New Mud Room!

I am so excited to show you my  


        New Mud Room.

It came about quite by accident. You see, the builder added a walled in room off the original two car garage that has access via a doorway from the garage, a doorway into the house (laundry room) and a doorway to the outside. This room is about 14 feet long by 7 feet wide with very high ceilings.

Initially, we used this room as a "Tool Room" to house our tools and do projects in. But that was before the additional new two car hobby garage was built.

To the left is the new hobby garage, to the right it the original two car garage with 'tool room'.

This the the little breeze way between the old garage and new garage.

I did not want to take a picture of this room as the tool room because it seemed to always be a mess and 'stuff' was everywhere even with us being an organized couple. Just too many projects I guess. Anyway, we did take everything out and put it neatly in the new hobby garage and this is the before picture of how we got it from the builder who lived here for the first 5 years of this houses life. Let me tell you this was crammed with tools and project stuff!!!

Looking out to the outside and to the new garage.

 BEFORE

Looking in from the outside to the door that leads into the laundry room. The doorway to the right goes into the original two car garage. The shelving was put up by the builder when he lived here.

So now here is the New Mud Room reveal...

This is looking out towards the new garage from the door leading into the house. I wanted it simple and easy to keep clean and organized. I had my young and cute, handy dandy handyman come and put beadboard and trim up about 6 1/2 feet on the walls. I then painted the upper walls with Sherwin Williams North Star. It's a gray-blue color and very soft. The beadboard is painted white. I then painted the concrete floor with Benjamin Moore's - gray timber wolf color floor paint.

This is a view from the outside looking in. The gray cabinet was purchased at Menards and houses the tool batteries, caulk, paint and winter work coats. All things that have to be stored in here so they won't freeze in the winter. This room doesn't get too cold in the winter.

Let's not forget the antique settee that I redid just for this room and you can see more on that HERE.
It conveniently sets right next to the rack of shoes...

Notice that I did a stripe treatment that was so easy at the top of the wall. I just put a band of blue painter's tape (2") where the ceiling meets the wall. I then put a band of  1" blue painter's tape an inch down from that. I painted over the tape with the white ceiling paint to seal it so it would not bleed the blue paint under it. After that dried, I just rolled on the blue paint, pulled off the two strips of blue painter's tape and I had perfect lines with no bleeding! The ceiling is white but looks blue in this picture.

I had a 10 foot 1 x 6 board installed so I could add hooks for hanging coats and hats in the winter.

 Of course I had to decorate this room with something fun, so I chose a bird theme.

I added the vinyl saying, "Bless this Nest" today...in keeping with the theme!

These birdhouses were made by my hubby for me. We used old hardware to embellish them and I painted each differently. This was a tradition we had going for a while...until I got too many.

I bought this just for fun!

In keeping with organized and useful, I found this 'box' at a garage sale for $1. I painted it white to match the beadboard and attached it to the wall under the outlet that has to be placed high by code. Hubby put the architectural piece under it just for looks.

Now it is useful to hold the battery charger while in use and hold some keys to the shed and new hobby garage.

Here is a side by side look at the Before and After! Fresh, Clean and Organized!

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