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Storage for garden junk

15 years ago

Hi, Here's my pile of garden junk treasures down the side of the house. Pretty, huh? Well, in November we had to move all the junk out of the way for the pool demo guy to get equipment in. We had them remove the old sidewalk too. We planted succulents in the flower bed to the left in the pics and had a guy put the bricks on sand sidewalk in for us. I'm working on a wooden fence to cover up the back yard chain length fence and have collected a lot of fence boards from the curb. When a friend closed her Hallmark card shop recently, she gave us several Gorilla shelf units. They were too tall for the space, so we cut them shorter, then filled in between them with the short pieces we cut off. It gave us a total of 42 feet of storage, 18 in. deep. We added some wood to the tops to support a roof and made the roof from lots of wood laying around the yard, and some metal ceiling tiles that were given to us by a friend who's a builder. We made more shelf supports from 2x4s we already had and screwed them onto the racks, then put more shelf boards on them. The doors are 3 feet wide, so there are 2 for each unit. They hang from the frame on screws by eye screws that are on the tops of the doors. We used mis-mixed house paints that we had on hand. We were nearly finished when DH discovered that we were short about 6 eyescrews, so went and spent $2.00 for a pack of them. That's the only money we spent on the whole unit. We'll be adding some sort of handles to the doors, although they work ok with just the boards, and junking it up with something, and possibly even painting the wood. NOW to see if all that crap fits in it, lol. Linda

Here is a link that might be useful: Side yard before/after

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Comments (7)

Purplemoon
15 years ago
A TWO DOLLAR craft storage shed??? WOW. You win the prize for thriftiness and creativity!! I love how nice and tidy and contained it looks, and so much room to store things!
I think I'm very envious. GREAT JOB!

hugs, Karen
craftylady-2006
15 years ago
Linda: The transformation is just stunning. It looks fantastic and so neat. You and DH did a wonderful job on making the storage unit.

Sal
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SEAFIRE ~ ~ ~ * You ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!! A W E S O M E ~ thanks for the WONDERFUL PICS !!!! You are a true blue GJer !!!!!!!!!! I really LUV, everything you have done !!!!! Thanks so much for sharing and the IDEAS !!!! God Bless ! SusieSunshine *** See how wonderful God is.... even in your time of so called Worldly ~ loss ~ you turned it ~ ALL Around for " GOOD" and now... you have shared the grand tour with us !!! That is a BLESSING to me.... THIS Old world can't keep US DOWN!!!! K * E * E * P ~ on ~ KEEP'N ON !!!!!!!!!!!!
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TwoMonths
15 years ago
Linda, the whole area is great. The path and greenery is perfect and the touch of the lights on the side are great. I bet your neighbors appreciate the very clean lines you now have. But help me understand. Screw eyes??? do you mean you lift up the doors and take them off to get in. That is a great idea...I have a place I can use that. But if I put stuff next to block wall (and I have) I end up with a lot of black widows. Well, I have those even with a wood fence here in Riverside Co. CA. That is a great look and great reuse. June
luvstocraft
15 years ago
Really love how neat this turned out, and what a great way to use those shelves and add storage Linda. You and your DH are so creative. Your side yard really looks great now. Luvs
lindasewandsew
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks for the compliments. I started moving all the wonderful 'stuff' back into it today. It's nice to have room to actually store it in some loose catagories, instead of in trash cans and piles.

June, here's a pic of the door hangers. They're pretty simple. We don't find many black widows around the house, but maybe they'll make a home in the shelving, lol. I would have cut off the dog ears, but DH liked them. It looks good with them and you can see the eye screws when you hang the door back on. The doors are lightweight, because of the old fence boards. We made this up as we went along, but if you build one, I have closer pics of how it went together if you want them. Linda
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daisyme
15 years ago
Wow, that is amazing. What a wonderful project and look at all the space in an otherwise unused location! You are brilliant!
TwoMonths
15 years ago
linda, thanks for sharing the pic....perfect explaination. I will steal that design, lol. June

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