Is your house an extension of your tack room!

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Thought mine was pretty tidy but when i think about it, there is

In the kitchen - a browband, a pair of broken leather reins, a bag of rugs to be repaired, a new pair of country boots, 2 stinky horse jackets and Ruby's ashes
In the hall - 1 pair of jodphur boats, 1 pair mucker boats
In the living room - surprisingly nothing apart from me in my horse clothes. Oh I forgot, the industrial sewing machine for repairing the rugs.
Master bedroom - a bag containing new rugs and lead reins
Guest bedroom - a saddle cover
Computer/hobby room - amazingly at this minute, nothing. That's a first!
Attic bedroom - about 15 bridles, various rugs, girths en s**t loads of other tack
Daughter's bedroom - bridle bag, saddle carrier, plaiting bands and various other bits and pieces.
Landing - amigo neck cover

Sounds like a pig sty but it isn't, honestly. They may be in these rooms but they are tidy! Amazing how it takes over isn't it. Just as well OH is used to it now.
 
My husband banished tack to under the stairs and fitted saddle brackets so high up i have the hold the saddles over my head to get them on the brackets!

The washing machine is under the stairs and so you have to negotiate a spiders web of reins and leadropes to unload it

Apart from a stealth bag with webbing harness under the spare bed everything is under the stairs lol
 
Yup. Airing cupboard that doesn't have a boiler in (I haven't a clue why) has my wellies, OHs wellies, thermal boots, a couple of pairs of riding boots and a quilt for the pony if he needs it vac packed. Behind dining room door 2 big sports direct bags full of spare tack / stuff that doesn't fit/ numnahs and then 8 rugs vac packed balanced on top, then a bucket for electric fencing stuff. Then books everywhere and horse mags and buds passport lives in the kitchen with all the warranties so I don't lose it!
 
There's a saddle, 2 rugs and a bag full of bits and bobs on the top bunk. A bag full of stuff at the bottom of the stairs and some stuff in the attic too!

I daren't mention the car...
 
What tack room? I don't have one of those!

Car has: saddle, bridle, headcollar, leadrope, hoof boots, grooming kit, feed buckets, hoof picks etc.
I am in kitchen at the moment. There is a bridle hanging over the back of one of the chairs. There are two packets of supplements on the worktop.
In the hall, the large bag that contains all the spare bridles and bits of bridles has fallen out of the cupboard and is waiting to be stuffed back in, along with more headcollars and leadropes, a rasp, the horsey first aid kit, and a pair of stirrups and leathers.
Living room is more or less horse free (if you don't count the pile of books on horse care, behaviour, management, riding, training... Oh and DVDs :) ).
My bedroom doesn't have any tack in it. That's because that's where I keep my jodhpurs, boots etc. so there's no room for tack.
Laundry room has a sheepskin half pad drying on the drying frame...
Spare bedroom 1 has sheepskin bareback pad.
Spare bedroom 2 has a saddle on the end of the bed...

Guess which room OH is seeking sanctuary in at present? :o
 
Both my car and bedroom are :p

Car has 2 pairs of my boots, a pair of H's boots, his bridle, multiple tabbards,refreflective leg wraps, Likits, supplements not yet needed, lunge cavesson, lunge line, pulling comb, scissors... tis embarrassing when I give people a lift from work and they have to wait while I clear the front seat!

Bedroom is all the winter rugs, another bridle, various bits, won't even try and list what's in the wardrobe! !
 
Not really.

Saddle & bridle/halter are in the boot room (on a saddle horse) along with horse/dog coats, wellies & etc. I've got a few spare numbats and rugs in there too, but in bags or folded away neatly.

But close the door on that & there's nothing else obviously horsey I can think of or see around the house.

Wardrobe just has clean jodhpurs and horsey clothes on it - nothing unusual though!
 
Yep! And car too. Car: 2 pairs of muddy chaps, a set of dirty travel boots waiting to be washed, numnah similar, odd riding glove, various tiny bits of tack like those holders for a fulmer mouthpiece, stuck down the back of the seats where they fell out of the bag when I bought them (found those yesterday so they are now tidily in the ashtray)
Dining room: 2 saddle racks & always at least 4 pairs of jods just out of the wash [my 'just' lasts about 3 weeks]; kitchen - clean travel boots just out of the washing machine, a pair of riding boots, my tack cleaning kit; my bedroom cupboards - lots of new kit that I desperately needed but have never used eg rolls of gamgee (forgotten where I put them so bought more), lunge lines, about 12 bits that I thought might come in handy... and the garage has the lot: saddles, bridles, rugs, boots (used and unused), numnahs, stirrups, grooming kit, bandages, more gamgee....... And i am meant to be moving house in a few weeks!!!!
 
