Four Ways to Organise Your Garden Shed

A garden shed can be an excellent addition to your home, offering a quiet place to relax, work on DIY projects, or store garden equipment and overflow items from the main house. However, many people find themselves neglecting their garden shed, and it doesn’t take long for these small spaces to become cluttered and disorganised.

If you find yourself searching for hours amongst broken plant pots and tools for the one piece of equipment you need, then clearly it’s time for an overhaul. A tidy, well organised shed is much nicer to look at and it saves you valuable time and energy too. If you’ve been thinking it’s about time your space had a clear out, then read on for just four easy ways to organise your garden shed.

Open shelving

Shelves can be wall mounted or free standing and they often form the main bulk of a shed’s storage. Ensure any shelves you choose are strong enough to support heavy items (such as paint cans) and organise items according to what you use most. Place frequently used items at eye level, and save the bottom shelves for heavy or little used equipment.

Maximise your wall space

Make the most of those bare walls with plenty of racks to hang larger tools and equipment such as rakes, brooms and spades. Open racks also allow you to easily see what’s on display and grab what you need, or you could add magnetic strips to walls or the back of the door. This is especially useful for items like paintbrushes, as it stops the bristles from becoming misshapen and squashed.

Don’t forget the small stuff

It can be fiddly and time consuming, but it’s well worth making the effort to sort all the small bits and bobs lying around your shed, such as screws, nails, twine or planter sticks. Choose a storage tray with lots of smaller compartments to separate screws or nails of different sizes, or small glass jars work just as well if you want to recycle what you already have.

Hang a pegboard

Pegboard is inexpensive, easy to use and extremely versatile when it comes to shed storage. It can be found in most DIY shops and you can simply attach it to the wall and use hooks, pegs or brackets to hang and store tools. One of the main advantages of pegboard is that you can utilise as much or as little of it as you like; simply add more hooks or brackets to accommodate more tools as and when you need.

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