
Tool Hideaway

You’re out in the garden and you forgot to bring your trowel with you. So you stop what you’re doing and dash back to the garage or toolshed to find it.
Here’s a better solution: Keep your hand tools in the garden where you need them, but store them in a converted mailbox.
The wooden mailbox pictured here, purchased at a nursery, is mounted atop a 6-foot-tall 4-by-4 redwood post and secured with a 3-inch-long lag screw.