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Anonymous wrote:Foyers and mud rooms are not the same room folks! And cubbies or lockers don't need to look institutional - they can be attractively designed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We have an extra bathroom in our mudroom. its great because the kids don't mess up the guest powder room.
+ 1. We also have an extra bathroom behind the laundry room which is for the help, so they don't mess up either the kids' WC room (between the kitchen and mudroom) or the powder room off our foyer (reserved strictly for guests, DH and me)..
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Love our mudroom!
Mudroom greets those who enter via the garage or the side door. Front hall entrance looks wonderful for arriving guests as a result!
12x12 tile floors with non-white grout. (no dogs so we didn't want the drain/shower thing).
One double-door closet. Single closet pantry. Closets completely fitted by one of those closet stretcher/calf. closet places. Much of the "unsightly" stuff thus out of sight.
Pottery Barn bench with underneath basket cubbies and above hooks for kid coats (we didn't do built-ins for the flexibility but many I see online for new houses are nice!)
Neutral color indoor/outdoor 5x7 carpet on the tile floor. Can be vacuumed and then tossed when too dirty.
Suggestions on a good place to buy such a rug (well, I think we're looking for one size down than this, but whatever) that isn't too pricey? All the ones I see in stores have hideous patterns (I'm not against a pattern of some sort but something not so fugly). We have a dog and two young kids so we expect to have to replace it on a somewhat regular basis, hence the desire for "not too expensive".
Anonymous wrote:Love our mudroom!
Mudroom greets those who enter via the garage or the side door. Front hall entrance looks wonderful for arriving guests as a result!
12x12 tile floors with non-white grout. (no dogs so we didn't want the drain/shower thing).
One double-door closet. Single closet pantry. Closets completely fitted by one of those closet stretcher/calf. closet places. Much of the "unsightly" stuff thus out of sight.
Pottery Barn bench with underneath basket cubbies and above hooks for kid coats (we didn't do built-ins for the flexibility but many I see online for new houses are nice!)
Neutral color indoor/outdoor 5x7 carpet on the tile floor. Can be vacuumed and then tossed when too dirty.
Anonymous wrote:We have an extra bathroom in our mudroom. its great because the kids don't mess up the guest powder room.
Anonymous wrote:You really have a 900 SF mudroom? We have about 60 sf, have 4 cubbies/lockers in a built in, room to store 15 or so boots/shoes, bicycle, sports gear, and all keys/electronics. I'm not sure what you could even do with 900 SF!