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12 Life-changing Entryway Solutions: New Mudroom Storage!

What do you do when you want an entryway or mudroom bench or cubbies for storage but don’t think you have the space? We figured out how to create a mudroom out of seemingly nothing, and the storage we now have is incredible (and includes our favorite woven mudroom baskets)!

My neighbor asked me, when I mentioned we were working on creating mudroom storage,

“What’s a mudroom?”

I refrained from answering what I really wanted to, which was to respond with all my Jess excitement, “WHAT’S A MUDROOM?” (then do a high jump into the air combined with my high-kick-toe-touch) “ONLY THE MOST INCREDIBLE ROOM I CAN IMAGINE RIGHT NOW!”

(I’m pretty excited about this.)

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If you, dear reader, don’t need to Google “what is a mudroom,” please proceed with reading. You’re already in the know.

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Quick Backstory of the Space We Used

The mudroom. We’re slightly obsessed with it. Who wouldn’t love a space that makes daily life easier?

I think I love it even more considering that this space wasn’t even supposed to be a mudroom.

Instead, it was apparently intended to be A LAUNDRY ROOM THAT WOULD KILL ME SLOWLY.

(In case you missed it, here’s what the space used to look like.)

I’d mentioned how the original laundry room reminded me of a coffin. (Not that I’ve been in a lot of coffins, but it’s what I imagined one might feel like.)

But then things started looking up! We actually ripped out the old laundry room and moved it! We were confident we wanted a mudroom with storage there.

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Next, we went through the process of testing out how we used this space in different phases, which basically just makes for a more brilliant mudroom.

(I’d recommend reading that one if you haven’t, especially if you’re wanting to improve a room of your own. It might give you some ideas!)

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Old Laundry-Room-Turned-Mudroom Storage

Some have dreams about beating up a bully, or being chased by giant monkeys, or winning the lottery.

Those dream examples concern triumph over evil, danger and fear, and fantasy wishes fulfilled.

My mudroom dreams include all of the above.

I have dreams about rooms like this:

(laundry room designed in 1980s)

…transforming into rooms like this:

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I KNOW! That mudroom bench with shoe storage! Those hooks! Those mudroom baskets! How did this all happen?!

I’ll give you the quick tour. It’s a small mudroom. (But it’s powerful. It works so hard for us!)

And yes, we know it’s white. But we live in Southern California, so we don’t deal as much with “mud” as we do with…(drumroll)…SAND! Beachy, crunchy, millions-of-tiny-grains-that-get-everywhere sand. (But no one would know what we were talking about if we said we created a Sandroom, would they?) So that’s how we can totally get away with a white mudroom! Shazam!

(To see why we intentionally chose white in much of this particular house of ours, click here!)

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The Left Wall

I’ll call this first one “the left wall” because I’ll assume you are IN my home taking this tour, and we’d be looking at it from our hallway.

(As opposed to the other entry which is from the garage. If I had you over to my house and we were looking at this from the garage…well, it’s probably because we had just gone out to coffee and were coming back that way, so that would work too. But for now we’ll just call them “left” and “right” from how you’d see them from the main house interior.)

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On this left wall, going roughly from bottom to top, we added

  1. Shoe shelves
  2. A built in mudroom bench with shoe storage and an upholstered cushion
  3. Mudroom cubbies on each side of the mudroom bench
  4. Mudroom baskets in the cubbies
  5. Hooks on a horizontal plank wall
  6. Crown molding (and baseboards)

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#1: Mudroom Bench Shoe Shelves

You know, I did debate whether to do full extension pull-out drawers or not, and in the end we decided to go with simple shelves for this part of the mudroom storage.

(I know. The Drawer Lady choosing shelves instead of drawers. I don’t know how it happened either, but it happened. Sometimes that’s best.)

