Storage ideas

[jenz87]

Anyone got any ideas for storage down the barn / yard. We have a yard and 20 horses some ours, some liveries and theres boxes, piles everywhere!! Any great ideas , out of the ordinary, for tidying up and space saving!!

 

[juliette]

I use an old freezer to store feed and have a "grit bin" like the ones you see on the side of the road, but in green, for rugs. The freezer was free, the "grit bin" £100

 

[kerilli]

contact the council and see what they do with their returned wheelie bins. i bought quite a few from the council where i used to live, years ago, most were just paint-spattered or dirty and a good scrub with bleach was enough. they are great for storing feed, rugs etc. i paid about £10 each for them. easy to move around too, even when full of feed, as you can lean them back and wheel them.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Freezers, sheds, wheelie bins, posh rug-racks...

For rugs I use lengths of plaited baler twine hammered in with fencing staples to the back of boxes & also along the back of the hay store. Rugs can hang over them when not in use & when you dont really want to put rugs away yet.

Cheap sturdy coat hooks with 2 hooks on are useful for also hanging rugs/headcollars/bridles/lunge lines on. Also same are useful for hanging mucking out gear with too - use 2 side by side for putting forks, shovels, brooms upside down on etc, use pegs for mucking out gloves - to peg them to the coat-hooks

 

[DW Team]

Old freezer
Shelved garden shed
School trunk

 

[LaurenBay]

I got a plastic set of draws from Wilkinson for £15 the draws are so deep, they can store so much. It's also on wheels so easy to move around. Keeps mice out and all my stuff is kept clean.

 

[el_Snowflakes]

I got one of these- about £150 from Homebase.....

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/stanley-2-door-standing-garage-storage-shelving-cabinet

Its the daddy of all storage boxes! My OH put a lock on the front for security. Its fab and very stylish

 

[Vetwrap]

At a previous yard, there was a metal office type storage cupboard with a couple of shelves in it. I re-positioned the shelves and put a board in the bottom of about 18" high. I also put a saddle rack in the side and a bridle rack in the back. It ended up as a self contained, lockable, tack cupboard that I could store rugs in the bottom of and my grooming kit and first aid kit in the top of.

It had started out as one of these:

http://www.lockerslondon.co.uk/acatalog/Office_Cupboard_Wardrobe.html

and had come from an auction house where they paid £12 for it!

 

[Vetwrap]

I got a plastic set of draws from Wilkinson for £15 the draws are so deep, they can store so much. It's also on wheels so easy to move around. Keeps mice out and all my stuff is kept clean.

Yep - these are great. I have a set too!

 

[flying solo]

I have a keter garden storage thing, holds 50 rugs plus all my numnah's and other odds and ends