The Mudroom

Our first project is to create a mudroom. This was my very first request when looking at houses. Either an existing mudroom or space to make one. With two active outdoorsy kids and a dog (and a husband who is sometimes like a kid), there's mud and dirt and snow tracked through the house constantly. I can't stand it! So, a mudroom with a bench and a place for shoes was high on the list.

The way the house is now, the back door leads to a hallway with the old carriage house (going to be a playroom) on the right, and the rest of the house on the left. You can tell that it used to be two separate buildings that the church put a ceiling over and walled in. So, there's a perfect space to create a long hallway bordering the entry into the house and the playroom. Dave is going to build some little cubbies and everything!

Steps to creating mudroom:

- take down paneling and two walls to the playroom

- wall up high ceiling

- insulate

- drywall hallway where we took down paneling

- put down sub-flooring so floors in both rooms are level

- lay tile down (in fancy pattern!)

- paint hallway

- drywall beams bordering hallway and playroom

- build and paint cubbies

*My husband will correct me if I got any of this wrong, or if i missed something

- oh yeah! Install hallway light fixtures!

So, here are some before and during pictures. Can't wait till we have "after" pictures!


BEFORE:

Narrow hallway between playroom and main house.

DURING:

Knocked down walls to open up playroom and hallway

Ripped off house paneling

Replacing with drywall

Dave in lead paint get-up

Lower ceiling using drywall

We have our cool and awesome friends from Indianapolis driving all the way here to Connecticut today to help us with some projects in the house. Maybe after this weekend we'll have "after" pictures to show.