yours? 5 Ways to Use Your Garage (Without a Car)

Cadbury’s Creme Eggs ran a successful marketing campaign that lasted over 20 years by asking: ‘How do you eat yours?’ We know from talking to our clients that there are as many uses for a garage as there are garage owners. So now Easter is over, and we’re all recovering from eating so much chocolate, we’re wondering: how do you use yours? (Your garage, that is). 

There is something appealing about using a garage for its intended purpose: car storage and maintenance. We know a few petrolheads that are seldom happier than when covered in grease and reassembling an engine they have just stripped. However, there are plenty of garages that never see a car. Here’s a few people who got creative with their garage space…

1. The Homebrew Enthusiast

There’s always something menacing bubbling away in the corner of the homebrew enthusiast’s garage. Occasionally there will be an explosion of shattering glass as a bottle proves too weak for its expanding contents. Homebrewers do tend to throw good parties though...

2. The Young Musician

A number of successful bands started out in a garage, and this musician is following in their footsteps – not just because Mum says their drum kit is too loud to play in the house.

3. The Sports Nut

Rackets for squash, tennis and badminton, golf clubs, shuttlecocks, a table-tennis table, nets full of different balls, a hurley stick bought in a moment of lapsed judgement on a trip to Ireland seven years ago, lacrosse nets, cricket stumps… we could go on. Some people don’t know when to sit still. The garage of the sports nut is easy to spot: exactly ten feet from the ground, they will have a basketball net screwed to the wall. 

4. The Tabletop Gamer

The gamer used to keep his army of plastic orcs and goblins on display in a cabinet and play on the dining room table but after the infamous three-day-long game of Warhammer Blood Bowl, Mum banished him to the garage. 

5. The Hobbyist

The garage is the perfect place for indulging in your favourite hobby. Hobbyists know that there are few pleasures as underrated as transforming a lump of wood into the base for a table lamp, or transforming a lump of clay into an attractive vase.

How do you use yours? Let us know – tweet us at @AutoDoorsGates or post on our Facebook page! Whatever you use your garage for, you’ll want your equipment to be safe. The best way to ensure that is with one of our thermally insulated and secure garage doors. Call us on 01603 787069, drop us an email to sales@autodoorsandgates.co.uk or come see us at our showroom in Norwich.