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5 Tips for Turning Your Shed Into the Ultimate Summer Hideaway

Guest Contributor/August 3, 2022August 19, 2022 /Leave a comment

Turn Your Shed Into the Ultimate Summer Hideaway Your storage shed doesn’t have to be an eyesore full of gardening tools you don’t use, holiday decorations, or whatever other odds and ends you forgot about….

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Business, Fun Uses

Can You Use a Storage Unit as an Art Studio?

Matt/May 2, 2021May 3, 2021 /3 Comments

If you’re an independent artist, you’re familiar with the difficulties of finding a place to work. Quiet, dedicated studios for artists are on the decline as properties trend toward live-work development, cooperatives, or just plain…

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Fun Uses, How To, Lifestyle

Need a Place to Get Away? 10 Tips to Create Your Own “She Shed”

Liz Wolf/February 11, 2019November 21, 2022 /1 Comment

Updated: November 21, 2022 That decrepit storage shed in your back yard could very well be your new favorite place to unwind, get creative or escape from the world. More women are turning to backyard sheds,…

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Fun Uses, Storage Tips + Uses

5 Creative and Unconventional Ways to Use Your Storage Unit

Cathie Ericson/June 22, 2017March 9, 2020 /1 Comment

In the 2016 movie The Accountant, Ben Affleck’s character has what we’ll call an “ill-advised” use for his storage unit. It sorta makes you wonder what uses people have for their space, other than, well,…

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Fun Uses, Pets

How SparePups is Giving Back to Animal Rescue Orgs

Jenny Zhang/October 21, 2016November 11, 2022 /Leave a comment

The SpareFoot office has been dog-friendly since 2008, and many a legendary canine has wagged its way through our cavernous halls. It’s not uncommon to feel a wet nose or soft tail on your leg…

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Fun Uses, Storage Tips + Uses

Want to Run a Business Inside a Storage Unit? Read This First

Bruce Goldberg/January 27, 2016June 5, 2017 /5 Comments

Tenants nationwide use their storage units for the intended purpose: to store their excess belongings. But the rules breakers that ignore their lease agreements and operate businesses from their units provide the best stories in…

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Fun Uses

Zombies Meet Storage: A Q&A With Clay McLeod Chapman

Alexander Harris/October 9, 2015May 9, 2017 /3 Comments

There is a zombie lurking in unit 83. That is the premise behind a new six-issue comic book series called Self Storage coming out this month. The story follows a storage auction hunter named Chris,…

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Self-Storage Rock Band!

Anna/September 4, 2009August 24, 2016 /8 Comments

As I do, I was surfing the net for all things self-storage when I discovered something quite fascinating. That is, I discovered an entire community of people (35,000 so they claim) who belong to a…

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