Where do you store stuff?

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We're in the SE, and the garage is usually cool and fairly even-temperatured, so I thought it might be a good place to store dry and longlife foods, bottled water etc. The garage has never frozen, even when we had our 'big' freezes in recent years, but ATM it's hot and stuffy in there, and I'm now having doubts.

What do you think?

I think a garage sounds fine. Surely everywhere is going to be hot and stuffy at the moment, unless there's air con or it's under the earth? You could always add ventilation, I guess, if you were worried?

We have no garage. My meagre stockpile is under the stairs. It's a small house, but we have a weirdly large unused space not just under the stairs, but also under part of the upstairs hallway. It's currently half full of spare flooring, old moving moxes and my wine making kit (never to be used again, probably), among other crap. My plan is to clear it out and put in shelving there.

I wouldn’t worry too much about tins/bottles. As long as they are off the floor (in the event of water running in which may be a risk with it being so dry at the moment and heavy rain storms forecast) or in plastic boxes.

I am lucky that I live in a 1900 stone terrace on a hill normal apart from the back having an old coal house about 10 x 4 ft and 7 ft in Height and an old oak door that will need replacing. I would like to covert it into a dry stock room but apart from the shelving and a strong metal bottomed door I wonder what else I need to do with it ? The shed is stone walled and concrete painted floor a doorstep above the back patio.

Forgot to say it's part of the hous making the back 3 story

I'm lucky enough to have a LOT of cupboard space in my kitchen, including some that have false side panels that back onto empty space behind them. Currently storing it in cupboards and some under the bed [ottoman style bed] but would move things to the space behind the bath panel and behind the false cupboard sides/backs if things got dicey.

(not that I think it will get to that, I just like to have a plan!) No idea how I'd defend my stash though, I'm in a flat behind a gate but that's easy to get into and our downstairs communal door doesn't have a lock so we'd pretty much be sitting ducks. Maybe I could use a couple of my cans as well placed missiles

I have to empty the under stair cupboard it's full of junk that I put there 6 yrs pho when I moved in. It would make a nice larder and as the door is in my kitchen ideal. Just not an easy job as I don't know what the hell I stuffed in there