Open Your Garage Doors – Or Leave Them Closed – For These Seasonal Ideas
Your garage becomes a bonus space this fall when you try these six seasonal ideas that bring together your neighborhood, your friends, or your family.
Forget Spring Cleaning! Open Your Garage Doors and Have a Sale
Spring is synonymous with starting fresh, but why shouldn’t fall be, too? If you had a particularly busy spring and summer, fall could be your first opportunity to clean out everything you don’t need and offer it up for pennies on the dollar to bargain hunters in your community.
You can use the proceeds from your sale to buy Christmas gifts for the family, put toward a vacation, or maybe even fund a much-needed garage door replacement (or another home upgrade you’ve been wanting).
Get Spooky With a Mini Haunted House
Halloween is upon us! Delight trick-or-treaters or Halloween party-goers with a small haunted house that weaves through the bays of your garage. Hang lengths of black fabric from floor to ceiling to create walkways, and decorate with scary figures, glow-in-the-dark paint, a smoke machine, and creepy music.
Reward everyone for their bravery at the exit of the haunted house – your garage door – with a big bowl of treats to choose from.
Use Your Garage As a Staging Area For Holiday Decor
As fall transitions to winter, you start thinking about decorating your home for the holidays. Rather than carry boxes of decor items into your main living areas, use your garage to plan what items will go where, keeping your garage door closed for security until you get to the outdoor decorations.
Designate areas of your garage to represent rooms of your home, and sort your decor by location. Then, you can decorate gradually without tripping hazards and clutter that all those decor boxes bring. Just head out to the garage, grab one room’s decorations, and take the empty boxes back out.
Spread Out For Thanksgiving
As home loan interest rates rose, homeowners who planned to upgrade their starter homes realized they may be living in their forever homes instead. If your starter-turned-forever home is lacking in the space you need to host Thanksgiving, it’s time to get creative so you can live out your holiday dreams.
Use your garage – especially if it’s attached – as an extension of your home to:
- Create a cozy gathering area for kids. By assembling a fun playroom in the garage, you can reduce noise (and toys) in the main living areas of your home. Lay down a plush area rug, set up the patio furniture you brought in from outside, and plug in a television. All the cousins can play video games and bond together. If you’ve recently purchased new garage doors, the updated insulation helps keep everyone warm despite the crisp November weather.
- Stage and store the Thanksgiving dinner. Your kitchen refrigerator can’t hold everything, but your garage is the perfect room for a spare fridge and coolers of soda or juice boxes. You don’t have to play Tetris trying to cram everything inside your kitchen. The garage door serves as a drop-off entry for side dishes or pies that your relatives contribute to the dinner, so those aren’t taking up space on your counters as you put the finishing touches on the meal.
Host a Homecoming Bash For Your Teen’s Friend Group
After the big homecoming football game and dance, your high schooler’s friends probably want to get together and keep the fun going. The garage is the perfect place to host a teen party, because it provides privacy without being too private.
Set up a table with games, prepare trending TikTok snack recipes (a snackle box, perhaps?), and play music over the stereo to get the party started. Keep the garage door closed to contain any noise and keep the kids warm. Then, when it’s time for bed, everyone can come inside and settle into their sleeping bags.
Create a Dog-Washing Station
Now that it’s too cold to give the family dog a bath outside with the garden hose, you’ll need a space to get Fido clean. Hiring a plumber to install a large utility sink or tub in your garage gives you the dog-bathing station you’ve always wanted. By having this dedicated area in your warm garage, you can keep your pet and your main bathroom clean.
You May Need New Garage Doors to Make These Ideas Happen
If your garage doors are outdated, not functioning like they should, or aren’t as energy efficient as you’d like, it may be time for garage door replacements. In the greater Kansas City area and throughout eastern Kansas, Tracker Door Systems can help you choose the best garage doors for your home and install them for you so you’re ready for fall activities.
To learn more about garage door options and to get a free estimate, contact us today.
