Storage solutions for your shed

Gardeners will love to have the luxury of space to repot or plant seedlings.

• A workbench or work table with a nearby shelf can be made into a comfortable and user-friendly gardening area, perfect for repotting.
• Pots, planters and various containers, as well as herbicides, fertilizers and other products are stored on shelves.
• Hang small gardening items on the wall, close to the workbench. Bags of soil, mulch, and fertilizer are stored on the ground.
• Keep handy a practical carpenter’s apron and a bucket; they’re doubly useful as a way to consolidate your tools in the same place and to make it easier to move them around.

For the sports area, plan your storage so that you can seasonally rotate your equipment. For example, bikes should be easily accessible in summer, whereas snow boards, sleds and skis gain by being handy during the winter.

• Hang light and out-of-season accessories from the rafters: skis, ski poles, snowboards and other long items during the summer, and large pool accessories during the winter.
• Various hooks and racks can be installed on the walls to store fishing rods, skis, poles, boards, and snowshoes.
• Storage nets and baskets designed to be hung on walls are useful for storing helmets, balls, baseball gloves and other items that can’t be hung on hooks.
• Other storage solutions to consider: hanging storage suspended from the ceiling, such as shelves that can hold all kinds of items. Extremely solid, these storage ideas come in all sizes and free up the floor space.
• Some hooks and racks are item-specific, such as wall racks for bikes.

The designated area for storing seasonal articles will hold several objects that will need to be moved on a regular basis.

• Everything that can be hung on the wall should be: ladders, folding chairs, etc.
• Keep enough space on the floor for large items such as the lawn mower, barbecue and garden furniture during the winter and snow blower during the summer.
• Propane bottles and other potentially hazardous or poisonous products should be stored in less accessible places: high up and out of reach of children or in a locked cabinet.

If you have the space, you may want to create additional areas according to your needs.

• A workbench for manual tools: add a pegboard and hooks for your tools, containers for nails, screws and other small objects. Closed cabinets and shelves are also useful.
• Car and pool maintenance products: install as many cabinets or shelves as you need to safely store all poisonous product containers.