Tack/Feed/Rug/Storage room size and organisation?

[Lintel]

Would 7x10ft be big enough for a "storage" room for horsey items.
Of course I'd still have clean rugs etc in the house and tools can be kept outside but for items like my tack, feed, some rugs.. and all the other items us horsey folks manage to collect!! This tackroom would be for one ridden horse and one companion(no tack etc)

Also do any of you have a tight space to work with and if so how do you do it and do you have any photos- or fabulous storage ideas!!

 

[WelshD]

Someone posted a similar question recently, this was my answer, I hope it helps!

I have a tack room similar in size to yours.

The best thing I ever did was move the feed to a different location (the hay store) when everything was all in one room the dust was unbelievable and everything seemed grimey plus it attracted vermin

I've arranged the room so there is a cupboard (as yet without doors) right across the end of the room, it's about 28 inches deep and has shelves and hooks with storage boxes and a trunk on the floor. It's about 5.5ft high so the top is effectively a wide shelf for storage boxes

Down one side of the room are hooks for rugs to be hung and down the other long side are a couple of shallow shelving units.

Pushing everything to the cupboard at one end gives me a lot more room to move around and clean tack

Previously I had hooks down one side, shelving units and feed bins down the other and it made the room really narrow

 

[Lintel]

Someone posted a similar question recently, this was my answer, I hope it helps!

I have a tack room similar in size to yours.

The best thing I ever did was move the feed to a different location (the hay store) when everything was all in one room the dust was unbelievable and everything seemed grimey plus it attracted vermin

I've arranged the room so there is a cupboard (as yet without doors) right across the end of the room, it's about 28 inches deep and has shelves and hooks with storage boxes and a trunk on the floor. It's about 5.5ft high so the top is effectively a wide shelf for storage boxes

Down one side of the room are hooks for rugs to be hung and down the other long side are a couple of shallow shelving units.

Pushing everything to the cupboard at one end gives me a lot more room to move around and clean tack

Previously I had hooks down one side, shelving units and feed bins down the other and it made the room really narrow

Brilliant than Do you have the link to that forum?

 

[Enfys]

Mine is an unused 'room' between a mud room and my work room

Out of curiosity I have just been and measured it - 6'8" x 8.75" Yeesh, and that was advertised as a spare bedroom!

It has doors at either end of the shorter side about 2' in from the outer wall.


I have feed : dog, cat, hens, horse (7 bags in all) along the outer wall under the window, a shelf for all the gubbinsy stuff between the window and the door ( pocket door) and three saddle-horses under what is still the built in top bunk (which has unpacked boxes from our move almost 2 years ago on) So I actually have a lot of space available if I needed it.
Bridles hang on the saddle horses. Saddlepads under saddles, a couple boxes of bits, assorted, unidentified leather bits and pieces, fly bonnets, spare stirrups, girths all that associated junk one collects but rarely has need of. First aid box is in there somewhere too.

Works for me. I know where everything is.

Rugs etc live downstairs in the cellar, cool and dry in the summer, good place to dry them in winter. I think I have 4 turnouts, 2 dust sheets and an exercise blanket.
Halters/ropes/grooming brushes etc are either in their run-in shed or in the trailer - depending where I leave them.
Wraps, bell boots, and trailer type stuff live in the tack room in the trailer permanently.
Spare buckets etc, usually in the run in shed.
Tools - ummmmm, on the porch somewhere, along with all the other toolly type junk.

I have 2 horses, and minimal everything, 10 years ago I decided that I didn't need half the crap I had spent 30 years collecting and sold/dumped or gave it away when we moved, I have never replaced most of it.

6 x 8 does me fine
I think if you get your organisation right your space will work fine.

 

[Lintel]

Mine is an unused 'room' between a mud room and my work room

Out of curiosity I have just been and measured it - 6'8" x 8.75" Yeesh, and that was advertised as a spare bedroom!

It has doors at either end of the shorter side about 2' in from the outer wall.


I have feed : dog, cat, hens, horse (7 bags in all) along the outer wall under the window, a shelf for all the gubbinsy stuff between the window and the door ( pocket door) and three saddle-horses under what is still the built in top bunk (which has unpacked boxes from our move almost 2 years ago on) So I actually have a lot of space available if I needed it.
Bridles hang on the saddle horses. Saddlepads under saddles, a couple boxes of bits, assorted, unidentified leather bits and pieces, fly bonnets, spare stirrups, girths all that associated junk one collects but rarely has need of. First aid box is in there somewhere too.

Works for me. I know where everything is.

Rugs etc live downstairs in the cellar, cool and dry in the summer, good place to dry them in winter. I think I have 4 turnouts, 2 dust sheets and an exercise blanket.
Halters/ropes/grooming brushes etc are either in their run-in shed or in the trailer - depending where I leave them.
Wraps, bell boots, and trailer type stuff live in the tack room in the trailer permanently.
Spare buckets etc, usually in the run in shed.
Tools - ummmmm, on the porch somewhere, along with all the other toolly type junk.

I have 2 horses, and minimal everything, 10 years ago I decided that I didn't need half the crap I had spent 30 years collecting and sold/dumped or gave it away when we moved, I have never replaced most of it.

6 x 8 does me fine
I think if you get your organisation right your space will work fine.

Great thanks that makes me more hopeful I have hoards Of stuff in the green boxes outside just now but I'm quite sure half of it I don't need!!