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10 Well-Organized Garden Sheds to Inspire Spring Planting
Get ideas for your own garden shed from these creative designs
The weather is warming up, the days are lengthening and the time for spring planting has (finally) come. And the hub of all garden activity — from planting seedlings to cleaning tools — is the garden shed. Get inspired to revamp your garden shed (or add one) with these smart ideas from well-organized sheds and potting benches.
2. Small but Mighty
This garden shed from Outpost London may be small, but it works hard. Pegs fitted onto the back of the door hold frequently used tools, upper shelves provide storage for watering cans and soil amendments, and a larger space below can fit a bicycle. An adjoining potting bench provides room to spread out gardening projects on the worktop and store extra pots and soil on shelves below.
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This garden shed from Outpost London may be small, but it works hard. Pegs fitted onto the back of the door hold frequently used tools, upper shelves provide storage for watering cans and soil amendments, and a larger space below can fit a bicycle. An adjoining potting bench provides room to spread out gardening projects on the worktop and store extra pots and soil on shelves below.
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3. Covered Tool Storage
Wish you could keep your gardening tools within reach while still protecting them from the elements — and save some room in your garden shed, to boot? Take a cue from this handy homeowner, who outfitted the exterior of his garden shed with tool hangers sheltered by a roof overhang. Inside the shed there is even more storage potential, with walls completely covered in pegboard.
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Wish you could keep your gardening tools within reach while still protecting them from the elements — and save some room in your garden shed, to boot? Take a cue from this handy homeowner, who outfitted the exterior of his garden shed with tool hangers sheltered by a roof overhang. Inside the shed there is even more storage potential, with walls completely covered in pegboard.
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4. Custom Drawers
For one garden-loving homeowner, Minnesota winters were just too long to wait before getting her hands back in the soil — so she decided to bring the garden in. With the help of architect Meriwether Felt, she added a greenhouse-like potting room complete with heated floors, a powder-coated metal shelf for seedlings, a durable zinc counter and drawers with slatted bottoms (shown here) that are perfect for storing gardening tools.
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For one garden-loving homeowner, Minnesota winters were just too long to wait before getting her hands back in the soil — so she decided to bring the garden in. With the help of architect Meriwether Felt, she added a greenhouse-like potting room complete with heated floors, a powder-coated metal shelf for seedlings, a durable zinc counter and drawers with slatted bottoms (shown here) that are perfect for storing gardening tools.
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5. Open Air
When is a garden shed not a shed? When it’s an open and airy potting space like the partially enclosed one seen here from SDS Design - Build. By using existing fencing to form two sides of the structure and adding a roof and built-in benches, this potting zone is easy to access and a snap to clean up. Slatted benches let soil fall through to the ground when potting, and a sink and garden hose are conveniently positioned within reach for watering and washing up.
When is a garden shed not a shed? When it’s an open and airy potting space like the partially enclosed one seen here from SDS Design - Build. By using existing fencing to form two sides of the structure and adding a roof and built-in benches, this potting zone is easy to access and a snap to clean up. Slatted benches let soil fall through to the ground when potting, and a sink and garden hose are conveniently positioned within reach for watering and washing up.
6. Tool Silhouettes
Make like Julia Child — who famously painted silhouettes of her pots and pans on pegboard to keep things organized in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, kitchen — and give your garden tools a well-marked place to live. In this spic-and-span garden shed from Mark Hickman Homes, each heirloom-quality tool has a clearly painted silhouette indicating its place on the tool rack.
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Make like Julia Child — who famously painted silhouettes of her pots and pans on pegboard to keep things organized in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, kitchen — and give your garden tools a well-marked place to live. In this spic-and-span garden shed from Mark Hickman Homes, each heirloom-quality tool has a clearly painted silhouette indicating its place on the tool rack.
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7. Wheelbarrow Parking
Sometimes the simplest ideas are best. Take this shed from The Posh Shed Company, for example — a single, well-positioned bar on the exterior niche of this petite shed makes it suddenly easy to balance a wheelbarrow upright and out of the way. Not only does this save space, it’s a good reminder not to leave your wheelbarrow sitting out where it can collect rainwater (and breed mosquitoes).
Sometimes the simplest ideas are best. Take this shed from The Posh Shed Company, for example — a single, well-positioned bar on the exterior niche of this petite shed makes it suddenly easy to balance a wheelbarrow upright and out of the way. Not only does this save space, it’s a good reminder not to leave your wheelbarrow sitting out where it can collect rainwater (and breed mosquitoes).
8. Soil Stash
Potting soil, compost and various soil amendments can easily become a dirty mess. Having a dedicated place to store these items — and the proper containers to keep them in — will help maintain order. Look for capacious wire baskets for corralling floppy bags of soil and metal buckets and bins for storing big bags and loose mixes.
Great Home Project: How to Set Up a Potting Station
Potting soil, compost and various soil amendments can easily become a dirty mess. Having a dedicated place to store these items — and the proper containers to keep them in — will help maintain order. Look for capacious wire baskets for corralling floppy bags of soil and metal buckets and bins for storing big bags and loose mixes.
Great Home Project: How to Set Up a Potting Station
9. Pots as Storage Containers
Garden sheds can easily become cluttered with little useful items like trowels, spades and gloves. Make use of extra pots you have lying around and tidy up stray tools in one swoop by putting your pots to work as storage containers. Pots filled with hand tools, garden markers, gloves and twine all look right at home on garden shed shelves — and can easily be pulled into service again when the need arises.
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Garden sheds can easily become cluttered with little useful items like trowels, spades and gloves. Make use of extra pots you have lying around and tidy up stray tools in one swoop by putting your pots to work as storage containers. Pots filled with hand tools, garden markers, gloves and twine all look right at home on garden shed shelves — and can easily be pulled into service again when the need arises.
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10. All-Purpose Garden Studio
If you dream of using your garden shed as a home base for all sorts of endeavors, look no further than this bright and cheerful garden studio from Crescent Builds for inspiration. With tool storage along one wall, hidden closets for more storage, a reading nook, a play loft and a long table down the center, there’s not much this space can’t do.
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If you dream of using your garden shed as a home base for all sorts of endeavors, look no further than this bright and cheerful garden studio from Crescent Builds for inspiration. With tool storage along one wall, hidden closets for more storage, a reading nook, a play loft and a long table down the center, there’s not much this space can’t do.
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With double barn-style sliding doors opening up an entire corner of this garden shed from Gardner Architects, it’s easy to find just what you’re looking for. Shelving that’s deeper on the bottom and slim on top provides ample room for storage and a surface for working, while still leaving plenty of floor space free for storing bulky equipment like the lawn mower and bikes.
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