God No!

Other than the fact that the paddocks surrounding it are full of horses, in the house there is absolutely no clue that we have horses at all.

I don't do horse kit in the house, actually, I fib, I do have a saddle and a bridle in the bowels of the basement on the exercise thingybob that we have never used, the tack was brand new a year ago and I just haven't got around to taking them out to the barn.

Otherwise uh-uh, I have two tack rooms in the barn.
 
My husband has kind of banned it all from home apart from my outer wear which is in the porch. So that consists of 5 pairs of boots, 4coats and various fleeces. It does mean that any visitors get the full horsey aroma as they pass thru......nice! Everything else is stored down yard in tack room or various boxes near stable.
 
i do have a saddle in the bedroom! its been cleaned and for sale, so currently has a towel over in and i put my clothes on top! but other than that not really, as my bf has 2 fancy road bikes that live in our flat so no space for my horse stuff.. thankfully have a large tack room at yard. my car actually only has wellies and a coat in it, used to be my mums and she never let me leave anything in it when i borrowed it, so i still seem to have that training ingrained in me even though it is my car now!
 
When I was at home I kept my tack in my bedroom. My dad put a wall bracket up in my wardrobe for my saddle, and when I had two I had another saddle under my bed (cabin bed). There's a whole assortment of pony stuff in my room.

There's also a shelf in the fridge door dedicated to all my dad's meds (vet). They always confuse people!
 
I was going to say no because when we moved we had plenty of space for all horsey stuff outside, then I had a think and realised that in the utility there are numnahs waiting to be washed and two pairs of Grasmeres, in the kitchen there is a bridle waiting to be used as a size guide for my yearling plus various medications and two pairs of Glaciers and a pair of short boots, in the dining room are two dressage girths and a pair of sealskinz gloves plus a pair of my boots, on the landing is a large bag of assorted lorinery and training aids, in the upstairs sitting room are four saddles and various part bridles and in the housebarn there are eight saddles slung over the beams (just the right shape!), six dressage girths laid out on the mezzanine with a dozen made up bridles plus assorted additional nosebands, two brand new sets of stretch and flex wraps, two fluorescent exercise blankets and various other bits and bobs.

I've just spotted a set of RSVP dressage markers in the dining room as well.

This is all despite having a tackroom we're in the process of moving stuff out of to re-locate it on the mezzanine of the horse barn, the equivalent of two stable sized areas are filled there already, plus we have another tack room under the stairs in the horsebarn. I think I need to get rid of some stuff!
 
We do have a tack room, but horsey things still manage to find their way into the house!

Rear porch- here we hang all of our winter coats which we wear riding/mucking out, round the farm etc. All of our non-horsey/non-agricultural coats are hung in the hallway to keep separate. We also use the hooks to hang bridles, girths and hunting whips etc- when the non-horsey EDF man came to read the meter last week, I think he thought it was some kind of bondage whip! Lol Under the hanging stuff is space for riding boots and jod boots etc.

Kitchen- In winter proper, there will always be a few pairs of wellies drying by the aga, there is also a useful hook to the side which we can dry wet coats/overalls on. After a wet days hunting there will always be a load of horsey items drying in-front of it too!
Sometimes I bring tack into the kitchen for a clean but will take it back down with me the next day.

I tend to keep my clean jods, shirts, stocks, jackets and general 'yard' attire, all in one section of my dressing room- it's all clean so doesn't smell- any dirty stuff goes in utility ready to wash.

Any other horsey things will end up in the utility room-e.g numnahs, boots for washing/soaking etc. But really, apart from our coats, wellies etc, we do try not to bring too much horse stuff into the house!
 
Surprisingly not too bad, probably because with child's belongings there isn't much room left for horse stuff.

I have my boots and jackets, but otherwise there is one saddle cloth in the living room, and a martingale I will probably never use in the hallway. That's it!!
 
