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From the Woodshop: Mudroom Complete!

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Our mudroom (please see link if you are outside the U.S. and unfamiliar with this term), was fairly generic – a place to do our laundry, use the utility sink, store some shoes, and to hang clothes as they dried. It had generic white metal racks from a home improvement store.

It is the way you enter our home from the garage and the first area of our home visitors might see if we bring them in through the garage (i.e. if we pick them up from the airport in our car, etc.)

John decided to make our mudroom a lot more interesting by building storage and adding convenience items.

The first thing he made was a topper for our washers and dryer to make laundry easier to fold (see post Never Bored When Making Boards (From the Woodshop)):

This was a “game changer” when it came to laundry folding!

Next he made a bench with shoe storage so when entering or leaving the mudroom you had a convenient place to deal with your shoes (see post From the Woodshop: A New Bench and Beginning of the Mudroom Remodel):

You can see a little of the white metal shelving we had before and the hideous brown old storage unit to the right that we had.

After the bench was complete, he worked over the past 6 months (sporadically), to complete the rest of the mudroom storage build out. Here are some photos of John’s work in progress:

And Mike the Miniature Schnauzer had many trips to the home improvement stores to get supplies!

Mike loves being in his box riding around in a shopping cart!

And finally here is the completed mudroom!

Definitely worth the wait!

John designed the entire storage piece himself not using any formal plans, just inspiration from images online and YouTube videos!

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35 thoughts on “From the Woodshop: Mudroom Complete!”

  5. Yes, I do know what a Mudroom is but I didn’t know it was also a Laundry. I thought Laundry was a different space.

    Here you might have an enclosed porch where you decant your outer wear/shoes. I don’t have an enclosed porch but I do have shelter on the porch with wall on 3 sides. But certainly no where to sit to take of outer wear/shoes.

    And my laundry is basically too small to swing a cat in – and anything wet like “rained upon” ends up either over the opened washer or in the shower stall.

    (I may not be able to post this – WP has done strange things to “post comment” menu)

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  7. He’s done a fab job there! We tend to use the word Bootroom here as it was the space you entered after your ride to rid yourself of all the paraphernalia like muddy boots. We still need it with all the dog stuff. I think they have more outdoor things than we do!

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  11. Oh my goodness! What a transformation! I am especially envious of having a special place for the vacuum cleaner, which is such an awkward thing it never seems to fit anywhere.

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  13. I love the elegance of good storage, and John has done a wonderful job. I see that Mike supervises purchases; Mouse does something similar but is too large for the carts, so tends to stroll along beside on his leash. My own mudroom is just the back end of the garage, but I have given myself a long folding table across the washer and under-counter fridge and freezers. One of these days the Husband will sell the massive motorbike, and then I’ll be demanding all that space for storage…

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