Designer stuff. I need nitty gritty. Can we see a real working mudroom please.
I once bought a horse from some people who had designed their own home. The mudroom was also their tack room. It was absolute genius.
No pics but friends have one that is dubbed the “decontamination chamber”. Big and functional, it is the laundry combined with storage, with a bathroom accessible directly from the laundry area.
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I once bought a horse from some people who had designed their own home. The mudroom was also their tack room. It was absolute genius.[/QUOTE]
When I was a kid and had horsey at home, I kept my tack just inside the basement door - basically our mudroom/utility room.
Now I board, so my “mudroom” is the back seat of my car! Truly. I keep a plastic bin on the floor to swap out my boots for my shoes, and a canvas tote to contain items that don’t live at the barn, and a blanket over the back seat in an attempt at keeping it nice.
OP - some of the ideas in the Pinterest pictures would be very useful, although I am sure you might find some other finishes more practical than white painted woodwork.
Ha.
Well, I designed mine and I love it. The laundry is there. There is a big deep laundry sink. The water heater is there so you get instant hot water. There’s an adjacent bathroom so you can step right into the shower. There’s a clothes rod over the shower so you can hang your wet, muddy jacket to dry without getting puddles all over the floor.
The floor is a dark grey tile and there are cabinets and countertops lining the walls.
It has its own closet for horsey/dusty clothes and boots but I was surprised by the addition of semiferal cats who ended up getting that closet for their cat tree/cat-stacker-organizer. Still, it’s very smartly designed. 
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I once bought a horse from some people who had designed their own home. The mudroom was also their tack room. It was absolute genius.[/QUOTE]
Pictures?!!?!?! That sounds amazing!
I’m filled with envy!
My house was on a working Pecan Grove, they built the house themselves. It has a good mudroom, back porch to directly out the way you head for most farm-related things. Tile floor, door straight across to garage. Washer and dryer there, full bath. Coat closet (Huge), lots of cupboards. The only thing lacking is one of those big sinks…hmmmm. He put a half bath out in the shop too, and a pot belly stove for winter heat in one room (the main workshop, not where tractors live).
One barn I worked at had a dog shower and laundry setup in the mud room. It worked for all kinds of stuff. It made it easier to keep their house clean from the dogs going in and out.
My dog room will have a half door into the kitchen (soon) where the dog will dry off and slelep, but not feel left out from the goings on.
I designed my farm house with a mud room between garage and kitchen.
It has a door to the outside and one to the garage and a half bath, closet and cabinets.
The trouble is, that is where all visitors come into the house, no one yet has used the front door.
I have to keep that clean and picked up, so have a bench with place for barn footwear in the garage right by that mud room door.
It works great for us this way anyway.
Even when you build with a mud room, you never know how you will use your house until you are living in there.
Our mudroom and garage were a later addition. The mudroom separates the garage from the home running the length, it is about 30’x6’ with an attached laundry room\bath combo as well as access to the garage. There are two exterior doors, one at the front and back of the house and two doors going inside- one to the kitchen and the other to the bedroom area.
Another bonus is that the garage has two offices inside, one of which we designated the tack and feed room.
Any mud room is a good mud room. Mine has room for muddy dogs too. I painted the walls “mud” which is farmspeak for taupe. When they shake, the droplets are the same color as the wall.
My mudroom is my garage.
I am cracking up at some of those glamorous “mudrooms”.
Ours has slate tile flooring which hides the dirt really well. One long wall lined with STURDY hooks, as in the kind that can hold up two wet Carhartts coveralls. A bench with some baskets for hats gloves and such.
On the other long wall, it’s lined with 3 Ikea Hemnes shoe cabinets. It’s PERFECT-- holds a ton of shoes while keeping very low profile, and they’ve held up to hard use for years. And they give a landing place for the inevitable clutter (sunglasses, keys, random nails/screws/drill bits you forgot to leave in the shop, etc) but they’re not so wide that the clutter can ever accumulate too much http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60156121/
I’m laughing at this one too, I feel like I have found my people here. My mudroom is between the garage and the rest of the house, while it isn’t in the same room as the laundry it is next to it. I have a dog shower in there. The floor is a gray/brown fake stone tile that hides all dirt. I have a sink in there as well. The mudroom has a dog door out to the garage, and the garage has a back door that also has a dog door installed, so doggies going in and out on their own have the entire path of the garage and mudroom for their little muddy paws to wear off the worst of the dirt before they hit the rest of the house. Since we lost both dogs (I’m currently working on getting my husband to accept the fact that a german shepherd puppy WILL be coming home sometime in the next year), and we’ve yet to get the whole farm organized and built out it’s not yet reached it’s full potential. I actually found it easier to just bathe the dogs in MY shower which is a massive walk in gray tile with a nice hand held shower wand and a 6.5 foot tall glass wall/door to keep them in. I currently have one saddle rack which has the dressage saddle I need to get off my butt and sell on it sitting in the mud room. Our recycling bin is in there, along with fifteen pairs of shoes, like all the spare sneakers, and work boots etc. My goal this year is to get my tack room completely finished in the barn, get my husband’s junk out of my tack room and into his new garage, and move all tack to the barn. THEN I would like to get one of those benches with storage under it for in there and also put up some coat hooks-or even better, one of those seats with what looks like locker room cubbies above it for the STUFF we have.
