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I've never seen something like this and would have never thought of it, but damn. Genius!

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.

Sometimes your foyer essentially has to be your mudroom. Depends on the layout/size of your house. Of course, I wouldn't recommend having a mop sink (what that thing is called with the two dogs sitting in it) in your foyer.

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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)..

PP. love this. You do know that the random basement toilets seen in older houses were for "the help" so they wouldn't mess missy's bathroom. A vestige of segregation still lurking

Here are a few similar to what we've owned--

http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/19757?feat=902-CL1&page=fern-border-rug

http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/69971?feat=66308-ppxs&dds=y

I would add a bathroom or at least a sink

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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".

My quote above. I've picked up all of ours at target.
And no fugly colors. Kind of wheat colored with textures/pattern cut into the carpet to create some interest in design so it doesn't look like a leftover piece of wall to wall carpeting.

Not OP, but thanks for all the suggestions! We have a ground level entrance to our unfinished basement, and when we finish it next year, it's going to have a mudroom. I've literally been fantasizing about having one for 8 years...

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".

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.

+ 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: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!

Sorry - that was a typo! It is 90 SF, not 900!

We have an extra bathroom in our mudroom. its great because the kids don't mess up the guest powder room.

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!

Our mudroom is in the back of our house...but so is our garage. It is mostly a great place to keep the backpacks, dirty shoes, etc. When we walk in through the front door, which we do often, we put all the stuff that goes to the mudroom in a big rubbermaid bin (which we keep in a closet right by the door where we used to store all our crap before we had a mudroom) and just take the bin to the mudroom. The kids are used to this and it just keeps the house much much neater. We sacrificed 900 square feet of yard space for our mudroom and it was the best decision ever.

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.