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TIP FOR MUDROOM BENCH SHOE STORAGE:

What’s nice about shelves instead of drawers for shoes (down low) is that they’re smooth & easy:

  1. SMOOTH: When you’re sitting on the white mudroom bench wanting to pull out your shoes, or put your shoes away, you’re not having to shift yourself or your legs over to the side to open a full wide drawer—you just pull them out of the shelf, or put them into the shelf.
  2. EASY: When you have adults plus children all coming in and out, it’s so much faster having the open shelving for shoes. Everyone can pull theirs out or put theirs back—without having to open a bunch of drawers into other people’s legs coming and going.

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#2: Built-In Mudroom Bench

We settled on the perfect mudroom bench size for our room after our favorite testing process.

The interior foam cushion, funnily enough, is the same foam we used on our window seat in our first house. It survived in our storage unit all those years we lived in New Zealand, and then made it to this house.

Matt just cut it down to fit our new white mudroom bench, and voilà!

Our mudroom bench dimensions are 53″ wide x 21″ deep. For us, we liked our mudroom bench height at 22″ (including the mudroom bench cushion). But we absolutely recommend doing this step before making final decisions on your own mudroom bench dimensions!

➥ TIP FOR LAZY SEWING:

Consider the safety pin, my friend. Even temporarily. Maybe you don’t have to sew anything for now!

Those of you with eagle eyes may notice it is not actually a finished mudroom bench cushion.

My amazing seamstress capabilities are limited, and I’ve learned from experience that sewing a zippered bench seat cushion is beyond my rules of “easy and pain-free sewing only. ” (I insist on it being zippered because hello, it’s a mudroom and it WILL get dirty.)

I wasn’t sure if I wanted this fabric or not, so to test it out, I did my little “wrap it like a present and safety pin it underneath” move. Kind of like another “phase” of trying something out. Our white mudroom bench looked great with this fabric (it’s a linen blend).

I was all ready to bring it to a local upholsterer to sew for me when COVID hit the world and all shops closed.

So that’s why it’s still just “tucked in” with my trusted safety pins for now.

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#3 & #4:

Mudroom Cubbies & Mudroom Baskets

We have eight of these mudroom cubbies. We sized them precisely for the space.

They’re the perfect size for these eight mudroom baskets I want to stare at all day. (I don’t know what it is…the weave? That’s all I can guess. There’s just something about these woven storage baskets that makes me want to stop and gawk goofily with hearts coming out of my eyes. )

The perfect mudroom baskets can be hard to find, so we have a suggestion when planning your storage baskets for shelves:

Ensure that your mudroom cubbies are planned in conjunction with the mudroom baskets you like best, so that everything is a perfect fit!

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If you’re looking for baskets for mudroom cubbies, we can highly recommend this look! We found our particular mudroom baskets at IKEA, but if you don’t have easy access to that store, these are incredibly similar and will be delivered to your doorstep!

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#5: Mudroom Hooks + Plank Wall

I really didn’t want standard hooks. Possibly because I’d seen 27 thousand different pictures of mudrooms with standard-style hooks. You know the kind.

Not that there’s anything wrong with those mudroom hooks, but I was just really feelin’ the need for something unique here on this wall.

I wasn’t sure how these particular hooks would work, since they’re shaped a bit differently than regular hooks, but we determined during our testing process that they worked well.

We also liked that they came with larger hook and smaller hook options to vary it up. They slide horizontally along the bar so you can have them closer together or further apart, depending on what you need to hang from them.

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We found that large items (like my large gardening hat below or big jackets in winter) might need a little extra horizontal space from the other items on hooks. Items with long, thin straps like purses or beach bags work great on the smaller hooks.

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I had a nostalgic reason for incorporating the plank wall.

I’m not usually into the “plank wall look” added in huge rooms (unless they’re original—that’s awesome!), probably because it just sniffs of something being “off.” It just looks SO good when it’s obviously original-slash-natural for it to be there. Normally I wouldn’t DREAM of adding a plank wall in our 1980s house. I’d think it just wouldn’t “fit” anywhere.

However, here it fits. For us.

The reason I wanted the plank wall here was because there was a certain cafe near our last place in New Zealand, and it was a cool old house-turned-cafe. It had beautiful original old wood plank walls (painted white) that I remember just admiring so much and having happy memories in that spot.

