![]() ![]() Bright, Bold Back Entry: Outdoor-Fabric Cushion Photo by Mark Lohman The homeowner handcrafted this textural treatment by interweaving jute chair webbing and tacking it to the wall with small nails. Wall coverings for a mudroom need to be durable, but they don't have to cost a fortune. Bright, Bold Back Entry: Budget Jute Wallcovering Photo by Mark Lohman Vertical supports act as dividers for shoe bins and baskets. The bench seat isn't just a sunny spot to sit plywood trimmed with a beefy face frame provides a solid base for the side cabinets. Bright, Bold Back Entry: Seat as Cabinet Base Photo by Mark Lohman Slender cabinets extend all the way to the pitched ceiling, maximizing vertical storage. Thanks to a sun-kissed color scheme, plenty of natural light, and a bench that's also a window seat, this mudroom by builder Bret Franks is a place to hang out as well as hang up. Bright, Bold Back Entry: Skinny, Tall Cabinets Photo by Mark Lohman Allow as much as 18 inches for traditional adult Wellies kids' boots need less. Taller shoe cubbies accommodate boots in inclement weather. Color-Coded Alcove: Tall Shoe Cubbies Photo by Nels Akerlund Photography Color-Coded Alcove: Plentiful Coat Hooks Photo by Nels Akerlund PhotographyĬoat hooks on not just one but all three walls of individual lockers offer plenty of spaces to stash jackets, hats, and book bags. Opt for a 100 percent acrylic semigloss paint for maximum scrubbability. Color-Coded Alcove: Colorful Lockers Photo by Nels Akerlund Photographyīright hues differentiate the individual lockers. Floating the lockers off the floor builds in bonus storage above and below without the need for building a platform and reworking the base (or crown) molding. ![]() Providing each child with a space for his stuff, as designer Molly Kann-Carey did here, is one way of encouraging neatness and order.Īn existing niche or a shallow coat closet with outdated bifold doors removed offers a natural recess. Color-Coded Alcove: Repurposed Niche or Closet Photo by Nels Akerlund Photography Porcelain tiles and concrete are other great choices. Slate floor tiles are easy to clean, and their cleft surface is slip-resistant-important in a high-traffic zone. Tidier Transition: Mudroom-Ready Slate Tiles Photo by Eric Roth The open-cubby base can be made of hardwood, plywood, MDF, or even stock kitchen cabinetry sans doors, set atop a platform. For adults to sit comfortably, build a bench seat 18 to 24 inches deep and 18 to 20 inches high. Old framing studs form the bench top you can get a similar look using a slab of butcher block. Run paneling or a bench back up to the level of hooks (here, brawny iron ones) or shelves, usually about 5 to 5½ feet off the floor.Īrchitect: Gary Vinciguerra, GEV Design Inc., Canton, MA 78 Tidier Transition: Butcher-Block Bench Photo by Eric Roth Unique wood paneling made from old doors forms the back of this built-in and protects the drywall, since mudroom walls are often battered by flying book bags. Tidier Transition: Old Doors as Wood Paneling Photo by Eric RothĪ side-entrance mudroom like this one, designed by architect Gary Vinciguerra, offers a convenient place to drop grocery bags and gear when you step in from the driveway. Vintage-Style Vestibule: Kids'-Height Wall Hooks Photo by Brianne WilliamsĪ second row of hooks makes it easy for kids to help keep things tidy. Vintage-Style Vestibule: Dog Door Photo by Brianne WilliamsĪ dog door lets the space do double duty as a safe haven for the family's Australian shepherd on rainy days. Wire locker baskets, screwed into the wall with cup hooks, corral scarves and gloves and allow wet ones to air-dry. Vintage-Style Vestibule: Wall-Mounted Baskets Photo by Brianne Williams ![]() Sliced to tile thickness and set with mortar, they provide a scratchproof surface underfoot. The herringbone brick floor was made from salvaged red-clay sidewalk blocks. Vintage-Style Vestibule: Salvaged-Brick Floor Photo by Brianne Williams Shiplap paneling, which echoes the home's exterior, eases the transition from outside it's also a durable surface for mounting hooks and stands up to scuff marks. Rabbit hook: about $22 Anthropologie Vintage-Style Vestibule: Exterior-Echoing Paneling Photo by Brianne Williams A rattan table (next slide), a colorful boat-wood mirror, and painted wood stools round out the flea-market aesthetic. Quirky furniture and accessories such as an old New York City transit-car bench and a galvanized-steel olive bucket, used to hold umbrellas, lend oodles of character. This personality-packed mudroom-part of an addition to designer Alys Protzman's 1880s farmhouse-provides side-yard access for a family of four. Small space drop zone storage full#Vintage-Style Vestibule: Furniture Full of Character Photo by Brianne Williams ![]()
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