Free Garage Layout Planner

Lay out your garage to scale before you buy shelves, cabinets or a ceiling rack. Pick your garage size, add your vehicles and the things you store, and the planner points out the tight spots: car doors that can’t open, a rack over the garage door track, or a wall cabinet where the hood goes. When the layout works, it lists products that match the items in your plan.

How to use the garage layout planner

1. Pick a garage size, or type your own width, depth and ceiling height (inside, wall to wall). Switch to metric if you prefer.
2. Tick what you need to store and click Build my starter plan, or add items one at a time.
3. Drag items into place. Tap an item to turn it, change its size, set how high it hangs on the wall, or how far a ceiling rack drops.
4. Read the Clearance check. Switch between Minimum and Recommended to see how much breathing room you have.
5. Open the Ceiling view for racks and the door track, and the Walls view to see wall storage at its real height.
6. Copy your link, download an image, or print the plan with its scale and shopping list.

Typical garage sizes

Sizes vary by builder and region, so measure your own garage. These are common starting points:

Garage	Typical inside size
1-car	About 12 × 20 ft; small ones are 10 × 18 to 10 × 20 ft
2-car	About 20 × 20 ft; 24 × 24 ft is roomy
2-car for trucks and large SUVs	About 24 × 30 ft
3-car	About 30 to 32 ft wide and 20 to 22 ft deep

• Single garage doors are usually 8 to 9 ft wide and 7 to 8 ft tall. Double doors are 16 to 18 ft wide.
• Ceilings are typically 8 to 10 ft. Ceiling storage racks are easiest with a ceiling of 9 ft or more.

Clearance rules of thumb

These are general rules of thumb, not building code. The planner’s Minimum and Recommended settings use them.

• Beside a car: about 24 in to open the doors; 36 in is more comfortable.
• In front of a car: a 36 to 48 in walkway.
• In front of a workbench: about 36 in of standing room.
• In front of shelves and cabinets: a 24 to 36 in aisle.
• Under ceiling racks: keep about 7 ft clear, more over tall vehicles.
• Garage door track: the track runs about the door height plus 18 in into the garage. Keep racks, lights and storage out of that zone.
• EV charger: often mounted 36 to 48 in off the floor. The charger manual and your local code come first.

Storage sizes to plan around

• Shelving units are usually 16 to 24 in deep (about 12 in when they hang over a workbench).
• Wall cabinets are 12 to 16 in deep and usually hung 54 to 84 in off the floor.
• A workbench is about 34 to 36 in high, 24 to 30 in deep and 6 to 8 ft long.
• A 4 × 8 ft overhead rack is 96 × 48 in, and adjustable racks commonly drop about 22 to 40 in from the ceiling. Check the weight rating and joist spacing in the manual.
• A bike parked on the floor takes roughly 6 × 2 ft.

Garage storage to start with

Not sure where to begin? These cover the wall, rolling and bin storage in the planner. Check each listing’s size against your plan before you buy.

Plan with our other tools

Measuring one spot? The Will It Fit? checker shows storage verified to fit your space, and the Storage Finder narrows products by room and type. Browse our garage storage picks, or read the organizing guides, like how to measure a corner for a shelf and picking a slim rolling cart for a narrow gap.

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