I don't know how many times I get this question as a garage storage designer..."Where do we put the bikes??" Although this is a common question, it is not an easy one to answer.  Unfortunately fitting bikes in an average 2 Car Garage (20x20) is tough especially if you want to fit those 2 cars in as well!! We at Garage Envy have several solutions you can choose!  Whether you decide on floor, wall or ceiling bike storage! http://www.garageenvy.com/shop/garage/slatwall-accessories/bicycle-racks.html Continue Reading

Charlotte Today -WCNC-TV (NBC affiliate) – Jaime Dietenhofer, co-owner of Garage Envy was a guest on Charlotte Today aired 11/21/11.  As you can see, speaking to the greater garage story helped position Jaime as a true garage expert and his tips include Chamberlain Garage Door Openers with MyQ Technology.

Ok people it's time to vote!

No it's not November but it is time to vote on Los Angeles' Messiest Garage Contest brought to you by PODS® and Garage Envy!

PODS® Moving and Storage and Garage Envy are looking for L.A.’s messiest garage! Someone could win a garage “transformation” from Garage Envy and six months of free storage in a secure PODS® container. This prize is valued at over $6,000!

Vote for who you think has the messiest garage from the gallery below. Three finalists will be chosen on 8/21 as the three most-voted on garages.

A panel of judges from PODS® and Garage Envy will visit the finalists and pick a winner.

Place your vote now!

Garage Mahal Construction

Our Warehouse Gets A Hollywood Makeover

Check out Adam Carolla's newly renovated garage. Pictures speak louder than words.

Get a load of these Before and After photos!

Please join Garage Envy, April 3rd - 5th at the Autoclub Speedway in Fontana for the 8th Annual California Festival of Speed. It should be a fantastic event with lots of great stuff for the automotive and racing enthusiasts out there! This year Garage Envy is a sponsor, so we look forward to seeing YOU there... Come out and enjoy a great time at the Speedway!

For more information visit the California Festival of Speed website

JOIN GARAGE ENVY THIS WEEKEND

-- MARCH 14th & 15th, 2009 --

For the 3rd Annual Meguiars Orange County Get-Together

Saturday: 8am to 5pm
Sunday: 8am to 4pm

This huge indoor & outdoor event features:
• Over 2,000 All Years American Made or Powered Cars & Trucks
• Vendors & Exhibitors
• Goodguys Street Challenge AutoCross
• Live Entertainment

For online tickets, visit: OC Get Together Online Tickets

We hope to see you all you faithful Garage Talk readers at the Santa Barbara Home Improvement Expo this weekend March 7th & 8th, 2009.

If you're in the Santa Barbara area this weekend, take a detour to the show... Here's more information from the show site:

"The Santa Barbara Home Show event provides you the opportunity to SAVE TIME & MONEY on your next project as you'll see hundreds of the latest home products and services and meet with home improvement professionals, both large and small, who are eager to help you with your repairs, enhancements and upgrades to help you beautify your home.... all under one roof! Learn more about recycling, alternative energy and sustainable living options. Meet industry experts in building, remodeling and decorating. See the latest in kitchen and baths, custom closets, window coverings, awnings, roofing, flooring, windows and custom doors. You’ll also see patios, sunrooms, spas, fireplaces, solar energy, custom greens, pool tables, games, architects in building and landscaping, stone pavers, fencing, gates, exotic trees and plants, garden furniture and much more!"

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Expo

March 7-8, 2009

(off 101 freeway - take the 101 freeway to the Las Positas exit)

Free Parking
Admission: $6 (children under 12 free)

Show Hours:
Saturday, March 7: 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m.
Sunday, March 8: 10:00a.m.-4:00p.m.

ALL TEA FIRE VICTIMS – FREE ADMISSION!

Again, if you're in the area, we would love to see you there... and please stop by and say hi to our Garage Envy show staff... they'll be happy to assist you in planning your garage remodel or be able to answer any questions about our Liquid Granite Epoxy flooring process, or our premium line of cabinets built specially for the garage, along with our unique Wallscape slat-wall system and much, much MORE!

