The Importance of the Right Lighting in Your Garage

Without adequate storage solutions, your garage can quickly become a cluttered and chaotic catch-all space. Without the proper garage lighting, you’ll have even more difficulty seeing where everything is and finding exactly what you’re looking for. At Inspired Closets, we create custom storage cabinets and integrate garage lighting ideas into your space to ensure you can practically organize everything in your garage — and see it, too!

Our design experts have years of experience in functional garage design, and they’re here to get you started. They’ll meet with you to discuss your storage needs, how those needs may be impacted by your current garage lighting, and which lighting options Inspired Closets offers to customize your space. Read on to learn more about how lighting affects your garage along with how the right garage lighting will make it a functional, stress-free space.

Overhead Garage Lighting

To ensure your garage is a bright, welcoming place for your family, you need good overhead garage lighting. Garages are almost always built with at least one overhead source of light, but if one source is all there is, it may not be adequate for all you do, and need to find, in your garage. Be sure to ask yourself how satisfied you are with the current level of lighting in the space, as additional sources of garage lighting may be necessary.

Workshop Lighting Ideas

If a custom workspace or workbench is part of your new garage design, dedicated lighting is the perfect addition to help you easily see everything while you work. There are a handful of considerations to make when selecting the best garage lighting option for any workshop area, mainly what all is included in the workspace design, what tasks will be done on the workbench, and how much lighting is needed for the space overall.

Types of Lighting

The work you do in your garage will determine which garage lighting ideas you need:

How Much Lighting You Need

No matter which fixtures are used as lights for your garage interior, it’s important to ensure you have enough light to clearly see everything and get your work done. Generally, you want to have at least 130-150 lumens per square foot of workspace. Fluorescent and incandescent lightbulbs come in watts instead of lumens, but there are an average of 12.5 lumens per watt. That means a 40-watt fluorescent lightbulb gives off about 2,200 lumens, which is plenty of light to illuminate any tasks you need to tackle in your garage.

Workbench Lighting Options

When your designer is planning a workbench into your new garage organization, there are a few different workshop lighting ideas that pair perfectly with workbenches to provide a bright, dedicated source of lighting.

Recessed Lighting and LED Lights

There’s a reason many people seek out LED garage lighting ideas when transforming their spaces. LED lights are exceptionally bright and perfect for fully illuminating any workspace. They can be incorporated as recessed garage cabinet lighting over a workbench or integrated into other parts of garage storage.

At Inspired Closets, we offer under-shelf LED strip lights and LED puck lights, both styles of downlights that can be mounted under a cabinet or on shelf brackets over slatwall or by themselves. Your designer will help you determine which garage lighting option is best for your space and add it to your new storage solutions.

Storing Portable Lighting

Whether you’re storing portable garage lighting like hook lights, headlamps, and lanterns, or you just need space to keep extra bulbs, your Inspired Closets designer will account for that, too. We create custom organizational solutions that fit right into your garage and ensure everything has its own storage spot within the space. For example, our experts design storage cabinets and drawers to specifically hold hanging or portable lights when they’re not in use.