We couldn’t recreate the walls exactly as they were in that cafe, but I wanted to bring the feel I remember into our home. (And this is a small enough space that it doesn’t look out of place to me.) To us, it looks perfect and brings back that happy, fresh look and NZ cafe culture memories we know so well.

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TIP FOR “SPECIAL” FEATURES:

If having a certain special feature or decorative element really delights you and brings joy for some reason—even if it’s “unnecessary”—try to make it happen if you can! Stick to your guns!

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Not that I sit in here and drink my coffee, but I DO pass through it while carrying my coffee in and out…set my coffee down on the drop space constantly…take long drinks of my coffee in here while waiting for little people to get their shoes on…watch little people take long drinks OF my coffee.

Don’t worry, I’m not hitting my kids up with loads of caffeine there because I drink a Swiss water processed decaf coffee. (I know, I know…that may sound woo woo fancypants, but it’s honestly just what works best for this body o’mine.)

So yes, even though this mudroom is not an actual cafe, it gets used a lot like one sometimes, now that I think about it!

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#6: Crown & Baseboard Molding

We added crown molding all around the top edge, as well as baseboards along the bottom of the built in shoe shelves, to really give this space that finishing touch. Having a built in mudroom bench is so much nicer than a freestanding one, we think, whenever possible!

Sometimes, that built-in look is all you need to finish it off.

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The Right Wall

Remember this wall used to look like this (plus two massive oak cabinet doors that swung outwards into the room)?

That was NOT the kind of mudroom storage we were going for.

First we

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Then, on this right wall, from bottom to top, we added

  1. Kid-sized shoe shelves + a kid-sized, small mudroom bench seat
  2. Four creatively-sized mudroom drawers (more on that later)
  3. A large, open drop space
  4. A section of “mini” mudroom cubbies and storage shelves for more mudroom storage
  5. More mudroom baskets on the storage shelves

Now it’s all opened up—and jam-packed full of function for us!

(And now I want jam. Anyone else? Big spoonful of jam? I’m having flashbacks to Joey eating jam out of the jar…”Maybe if they met me in person…”)

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#7 & #8: Kids Shoe Shelves + Kids Mudroom Bench

I’m seriously proud of this small mudroom bench and shoe shelves for the kids! They might have been my cutest idea of the whole enchilada. (You can always tell I’m hungry again when I start throwing in food words.)

We had this funky little area where the wall pops back for the air ducts in the wall behind the photo, and I was staring at it one day trying to figure out what creative solution could be had. Someone suggested more mudroom shoe storage, but they weren’t deep enough for adult shoes.

You may see where this is going. A vision came to my mind of kids’ shoe shelves with a short, small mudroom bench finishing out the top—where they could get their shoes on and off without having to sit on the floor.

(One eagle-eyed friend asked about the “empty wall space” between the kids bench and the drawers above, wondering if we just wasted that space by not doing anything with it. Nope, there is actually a huge air duct right there that is essential and so that wall cannot be cut into.)

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At the time, I had just finished reading a book written by a mother with grown children. She talked about how important she felt it was to have kid-sized things in your home for your children (as everything else in their world seems to be adult-sized), and so it was a natural “Yes!” for me.

Those mudroom shoe shelves get used by my daughters EVERY SINGLE DAY. It may even be the #1 used spot in this entire space! The girls sit on this small mudroom bench every time they come in or go out. It’s been such a fun (and incredibly useful) thing to have! We’d highly recommend—if you have kids or grandkids and a little space—including a kid-sized, small mudroom bench in your plans.

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If you have young children, try to find ways to incorporate elements that are at their level. Especially in areas they’ll use everyday for years. Don’t go overboard, but even simple things like this white mudroom bench can have a huge impact. It has more potential to make their lives—and yours—a little easier.

Other simple ideas are hanging artwork at their level, or lowering hooks so they can reach what they need themselves. It doesn’t have to be anything expensive, just thoughtful.

