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If you’re lucky enough to have a mudroom in your home, you may be wondering how to make the most of it. As primarily utilitarian storage areas, mudrooms aren’t necessarily known for being the most ...

Mudrooms have been a staple of large houses, especially in climates with plenty of rain and snow. But increasingly, a mudroom has become a design essential even for apartment dwellers and those with ...

“Mud” and “style” are words that don’t typically go together. But in terms of a mud room, there’s plenty of room for discussion about how to create stylish, yet useful, space in your home. A mudroom ...

For many of us, a mudroom constitutes the family “drop zone,” a space that’s entered from the garage or the front door that’s separate from the entryway, where keys, bags, mail, and shoes (especially ...

The mudroom may be your home’s busiest entry, so give it a little design love. (Kate Osborne Photography for Studio McGee) A mudroom is meant to help keep the rest of a home’s interior clean and ...

Whether you have a proper mudroom or not, you most likely have a space you utilize for coats, shoes, and bags when you walk in the door. It may be a room unto itself or simply a corner by the front or ...

When builders brought mudrooms back into modern home design, they weren’t mucking around. Today’s multi-purpose mudrooms are mired in versatility. Just like the old back porch of days gone by, a ...

“A functional mudroom needs to offer many different types of storage for a variety of items,” says Claire Paquin, founder and principal of Clean Design Partners in Scarsdale. “Closed-cabinet storage, ...