Tuesday Inspiration: Mud Rooms

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When I think of a mud room, I think of this photo.

Wellies lined up, rain gear at the ready, and of course a brick floor to hide the mud.

Homes and Gardens

A more contemporary mud room with slate floors and built-in bench.

I like the clean, fresh look of this room.

Mud rooms also make for a great place to arrange or pot flowers and keep everything organized like this room does with floor to ceiling baskets.

Country Homes and Interiors

What a luxury to have a place to corral all the shoes and coats.

Southern Living

Even the soccer balls and tennis rackets have a place.

Oh, how I wish I had a place like this when the kids were little and playing sports.

Country Homes and Interiors

I love this room for it's versatility. It's both mud room and sun room, a quiet place to sit and contemplate with a cup of tea.

Our mud room in Asti truly is a mud room!

Accessible from both the front and the back of the house, it is basically the entrance, a place to take off those muddy shoes and put on your slippers. The laundry room is just off this room.

Homes and Gardens

When your mud room is also your laundry room, it's nice to hide the washer and dryer behind a skirt.

Country Home

My favorite laundry room is Lisa's, my friend who inspires me so with her original and elegant design ideas. Behind the skirt is her washer and dryer. Above, her collection of wash buckets and bread boards.

Country Living

This solves the ironing board dilemma. Mine seems to always be set up, even if I don't need it. As soon as I put the ironing board away, I need to iron something. It's a vicious circle!

Elle Decor

I like how the stainless steel appliances relate to the galvanized sink, tubs, watering cans and other items in this homeowner's collection.

Another one of my favorite laundry rooms belongs to Kelley from The Polished Pebble. Again, more stainless and galvanized metal. She loves her Mrs. Meyer's cleaning products!

Houzz

This laundry room is serious about laundry! Great for a large family, it's organized and laid out well.

My laundry room/mud room/potting room...

Really, it is a catch-all, staging room for items to be either distributed to the garage or upstairs. It is quite a challenge for me to keep it organized, but I'm working on it!

The Mud Room

The Mud Room. This is technically the "entry" to our house in Asti.

This photo was taken when we first moved in.

Another photo of the mud room last year.

We were fortunate to inherit this lovely antique "settle" from the previous owners, as well as the decorative wooden farm implements.

I found these grape botanicals at the flea market and framed them myself for over the bench. I also made some feed sack pillows to personalize the space, but those wooden farm implements were starting to bug me. They were always in the way and getting knocked off the wall.

The mud room last weekend.

Notice the difference?

I found this burlap sack at the flea market for $20 and framed it.

I don't know what this says in French, I'm just glad it replaced the wooden farm implements!

Since the walls are Venetian Plaster, there was no way to patch the large holes from the brackets that held the tools. The new addition hides the holes nicely!

Looking through the door from the side porch, I am loving the new rustic framed burlap sack.

For sale: one wooden rake and two wooden pitchforks!

Never been "used!"

I'm joining Kimm at Reinvented for the first time for "Trash to Treasure Tuesday!"

Please visit her website to see what others are reinventing.