Easy Garage Shelving for Spray Paint!

If you’ve got bins of spray paint sitting around you’ll love this easy garage shelving to store all of those cans so you can see them!

I have been decluttering like crazy lately and loving the results but I came across a couple of bins of spray paint and I knew I couldn’t get rid of it all!  I use spray paint ALL THE TIME for various things.   My only issue with it was that I had all of my cans stored in these two plastic bins and it was very hard to see exactly how much I had.  I hated digging through those bins so I would often find myself going to the store to get a new can.  Then I would come home to find I already had 3 cans of gold spray paint.  So annoying!

So I came up with a super simple and easy way to store them so they didn’t take up any extra room in my garage but I could see them all at a glance.   Ready to see how I did it?   And it only cost me about $15 and 2 hours of my time too!  My favorite kind of project!

One day I was looking at all of this empty space between the studs in my garage…

… and I also was looking at these awful bins of spray paint I had on some fairly “valuable real estate” shelves.

I knew there had to be a better way.   Like I said, digging through those bins to find what I needed was not fun so I usually just avoided it and bought spray paint I already had, wasting both time and money.

So I decided to fit some shelves right there in between the studs in the garage.  It is the PERFECT depth for spray paint cans.  AND I had some 1x4s just sitting around begging to be put to good use.

Here are the supplies you’ll need for this super easy garage shelving project:

• 1×4 boards (enough length to make the desired amount of shelves.  I used 2 8 ft boards)
• Saw (I used my chop saw but a hand saw would work too… just a bit more elbow grease would be needed!)
• Measuring tape
• level
• nail gun (you could use a regular ol’ hammer & nails too!)

STEP ONE:  Measure the distance between your studs and cut boards to the right length.  Mine needed to be about 14.5 inches.  The studs were not exactly square so I needed to adjust a little but luckily these shelves do not need to be exact to still work beautifully so don’t stress if there are gaps!

STEP TWO:  Measure for the desired height of your shelves.  I settled on 10.5 inches but you might want a little more or a little less.  I had an extra piece of board so I cut that to 10.5 inches and just used it as a guide for my shelf height each time.  But you can also just mark every 10.5 inches with a pencil too… either way!

STEP THREE:  Using a level, make sure board is straight.

STEP FOUR:  Using your nail gun (or hammer & nails) drive two nails into front of board (on both sides) and into stud at an angle.   Spray paint is fairly light so this will totally be sufficient to hold a few cans. 

STEP FIVE:  Repeat until you have the number of shelves you need to hold all of your spray paint!

STEP SIX:  Organize your spray paint!  Rainbowtizing is completely optional but I highly recommend it. 🙂

Like I said, this took just a couple of hours to put together this easy garage shelving (part of that was waiting for my nail gun battery to charge–oops!) and about $15 in 1x4s (which I actually already had on hand) and it has made such a difference!!  It has totally brightened up that area of the garage to have all of that fun color AND I now have two bins worth of room freed up on my other shelving.  That is a complete success if you ask me.

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