diff --git a/packages/cw-storey/src/lib.rs b/packages/cw-storey/src/lib.rs
index 69297d0..455d8c0 100644
--- a/packages/cw-storey/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages/cw-storey/src/lib.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 mod backend;
 pub mod containers;
 mod encoding;
+mod std_error;
 
 pub use backend::CwStorage;
 pub use encoding::CwEncoding;
+pub use std_error::IntoStdError;
diff --git a/packages/cw-storey/src/std_error.rs b/packages/cw-storey/src/std_error.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c5a2c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cw-storey/src/std_error.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/// A trait for converting *Storey* errors into [`cosmwasm_std::StdError`].
+pub trait IntoStdError {
+    /// Converts the error into a [`cosmwasm_std::StdError`] for use with CosmWasm.
+    ///
+    /// The error ends up as a [`cosmwasm_std::StdError::GenericErr`] with the error message
+    /// being the result of calling `to_string` on the error.
+    /// 
+    /// # Example
+    /// ```
+    /// use cosmwasm_std::StdError;
+    /// use storey::containers::map::key::ArrayDecodeError;
+    /// use cw_storey::IntoStdError as _;
+    ///
+    /// let error = ArrayDecodeError::InvalidLength;
+    /// assert_eq!(error.into_std_error(), StdError::generic_err(error.to_string()));
+    /// ```
+    fn into_std_error(self) -> cosmwasm_std::StdError;
+}
+
+impl<T> IntoStdError for T
+where
+    T: storey::error::StoreyError,
+{
+    fn into_std_error(self) -> cosmwasm_std::StdError {
+        cosmwasm_std::StdError::generic_err(self.to_string())
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use cosmwasm_std::StdError;
+    use storey::error::StoreyError;
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[derive(Debug)]
+    struct MockError {
+        msg: String,
+    }
+
+    impl std::fmt::Display for MockError {
+        fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+            write!(f, "{}", self.msg)
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl StoreyError for MockError {}
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_into_std_error() {
+        let error = MockError {
+            msg: "An error occurred".to_string(),
+        };
+        let std_error: StdError = error.into_std_error();
+        assert_eq!(std_error, StdError::generic_err("An error occurred"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/storey/src/containers/common.rs b/packages/storey/src/containers/common.rs
index 0125ea0..473c531 100644
--- a/packages/storey/src/containers/common.rs
+++ b/packages/storey/src/containers/common.rs
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ pub enum TryGetError<E> {
     #[error(transparent)]
     DecodeError(#[from] E),
 }
+
+impl<T: std::fmt::Display> crate::error::StoreyError for TryGetError<T> {}
diff --git a/packages/storey/src/containers/map/key.rs b/packages/storey/src/containers/map/key.rs
index 861c67b..d4de44d 100644
--- a/packages/storey/src/containers/map/key.rs
+++ b/packages/storey/src/containers/map/key.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ impl Key for str {
 #[error("invalid UTF8")]
 pub struct InvalidUtf8;
 
+impl crate::error::StoreyError for InvalidUtf8 {}
+
 impl OwnedKey for String {
     type Error = InvalidUtf8;
 
@@ -128,10 +130,14 @@ impl OwnedKey for Box<[u8]> {
 }
 
 /// An error type for decoding arrays.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy, thiserror::Error)]
 pub enum ArrayDecodeError {
+    #[error("invalid length")]
     InvalidLength,
 }
 
+impl crate::error::StoreyError for ArrayDecodeError {}
+
 impl<const N: usize> OwnedKey for [u8; N] {
     type Error = ArrayDecodeError;
 
@@ -181,6 +187,8 @@ pub enum NumericKeyDecodeError {
     InvalidLength,
 }
 
+impl crate::error::StoreyError for NumericKeyDecodeError {}
+
 macro_rules! impl_key_for_numeric {
     ($($t:ty),*) => {
         $(
diff --git a/packages/storey/src/containers/map/mod.rs b/packages/storey/src/containers/map/mod.rs
index 8f5a606..dbacf9c 100644
--- a/packages/storey/src/containers/map/mod.rs
+++ b/packages/storey/src/containers/map/mod.rs
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ pub enum MapKeyDecodeError<I: std::fmt::Display> {
     Inner(I),
 }
 
+impl<I: std::fmt::Display> crate::error::StoreyError for MapKeyDecodeError<I> {}
+
 /// An accessor for a map.
 ///
 /// The accessor provides methods for interacting with the map in storage.
diff --git a/packages/storey/src/containers/mod.rs b/packages/storey/src/containers/mod.rs
index 0b00fda..0c8b010 100644
--- a/packages/storey/src/containers/mod.rs
+++ b/packages/storey/src/containers/mod.rs
@@ -64,12 +64,16 @@ pub trait Storable {
 }
 
 /// A key-value pair decoding error.
-#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, thiserror::Error)]
 pub enum KVDecodeError<K, V> {
+    #[error("failed to decode key: {0}")]
     Key(K),
+    #[error("failed to decode value: {0}")]
     Value(V),
 }
 
+impl<K: std::fmt::Display, V: std::fmt::Display> crate::error::StoreyError for KVDecodeError<K, V> {}
+
 /// A trait for collection accessors (see [`Storable::Accessor`]) that provide iteration over
 /// their contents.
 pub trait IterableAccessor: Sized {
diff --git a/packages/storey/src/error.rs b/packages/storey/src/error.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5e30fe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/storey/src/error.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+use std::fmt::Display;
+
+/// A trait representing a Storey error.
+///
+/// This trait is implemented for all Storey error types, allowing third-party crates
+/// to implement extension traits for all of those error types.
+pub trait StoreyError: Display {}
diff --git a/packages/storey/src/lib.rs b/packages/storey/src/lib.rs
index a73698f..b9a36dc 100644
--- a/packages/storey/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages/storey/src/lib.rs
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@
 
 pub mod containers;
 pub mod encoding;
+pub mod error;
 pub mod storage;