How to Create Backyard Adventures For Your Kids

With the kids getting out of school, you’ll be racking your brain to find ways to keep them occupied. Summer break is a great time for adventure, learning and time with friends.  Be creative and keep your kids active in the backyard! Here’s how to create backyard adventures for your kids:   Make a Mud Pie Station  

6 Ways to Make your Home and Family Greener

Happy Earth Day! It’s important to think about how we can all incorporate small, more environmental-friendly alterations into our everyday lives. Without changing your lifestyle too much, you can make minor alterations to your daily routine that will help protect the planet for years to come. Cook Portable Warehouses is a company that cares about the communities our dealers live and … Read More

4 Things to Know When Starting a Business in your Cook Shed

If you are starting a home business, you aren’t alone. Home businesses are one of the fastest growing industries. Working from home allows for more flexibility, eliminates your commute and reduces your overhead costs. But, if you want to be taken seriously in the business world, you can’t just add a desk, a printer, some office supplies and put up … Read More

5 Inexpensive DIY Home Decor Projects for Halloween

With Halloween right around the corner, we are getting excited about dressing in a favorite costume, enjoy a themed party, taking the kids trick-or-treating or just eating a little too much candy. Now that you got all the important safety precautions out of the way (read this post to learn more about 5 areas we recommend checking in your home … Read More

Family Friendly Ways to Have Fun and Stay in Shape

With the beginning of the school year and those social calendars filling up, exercise and family time are two things that are often forgotten in the shuffle. But both of these activities can be accomplished easily and without a big time commitment! Here are 8 simple ideas of healthy and fun things to do as a family that will get … Read More

Top Reasons We Hold onto our Stuff

Everyone holds onto things that might have outlived their usefulness. From a broken item with sentimental value to a part you know you’ll need again someday, we understand. At Cook, we advocate an organized lifestyle because it serves to reduce your stress level and increase your comfort level while at home. But we also know there is stuff that you … Read More

Creative and Cheap Summer Activities for Families

The summer season brings a lot of free time for kids and a lot of anxiety for parents to figure out how to fill up that time. And sometimes these activities can hit the pocketbook at little too hard. So we have put together a list of free or inexpensive family friendly activities to help keep your kids occupied and … Read More

How to Create a Personalized Man Cave for Father’s Day

Sunday is Father’s Day which means it’s time to find the perfect gift for dear old dad. But this isn’t always the easiest thing to do! But there is one thing that nearly every dad wants- a Man Cave! Last year, we wrote a post about how a Man Cave, tool shed or auto garage are the perfect things to … Read More