See you there!

Calling All Garage Enthusiasts!

This is your big chance to make your garage famous!

Garage Envy is introducing a monthly contest for a $25 gift certificate to GarageEnvy Shop.com. As many of you know, Garage Envy's shopping site, GarageEnvyShop.com, is the place to go to for all your garage organization and storage needs as well as other products to help make your garage the least neglected room in the house.

Each month Garage Envy will issue a $25 gift certificate by email to the person that supplies us with the the coolest photo of a well tendered and cared for garage (the "certificate" will be in the form of a gift code that will be issued to each winner individually, one winner per month in each category below). No matter if you've had work done by Garage Envy or have created your own truly awesome garage space, what we're looking for is the coolest looking garage based on the criteria below.

Please email your photos as contest submissions to: info@garageenvy.com.

Please be sure to mark the Subject Line as "Garage Envy Photo Contest Entry"

Contest entry allowed via email only, all entry submissions to the Garage Envy Photo Contest MUST include Full Name, Date Photo Was Taken, City and State as well as a valid email address or the contest entry will be deemed invalid. Please see the Contest Standard Agreement / Terms and Conditions.

The Basic Garage Category

CLEANLINESS: A Clean Garage... This one is basic and mandatory folks... we want to see a well organized and tidy garage at the very, very least.

ORGANIZATION: We'll be taking a look at how you organize your everyday garage items... and seeing if you have a proper place for your stuff. Added consideration for inventiveness.

STORAGE SOLUTIONS: We want to see how you've come up with storage solutions for the variety of objects in the garage.. Have you considered racks for the walls or cabinets, ceiling racks or lofts, handy storage solutions for the workspace, things like that... Be as inventive as possible, and that will add to consideration of your photo submission.

The Transformed Garage

All of the above criteria apply, but you must also show:

REMODELING: Have you turned your garage into something beyond the basic... This category is for the truly "garage proud," those who see the garage as something different than a place just to store their beloved automobiles... though this category will certainly be kind to those submitting classic car garages and workshops. What we're looking for here is the extent of your remodel. Design and aesthetic quality count here.

STORAGE SOLUTIONS... Above and beyond the basics, what have you created to store items away... This item demands creativity and cleverness... How well have you hidden things away, while still maintaining storage space.

TYPE OF TRANSFORMATION: Clearly we're lumping a lot of garage categories in here, but for brevity and sanity's sake, and since this is a casual contest for readers of our Garage Talk blog, we'll take all submittals for clever garage transfomations under this particular criteria... Bascially, what have you come up with that's so amazingly cool (and/or offbeat) for a garage transformation... Is it a classic car garage showcase and workshop? Is it a 1950's type design that harkens back to the days when the car was king? Is it a home theater? A climate controlled wine storage "cellar." A kid's rumpus room or Mom's Place to hang with friends on a summer day? Show us what you've got, and we'll consider the best, most creative garage transformations each month!

TIE BREAKER RULE... This applies to both contest categories, Basic and Transformation. If and when we feel it's a tie breaker type situation (nope, we're not working with points over here, just our eyes and gut feeling on what we feel is the best submission of the month), we will break the tie by deterimining if the submission uses Garage Envy products. Let's face it, we love seeing our stuff used in a variety of ways within the garage, but we want to remain impartial on the general contest and will use this rule if we feel there's a real tie in the works for that month's submissions. We cool? We cool! :)

Here's how the contest will work month-to-month:

GARAGE ENVY PHOTO CONTEST

GENERAL RULES / STANDARD AGREEMENT / TERMS AND CONDITIONS

GENERAL RULES: First and foremost, note that all criteria items are subject to change. If we feel something is not working or perhaps we did not define the criteria item clear enough, we'll change it as needed, but it is up to you, the participant, to review all contest agreements and terms & conditions prior to entry submittal. That said, you can submit standard .jpg or scanned images only (please no other file extensions except .jpg (.JPG, .JPEG). Both embedded images or attachments may be sent by email. Image quality is only taken into consideration so that we can clearly see what we're looking at. It is up to you, the photographer and/or person submitting the photo, aka the Participant, to make sure the submission is at a decent resolution and overall image quality. However, please do not flood our email system with huge file sizes. Please try to work within the 75-150 DPI (dots per inch) parameter. That is generally the "fine" setting on most digital cameras and home scanners. Images should be a good medium size for publication. Anything between 500 x 500 -to- 700 x 700 proportional (that's pixels in width and length, folks) will be fine... Try to keep attached or embedded file sizes under 1MB, please.

You own the photo, but Garage Envy reserves the right to publish on the web at GarageEnvy.com, GarageEnvyShop.com or GarageEnvy.com/blog the photo submissions that we receive. These contest rules will act as a release in that regard. We will only credit those photos that have a significant watermark or writing on the photo itself in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner (most digital photo editing devices and some cameras may allow you personalize the image, but it's up to you to do this). If the image is not personalized we reserve to publish at GarageEnvy.com, GarageEnvyShop.com or GarageEnvy.com/blog the image with or without credit. Please do not obstruct the garage image with a watermark or personalization. For a submission to be valid it must be clear, unobstructed and unmarred. All submissions by email, and email alone, must contain the following: NAME, DATE PHOTO WAS TAKEN, CITY, STATE, EMAIL ADDRESS (if you want to get the gift certificate code upon potentially winning, you must provide an email address. Any submission without a valid email address will not be deemed valid), and lastly a traditional PHONE NUMBER (Home, cell, office, as long as we can reach you personally, that's all we are looking for). Garage Envy will protect your privacy. Any entry submissions to GarageEnvy.com, GarageEnvyShop.com or GarageEnvy.com/blog MUST include Full Name, Date Photo Was Taken, City and State or will be deemed invalid.

Special note on "House Identification." Garage Envy is not responsible for identification of your home or garage's location, geographic or otherwise, in entries submitted. If you, the Participant, have a house number clearly marked on your home or at all indicated on your entry submission, no matter how identifiable it is, you have the right to remove it prior to entry submittal; thereafter, Garage Envy is held harmless [See Item 11. RELEASE]. We understand you may have a "house number" or location number on a garage or home. Depending on your digital photo editing skills, feel free to remove "the number," and only the number from your submission by blurring, cutting or digitizing for pixelation. However, any entry submission not entirely viewable due to an overabundance of such digital editing will not be valid. The photo must show the interior of the garage to be valid for the contest. "Photoshopped" or heavily edited submissions will not be valid (be honest here folks, we understand some of you might be whizes at Photoshop, but honesty is the best policy and if you can't be honest, at least be nice and don't send us your heavily Photoshopped edited image. Let's all be fair and we'll be happier for it. And know that we're not morons and we'll spot these and simply delete them as invalid submissions). Please submit as many photos as you'd like of your garage (again, they must show the garage interior). Though we're curious, but not that interested, on what you've done with the exterior of the garage, all criteria judgements will be specifically made on the interior of the garage as a valid submitted entry. Multiple photos submitted can show off those areas that can't be seen by a wide shot of the garages interior, and since some of the criteria we will use to judge reflect inventiveness with storage and organization ideas, we'll be happy to take a look at close up shots of those areas HOWEVER, MULTIPLE PHOTO SUBMISSIONS MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED AS SUCH (all prior entry submission identification criteria apply) AND WILL BE COUNTED AS ONE (1) SUBMISSION. Once again, please keep file sizes emailed to us within reason. There will be only (1) ONE CONTEST ENTRY SUBMISSION PER PERSON (Participant) PER MONTH PLEASE (...yeah, we know, some of you might actually have multiple garages here n' there, so save them for subsequent months, please).

