We added mudroom storage to our almost 100 year old house!
A project that has been a year in the works is finally done and WOW it exceeded my expectations. What a huge shift it created in our home and added some much needed storage and a gathering space.
When we first moved into our home the kitchen was two spaces divided by a wall - the actual kitchen was shoved into a small ‘u’ shaped area and then there was a large open area for a table. We tore the wall down and redid the kitchen area during phase one of our DIY renovation (you can see that process here!) As a quick refresher, here is a before pic.
Wow hard to believe its the same space! The area where the table is always felt too big for just a table but too small for a table and anything else. We also REALLY needed mudroom space, with three girls 5 and under, two in kindergarten and one in preschool we had all the backpacks, lunchboxes and and no where to put them! So I started brainstorming and came up with the idea to add a lot of storage in floor to ceiling cabinets that would function as a mudroom and then a built in banquette that would span the room and provide seating and some more much needed storage.
My father is a talented cabinet builder (lucky I know!) so he built the cabinets I drew out. The floor to ceiling cabinets have shelves in one part and hooks and shelves for backpacks and school things in the other. I added beadboard running the room 48” up from the bench seating to provide weight to balance out the tall cabinets and we painted it all the same color as our bottom cabinets in our kitchen, SW Iron Ore. I found some tufted french cushions on Pier One (not available now) and we added pegs around the top of the beadboard for hanging and interest.
The new additions are so practical AND beautiful, my favorite kind of design. They make sense in our 100 year old home and everyone who comes in says “oh wow these look like they have been here forever” which is my ultimate goal in design. I love when I get to make a house more efficient for modern living while getting back to the roots of the era it was built.
