John’s been up to it again in his workshop, this time making the bench/shoe storage that is Stage 1 of the long awaited MUDROOM REMODEL.
When you enter our home from the garage you enter immediately into the laundry room which is allegedly supposed to be also like a “mudroom” where you could take off your shoes, etc. But ours instead has sort of been a “hot mess”room.
John did try and spruce up the laundry room/mudroom by building a topper/board for the washer and dryer a couple months ago (see post Never Bored When Making Boards (From the Woodshop)), as well as putting in a shelf above them. But still when you first walk into the area from the garage there is no place to sit and take off your shoes…plus it is kind of messy and cluttered there with Mike the Miniature Schnauzer’s dog food, our reusable bag collection, clothes that are hanging dry, and various random crap.
John’s been wanting to turn the laundry into a real mudroom/laundry room for a long time (and no longer dread whenever we need to bring in people through the garage into the house); and he decided the best way to start was to make the mudroom in a modular fashion – beginning first with a bench that you can sit on and take off your shoes.
Here is the bench in progress in his workshop and then in the garage being stained (John designed the bench without formal plans/pattern from watching YouTube videos and looking at online ideas for benches!):
And here is the completed bench in place in the (someday to be) mudroom/laundry room and John happy with his handiwork:
Next he will be working on building a “broom closet” to store the brooms, mops, and vacuum cleaner, as well as some cleaning supplies.
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Yay for mudrooms, I need one! Last picture says it all: “Are we there yet?” ;>)
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I can’t wait until it’s finish and I know John will have fun along the way getting there 😀
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Looks lovely as well as sturdy and well made
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Thanks so much 😀
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👏👏👏
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that sounds very useful
I don’t have a garage – rather I enter directly into either the kitchen or the living room (occasionally come in that way especially if a courier has come) – at the front entrance is an old heavy floor rug – for shoes but no seat (design all wrong). The kitchen of course is small and nowhere to wrangle much. As for the laundry that’s even tinier and there’s hardly room to swing a cat! The broom closet, is in an entertaining space a tiny narrow door behind the hallway door – which you can’t use until you close said hallway door – it seems to have been slotted in the bathroom recess, so the shower box is small-as! Everything to do with extra spaces is small in this pad – except for the combi living/dining …
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You must have to be creative with your space. Someday we are going to downsize to a smaller house but I appreciate all the space right now, its the biggest place I’ve ever lived.
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Quite haphazard – I keep moving things around – but never get it “just so”
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Very clever to have made a bench cum shoe storage rack
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Thank you! We are pleased 😀
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I love the bench!
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Thanks so much!
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Always!
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I like John’s idea of “re-modular-ing”. Makes the mess less intimidating. One of these days we’ll take on our back hall…
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You should do it. I thought it sounds liked a scary project until he came up with the idea of making it in sections!
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