Most homeowners stop at one garage wall. This Frisco family transformed two complete garages — floor to ceiling — into one of the most functional and polished storage systems we’ve installed in nearly two decades of work.
That’s not hyperbole. It’s scope.
Two separate garage spaces. No shared wall. No existing storage infrastructure in either one. And a family that had, like most active households, simply outgrown the idea that leaning bikes against a wall and stacking seasonal bins in the corner was an acceptable long-term plan.
Here’s how we solved it.
The Starting Point: Two Garages, Zero Infrastructure
Both spaces were working against the family in the same ways. Bikes on the floor. Tools without a home. Seasonal items — including a full-size artificial Christmas tree — stacked wherever they’d fit. And two concrete slabs that showed every scuff, stain, and year of use.
The challenge wasn’t just storage. It was coordination. Both garages needed to function as a unified system, with a consistent design language across every cabinet, countertop, and wall panel. If one space looked like a hardware store solution and the other looked like a custom build, the whole project would fall short.
The other challenge was specific and very real: where do you put a large Christmas tree when there’s no cabinet deep enough to hold it upright? Most homeowners just live with that problem. We built around it.
The Design: Signature Series, Start to Finish
Both garages were outfitted with the Signature Series cabinet line — full-back construction, custom sizing, premium hardware, and a finish range that makes these spaces look like they belong in the home, not separate from it.
The finish choice throughout: Pewter cabinet boxes with black edge banding, black bar handles, and a Graphite Black countertop. Clean, consistent, and sharp against the grey granite epoxy floors that would anchor both spaces visually.
Every door is Elite style with soft-close hinges and Signature drawer glides — the kind of details you notice every single time you open a cabinet.
Garage 1: The Slatwall-Forward Build
The first garage received a full cabinet run along the back wall, paired with 608 square feet of grey PVC slatwall covering the primary walls. Two Steady Rack Classic bike racks were mounted directly to the slatwall — pulling five family bikes completely off the floor and putting them exactly where they’re easy to grab and easy to put back.
The slatwall accessories package rounds out the system: hooks, baskets, and open real estate for whatever the family needs next. That’s one of the things a well-planned slatwall system does that a fixed shelf never can — it adapts.
Garage 2: The Custom-Engineered Build
The second garage is where the design work got more specific.
812 square feet of grey PVC slatwall covers the walls, with three Steady Rack Classic bike racks and a full accessories package: 8×12, 12×18, and 12×24 baskets, golf accessory holders, 5″ bike hooks, 8″ double hooks, magnetic tool bars, a screwdriver rack, small tool rack, paper towel holder, and snap hooks. The wall is fully loaded — and still has room to grow.
The cabinet run includes a custom 38″-deep tall cabinet built specifically to store a full-size Christmas tree upright. That’s not a product you pull off a shelf. It was engineered for this home, for this family’s actual life. The cabinet anchors the entire run and sets the float height for every other unit in the space.
The Detail That Separates a Professional Install
Here’s something that doesn’t show up in photos but matters in person: every cabinet in Garage 2 floats 7¼ inches off the ground on metal black legs. That consistent float height — across every base cabinet in the run — gives the space a finished, intentional look that grounded cabinetry simply doesn’t achieve.
Getting there required a precise adjustment on-site. The Christmas tree cabinet was originally spec’d with 8″ legs. To align the entire cabinet run at a uniform height, those legs were custom-cut down to 7¼”. A small number. A meaningful difference.
That’s the kind of call a professional installer makes in the field — not something a homeowner discovers after the fact.
Quality Control That Happens Before You See the Finished Space
A few other details from this install worth knowing about:
During installation, the team identified two door hinges that needed replacement and sourced them from the shop the same day. Six additional shelves were identified and ordered mid-install after the final measure confirmed the need. The job doesn’t close until it’s right.
After seeing the finished system, the homeowner immediately requested additional in-cabinet brackets, large baskets, medium baskets, and small baskets. That’s not unusual — it’s actually one of the clearest signs a system is working. Once you see the potential, you want to fill it out.
The Floors: Polyurea Epoxy That Changes the Room
Both garages received polyurea epoxy flake flooring in a grey granite blend. If you’ve spent years staring at a raw concrete slab — every oil stain, every scuff, every crack — you understand what this does to a space.
The floor becomes the visual foundation for everything above it. The cabinets look more intentional. The slatwall looks more designed. The whole garage stops feeling like a utility space and starts feeling like a room.
Polyurea is also a more durable coating than standard epoxy — it cures faster, handles temperature variation better, and holds up under the kind of daily use a working garage actually sees. For Frisco homeowners dealing with Texas heat cycles, that’s not a small thing.
The Result: A System That Works the Way the Family Does
Both garages are now unified in finish and function. Every wall has a purpose. Five bikes hang off the slatwall on Steady Racks — completely off the floor, easy to access, and out of the way when they’re not in use.
The Christmas tree has a home. The tools have a home. The countertop surface gives the homeowner a real workspace. And the floors make both spaces feel like extensions of the house rather than afterthoughts attached to it.
The Frisco homeowner signed off on completion day with a system that, by the end of the install, they were already expanding. That’s the outcome we aim for on every job.
Thinking About Your Own Garage?
Garaginization has been designing and installing custom garage storage systems in the Dallas–Fort Worth area since 2008. Every installer is a W2 employee — no subcontractors, no handoffs. Design, manufacturing, and installation are all handled in-house, which is how we catch a hinge issue or a shelf count before the job closes rather than after.
If you’re ready to stop working around your garage and start working with it, we’d like to talk. Reach out for a free design consultation — we’ll show you exactly what your space can become, in 3D, before a single cabinet is built.
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