They didn't win the $10,000 grand prize, but Denise Keltos of Hauppauge and Mallory DeMayo-Randell of Bay Shore each won a Fold-Away Work Station and a two-pack of GearTrack channels in the first Gladiator GarageWorks Chaotic & Cramped Garage Makeover Contest.
The grand-prize winner, announced Thursday, is Dan Leslie, Macon, Ga., who will receive a garage makeover valued at $10,000 from Gladiator GarageWorks, a Benton Harbor, Mich., company. "My garage is really embarrassing, though we’ve done the best we could to keep it up," Leslie said. "My wife almost did a black flip when she heard I won.”
Overall, three others joined Keltos and DeMayo-Randell as first-prize winners and claimed the Fold-Away Work Station, valued at $265.
The contest opened this summer to contestants nationwide after a GarageWorks study showed that 40 percent of garage owners referred to their garages as a "storage unit" or "junkyard." The study also said that 60 percent of garage owners kept their vehicles outside because their garages were so unorganized.
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-- GARY DYMSKI