17+ DIY Firewood Storage Ideas for Stacking Logs Indoors and Out
DIY firewood storage ideas for indoors and out, from simple log holders and wall racks to full firewood sheds and log stores.
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Firewood has to live somewhere, but a pile on the floor or a tarp in the yard gets old fast. Here are 17+ DIY projects for keeping logs stacked, dry, and easy to grab, split into indoor and outdoor ideas. Some are quick afternoon builds, and others are full sheds, so there’s a range depending on how much wood you’re storing and where.
Indoor Firewood Storage
Storage that lives inside, close to the fireplace or wood stove. These hold a few days of logs within reach and lean more toward furniture than utility.
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Jaime Costiglio
DIY Indoor Log Holder
Jaime built a boxy log holder that plays up the contrast between raw wood and exposed metal connectors. It sits low and open so you can grab a log without fighting the stack, and it scales up or down depending on how much wood you want by the hearth. The metal brackets stay visible as part of the look rather than hidden away.
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The Inspired Workshop
Firewood Holder with Hairpin Legs
Cara’s firewood holder pairs a black-painted wood frame with hairpin legs for something that reads more modern than rustic. It sits beside the fireplace and holds a few days of logs up off the floor. The hairpin legs give it a lifted, almost furniture-like stance.
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Houseful of Handmade
House-Shaped Firewood Holder
Kati’s firewood holder has a peaked top like a little house, which turns a plain log stack into something with shape. Stained black, it tucks in beside the hearth and holds enough wood for a few fires. The frame is narrow enough to sit close to the wall while the roofline peaks above the logs.
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Designs by Studio C
2×2 Log Holder with a Peaked Top
Cher-Ann’s log holder also takes the house-peak shape, but built from chunky 2x2s and painted white. It was inspired by a metal store-bought holder and keeps logs and kindling stacked out in the open. Add a couple of plywood shelves and the same frame turns into a bookshelf or towel stand.
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Woodshop Diaries
Wall-Hanging Firewood Rack
Shara mounted this firewood rack right on the wall, built from scrap 2x2s and a plywood back. It keeps a small stack of logs up off the floor and close to the fireplace without eating any real floor space. Hers is painted black and sized to a standard bundle of firewood.
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Creative Pink Butterfly
Wall-Mounted Firewood Rack
Trine’s wall-mounted rack is about as pared down as firewood storage gets: two angled brackets painted glossy black, fixed to the wall to cradle a stack of logs. It leans into a black-on-black look against a dark fireplace. The logs themselves become the display between the two supports.
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Lovely Etc.
Vintage Radio Firewood Holder
Here’s a firewood holder you won’t see coming: Carrie turned an old wooden radio cabinet into one. She found a couple of beat-up vintage radios, cleaned up the wood, and used the hollow body to cradle logs beside the fireplace. The arched shape of the old radio case frames the wood stack.
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Ana White
Firewood Console Table
Ana’s build does double duty: a console table up top and a firewood rack underneath. The open base holds a row of 16 to 18 inch logs while the surface takes a TV, decor, or whatever the room needs. At six feet wide it runs along a wall like a media console.
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Ana White
Entryway Bench with Open Cubbies
Ana’s entryway bench is built around a row of open cubbies, and those bays turn out to be a tidy spot to stack split logs. It’s a mudroom bench at heart, customizable in width, with a bench seat on top and open storage below. Sized right, each bay holds a stacked column of firewood within arm’s reach of the door.
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Outdoor Firewood Storage
Bigger storage for the yard, porch, or patio. These keep a larger supply off the ground and under cover so your wood stays dry and seasons properly.
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Ugly Duckling House
A-Frame Firewood Rack
Sarah’s A-frame rack came out of three cedar 2x4s and an SUV full of storm-felled wood. It’s a compact stand for the front porch, meant to keep a short-term stack of logs up off the ground and dry. The A-frame shape lets wood lean in from both sides.
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Simply Designing
Industrial Firewood Rack with Pipe Legs
Ashley leaned industrial with this one, a square firewood rack dressed up with metal angle iron on the corners and pipe legs underneath. Built for outdoors from treated wood, it holds a real load of logs while the metal adds both support and a bit of edge. The angle iron wraps all four corners.
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At Home with Ashley
Fire Pit Firewood Holder with a Tabletop
Want the woodpile to double as a serving table? Ashley’s fire-pit holder does exactly that, with a flat top over a pressure-treated base for stacking logs underneath. Painted white, it sits by the fire pit and holds drinks or s’mores fixings up top while the wood waits below. The top is a piece of siding with an overhang on each side.
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Little House on the Corner
Covered Log Store
Christine’s log store is the classic freestanding kind, an open-fronted box with a slanted featherboard roof to shed rain. It’s sized to hold a winter’s worth of logs and comes together in about a weekend. The sloped roof and slatted cladding keep the wood ventilated while it seasons.
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Charleston Crafted
Firewood Shed from Old Fence Panels
Morgan built this firewood shed entirely from old fence panels she had pulled out of her yard, so the whole thing cost nothing. The back is a single fence section, with a slanted roof added to run rain off. It blends right in next to the existing fence line it came from.
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Pretty Handy Girl
Open-Sided Firewood Shed
Brittany’s wood shed uses reclaimed fence pickets left raw so they weather to a soft silvery gray. It’s an open-sided structure on four posts with a corrugated roof overhead and space to stack wood on two levels. She built hers to dress up the area around a fire pit.
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At Charlotte’s House
Firewood Shed with a Metal Roof
Charlotte’s firewood shed is the sturdy, built-to-stay kind, framed in pressure-treated lumber with a slanted corrugated metal roof. It runs about eight feet wide with spaced slats on the floor and sides so air moves through the stack. She fits most of a season’s wood delivery inside.
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Ana White
Small Firewood Shed
Ana's small firewood shed keeps things lean, built from 2x lumber and cedar fence pickets to keep the cost down. It stands around six feet tall and wide with an angled roof to shed water. The slatted picket sides let air reach the wood while the roof keeps it covered.
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Ana White
Small Cedar Storage Shed
Ana's cedar shed is the most enclosed option here, a compact outdoor closet with paneled doors built from budget cedar fence pickets. It was designed to store mowers, tools, and bins, but the closed, roofed body also keeps firewood fully out of the weather. Full doors on the front shut the whole stack away from rain and snow.
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Final Thoughts
There’s something here for almost any area, from a small holder beside the hearth to a shed that takes a full season’s delivery. Pick the one that fits your space and the amount of wood you burn.
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