You may notice throughout our home (as we reveal more moving forward) that I really enjoy finding ways to create kid-sized spaces here and there, when appropriate. (And when I can foresee it making everyone’s lives a bit smoother!) I’m not into giving kids the run of the house, but I like to show they’ve been considered where it makes sense.

I remember being a kid and feeling like everything was so gigantic and towering over me. Our girls LOVE having small spaces that are sized down to them. Matt and I feel like creating those spots is just one little way to show them that they’re important—that we’re taking them into consideration as we work on this house and our family spaces.

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#9: The Mudroom Storage Drawers

I don’t know what we’d do without these mudroom storage drawers. I kinda wish we’d had a way to put in eight more of them. (Not eighteen, because I don’t want to own that much stuff. )

We had to get creative here again because the wall to the right is actually angled back. (So those two right-side drawers are not full rectangles, but more like triangles. See our video for a thrilling demonstration.) But it would be wasted space otherwise, so we decided to use every inch!

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And we really do use every inch. When I do a post about how we organized the mudroom, I’ll show you what we keep in these. We use these EVERY SINGLE DAY too.

I could probably write a book on how you should keep your main areas and main storage spots for your “every single day!” uses and items. It makes life SO much easier!

(And that’s probably one of my goals of organizing and designing the house, if I’m being honest: making life easier! Life is hard enough; why have your house make it harder if you have the power to change it?)

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#10: Entryway Drop Spot

Every mudroom needs one of these, I believe. Who DOESN’T need to set down or “drop” something when they’re going out or coming in?

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If you’re not sure you need one, let me give some recent examples of what needed to be set down in this space while getting ready to leave and/or while we took off our shoes when coming home (yes, we are a shoe-free home!):

Really, it’s just THE spot to set things down for a moment while you’re getting your own shoes on, grabbing your purse or wallet, helping kids get their shoes and jackets together, or just taking a moment to think through whether you have everything you need before you leave.

See more details and tips on creating your own entryway drop spot HERE.

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While going through our testing phases for this mudroom, I found that if we didn’t have a designated drop spot, stuff gets dropped everywhere else—and then it’s in your way.

Example: Before putting their shoes on, the kids toss a toy onto the big mudroom bench so you can’t sit to get your shoes on. Or you set your coffee down on the edge of the mudroom cubbies (in front of the baskets) “just for a moment,” but the chances of it getting knocked over go up exponentially.

Basically, not having a drop space in your mudroom or entryway is just a recipe for disaster. Especially when you have multiple people living in your house, using it at the same time. So check out this post with more tips on creating an awesome “Drop Zone!”

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#11 & #12: The “Mini” Mudroom Cubbies + Storage Shelves

We had this upper space available for more mudroom storage, but we didn’t want to do ALL mudroom baskets, so we came up with this design:

2 larger shelves

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8 what I call “mini” mudroom cubbies

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For the cubbies, I realized it was imperative to have a way to store lots of “little” things that were used daily (or multiple times a day!) in the mudroom cubbies…and that could be grabbed easily, such as

Items that didn’t need to be as easily grabbed could fit into these smaller mudroom baskets. We purposefully did a different design than the larger baskets on the other side of the mudroom.

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➥ TIP FOR ODD-SHAPED SPACES:

Work with them if you can! Don’t always try to hide them. Embrace the kooky parts of your house and see if you can’t use them to your advantage—ESPECIALLY in a small house or room where you want to use every inch!

You can see that weird angle in the wall to the right, which makes the rightmost cubbies more of a triangle shape. When designing this, I did wonder if that would be weird—but nope! Turns out these mudroom cubbies are still super functional and useful.

We’ve gotten so used to it that don’t even notice them being a different shape anymore.

(See, sometimes you might have a funky room with some weird spots, but you can make lemonade of those lemons! Look at the kid-sized mudroom shoe shelves and bench we fit in! Look at our four extra mudroom drawers! They’ve each become a precious storage space!)

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MUDROOM VIDEO TOUR:

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5 Genius Ideas for What to Do Below Yours!

Looking for the best mudroom bench setup—and wondering whether to do drawers, shelves, baskets, or something else? You’re in the right place! Today we’re showing you how to create your entryway bench with shoe storage in the simplest, cleanest way possible.

