How tidy is your tack/feed room? Ideas please

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Ok, weather is too bad to ride, and I've cleaned all the tack until it positively shines. Now I've turned my attention to my less than fantastic tack and feed rooms.

How do you keep your's neat and tidy? Any ideas welcome:)
 
Most of us have a freezer or plastic boxes to store stuff in. One girl had her dad make a huge wooden chest, whilst it is pretty big if she had dustbins it would take up more room than that beast! I do like a tidy yard, and I always tell people when they come to view the yard that because I use a leaf blower rather than sweeping, its better if they have stuff stored in boxes so I don't have to run around after i've blown the yard gathering items and figuring out what belongs to who! Plus it helps keep the mice out of your belongings. Most of our rugs which don't fit in boxes are on a wooden slatted shelf in thick rug bags.
 
Hiya

For my birthday last year, my OH kitted out my tack room- we now have 8 ft high 5 level shelves, 3 bar rug rack & 2 saddles rack & 3 bridle racks :p the shelves are the hight of the plastic boxes all my rugs & boots are stored in. I also have several hooks which my pre filled haynets hang on, so their off the floor.

Then recently he's also made on of the hay steamers with the wall paper steamer & bin combos- yes I am very lucky & spolit :D
 
I'm super tidy, cant stand not knowing where things are when i'm looking for something.

I have plastic boxes for things like numnahs, show kit etc. Lots of free standing shelving with grooming style boxes for brushes, first aid, bathing kit. Wall mounted rug racks for the rugs i'm using and a large rug storage bag for the ones i'm not. Hooks on the wall for bridles and headcollars and bits. Dustbins for food and a spare to put ready prepared buckets into. Plastic drawers on wheels for boots etc.

Everything has a home and I make sure I put things back where they belong when i'm finished.

Ok, maybe slightly OCD :/
 
Both are pretty tidy, but old and a bit scruffy. I know where everything is; it works for me and I am the only one using them :D
 
I'm the same - I spent hours cleaning all of our tack and then sorted through all of the boys' boots, brushes and sheets. :o

The tack room is also the tea room so it gets pretty messy when the kids are up. I've made sure that all of my tack is put away properly and tidily on my hook/racks. What everyone else does with theirs is up to them.

We each have a shelf for our bits and pieces in the store room and a labelled hook for each horse's head collar. I use those big plastic storage boxes and each horse has their own plus one for bottles and boots etc so my loaner can easily see which stuff belongs to whom. Each horse has a rug rack but we're only allowed three rugs at the yard at a time so I've vac-packed the rest according to weight :rolleyes: and they're kept at home.

In the feed room we get a space if we buy our own feed. I use plastic bins to stop the mice helping themselves. All the bins sit on pallets so it's pretty easy to sweep if someone makes a mess. Empty buckets are generally just dumped, which is quite annoying when I'm trying to look for mine so I tend to hide the spares in an empty bin :D
 
My tack room.... Oh you mean my car...No its not tidy at all, an embarrassment in fact! I bring my saddle inside and it sits in the middle of the living room at the moment, thus making that quite untidy, and I have a feed shed which is as tidy as a place can be with hay in it, so not very tidy!
 
My tack room is awful at this time of year as I don't have time to clean it. All tack is hung up and rugs are hung up but with the wet muddy weather people are constantly trapsing in dirt and wet and dumping things on the table so you can't see the surfaces. The sink also gets mucky with people cleaning off their bits and not bothering to fish out the hay that gets stuck in the pug hole. It will get a major spring clean as soon as the horses go out in the fields and I have a little more time. Then it is kept lovely all through the summer. :)
 
Owners tackroom - to be honest I don't have a clue. I lock and unlock it and reach around the corner to empty the trash every now and then, but other than that they have shelves, racks and hooks and it is up to them what state it is in.

My own tackroom is a corner of the workshop, saddles usually have a cat sleeping on them, the room is a mess, there are probably about a dozen cats living in there, OH comes in grabs what he wants and then dumps it on the work bench - I tidy the room when I can't bear the chaos anymore. I keep my First Aid stuff, drugs, potions and lotions in the house because:

a) everything freezes in winter, and
b) boarders sadly seem to think that what is mine is theirs, so I remove temptation, the sad thing is that they only have to ask.

In reply to the question, ideally you cannot have enough shelves, racks and hooks in my opinion.

My place was a harness racing yard before, I have a 20' suspended rail that used to hold harness sets with 2 prong movable hooks (like tack cleaning hooks I guess) along one wall, so excellent for bridles, girths anything that can be hung up, it also makes a very good saddle pad airing rack.
 
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My tack room has two wardrobes in with shelving added for rugs in bags, boots, bandages etc, one has a chest of drawers in too for bits and spare bridle parts etc. also have an old fashioned lounge unit with the drop down door for storing bottles potions and lotions and clippers etc. In my feed room I have a row of 6 fold down saddle racks at above head height which I use to hang rugs on.
 
I'm on a quiet yard but we get a section to put our stuff in the tack room. As there's only 2 of us we pretty much get the back half of the tack room:D. I have a garden chest for my rugs. Loads of shelves for things like sheets and boots, tub trugs with things in them. And big clear boxes from ikea for spare tack, show stuff.

For the feed room we get a section each too so I only have 2 feedbins and above is a shelf for supplements, treats.
 
I'd kill for a shed in the field :o
I have 2 chests instead which are left out everyday of the year in the field. One is a big metal chest which is great for feed and the other a plastic garden chest - the plastic one houses headcollars, grooming bits etc that gets covered with an old turn out rug i have - keeps everything dry in all weathers!
I have to take my tack home with me - anything that is left there runs the risk of becoming mouldy or eaten by rodents :eek:
 
We each have our own plastic box, I bought mine when I moved there last year - £35 from B&Q & its like Mary Poppins' bag!! It holds loads!

We also have a saddle & bridle rack each & theres a metal shelving unit for rugs & such. It is actually quite a small tack room but by keeping it tidy it easily holds all the stuff for 12 horses xx
 
Yeah, I have a garden plastic chest thingy too. Great. Fling it all in & shut the lid - hey presto ! Tidy ! I put a wee padlock on it too. Will offer a small degree of protection against mouse damage. Lots of bridle racks for hanging various stuff up & saddle rack on wall. Very neat & tidy:D
 
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