When my husband and I bought our current home, we had already written off the idea of having an attached garage for fear that we would lose our kitchen windows. However, one cold, rainy night, we pulled into the driveway with our three sleeping babies, knowing we were going to have carry all of them in one at a time. It dawned on me, “We can attach a garage with a small mudroom!” So I went to the drawing board and created plans for our new addition: a small mudroom and a big garage!
Large families can never have enough storage! So I designed my small mudroom with three goals in mind:
- More storage for kitchen items
- Plenty of room for shoes, coats, and seasonal items etc.
- A charging zone for all the technology
The sky is the limit when it comes to custom cabinetry. To pack as much storage into this small space I utilized all the space from the floor to the ceiling! We have five children and I wanted each child to have a drawer as well as two drawers dedicated to hats and gloves.
As an interior designer, I definitely didn’t want to give up aesthetics! We used the bricks from our old chimney to build a sidewalk to our front porch. I decided to stick with that theme and use a similar brick inside. Instead of full brick however, we used a thin brick that we could apply the same way we apply floor tile! This one is general shales in color english pub in a herringbone pattern.
I chose green for the cabinets because it sits opposite on the color wheel to the red brick and I LOVE a space packed with contrast! The cabinets are SW6186 Dried Thyme and I chose a color five shades lighter for the walls: PPG1128-2 Frivolous Folly.
We stayed trendy with the cabinet hardware in the color champagne bronze.
From top to bottom I wouldn’t change a thing! I’m not OCD when it comes to things being perfectly kept. The brick floor is hard to clean. Running my vacuum over it doesn’t suck all the dirt and dog hair out of the grout lines so I do have to use the sweeper hose. I also have to flood the floor with my mop then carefully sop up the water clean the grout. But for the me, aesthetics carries a higher importance than cleanliness in here. Afterall, it is a mudroom. I would ever suggest this in a dining room or kitchen where cleanliness is more of a priority.
For more before and afters and projects on my home, check out this link! My Fixer Upper