We’ll also answer popular questions like:

Those of you who’ve followed our blog for awhile are about to get the pants shocked off of you:

Jess is about to recommend something other than drawers.

(It’s okay if you need a minute.)

Our home’s entry was originally the laundry room, but soon after moving into the house, we realized that was not gonna fly! (Read why here.)

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When we decided to convert this room into our mudroom, we went through a testing phase that determined we for sure needed a place to

1) sit

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2) put on shoes!

As our design developed, we found we had 5 options when it came to our bench with shoe storage:

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Option #1: Shelves or Cubbies

One option was to do a mudroom bench with shelves—or even just leave them as large cubbies like the below, with shoes sitting directly on the floor:

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(I found a way we could have the best of both these worlds, which I share in this post. )

MUDROOM Bench WITH DRAWERS

Option #2: Mudroom Bench with Drawers

Another option was to do drawers below our entryway bench, but we specifically decided against anything that pulled out. (Sharing our 3 reasons WHY further down!)

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PS: I just gotta say, even though this below mudroom was professionally designed by a big company, why bother with the annoyance of drawers when you’re not even blocking the view of shoes within? 🤦 One of the top reasons I love drawers is how they HIDE what’s inside! 😄

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Just wanted to point that out for you, dear readers, in case you’re considering any peek-a-boo drawers like this. Think twice, people! 😂

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Option #3: Entryway Bench with Baskets

I admit, I do have a bit of a basket fetish, but for the reasons I’ll share below, baskets are no better than drawers below an entryway bench.

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Option #4: Floating Bench Only

Another option available to us was doing just a mudroom bench with nothing below, making it a “floating” bench. However…

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…we wanted a more organized look. Not just with kids but even with Matt and me, without the structure of some organized shoe shelves we’d probably still just toss our shoes below in a mismashed heap! 😆 (Because we are normal people.)

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Option #5: Combination of the Above!

The fifth option was to do a combination of any of the above, like these drawers-plus-cubbies-combo!

But again, this was a no-go in our opinion.

Mudroom Bench WITH SHOE STORAGE

Why Shelves are the Winner!

We opted to go with shelves under our mudroom bench. (I know, this is hard to believe coming from The Unofficial Spokesperson for Drawers.) I had some theories that it would work best…but knew I could later add drawers or baskets if I needed to.

When in doubt, start with a phased approach!

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After seven years of living with this mudroom bench with shelves, I now can tell you from experience three reasons to avoid drawers and baskets in your own entryway bench!

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Reason #1: Easier! (And less annoying.

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Let’s face it: it’s just plain annoying to pull out drawers from behind your legs while you’re sitting there! With shelves, you don’t have to move out of the way—you just slip them on and off the shelf when needed.

It could be possible that you only put your shoes in the drawer and take them out while standing, before you sit down, but then you have to bend over further—again, annoying when you could be sitting down on that cushy bench seat instead!

See how we made our mudroom flexible for years to come HERE!

Above is a pic of our mudroom entryway in summer (hellooooo beach sand!) and below is during our California winter!

Mudroom Bench with shoe storage

Reason #2: Less expensive.

Shelves are always less expensive than drawers, between paying for the materials for the drawer boxes themselves, the faces, the hardware, and the slides (add soft-close if you really want nice ones!). Not to mention the labor if you’re not DIYing.

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Reason #3: Saves time!

Along with the annoyance (see #1), shelves under a mudroom bench are a huge time-saver! It’s grab and go! No extra steps of pulling out a drawer, baskets, or other container. Just slip your shoes in or out of the shelf and finito!

Below is the other side of our mudroom, which has a kid-sized mudroom bench with shoes shelves below also! 100% family friendly around here right now.

Bonus: See how we made our entryway space flexible for years to come in this post!

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When to Do Drawers or Baskets Below Your Mudroom Bench!

