Wood Storage Room-under the deck

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This is a carry over project from the old site and is one my most useful spaces:
 
This is a wood storage room I built under our deck once I had the water drainage system under the deck floor pretty reliable. The dark red pipe in the top of the first picture is PVC pipe cut in half lengthwise to catch the water draining from the chutes made from aluminum flashing installed in cedar guides that taper down from the far end. It catches almost all the water coming through the deck floor.
 
 I needed to get the rack of small wood  pieces out of my shop to make way for the new jointer a few years ago so I built this room with a locked door and a recycled picture window that I could not even give away to Habitat for Humanity. I made another rack for the different species  that did not have a home in the first rack.

 I added a few of the early pictures of how I built the foundation. The floor is treated plywood and it sits on a level bed of pea gravel which makes it pretty solid. It is just outside the basement shop so it is real handy to get wood. One wall is the outside of my shop and the other one is the foundation under the garage. I try not to throw any good piece of wood away. I go there often to get small pieces for projects. The door is made from tongue and groove pine carsiding and I learned how to install vinyl siding on this project. 
It is not so roomy today. I try to keep anything good and it is cluttered to the point I need to clean house and give away a lot at the guild meetings.
cheers, Jim

Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day

you know what happens jim, the more storage you build the more wood to accumulate ! but as they say, he who dies with the most wood wins, right ?

working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.

Nice solution Jim, one can never have enough storage. Reason I built a mini barn for the shop with a loft on each end. I end up saving all kinds of drops. Have one box that comes out when the grandkids visit, keeps them entertained for a bit. And they even ask for it, then put all of those little blocks back in the box.

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I wish I had something like that Jim! Awesome use for unused space…

Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".

I always had a problem with long boards 8'+

Areas like that are golden, nice!
Great Wood Storage Room...It is just like a small room in a house.  Its ideal for keeping your wood stock nice and neat.

Regards......Cliff.
Thank you all for the nice comments. This is for all the short boards that get cut off and I can't bear to throw out. I retrieve wood there almost every day.

Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day