A Word on Mud Rooms

I have a few ideas about mud rooms.

The first one is locker doors.  I like the idea of lockers to keep all the mud room stuff contained. Lots of people ask me if they should put doors on them. Every time I ask,  "Do you have kids?" Because kids,especially little and medium sized boys, will break the doors off.  When I build lockers I build them with the idea that we can add doors after the boys have grown responsible and less destructive.

My second Mud Room detail is the shoe cubby holes. I like to have the tile on the floor be the bottom of the shoe cubby. Muddy and wet shoes are going in there, we can't stop it. So the bottom should be something that can withstand the moisture. Tile works for that. It's also much easier to sweep them out.

My last Mud Room Detail is the bench. We recently added a bench to our mud room and I love it. Its a convenient place to sit when putting on shoes, and it acts as another place to pile grocery bags on shopping day.