Creative Mudroom Remodeling
If your family’s active lifestyle too often translates to a messy house you are not alone. The old maxim, “a place for everything and everything in its place,” is more relevant today than ever.
A well-designed mudroom can provide a creative solution to help decrease the clutter from belongings that we carry on or with us daily, adding convenience and order to our lives.
It’s fun to watch the contents of our mudroom change from one season to the next.
Summer, with its easy living, brings strewn flip flops and croqs, colorful tote bags packed with beach or pool essentials, baseball caps, bike helmets, and sneakers. Ours also sports sidewalk chalk, squirt guns, jump ropes, golf shoes and various other toys and sporting equipment.
Along comes fall and with it the back packs that, let’s face it, the kids are going to drop in the most accessible place possible, sweatshirts and light jackets, stylish boots, clogs and shoes. Though I’d like to, I can’t forgot the raincoats and umbrellas.
Winter adds the heaviest load; out come the winter coats, jackets and snow pants, hats, mittens, scarves and perhaps warm cozy Uggs.
Then with the blessed arrival of spring, which seems to come later with each passing year, we’re back to sweatshirts and light jackets, sneakers and flip flops, hats and base ball caps, and should I mention, the mud.
Mudroom design is often overlooked when houses are built but so essential to keeping all that “stuff” out of the main part of the home. Whether building a new home or remodeling an existing one, it would be prudent to include a cleverly designed concept for your most used entrance.
Have fun with it! Give it some character, as it will most likely be the first room you and others experience upon entering your home.
In place of a closet, which takes up a lot of space and is less likely to be used, consider some of the following ideas that are popular and proven to work well.
- A bench to sit on while removing shoes and boots with storage underneath.
- Shelves and cubbies, which offer best use of space, and which children can easily access and are large enough for baskets.
- Securely anchored coat hooks.
- Drawers and cabinets to store out of season items, etc.
- Flooring that will sustain the heavy traffic, mud, sand and moisture.
- A door or possibly, French doors, to define the space.
The post is a interesting one….the author rightfully described how to rebuild a well-designed mudroom…..nice one…