The dream mudroom.....

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[QUOTE=goodhors;4537651]
BAD DOG!!

Maybe if you keep his feet clipped down tight, between the toes, so less hair to carry dirt around would help. Does make a visible cleaning difference, when my LARGE hairy dog has “NAKED feet!”[/QUOTE]

Nah, bad owner. His feet are clipped (to the best of my ability), I just cannot get the mud off. Coupled with our lousy house-keeping and seeming inability to make our bed, there are more than a few nights when hubby draws back the covers to find muddy paw prints on the white sheets.

Maybe it’s not the mud that is the issue, maybe I just need brown sheets? Yeah, that’s the ticket…

[Fancy_That]

We have a mudroom and designed the horse set up

We were able to design the whole horse set up on our property, which we just bought in May 09.

Luckily, the ranch house already had a mud room/laundry room with a back door that leads into what’s now the backyard and towards the Carriage House/Garage.

So I put a gate to the “horsie area” conveniently close to the mudroom door, and set up the horse area (tack room, hay barn, stall shelters, grooming and wash rack) accordingly.

Our mudroom is small but it totally serves it’s purpose. The mudroom door also has the doggie door in it. So the dogs can wear off a bit of dirt/mud before entering the main part of the house

I wish ours was bigger, but I’m SO GLAD we have it! We have a utility sink, washer/dry and lots of cupboards for storage…as well as a linoleum floor (soon to be Pergo)

Love it!

[Tom_King]

The dogs already have a 16 x 24 foot room with washer/dryer, easy clean floor, 6’ long stainless steel sink, designated toilet in storage closet,etc., etc…

A mudroom should have a boot sink with a drain that has no trap and runs out to daylight downhill through 4" plastic pipe and not into the septic tank. This is not something that can be explained to an inspector so plan accordingly.

Plenty of boot and glove dryers and lots of open places to hang wet clothes. Fans to circulate more air than you would want to move in a living space and heat exchanger vent to outside. 10x10 is plenty big but probably also minimum size if you have more space for one.

Pet door for cats in cold weather.

[atr]

![]( built mine a couple of years ago…

Terracotta tile floors with underfloor heating so boots and shoes are warm and dry, a laundry/ulitity room, and a bathroom (with shower) off one side, lots of storage for coats and hats and gloves and shoes a decent sized bench, a door to the garage and a door to a covered way to the driveway.

Here’s a couple of pictures:

(taken before we put the hooks up–the back of the bench has hooks above the seat and on the reverse side)

[IMG]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a256/ACTRI/100_0845.jpg)

This is going from the kitchen to the mudroom (with some gratuitous kitties)

[IMG]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a256/ACTRI/100_0780.jpg)

This is standing in the bathroom looking towards the outside doors:

[IMG]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a256/ACTRI/100_0852.jpg)

[judybigredpony]

I have a mudroom…but to get there you have to walk around the house thru the wet yard up narrow steps…because hubby is waiting for that right moment…when we have spare cash (think frozen devils) to install a patio w/ a deck.

My dream mud room would have an outdoor shower so I could strip off stinking sweaty summer manure encrusted hairy mucking riding gear, take a relaxing shower, put on a clean robe and dump my stuff straight into the washer n dryer.
Pause in front of the pantry right across the hall where there is a mini fridge stocked w/ cold drinks, snag a snack and head for a sofa. By passing kitchen all together snag a snack:)

[foggybok]

My dream mudroom would one one that actually get used…

Hubby and dog come in the front door or through my office all the time…there is a dark trail on my office floor… mud chunks appear everywhere…

If only they would use the mudroom!

OK, I have to fess up, sometimes it is easier to cut through the office…

[Sabovee]

Everytime I see this thread title all I can see is

The dream mushroom.

[Bluey]

I have a designated mudroom, but somehow it ended being the back porch and where everyone comes in the house.
It has a small 1/2 bath in it’s own room and a coat closet, coat rack, long low table and cabinets with a top like a table.

