Organizing Your Shed
The decision to organize your shed must come from a genuine desire to see it through. It certainly is not an easy task, and shed organizing requires hard work, passion, dedication, and commitment to get the job done.
Reasons for organizing your shed
Different people have their own reasons for wanting to organize their own sheds, and any of the reasons could be yours too.
It’s necessary
You may want to organize your shed because it’s necessary to do so. Your shed may be in extreme disarray and it is absolutely important that you organize everything inside for your safety.
Channeling stress
You may be much stressed out from work or have deep burdens in your family and so you need to channel your frustrations and stress to something else in order to keep hold of your thoughts and emotions. Organizing your shed is the perfect remedy for your stress problem, and it can give you a chance to clear your head and have an organized well of thought as well.
Beautification
One of the primary reasons why you may want to organize your shed is the enhancement of its appearance. An organized shed is a safe and attractive haven for your tools and other equipment you have inside. And having an organized shed allows you to clearly find what you need immediately when you need them.
How to organize your shed
There are many ways that you can organize your shed so all the things you have inside will not be damaged with age, and you can utilize everything without having to scavenge for items in all the mess.
Assess your shed
The first you need to do to organize your shed is to make an assessment of the situation. Stand in the doorway of your shed and look at everything. List down all the things you have inside, and create a plan to categorize each item according to their uses. And make sure that you have a clear pathway inside your shed to make it easier to carry large objects in and out.
Mobile cart for gardening tools
If you are keeping a garden on your property, it is best to have a mobile cart where you will place all your gardening tools, so it is easier to transport everything that you need. With a mobile cart, you don’t have to pick each of your gardening tools and bring them outside. You can just get your mobile cart from your shed, and bring it to your garden, and after using the tools, simply bring the mobile cart back inside without the need to arrange the tools on the shelves.
Track installation for tools
To organize your shed properly, you can install a durable track to hold your important tools. The tracks can be connected to the walls of your shed, but make sure that the tracks are installed higher up in the walls in order to provide space on the floor for other purposes. On the free space on the floor, you can install cabinets for small tools, or you can put in boxes that hold your other stuff.
Make a supply cupboard
Make a supply cupboard on the outside wall of your shed for your gardening supplies so you can easily access them when you roll your mobile cart outside, and easily put the supplies back when you are ready to bring your mobile cart back inside your shed. You can also install a cupboard inside your shed as a storage box for your significantly smaller supplies or tools. You can even put a medicine kit inside in case there are minor accidents in the shed or in the garden.
Install a pegboard organizer
A pegboard wall is the best choice you can have for your shed. It is the perfect way to organize your tools without cluttering. Utilize attachments and hooks, and you get yourself an organized, clean, and accessible wall for your tools.
Seals for patio cushions
If you have a space in your shed for the storage of patio cushions, pillows, blankets, and other related items, you need to create or purchase sealants for those things. You can use large sealable plastic bags, or other sealable bags that can be used to protect your things from dust, and keeps your pillows and other fluffy things safe from possible contact with dirt or tools.
Rack for tools with long handles
Allocate a space in your shed for your long-handles tools like your rakes, shovels, sledgehammer, and others. Create a simple compact rack that will do the job, so your long-handled tools will not clutter inside your shed. And it will be much safer when these tools are neatly piled on the wall than have them lying around on the floor where accidents can happen.
Install open shelves
Make use of every inch of your shed by creating an open shelved where you can put multiple boxes with labels for different categories such as holiday decorations, paint, paint supplies, trash bags, extension cords, gardening supplies, and any other boxes with labels for neat organization of your stuff. You can make the open shelve from the floor going up to the ceiling in order to utilize the space.
Create a hanging jar organizer
Typically, sheds have small pieces of hardware like bolts, nails, tacks, screws, and other tiny items. This small hardware can easily be lost inside the shed, and the worst-case scenario is they will cause you to harm if you happen to step on them on the floor. You need to organize these tiny things by making a hanging jar organizer. This works by attaching the lids of the jars at the bottom of a current shelf securely by using screws or nails. Then fill each of the jars with the small hardware you have in your shed, one kind of hardware per jar, and connect the filled jars to the lids. This method will not only keep you safe, but it will also look great.