Thanks, Patricia! all of the bedrooms are on the second floor and there’s no good space for it on the first floor anyway (currently in the basement). The bathroom will be the only one on the first floor and will be used by guests (plus, I want to have fun with it since it’s a small space) So I want to make it pretty :) good point about replacing any flooring after a flood in a laundry room.

Oh! To answer your last question, there are two bedrooms on the back of the house that we’ll be extending and then stealing space from, one to make a hallway to the third floor and the other to get us a laundry room opposite that hallway. So not losing any rooms for laundry.

I would find a nice porcelain 'match' to the marble basket weave and put it in the mud room. So long as they are a few feet away, no one will notice they are two different materials. You will keep the 'flow' of the same tile without the hassle of keeping marble tiles clean/stain free in a mud area.

If you don't you will be looking at a 3rd material. Hardwood in a 'real' mudroom is not ideal. I live on the Wet West Coast. It is WET! So wet it needs another room off of the mudroom to deal with all the water!

If you are describing a small space that is going to be used as a second entrance (not necessarily an area with sloppy boots or snow shovels sitting in the corner) then wood will be fine.

Agree with doing a coordinating tile in the mud room, if you will be using it as a mud room. Wet boots and shoes, umbrellas, raincoats, dirty sports equipment, snow gear, wet dogs, etc won’t be kind to wood floors

Thanks, ShadyWillowFarm and SJ! It’ll be a relatively dry mud room, but good point about the dogs. Also will need to think about a coordinating tile, the bathroom and mud room will be directly adjacent.

When we bought our house 17 years ago we have hardwood throughout the first floor except foyer and half bath ( done before we bought , I would change foyer to hardwood but hubby wouldn’t agree :( —-but anyhow my laundry room/mud room is linoleum— my mother thought it was terrible idea, honestly I LOVE it. Easy to clean and no worry about grout— I have better things to do —we living here are the only ones who see it anyway :)

You can also get a big water hog mat and a boot tray, although the dogs are not always super cooperative about wiping their paws before bounding onto the clean floors!

Great idea!

Porcelain slate with dark grout is a good choice for a mudroom floor. It reads neutral and it should be easy to find a color and pattern that works with marble basketweave and wood.

Deegw, thanks! I like the look of that, esp with a herringbone pattern. Do you think it would still work with a smaller tile (i saw one that was brick-size) but same material?

Without seeing how the rooms relate to each other, my instinct is that herringbone next to basketweave next to wood planks would be too many competing patterns. I'd let my marble basketweave be the star of the space.