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Mudroom Exterior Renovation with New Pavers & Plants

Our mudroom renovation has been quite the journey... a year-long journey to be exact! One of the factors making this a more complex (and lengthy) project was that it involved significant changes to both the interior and the exterior of the space (if you remember, this was a laundry room before!). After adding an exterior […]
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September 23, 2024

Projects

Before & After: A Laundry Room Into A Mudroom

Well fam, we made it. We're finally here! The mudroom is officially done. I looked back at the very first post about transforming this space, and it was one year ago, almost to the day. On the one hand, I feel a little deflated that it took us a year. And on the other hand, […]
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September 9, 2024

DIY

I Covered a Switch Plate with Wallpaper and Here's How It Went

Throughout my house, I'm always changing out switch plates to either 1) blend them into the rest of the room or 2) elevate them to reflect other accents in the room. One way to do that is with paintable switch plates. For instance, if your switch plates are on a baseboard where you don’t want […]
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September 2, 2024

North Carolina Home

Turning a Window into a new Exterior Door for the Mudroom

With every change we make to our house, we're always looking to solve problems and make our home work for us and our family in the most beautiful way we can think up. This time, a door was (literally) opened when we turned a window in the former laundry room/now mudroom into a functional entryway! […]
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August 12, 2024

Decor

How to Style an Entryway (Including the Front Porch & Powder Room!)

Yesterday I kicked off our Summer School with an introduction to how I approach styling every space in my home. If you missed that post, be sure to go back and get the foundations so you are ready to tackle one of the most important — yet often neglected — areas of the home. This […]
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July 9, 2024

Design

12 Hooks I Love For the Mudroom

I've been planning out the hardware for the mudroom, and I can't stop putting hooks in my cart at Lowes.com. They're just so helpful for stylish home organization. I decided to do a hook "try-on," so I ordered these 12 to see how they looked on the beadboard. I've narrowed it down to three, and […]
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June 13, 2024

Design

DIY Mudroom in a Weekend

Now that we've added an overhead light fixture to the mudroom, we only have to wait on installing the new door, some wallpaper and some locker hooks for the project to be completely done! We're so...close...! As we've shared our progress, I've gotten some questions about what to do if you want to get a […]
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June 13, 2024

Projects

Our Mudroom Tile: A Vision of Black & White

This blog post is sponsored by The Tile Shop One of our Instagram followers replied to a preview photo of our mudroom tile with the comment that "it's giving...'I live in a boutique hotel,'" and they couldn't be more right. Every time I step into the hallway, I feel like I'm strolling into a glamorous […]
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February 26, 2024

Renovations

Renovation journal: Demoing the mudroom

The mudroom was a laundry room when we moved in, and when we renovated a room on the second floor to house the laundry room of our dreams — this became Cricket's room. We then started thinking this room might make a good "pool bathroom" since it's just off the backyard, but the longer we've […]
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December 13, 2023

Projects

Introducing the New Mudroom Plans

I'm practically giddy because tomorrow, demo starts in the old laundry room/Cricket's room, so we can transform it into the mudroom! In our 2023 project list, we announced that we would transform this space into a pool bathroom... but that's not happening anymore. Instead, the pool bathroom will eventually be added to the guest house […]
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September 5, 2023

Inspiration

Inspiration I'm Looking to For The Mudroom

The next project we're checking off our 2023 project list is the mudroom! This used to be the laundry room until we built out a much bigger, better laundry room upstairs. So, in the meantime, this space has been exclusively Cricket's room. Cricket will still have a special space here, but we're transforming this dingy […]
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August 30, 2023

Mood Boards

The Hard Working Room in Your Home | Mudroom Mood Board

Every home needs to have a hard working utilitarian space to drop your things and go–a mudroom! Having a designated space that you're coming and going from every day is going to keep things at home running more smoothly! And that's what a mudroom is for. In addition to the dorm room mood board for […]
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September 6, 2022

DIY

The BIG Projects Comin' Atcha | 2015

I hope you all had a great holiday. Ours was truly amazing. We unplugged and spent time with family and now reality is hitting me like a ton of bricks this morning. I must do a recap on the highlights later this week--Friday? Friday. We have a couple updates to share with you this week […]
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January 5, 2015

DIY

A New Project + 25 of the Best Modern Barn-Style Doors

After we made plans for the new laundry room/mudroom area (you can see those here), we realized we needed to think of a new door situation. Our current door swings left into the room which felt like it could get a little cramped to us. Especially since that would be the mudroom side of the […]
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August 1, 2014

DIY

Snowballing Projects

Last week, in this comments portion of this post, reader Jacqueline wrote: In a similar vein to your post about painting the ceiling, do you think now would be the time to paint the cabinets too (if you’re planning on doing that as an interim step to replacing them eventually)? Or is that just tackling […]
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February 26, 2014
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