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WOW!!! That is absolutely beautiful!!!
Now I want to see the rest of your house! LOL
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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.
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My hubby, who never in his life slept with a canine until we got married, (and then had 3, now 2 plus a cat in bed) has solved the whole problem - he just doesn’t look anymore. :lol::lol::lol: He has perfected the "lift the covers a foot up, slide hand under covers and swish back and forth a bit, close eyes and climb in. Before either of us can actually get into the bed and under the covers, Zipper the littlest rat terrier is under the covers at knee level, Buddy is stretched out full length between us, and the cat is in the depression between the our pillows. Bullet, the 60+ pound lab setter mix is (thank god) not allowed on the bed and doesn’t try to get up there too often, and the Pyrs are outside. Otherwise, we’d be on the floor on the mostly ignored dog beds, while the dogs had the bed! 
I just built my new house and my mudroom dreams had to meet with reality. The grand plan turned into a 10’ x 10’ room (which then had to accommodate the furnace :mad:).
I ended up with: a “doggie swimming pool” as my carpenters called it – I stood up and held my shoodle, Maggie at waist height and told them to mark where her feet were and that is where I wanted the bottom of the tub. :winkgrin:
I bought a 3 pc. shower/tub faucet set with a hand held shower wand which I had placed on the wall and it is perfect for washing doggies.
The tub itself is a tub/shower base for an RV. You can get them in L or Rt hand drains, and just about any size you want on ebay and the cost is 1/4 - 1/10 of putting in a custom tub.
I also have the bench with flip up lid and the shelves and old brick floor (which I have not put sand/grout between. I figure that the doggies and I are "self grouting by bringing sand in daily. In Southern Pines, there is no shortage of that!. :lol:)
I saw a WONDERFUL mud room with a floor that was slightly sloped toward the door. There was a gap underneath the door sill where the water drained out when the room was hosed down. It was caught on a little “lip” which directed it away from the house’s foundation. Much less costly than a drain. :yes:
I also have a dutch door between the mud room and the rest of the house. So if the dogs come in through the doggie door and it is raining, I can close the bottom of the door and keep them in there until I wash their feet off.
I wish the mud room was bigger. But it has the basics. Right across a 4’ wide hallway is a half bath, so I do have a bathroom right there.
And my industrial size front load w/d are in the master bathroom Right where they should be. :yes::yes::yes: At night I undress into the washer, and in the morning I dress out of the dryer. Works for me!
quote: “I ended up with: a “doggie swimming pool” as my carpenters called it – I stood up and held my shoodle, Maggie at waist height and told them to mark where her feet were and that is where I wanted the bottom of the tub. :winkgrin:”
We used this method too for the sink in the dogroom.
You don’t have to have a threshold under a door and without one the floor can either be swept out or with proper planning and materials-hosed out.
www.conservationtechnology.com used to sell an automatic sealing weatherstripping that was recessed up into the bottom of the door that presses down only as the door is closed tight. We have them in a couple of places that I installed them in maybe 20 years ago. I didn’t search their site but just went there and copied and pasted the link here. With those, and I forget exactly what they were called, you don’t need a raised threshold.
While the rest of the world is admiring the Street of Dreams homes, us horse types are waxing eloquent about our mudrooms…happiness is having a BIG mudroom. If ever I get to have one, I’m going to resurrect this thread and plan accordingly, then I’m going to make it even bigger. Something that has a sloping floor I can hose out, dog beds off the ground so I can sweep, and lots of cupboards for unattractive gear. I want a half door into the main part of the house so if the dogs are drying off they can still feel part of the family.
Here’s the ultimate floor. It can be applied with a rounded cove base and continue up the wall as high as you like to facilitate hosing. It’s going in our dog room sometime in the near future.
http://stage-protective.sherwin-williams.com/pdf/articles/anewbaseofoperation.pdf
However, it is one of those things that if you have to ask…
We don’t have a real mud room here sadly, but the back door opens into the laundry room, which isn’t half bad. I can’t hose the dog off in there, but I can dump the dirty clothes and dirty dog towels. The main thing that I really like about it is that the downstairs half bathroom is right there. I have a tiny bladder, and it’s so nice that I can come in to pee without having to tromp through the house :lol:
I like the idea of the drain in the floor, though I would do vinyl flooring with a texture so it’s less slippery than cement.
Of course there would be lots of storage space for boots and coats and such, as well as a washer and dryer and laundry sink.
It would have to have a half bath, probably one that opens into a full bath for showers after especially dirty tasks. I’m thinking it would be nice for the half bath to open into the master bathroom for that purpose.
I would probably also use it as a tack and feed room (just feed, not hay). I get so tired of all the moldy tack down here during the summer, so having it stored in an air-conditioned room would be nice.
I’m trying to convince DH to turn my upper deck into a screened in porch/mudroom. There’s no space in the garage and the laundry room is a joke, so I track all my dirt in through the kitchen and there are shoes everywhere :eek:
Reported post #50 to mods
was reading this and didn’t know it was an old thread until I saw a post by Tom King, gee I miss his posts
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