Now for the fine print. We'd prefer to not run roughshod with a bunch of rules and regulations, terms and conditions and yadda yadda yadda blah blah blah legalese, but we must do this, and it behooves you to read it and understand it. Garage Envy is not responsible for mistakes in common sense or lack of reading ability, so there's no claim to ignorance folks... Please read on.

1. NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

2. APPLICABILITY: The rules and regulations laid out by this document are complementary to Garage Envy, Garage Envy, Inc., GarageEnvyShop.com and GarageEnvy.com/blog (aka Garage Talk) [herinafter this group is know by "Garage Envy" or "Sponsor" for purposes of these contest rules and submission agreement]. This is a Submission Agreement and shall be applicable to all contests held by the Garage Envy, unless otherwise stated on the contest rules, agreements, or elsewhere on the website. Garage Envy is the sole sponsor of this contest. Individuals, people, persons or other designations of contest submittal entrants are deemed as Participant(s).

3. ELIGIBILITY: The Contest is currently open only to legal residents of the United States of America. Employees of the Sponsor and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies and agents, and the foregoing employees' household or immediate family members (defined as parent, spouse, child, sibling or grandparent) are NOT eligible to enter the Contest.

4. CONTEST DETAILS: Details including Awards & Prizes, Themes, Contest Criteria, Submission Period, etc. are found within the respective information for each contest

5. HOW TO ENTER: Limit one entry/submission, per month. Multiple images are counted as one entry/submission. Entry allowed via email only unless otherwise stated. To enter, during the Submission Period submit and email to info@garageenvy.com and mark the Subject Line as "Garage Envy Photo Contest Entry". Participation in the contest implies agreement to have the entry publicly displayed GarageEnvy.com, GarageEnvyShop.com and GarageEnvy.com/blog website(s), whether declared as a contest winner or not.

6. SUBMITTED ENTRIES: The Submitted Entry including image and text must be original, unpublished and truthful in all respects; does not infringe or violate any third party rights including but not limited to the rights of copyright, trademark, privacy and publicity; is not infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law or regulation - Garage Envy will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or any court order requesting or directing Garage Envy to disclose the identity of anyone posting or transmitting any such information or materials. Garage Envy will not knowingly upload, reserves the right not to upload, and reserves the right to delete any suspect material. Garage Envy shall not be held liable for violations of laws and regulations governing the material submitted. Garage Envy will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or any court order requesting or directing Garage Envy to disclose the identity of anyone posting or transmitting any such information or materials in addition to deleting the materials from public view. Copyright of Submitted Entry shall remain property of Participant, however, Participant grants Sponsor the right to use Submitted Entry as indicated in the Release (article 11). Acknowledgment and return of the Submitted Entry is at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. The entry submitted by the person is released to Garage Envy for use on GarageEnvy.com, GarageEnvyShop.com and GarageEnvy.com/blog website(s). The person submitting the contest entry will retain all rights to their original work, except for the specifics of release set forth in this paragraph.

7. PARTICIPANT: The entry is deemed submitted by the person whose email address appears on the entry form. In case of dispute or ambiguity regarding the identity of owner of the email address, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify the Submitted Entry.

8. PRIZE: Prizes as specific to this and any other Garage Envy contest are nontransferable and must be accepted as awarded. No cash or other substitution may be made, except by Sponsor in the event that a prize, or prize item cannot be awarded for any reason; in such event, Sponsor will in its sole discretion award a substitute prize or part thereof of equal or greater value. Winners are solely responsible for any and all applicable taxes (including where applicable sales tax) due for his/her awarded Contest prize, as well as all applicable fees and expenses related to the acceptance, award and use of his/her Contest prize. Sponsor will send prizes and provide support to Garage Envy products only to countries under its management.

