It's fun to dream, especially when you know that dream is never going farther than googling "awesome mudrooms" and posting the photos on your blog. So here we go:
Small but completely capable.
Even smaller but I'm desperate.
Doors to hide the stuff. Genius.
As big as my kitchen.
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I got sick of only dreaming about mudrooms and hijacked my dining room last summer. I love it so much more as a mudroom.
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Love the pictures Sarah! I too have a TON of cool mudroom pics pulled out of magazines and off the internet. My someday dream house MUST have one! For now the garage will have to do... *sigh*
ReplyDeleteOh man, dreaming is SO nice. It's more exciting to be in want, in need? Yes? Or am I just making myself feel better too.
ReplyDeleteOh, a mud room. The ultimate dream! My front door area looks just like your pictures and I can't stand it either. It's constant. I Love your "dream" pictures.
ReplyDeleteMy friend has a beautiful mud room with lockers and all and it still looks like your top pic in there, maybe even worse. She has to constantly pick up in there. I guess the only bonus is that she can shut the door if she doesn't want to look at it.
Knowing you (virtually) I highly doubt your mud room would ever look like that.
Hey Sarah! About a year ago you knew me as The Rich Housewife - well, life got busy, we moved to Europe and the blog got deleted. I'm back now so I wanted to say HI, I'm still reading your blog every day. Love that you're still at it and still staying true to your own voice!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiration pics. Can I dream too? I'd settle for a coat closet since I don't even have that. I hung an over the door rack (like the ones for bathrobes in bathrooms) on my basement entrance door. We hang our coats on there and by shutting the door I have a pseudo coat closet. But I would absolutely love a mudroom!
ReplyDeleteI have a mudroom. It's kind of like a coat closet that you walk through to get to our house. Here's a picture
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In mid winter it looks just like your pile of boots on the floor. I bet there's a solution for you. Please post a more vertical and wider shot of your spot where your boots and coats are...
Presently my mudroom has soccer bag, baseball bag, what feels like hundreds of coats and of course 10 right mittens.
Love them all Sarah.
ReplyDeleteOurs is in the laundry room...better then nothing I guess!
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Enjoy the day
I'm with you! Drooling over those photos. I woke up dreaming about an all white house with splashes of green and blue...seriously.
ReplyDeleteI have mudroom envy too!! I have a very very small nook coming in from my garage. In the summer it is adequate. In the winter not so much!
ReplyDeleteGreat mudroom pictures - too bad we can't wiggle our noses and make one of them appear!!
I have mudroom envy too. I tried to incoporate a corner by the front door when we extended to become a "hidden behind closed doors closet"... it still hasn't got doors and regurarly spills out everywhere.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the mudroom in the HGTV Dream House 2011. Wow!
ReplyDeletewe don't have a mudroom, but I've taken over this small hallway outside our garage and done my best to corral the shoes, boots and jackets - but not enough room for backpacks and such. Its funny how as a kid you don't think anything of these things, but my best friends family (6 kids) had a mudroom from their garage into their back hallway with 2 doors (one to garage and one to the main house hallway) - we would shed our stuff and leave it everywhere in that small room. you had to struggle to get past all the boots and stuff laying around there to get into the house (the laundry was right outside the mudroom in the downstairs bathroom - genius!) and we used to snicker, thinking we'd gotten away with leaving such a mess "in the house". now as a mom, I figure my bff's mom was just thrilled that our mess was in a room she didn't have to see - she probably took great pleasure in shutting that door and not seeing that mess! and rather than wade through it, she likely went out the front door and never felt stressed by the mountain of gear corralled in that mudroom!!! smart woman!
ReplyDeleteWe have absolutely no where for a mudroom, but considering we are about to get up to 10" of snow today, a snow room is in my dreams too!
ReplyDeleteUm, you are making me feel guilty. I have a space that has wonderful potential for becoming a mudroom, but I don't use it that way. Why? Because the only person who goes in and out past the [potential] mudroom is my husband....and he's not the one guilty of dropping stuff all over. The kids (or shall we call them perpetrators?) always come through the front door, and we don't have any closet space within 35 feet of the front door. What do you think? Should I retrain everyone to enter from the garage, and spiff up my mudroom?
ReplyDeleteWe are one of the lucky few.... when we remodeled a few years back put a cubby room in...and I do love it! What if you got those ITSO cubes at Target and do a row of 4 or 5, however many fit in that space and get the fabric bin/drawers that go in them... put a cushion across the top to sit on. You could do a wood strip with hooks that even goes on the short wall as well, maybe even a shelf above! Wish I lived around the corner, I'd love to help you try to solve it! That's what I did all those years before! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteJust built our "dream home" last year...and already I am wishing my mudroom was bigger....and I only have 2 kiddoes ;) But I am sooooooooo thankful for what I have!!! It truly is a lifesaver!!! I know you'll have that mudroom someday Sarah!!!!!!! I just know it!!!