Soooo, sometimes, even if you designate one as a mudroom, it will get whatever use it gets.:lol:

[scpezold]

@greysandbays;4537337

Oh, you dream too small!!! You want the cabana hunk for your recreation AFTER you dump your clothes… and somebody else (doesn’t matter much who) to do the mud room attendant stuff… :winkgrin:

Wow, I am blushing :o

I think the painted concrete floors or stained/sealed brick floors (what we have through most of our house) with a drain in the center is a must. I am also thinking of a very deep cutout (niche like) in one of the walls that is no more then 4-5 feet high and maybe the same wide and deep. Their would be a fan mounted off to the side. The dogs would go in there and a chainlink gate would cover the facing. This could be there “drying” room. I do not know about your dogs but my guys get very hyper after their baths and want to find any towel, carpet, fabric, etc to drag their body on. I figure throw a bunch of towels in there and let them have at it. I also figured chainlink as my dogs will only scratch wood doors. This niche area would be hoseable as well.
I am really liking the idea of a full shower for those really dirty days. Maybe have a regular shower head up top and a handheld installed closer to the bottom for bathing dogs, hosing boots,etc. This area could also double as a “drip dry” station.
Someone also mentioned dutch doors as the main door to the rest of the house. I like that idea and might even take it a step further and install a retractable doggie gate to give the door area even more versatility.
This mudroom may also benefit from a small central vac to suck up any drug in mud, dirt, hay, manure, etc.
Brooms and dustpans are
SO last year:lol:

The mudroom would also have to have a small tv so Animal Planet could keep the guys company when we are away. My guys love this:yes:

I am really trying to keep the horse blankets at the barn. Dont have a barn yet but trying to figure a way to effectively dry out blankets when removed after bad weather. However, I am thinking the barn orientation will be right off the garage so if it ends up being close enough I might just have to add “blanket aerator area” to my dream mudroom.

Both mudroom “kennel/niche” area and barn aisle would have small auto waterers mounted on the wall and stationed at proper height. I dont want them drinking out of the toilet at the barn and I am afraid with three of them in the mudroom area at the same time they are bound to knock over the water bowl.

Still reading through all the posts. Great ideas you guys. Keep em coming.

[Mozart]

We will be building a house in a couple of years time and the room I think about the most is the mudroom! Mine will have two doors, one leading to the yard and barn and one to an attached garage.

Room for dog kennels and dog beds

Washer, dryer, utility sink with tack hook. Separate washer for horse and dog stuff. A rack for hanging clothes to dry that can be raised up and out of the way.

One side (near the garage)will have row of open lockers for coats and back packs, etc. with upper cupboard for out of season stuff and lower pull out drawers for in season stuff etc. Bench with pull out drawers in front of the open locker.

Others side will have a similar row for barn and work clothes.

Big freezer and pantry. Rack to hang in season family sports equipment. Connected to mudroom will be a small bathroom with shower stall.

I really like the Dutch door to the kitchen idea, I was thinking sliding door but I like the Dutch door idea better.

Yup, gonna design the mudroom and kitchen first and the rest will flow from there!

[scpezold]

Just came across this which would be great for a mudroom but I am thinking it would be great also drying those multiple blankets at the barn as well :yes:
http://www.hgtv.ca/BLOG/photos/stylesheet/images/85668/original.aspx

urbanclotheslines.com makes them and a few other great designs!

I’m thinking if you did not want to spend time buckling and unbuckling the chest area to go over the bars you could simply hang hooks from the bars.

[SLR]

I really love this thread as we are building a house now and I’m in the process of designing the mudroom. My builder told me that I could put a small door in the baseboard flush with the floor that would connect to a whole house vac, so i could just sweep the dirt in. That sounded like a great idea. I just don’t know if I want to spring for the whole house vac for just one room. Have had them in the past, but rarely used.

[birdsong]

As everyone described their perfect mudroom I realized it was exactly like my grandfather’s old milk barn! One area with the concrete floors and drains and another room where the milk was processed would make the perfect place for hooks and storage.

It still stands on the family farm (empty)…wouldn’t I now appreciate that in my own back yard!

