mudroom or no mudroom?

6 years ago

We currently don’t have a mudroom. Would you add one as show in the pic? The room that will be made smaller is a den and not main living space.

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6 years ago

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You can still do that...create the door where you planned, but use the built in's as the wall....the backs would face the den. Sorry I didn't explain better.

If you feel you don't need it at some point, all you have to do is drywall over the door you created and Craigslist the built ins... :) Kind of like this..

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Magpie
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6 years ago
Thoughts?
User
6 years ago
I cannot see the measurements on the side to see what the size of the room is and what it would be?
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Magpie
Original Author
6 years ago
The room we would reduce in size would go from about 17x12 to 11x12. It is a den that has a slider to our covered porch. We use it for toys right now and have a 3,6, and 9yo. We have another area for our family/living room (left of the kitchen area). The mudroom would be roughly 5.5x12. Thanks!
Magpie
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6 years ago
Also, center bottom “room” is our entry from the garage.
Angela Smith
6 years ago
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You mentioned you have kids. Do you live in a snowy climate? We have two boys and live in Wisconsin so a mudroom was a "must" for us on our new build. I can't tell you how ***invaluable*** it's been so far!! If it was just hubby and I, I think a mudroom/laundry room combo would be have been sufficient. Ours is about 5.5 x 6.5. It's not huge, but it's better than what we had before, which was nothing! Think about which space you value more.
User
6 years ago
I would put in the mud room. We also have three kids and I think it’s needed. Now that my kids are 5,8,10 I’m finding we need less space for toys. They still need a space but the stuff they play with is changing and not giant anymore. But we will always need spots for coats, bags,boots and shoes!
Magpie
Original Author
6 years ago
Yes, we are in snowy climate so we have lots of wet boots, mittens, and such.
miss lindsey (She/Her)
6 years ago
Do it!
Magpie
Original Author
6 years ago
Do you think 12x5.5 is big enough? Also, would we regret making a large “den” into a small “den/sitting room”?
User
6 years ago
Rather than permanent walls, couldn't you just have semi-built ins to give you the same effect? Later on, when the kids are gone, just take them out.
Magpie
Original Author
6 years ago
We are thinking of making a opening in the wall so that would be more permanent. I like the idea of doing something like that but I wonder if we don’t make it easy they won’t walk into the room and put stuff away. They will just dump their stuff like they do now.
Angela Smith
6 years ago
Magpie, our kids are 5 and 8 and I've literally had to "train" them to hang their stuff :) Every day when we come home, if they dump it on the floor, I immediately make them go back and hang it up. They've been hanging things without being reminded on their own consistently for a few months now.
Magpie
Original Author
6 years ago
Penny design..very interesting idea. Something like that could possibly work.
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Anglophilia
6 years ago
Angela, are you available as a "child trainer" for hire? Good for you - almost NO ONE actually does this - they just "dump" stuff.

I always had somewhere my children could dump - the screened in porch in the winter when it wasn't in use, in the garage near the door into the basement. When I rent a vacation house in the summer, I look for this, too, as we need somewhere for all the life jackets/sailing stuff and the tennis bags, to say nothing of foul weather gear. With 5 people in a house, it's a necessity.
Angela Smith
6 years ago
LOL, yes, I am for hire! If they slam a door, I also make them re-open and re-close it. I'm a mean mom :) They're 5 and 8 so they're still generally agreeable. I'm less hopeful about their teenage attitudes!
mama goose_gw zn6OH
6 years ago
Definitely do the mudroom. When the kids are grown you can convert it to a walk-in pantry, or take pennydesign's suggestion to make it a temporary divider. When my kids were young we had a hall tree in the MR. They used it. It was made by a relative, so younger DD now has it at her house. And she still uses it.
amanda99999
6 years ago
3 kids & snowy climate? I’d take a giant mudroom (and have no den) for sure. (But do like the flexible option suggested)
miss lindsey (She/Her)
6 years ago
As far as the den size goes, I'd actually rather have a smaller, square-ish room than a long narrow one.

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