ReplyDeleteYou just transferred your mudroom envy onto me, stinker:-). That last picture is amazing. We'd need to put on an addition for it, but, what the hey!
ReplyDeleteI am right with you. It really is a vital room to a home! I have visions of my dream mudroom dancing in my head too. For now, I reorganized my laundry room and that is working pretty darn good!
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I love a good dose of visual therapy!
ReplyDeleteI've got a binder full of 'dream ideas' that I'd like to turn into reality one day.
Just curious...What's stopping you from planning a mudroom of your own with inspiration like what you've shared?
I have mudroom envy as well hoping to transform my dining room into a mini mudroom/craft/play area.
ReplyDeleteActually, your first picture was what made me feel better. I'm not the only one who's winter gear spills out of the bucket and has boots lying around everywhere! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's good to dream though...
-Melissa
Have you thought of just hanging a row of hooks by your bench? Soulemama just did a great post about putting in a "mudroom space" in her entryway. (Not that I have anything even resembling a mudroom, but I also don't have kids, so for now it works ok!)
ReplyDeleteI think you could put cubbies below and some type of hook---
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All those purdy pictures make me SWOON. I want a mudroom, too, but don't have the space either. Hmmmm.... *do you hear those brain wheels whirring?!*
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures! Living in a warm climate, a mud room is not a real necessity. We worry more about a place to leave swimming gear in the summer!
ReplyDeleteI feel like mudrooms are just junk collectors. I don't want another thing in the house that I have to tell the kids to pick up.
ReplyDeleteWe also live in a warm climate so everyone has their own swim/beach basket in a cabinet by the door. Big spaces breed clutter and clutter equals more work for moms.
Too funny, I posted on my blog today about my mud room woes and the solution I found that works for us. Those mud rooms make me DROOL!
ReplyDeletehere'd the link to my "locker" fix :) http://4ourkiddos.blogspot.com/2011/01/trivial-girl-stuff.html
I'll take what's behind Door No. 1 ... or 2 ... or any! So far this week I've got Mudroom and Blissdom envy. Oh boy!
ReplyDeleteI have a small mudroom, would love one like any of those pictures you posted.
ReplyDeleteAnd a desk, of my own, that would be icing on the cake.
We put an offer on a house last year that had a mudroom like that last one. We got out-bid. We never moved. And I fantasize about the mudroom daily. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI would love to see the rest of this space. I really think you could get some built ins or locker type units in there!
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ReplyDeleteBefore I had a mudroom - my dream came true with a mud/laundry room - everyone used the front door.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing I ever did was to buy shoe shelves. I set up enough shelves for all of our shoes. There was a space behind the door as it opened inside about 18 inches deep & that's where everyone put their shoes as they came in. It worked so well that when we added our laundry room I had the contractor measure the space from my front door to the wall & make the entrance to my laundry the same. I love it!
I share that envy with you!! A mudroom ANY time of year would be pure bliss!!
ReplyDeleteI SO hear you! For me, it's not just mudroom envy, it's closet envy... since we don't have one in this old house of ours. BUT today I started a modified Ana White project to build some lockers for my kids... ones that I can put in my foyer and then move to my mudroom when it's built. I only have tiny chunks of time to work on it, but I'm hoping to accomplish a lot tonight. I'll post about it when I'm done. It's a surprise for my husband who's on a business trip. So excited to get rid of the mountain-o-coats!!
ReplyDeleteuh oh- I'm off the google 'awesome homeschool rooms'- we school in the one car garage
ReplyDeleteNo mudroom here either. And what I would do for my own desk and my own computer. Yes, we can dream.
ReplyDeletethe new house has a tiny one and i love it so!
ReplyDeleteIt must be in the air because I just went through the same Googling self-torture. The mudrooms I saved made me so painfully envious, epecially because we just moved from a house where we'd created a dream mudroom, into a house that has only a sliding-door closet next to the garage door The five of us knock each other over every morning trying to get dressed and out the jugggernaut. Finally, in desperation, we ripped off the doors to the closet, put a bench and pegs inside and turned it into a locker room of sorts. It has changed my life! You're the queen at thinking outside the box Sarah, so I know you'll come up with some sort of a solution if one is possible!
ReplyDeleteOh, same thing here. My garage opens right into my kitchen eating area, and there isn' t really a back door or side door option for entering the house. Hate it. Dreams of a proper mud room and cubbies.
ReplyDeleteI have never commented before but to make you feel a bit better...I HAVE a large mudroom but it does not look like those pretty photos. It looks like your photo, only 5x messier! I guess at least it's out of my kitchen but man it still drives me crazy. How can 3 children have so many shoes and jackets and bags??!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove your blog and your writing. Keep up the good work.
So it's not just ME with mudroom envy! I live in rainy, rainy Seattle. Okay, not as rainy as its reputation, but still, we have a long wet season and oh how I LONG for a mudroom. Also, a play room, but that's another story.
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