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Decluttering the garage is a crucial step toward creating a safe, accessible, and high-functioning extension of your home. Because a garage serves as the main entryway for many households—as well as the storage hub for heavy tools, seasonal gear, sports equipment, lawn and garden supplies, and more—an unorganized space can quickly become an eyesore and safety hazard that makes daily routines frustrating and hard to maintain.

As professional organizer Abriana Sanford, founder of Sorted and Styled in Atlanta, Georgia, notes, “Garages tend to become the catch-all space for anything that doesn’t have a designated home.…