9. JUDGING: All eligible entries received will be judged based upon criteria that are the sole discretion of Sponsor. Judging criteria will be laid out in the Contest Rules or Information for each specific contest and shall not be open to negotiation. Participants agree to be bound by these rules, that winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements herein, and that the decisions of the Sponsor and/or Contest judges shall be final and binding in all respects.

10. NOTIFICATION: Each potential Winner will be notified (the "Notification") by email (or other method at the discretion of Sponsor) on or about the date indicated in the Contest Rules or Information for each specific contest. The potential Winner may be required at the sole discretion of the Sponsor to provide proof of identity and/or eligibility. The potential Winner is responsible for entering his/her correct email address at the time of submission and prizes may be forfeited if the potential Winner cannot be contacted or his/her identity cannot be verified.

11. RELEASE: By participating in the Contest and/or accepting a prize, Participant agrees to defend, release and hold harmless the Sponsor, Garage Envy, and subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, advertising and promotion agencies, and the foregoing companies' officers, directors, shareholders, employees, representatives, agents and all others associated with the development and execution of the Contest (collectively the "Releasees") from and against any actions, claims and/or liability for injury, loss or damage of any kind (including any for the violation or infringement of any proprietary or personal right of any individual or entity) resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from participation in the Contest, and/or the use, acceptance, or possession of a Contest prize, participation in a Contest prize-related activity, and/or the publication of a Submitted Entry. By participating in the Contest and/or accepting a prize, Participant consents to and grants the Sponsor the right to use, in perpetuity, Participant's entry information, to photograph/video a Participant and a Participant's property, to copyright material in which a Submitted Entry is used in part or in whole, and to freely and exclusively use, publish and display a Participant's statements, quotes, picture, portrait, likeness, voice, video, biographical information, prize information, text, and Submitted Entry (in part or in whole, as may be adapted, edited or modified, as solely determined by Sponsor) for advertising, trade, publicity and promotional purposes in any media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, and on the World Wide Web, without review, notification or approval, all without additional consideration, unless prohibited by law. However, Sponsor will not participate in the direct sale of any Submitted Entry for profit and will notify and acknowledge Participant at Sponsor's sole discretion. All contest rules, descriptions, logos, artwork not including entry submissions, website design and general content remains the sole property of Garage Envy, all rights reserved. Copyrighted and trademarked where applicable. Contest void where prohibited.

Garage Envy is pleased to announce the completion of our first Green Point rated residential project as a sponsor for Living Green Homes!

The project location at 319 21st. Street in Huntington Beach features "A 3-story home [that] totals 3,213 square feet with three bedrooms, three full bathrooms and two half bathrooms... [it is] energy efficient and ecologically built, demonstrating how homeowners can conserve energy and dollars by adopting and utilizing green building products and services."

This is a California Green Point Rated, Net Zero Energy Project that had Garage Envy, Inc. beating out some serious competition for providing material and services in this green home's garage. As a top-rated garage remodeling company with a strong sense for environmental and energy conservation, Garage Envy was uniquely suited toward performing the construction work that needed to be done for the garage area.

The 319 Project is the highest rated Green Point home in Southern California, offering energy efficient HVAC (with green-rated insulation), electrical work and lighting, plumbing, solar panels, and FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) rated wood for the framing and finishing of the project.

Garage Envy provided green building/construction services such as:

• Zero-VOC emission rated flooring (Liquid Granite Flooring)
• FSC-rated cabinetry specifically designed for the garage environment
• Recycled storage components such as storage bins and baskets, hooks, racks and other storage and organization accessories
• Along with other green-rated products and services

We invite you to view this home during its Open House (dates to be posted... no tentative dates yet set).

This is not only fantastic news for Garage Envy, but it's truly wonderful news for anyone wishing to explore the green possibilities of their garage! Garage Envy has the service experience, the materials and the technical know-how to help any homeowner Go Green in their garage!

Contact us today for more information: Visit the Garage Envy Website or contact us by phone, toll-free at: 1-(888) 248-8544