Find out about the best garden storage tips to help you keep your outdoor space fresh and tidy this spring and summer.
Spending a lot of time in the garden is much nicer when the garden is tidy and beautiful. Sometimes, it can be hard to achieve that when it feels like there’s no organisation, no place to put anything.
Luckily, there are lots of easy solutions to help you keep your garden tidy.
To help you make the most of your garden, here are 6 storage tips for spring and summer:
- A Summer House With Storage
A summerhouse is often just a great place to hang out, or it’s used as an extra shed. What if you added an extra storage space in the summerhouse? This would allow you to use the building or both hanging out, and storage.
You can build a summerhouse with this in mind, or you can add storage on to the summerhouse. This can be done externally, or by adding a partition section if the summerhouse is big enough to allow that.
- Furniture With Storage
Inside the home we may use a footstool, sofa, or bed with hidden storage. The same can be done with outdoor furniture too. As long as the seals and innards of the furniture are waterproof, you can easily make a bench or a table into furniture with extra storage. Pallets are great for an easy DIY storage furniture project. Alternatively, you can purchase suitable options online, but expect to pay a little more than doing it yourself.
- Composting
How much garden waste do you store before you take it to the tip? Or wait for it to be collected? Instead of using up space in that way, could you put it all into one big compost bin? That could save space and enable you to create fertiliser for the garden too.
- Wooden Covers
Wooden covers can disguise a multitude of sins. Covers or boxing can hold wheelie bins, ugly storage boxes and more. Even better, you can decorate it with pots or paint it a bright colour if you want to.
- Wall-Mounted Everything
Mounting things onto walls is a great way to utilise space that is not on the floor. Be careful not to ruin brickwork of course, but do utilise vertical space where you can. On fences, walls, outbuildings, sheds – anything that can hold hooks, shelving or other handy storage devices.
- How About Self Storage?
Sometimes we store items in the shed and summerhouse, which then leaves no room for other items we use all the time. Camping gear is a common item stored in the shed, pushing out toys and sports equipment that then clutters the garden. If you utilise cheap self storage from Storing.com for camping gear and other items you can then use garden storage for items cluttering the garden. Cheap self storage is also handy in winter for storing summer furniture and tools. See www.storing.com for more details.
The six tips above should help you get started as you transform your garden from chaotic, to cute and tidy. Remember, there are always more storage solutions to experiment with, and many that will help you gain better control of your outdoor space.