[MistyBlue]

Okay I opened this all set to describe in detail my dream mudroom. Which I wiill eventually built in my basement. (walk out basement and where I come in from outside now anyways)
I adore planning these types of things and was ready to have a typing fest of describing details.
Then I read atr’s post and opened her photos.
Soooo, nevermind my detailed description now. It pales in comprison to atr’s reality.
And just to deepend the shade of Envy Green I am right now…atr, you live in a log cabon don’t you?

My dream mudroom is atr’s mudroom. And kitchen. Floors. And house.

I’ll be packing now, atr I’ll be there soon. :winkgrin: :lol: :winkgrin:

[ReSomething]

Nope, atr’s is too pretty, I’d never be able to bring myself to use it.

What I have is too small, it is the laundry room, and it needs to be open to the bathroom on one side and the kitchen on the other. I understand that some doublewides actually have a floor plan like this but ours is “special” with a unique floorplan that takes advantage of the view but really sucks for farm living. It is the best door to enter by when you are doing farm chores, I’ll give it that.

My dream mudroom would be similar to one a friend had - it took up the entire side of the house between the main house and garage and had laundry tub, washer, dryer, seating, hooks and cupboards and a full bathroom at the end. Opened into the kitchen breakfast nook so the fella could work on cars or whatnot, use the bathroom, have lunch and get cleaned up all without entering the main house.

[atr]

Mistyblue, I do indeed live in a log cabin–the prettiest log cabin in the world, actually, up a winding mountain road to boot, and I love it

(And you should see the mudroom right now–pretty it isn’t! I really need to go muck out in there sometime this weekend–it is the main entrance to our house so we try to keep the “hallway” part of it reasonably tidy, but the hidden part, wherethe catbox and the dirty shoes are, is a disaster area at the moment…)

[suz]

i’ve come pretty close to a dream mudroom, and will remodel next spring to fix what doesn’t work really well…
i had the good ideas, but still the door is in the wrong place, entry too small, etc.
but what is good is the tile floor and walls throughout, plus drain in the floor. we have what we call a clean room, there’s where the drain is, and a spigot for water about twelve inches from the floor. the plan called for it to be plumbed with hot water, but the plumber didn’t understand and it’s just cold. that will be fixed and i’ll use a car wash type boom spray to clean boots and dogs. the room will be big enough for the dogs to hang out in comfortable while they dry off as well.
there is also a large utility sink, which is good for potting plants, washing dog dishes, etc. we’ve also used it when butchering broilers and we could keep it all sterile thanks to the tile and drains.
that room needs to be adjacent to the back entry though, and bigger, so the dogs and i can come in from the barn, wash and dry off, then proceed into the rest of the house.
i do have a powder room right there, and the washer dryer, so i can come in, use the bathroom, and strip my dirty clothes right into the washer. the problem is that i rarely do, because there seems to always be someone standing around when i want to do that. so in the remodel i’ll have a closet there with spare clothes, which makes sense anyway, since they can come right out of the machines and get put away immediatly. if i could actually store my clean clothes in the machiine that would be AWESOME!!
plus we’ll have the back of the fireplace/woodstove where i can hang damp clothes and boots to dry, and screened in tiny cat litter box porch which keeps the odors out of the house, and access from the outside for ventilation and cleaning.
i’m sure i’m forgetting something, but the plans have been put away for now, i’ll look at them again in a month for a fresh view of it all…

[scpezold]

atr-I somehow missed seeing the pictures of your mudroom:eek: It is gorgeous. I especially love the color.
Green with envy.
Back to the drawing board for me:lol:

[Bluey]

[QUOTE=scpezold;4539835]
atr-I somehow missed seeing the pictures of your mudroom:eek: It is gorgeous. I especially love the color.
Green with envy.
Back to the drawing board for me:lol:[/QUOTE]

I thought so too, it is marvelous.

[atr]

Thank you. I love it and it is very practical. And you should have seen the disaster area it replaced!

Sometimes there are some advantages to having your own cabinet shop in a construction slump–time and people were mine!