However, it’s not all bad news for drawers and baskets below! Some instances in which I would do drawers or baskets would be:

  1. If storage was so limited that you needed to stack a bunch of thin shoes on top of each other or wanted to throw them all in together—like in a beach house with a drawer full of flip flops!
  2. If you weren’t just keeping shoes in there but wanted to be able to throw lots of smaller objects in the drawers, like socks!
  3. If you don’t actually have a built-in mudroom bench that can have shelves below—if your bench is a standalone bench and all you can fit below are baskets, then go for it! 😄
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I know I love me some good texture—and it’s been said I have “a basket problem” (I think I’m the one who has said this as I looked around our house at all the baskets. Seriously…it’s near impossible for me to say no to a good, beautiful woven basket!)…

…but I still think function wins slightly over form every time! I love beautiful things, but I love smooth living in daily life even more!

There are no hard and fast rules for below your entryway or mudroom bench—just good strategies to keep in mind!

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Final Notes

Next, you’ll want to check out the full list of the 12 things we did to max out entryway storage in our mudroom, plus our entryway “Drop Zone” tips here!

It cost about $450 for the materials for our mudroom bench, and we decided that 19″ height was just about right for us. Your mudroom bench can be made in a variety of ways and configurations, so it’s impossible to tell you exactly how to make the one you need before asking more questions. We offer design consulting here, or if you’re a DIYer there are always free videos on YouTube if you’re looking for a step-by-step tutorial for the particular design you want.

When we’ve helped our clients with their entryways or mudrooms, a height of about 18-20″ seems to be about right for everyone—although we’ve done shorter ones for kid-sized entryway benches! 😄

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MUD ROOMS THAT ARE BOTH FUNCTIONAL AND STYLISH

If you have the opportunity, the entryway is a very important place in your home. This is your first point of contact with the place you call home, the place where you sit down, take off your shoes and coats, and easily embrace a comfortable, relaxed home version of yourself. It's a one-stop fit for all the things you're about to go out with - your boots, hats and bags - so it should be very functional. But that doesn't mean it can't be a beautiful space where you work hard and at the same time welcomes you home. Here are nine hallways that are suitable for both.

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This entryway by Kate Marker Interiors has separate seating for each member of the family, as well as plenty of hanging storage for bags and coats. Above and below there are hidden storage areas for things that are not used as much.



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In addition to a handy bench for putting on and taking off shoes, this entry space from Skona Hem, via the High Street Market, also has a dedicated storage area for sunglasses and bike helmets.



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A small entryway can be just as efficient as a large one, like this little nook from Studio McGee that takes up very little space for hanging, storing shoes and benches.

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A bench with storage adds to the efficiency of this laundry/hallway combination. Houzz.

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Here's another storage bench in the laundry room and hallway combo from Home Style.

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Rustic wood wall adds texture to this hallway shape. Z + Interiors, and various boxes and baskets help keep clutter under control.

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For those who prefer hidden storage, there's the foyer by Heather Garrett Interior Design by Inspired Room, with separate cubbyholes covered by frosted glass doors.

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Here's another small entryway setup spotted on Houzz, complete with clutter control baskets.

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And finally, from Hawkes Landing via their Instagram, there's a real hallway luxury (especially for a large family): a small shoe-washing station right outside the front door.

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What is a mud room and do you need one?

You may not know what a mud bath is, but if you have children and pets, you need one. With interior design, an entryway is a great way to add value to your home. If you want to go the route of a cheaper hallway design, turn one area into a hallway. The hallway is also designed for storage, so think from top to bottom and optimize the selected area.

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Mud is a decompression chamber. Before entering the house, people depressurize and take off their shoes, hats and jackets. Back outside, they can open the wardrobe and find warm clothes, then put on their muddy boots and other outdoor accessories.

With a mud room, you could do these things while storing other everyday items. The hallway, designed with care and love, will be useful to your family and guests. If you don't have one, choose a special place and let your DIY hallway ideas go wild.

Here we're going to take a look at what a hallway is, how to create a small entryway, and before you know it, you'll have a new part-time job as an interior designer working on paid commissions. Don't think for a second that this couldn't happen to you.

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