I love that others have found a shade of taupe that is what I call “dog dirt brown”. In my last house my dogs would come in muddy, wagging their plume shaped tails (long haired shepherds) and they would whack the wall and leave perfect imprints on the off white. So I went to Lowe’s and told them I was looking for “dog dirt brown”. I found a color called Mississippi Mud that was perfect. You couldn’t see the dog dirt at all! Non animal people always thought me odd, that I saw the wall color as my problem, not the dirty dog. The truth is, you can’t change a dirty dog, but painting the wall to match is easy.
I designed my farm house with a mud room between garage and kitchen.
It has a door to the outside and one to the garage and a half bath, closet and cabinets.
The trouble is, that is where all visitors come into the house, no one yet has used the front door.
I have to keep that clean and picked up, so have a bench with place for barn footwear in the garage right by that mud room door.
It works great for us this way anyway.
Even when you build with a mud room, you never know how you will use your house until you are living in there.
I was worried about that too, so the front door has a mud-area lite where you can sit and take off shoes, one of those wonderful waterhog mats from LL Bean, and a closet for jackets. If jackets are really wet I have to take them back to the real mudroom but it doesn’t usually come up - guests are coming straight out of a car so pretty dry.
I wanted a tile floor, but this is on the older part of the original house where the floor isn’t stiff enough for tile, so it has stranded bamboo, which holds up pretty well to water.
I found some cute dragonfly hooks that I added to the back of the mudroom door and the bathroom door, to give an extra place to hang things that needed to not touch other clothes for whatever reason.
We rented a house which had a large and carpeted mudroom. Sounds gross, but it had been laid over old sheet vinyl, so any spills were easily carpet-washed out, and that carpeting caught ALL the dirt that otherwise used to get tracked into the house. It also meant that, in the winter when one comes in with icy snowy boots one wasn’t then walking on ball bearings, which is often the case with tiles, vinyl, wood, etc.
DH and I come into the house from a door to what was originally the laundry room. However the previous owners had a dog grooming business. There is a bathtub that is waist height for bathing the dogs. It makes a great place to wash out paint stuff and other really dirty things. There is a tall narrow open shelving and a few wall cabinets. I keep my cleaning supplies, pet towels, spare paper towel rolls, spare storage bags, light bulbs in those. The cat litter boxes are in there and I put in a counter for the cats food and water. Under the counter is a small fridge.
Once we moved the washer/dryer to the 2nd floor we put an upright freezer in part of that spot and the wild bird food, cat and dog food bags there too.
Since the previous owners groomed dogs in there the walls are all the plastic that you sometimes see in public restrooms. Very easy to clean. The flooring is dark green cheap vinyl. There is a cat door in the half door that attaches to the house. We went to a half door since we heat with wood so it was getting too cold in there with the door closed all the time. We have dogs that would happily eat the cat food and clean the litter boxes if the door isn’t closed.
I also have a small area where I can hang brooms on the wall. It is 9 x 12 so a good size.
We plan on redoing it eventually. I want tile floor, some base cabinets, some bigger pantry type cabinets and a large sink instead of the bathtub. Maybe some cubbyholes for Wellies and barn boots.
Our little house has only one entry so it has to be both mudroom and people room. So Hubby built a neat shelf that accommodates hats, then below are cubbies for gloves, then below are sturdy hooks for heavy coats & scarves etc. Boots and shoes are just below on the floor (in plastic trays). Opposite is a custom built bench big enough for two people to sit at once, also a tall cabinet/stand for the cat to eat and the dogs can’t reach it. 
Floor is quarry tile (indestructible and not slippery). Umbrella stand is next to the inner door. It’s a 2-door design so we can keep it warm or close the inner door and it will be cold. Provides great temp control. I’ll try to post a pic if I can get my camera working.
