Garage Cabinets & Storage in Selma, CA

Garage cabinets in Selma almost always have to share the space with the laundry. In the post-war tract housing built along the Highway 99 corridor here, the washer and dryer hookups sit in the garage rather than in a dedicated interior room, and any storage plan has to work around them rather than pretend they are not there.

Laundry in the garage changes the plan

A garage laundry brings water, drainage, and a vent into a space that is otherwise dry, and it concentrates all three in one corner. That has practical consequences for cabinetry. Anything within splash range of a washer needs the same sealing treatment we would give a laundry room rather than a general garage specification, and a supply line failure in a garage laundry can put water across a slab quickly. Wall hung cabinetry is the straightforward answer, since nothing sitting on the floor gets caught in that event, and it also lets the floor be squeegeed toward the door properly.

The dryer vent is the other fixed obstacle, and it is the one most often discovered too late. It has to run to the exterior on a path that a cabinet run cannot obstruct or crush, and in these tract garages it frequently takes an awkward route because the hookups were placed for plumbing convenience rather than for venting. We locate the vent path at the site visit and plan the layout around it, along with the water heater, which in this housing is usually in the same corner.

How we build Selma garage storage

The laundry corner is planned first, with the dryer vent path, water heater, and hookups located at the site visit before any layout is drawn. Cabinetry within splash range of the washer is sealed to laundry room standard rather than general garage standard. Wall hung throughout wherever possible, on moisture resistant substrate with mechanical fasteners and no thermofoil.