Tack room in stable?

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Our tack room and feed room has become incredibly crowded now that all the loaners have separate boxes for themselves, so gradually my stuff seems to be losing space, and most of my stuff is now in plastic boxes stacked up in my stable corner, which quite frankly looks messy and isn't particularly secure when little people just go into my stable to borrow my stuff...:mad:

So I was wondering if anyone had built a "tackroom" in their stable and how they went about it? What type of wood did you use (I don't want anything flimsey in case he ever kicks it, although this is very unlikely.)? How big did you have to make yours? And is it convenient or is it just a pain in the bum having to climb over banks to go though an open door? How does it effect insurance for tack? It's currently not included in my policy as I'm on a yard with more than 5 horses, so would an individual well built and well secured tack room get round this so it could be? I'm in a very large stable (measures 16ft by 14ft), so I was thinking of maybe taking 3 foot of the back and running it the whole width of the stable, so it would measure 3ft by 14ft and giving my 16.2 IDx a 13ft by 14ft stable, he was used to a 12x12 stable before!

Pictures if you have would be great :)
 
This is probably no help to you but years ago I had a stable/tack room just as you describe at a livery yard. It was up before I arrived tho'. I'm pretty sure it was chipboard with a door to the right in the corner. The banks were kicked to one side so I could get in. The partition wasn't ceiling height so there was a bit of air circulation.
 
I've a lockable tack cabinet which I use for all my stuff. Not quite a tack room add-in but does the job for me :0)
 
Welsh Ruby - That's a great help! Thank you:) Was it high enough that people couldn't hop over the top?

I did think about a tack cabinet, or even an old office locker, but I admit to being a self confessed hoarder. I still have a leather lunge cavesson that I clean regulaly without using it, from 15 years ago; so I don't know if it would all fit! I should sell some of it but I always think "but it might come in handy one day" when I sort through it! So at the moment with lack of room, and now lack of plastic box room in my stable, my dining room has spare rugs and bits of tack and all sorts in. So OH wants me to find somewhere to put it without having snaffles and pelhams hanging off the back of the chair when he's trying to eat haha!
 
I used to teach at a yard that had a setup like that in every stable. It was fantastic. There was a door about a foot up in the back wall, so you had to step up over it, but it kept the floor clean too and meant there could be a small bank in front if you wanted. There was room for feed bins, and a rug rack and saddle rack inside. It went right up to the roof and locked, so was very secure. Each livery had this setup, so the rest of the yard was free from stuff. These stables were breeze block, so can't help you with materials. I had intended to have the same set up when we built our yard, but the planners wouldn't let us have 12x16 stables, only 12x12.
 
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