Most storage guidance for households assumes one person or one family simply has too many boxes. A different, more common situation in practice is two households becoming one. A couple moving in together after keeping separate homes, adult children moving a parent's belongings out of a house being sold, or a family taking in a relative and needing to make room for someone else's furniture and belongings on short notice. All-Rite Storage, on Terry Road in Cheyenne, rents drive up units built for exactly that kind of household combination, not just the general decluttering that most storage pages describe.

At a Glance

  • All-Rite Storage offers unit sizes up to 10x20, enough to hold furniture and boxed belongings from a full household when combining two homes into one.
  • Month to month terms mean a unit can be rented only for the length of the sorting and moving process, not a fixed year long term.
  • Drive up access lets movers or family members load directly from a truck without carrying items through hallways or stairs.
  • The property has security fencing and lighting for furniture and belongings left in storage during a transition that may take weeks to resolve.

The Household Situations That Are Actually Different From Ordinary Decluttering

A household combining with another household is not the same problem as one family simply running out of closet space, and the solutions look different too.

Two Homes Becoming One

When two people move in together, whether through marriage, a new relationship, or an adult child moving back in with a parent, the immediate problem is usually duplicate furniture. Two couches, two sets of kitchen items, two bedroom sets, more than the new combined household can use or fit. The decision that actually needs to be made during the move is which items to keep, which to sell or donate, and which to hold in storage temporarily while that decision gets made without pressure. Storing the undecided items rather than forcing an immediate decision on moving day tends to produce better choices than deciding everything in one exhausting afternoon.

Inherited or Estate Belongings

Handling a parent's or relative's belongings after a death or move into assisted living is emotionally different from ordinary moving, and the timeline is usually less predictable. Family members are often sorting through decades of belongings while also managing a home sale, probate, or a relative's transition into care, and decisions about what to keep, sell, or pass to other family members often cannot all be made at once. A storage unit gives that sorting process room to happen over weeks rather than forcing every decision in the days immediately following a loss or move.

Multi Generational Households

Families bringing an aging parent or an adult child back into the home often need to make physical room for someone else's furniture and belongings, sometimes with very little notice. A spare bedroom or garage that was previously storage space for the existing household suddenly needs to become livable space for another person, which means the household's own overflow items need somewhere else to go, not the other way around.

Sizing a Unit for a Combined Household

All-Rite Storage's largest unit is a 10x20 drive up space, similar in floor area to a standard two car garage. That size comfortably holds the furniture and boxed belongings from one full bedroom's worth of furniture, several boxes of kitchen and household items, and moderate sized furniture pieces like a dresser, a couch, or a dining set. A 10x10 unit is usually enough for a smaller volume, several boxes plus a few individual furniture pieces rather than a full second household's worth of belongings. Families combining two full homes into one, rather than integrating one person's individual belongings, should expect to need the larger unit or, in some cases, more than one unit depending on how much duplicate furniture is being held rather than immediately sold or donated.

What Holds Up in a Drive Up Unit and What Does Not

Because these are outdoor, drive up units rather than a climate controlled interior space, some inherited or sentimental items deserve extra thought before they go into storage for an extended period. Wood furniture, boxed dishware, books, and most textiles hold up reasonably well in a drive up unit for a period of months, especially when wrapped or boxed rather than left exposed. Photographs, documents, and anything with adhesive, wax, or fine detail work that can be affected by temperature swings are better kept somewhere climate controlled if the storage period will run through a full Cheyenne winter and summer, since drive up units are exposed to the same outdoor temperature range as anywhere else in the region.

Why Month to Month Terms Fit This Kind of Transition Better Than a Long Lease

Combining households, settling an estate, or making room for a family member rarely follows a predictable schedule. A home sale can close faster or slower than expected. Sorting through a lifetime of belongings takes as long as it takes, and rushing it to meet an arbitrary storage lease deadline tends to produce regretted decisions about what got kept or given away. All-Rite Storage's month to month rentals let a family hold a unit only as long as the actual sorting and settling process takes, whether that ends up being six weeks or six months, without committing to a lease term set before anyone knew how long the process would actually run.

If your family is combining two households, sorting through a relative's belongings, or making room for someone moving in, All-Rite Storage's drive up units on Terry Road give that process room to happen without a rushed timeline. For a narrower need, a single person's furniture or boxes during their own move, our personal storage page covers that more individual situation directly.