Shed Tour

Time to take you inside our new shed and show you how we arranged things. At this point, we are pretty much done finding a home for our garden supplies out there, and the garage has exclusively become a zone for tools, bikes, and other non-yard-related things. Most significantly, there is no more dirt in our garage (topsoil, compost, potting soil, etc.), which were in giant containers and bags all over, contributing to a very dirty--literally--floor.

The left side of the shed has built-in shelves. We asked for three, though if I'd stopped and considered how they were attached to the wall (with giant triangular mounts), I probably would have only gotten two. Fortunately we can work within the spaces between the mounts. This wall of shelves has all our gardening supplies. You can see we have gardening tools, pots, trays, gloves, and seeds. Up high and definitely out of child reach (not that we're leaving them in the shed anyway unattended), are the chemicals, many of which we no longer use but are waiting for the right opportunity to through out. This includes Roundup, Weed and Feed, and other various pesticides and fungicides. It's funny, now that I see this photo I noticed that our poison ivy killer is on a much lower shelf. Time to go out and fix that...

Above the shelves is a loft, which gives us an attic space for longer things. Here is where we are storing our ladders, some garden edging, and things we do not use often like our grass seeder.

Moving to the opposite wall, we have all our longer garden/yard tools, neatly corralled in a stand. The kids have their matching sets there as well.

Then, above that, are the joists that we can put hooks into. Right now, we're not really in need of this space (besides the single hanging wagon you can see). This high ceiling also gives us the ceiling clearance we need to actually pull the rakes out of the stand.

We have our lawn mower easily accessible on the floor, as well as our little garden cart. In all, it's the perfect amount of space for the things we needed to put in it (which is good, since the size of our shed was all based on the size of the existing concrete pad).

Now if only the weather would cool off so we can go out and garden.