It's not just an extension of my tack room - at present it IS my tack room!
I've got a giant, great big chest thing that holds all my tack right now until I can move it to my new yard - it's driving my mother crazy because she can't get into her utility room!
but other than that - we have stirrup irons as door stops, in the car we have muck boots and horse shoes, in the kitchen there's a pair of stirrup irons on the side but I think that's about it as we've been very good at keeping our tack in that massive tack trunk :)
 
I have a small saddle rack in the office covered in damn girths I cant seem to get rid of and a brown show numnah.
My show bridle is hanging in the utility room with my jackets and boots. Everything else is kept at the yard and my house is spotless :p

My car on the other hand is a cross between a tackroom/ muddy field and dirty stable ... and it stinks! :o
 
Usually all confined to the conservatory (glorified rear porch) which is our boot room but the new yard does not have a tackroom as yet so my office is crammed with crates of "stuff" such as bandages, spare leatherwork, the odd brush, side reins, lotions, first aid kit, two saddles, travelling boots, numerous numnahs, cooler, chaps etc. My horse is just coming back into work so car contains hat, bridle and lunge line as well as several coats, spare socks, hats, gloves.
 
ooooowh....I feel all smug and pleased with myself. My house has a full height basement, with door and windows out into the garden.
It is the tack room and dog kennel. So, all smelly stuff lives there and doesn't make it into the rest of the house.......which is still a mess though.....erh... how did that happen???? drat.
 
armchair_rider said:
There's a headcollar in my wardrobe, which is quite good going as i've never owned a horse to put it on.
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Have to laugh at this.

I thought not, especially as I had been making an effort since OH stated it was being taken over by horsey stuff, BUT

Hall - 2 x boots, mine and daughters
Daughters bedroom - numerous books and rosettes and clothes of course all over the floor
Our Bedroom - just clean clothes in drawers waiting to be worn, and might be a little light reading at bedside
Utility room - saddle, clippers and few other stuff to valuable to leave at stable
Back Store - rugs washed and packed waiting for winter, 3 spare saddles, various saddle clothes and a bit of other stuff.

I think OH might be right !!! Oh and just remembered the handful of pony treats on the kitchen table that I pop in my pocket just in case and then take out cos didn't need.
 
Last week in the run up to my yard move the conservatory was converted into a tack room- everything was in it... right down to the spare bags of shavings!

At present the conservatory has some supplements and a box of stuff to sell. The living room has 2 coats and the show bag in. The kitchen has a dodecahedron waiting to be cleaned, a name plate, joddy clips and tack cleaning stuff. Garage has hats, gloves, rug, muddy boots and about a billion coats in. Hall way has 2 pairs of boots, and a smaller selection of coats, gloves and hats in. Landing is home to all the stuff that needs getting rid of and important documents. My room has a spare trug bucket in (the huge ones) spare riding hat and the works of riding clothes... some of which really need to go in the washing machine :lol:
 
Yes. Because now my tack room is officially in my house :D
I haven't got truly secure storage at the horses (and over the years I've found most yards are not secure as per my insurance, never mind random sticky finger incidents) and after a fire in 2011 when I lost a hell of a lot of stuff due to a yard arson attack, I have made a walk in cupboard at home into a tack room.
Plus whatever is in the attic, but attics don't count, do they?
 
Yep mine the same saddle rack back of van saddle in house though to good to leave in van bridles in kitchen bits in dining room halter in bedroom and wellies and boots all over the house one day they will all be in one room in order I tell myself
 
My excuse is that I'm in the process of sorting through a lot of pony stuff to sell on and the wagon has been in the garage so we emptied it, but :

front hall ; 2 pair mucker boots, pair wellies, 2 pair joddy boots, chaps
lounge ; 5 saddles, 4 bridles, 3 rugs, numerous bits, show lead reins, 2 pair long boots, boot bag, hat bag, travel boots, tail bag, bandages & pads, 4 numnahs, show jodhpur boots, show grooming kit, show travel rug, travel 1st aid kit, 2 clean turnout rugs ready to go back to yard, brushing boots, new rug that doesn't fit so meant to be selling,
kitchen ; clear!! that's a first.
utility ; 2 fleece rugs for washing, all our winter coats, tack cleaning kit,
dining room ; riding machine (does that count?)
office; lots of horsey magazines, random pair of overreach boots, local RC member number, boxfiles with passports and vet accounts, dressage test folder
all the clean jods, fleeces etc are in the spare bedroom wardrobes, except for the 3 jacket bags full of show gear - one showing tweed set, beige jods,cream shirt,tie and tweed: one dressage set, navy jacket,stock shirt, breeches,stock, white gloves, one spare with outgrown jackets and shirts ready to sell on which are all in the lounge.

Don't get me started on the garage where we have steel tack lockers with rugs and saddle cloths, or the car which has two saddles and bridles and hat and gloves in at all times. And we have tack room at the yard, but I don't like leaving too much there.

When the wagon comes back from the garage a lot of the show gear will go back in, and hopefully I will get round to selling off a lot more of the small pony kit. I have just managed to sell one of the lounge saddle which I am posting tomorrow.
 
Yes. Our neighbour had her saddle and bridle and some other bits and pieces stolen from her tack room, so we moved all our tack into the house. I think neighbour just got a better lock for her tackroom door.
 
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