Mudroom refresh

I wanted to pop in today and share some changes that I recently made to our mudroom. 

The walls were looking a little beat up from the constant traffic this small room gets, and I was over the yellow paint. For around $80.00 I was able to give the room a little refresh. 

Step one was paint... I used leftover paint from my daughters bedroom. The color is Graceful Gray by Behr and I love it (I've used it in several rooms in our home).

Step two was the fun part...decorate! I took everything that was previously there out and started fresh. I added the FAMILY sign over our coat rack from Michael's. On the opposite wall I hung a mail/paper organizer and key holder both from Hobby Lobby. I also replaced all the name tags on the baskets with chalkboard tags from Michael's. 

This was the first project I've done in awhile and it felt great! Something about the smell of fresh paint just makes me happy. 

If you would like to see before pics and the building our mudroom you can find it all here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend.

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mudroom update and a chalkboard wall

It's been almost an entire year since we built our mudroom and let me tell you that room is a life saver! BEST DECISION EVER! You can see the original reveal here.

I've been happy with the room, but last week decided to give it a minor face lift. I swapped out the artwork over the shelf. I painted one wall with chalkboard paint. Set up a command center with a spot for all the kids homework and papers, and lastly painted the door blue (the door was black but next to the new chalkboard wall it made the tiny space too dark). 

It was really hard to get good photos of the space since it's so small, but here is what it looks like now.

If you follow me on instagram you've seen that my kids have already put some finishing touches on the chalkboard wall!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Mudroom reveal

Today I am showing off my new favorite room in our home...our mudroom!

If you've been following along the last couple weeks you will remember that we started off this project with NOTHING. This room did not exist three weeks ago. If you want to check out the building process you can go here and here. My husband built this much needed room in our garage and is now our new entrance.

Here is the new view from our kitchen where the garage entrance used to be.

This is the room as you come in from the kitchen. My handy husband also built me this shelf with hooks for all our coats.

Mudroom entrance to the garage.

The other side of the room.

My favorite part of the room is the built in organizational system my husband built. The shelves below the bench can hold up to eighteen pairs of shoes.

I added baskets to the top shelves to hold gloves, hats, scarves, etc. Even our dog has his own basket for his doggie clothes, leash, etc.

When the kids come home from school they each have their own space for their backpacks.

Here are a few before and after pics.

I'm actually impressed that we were able to complete this entire room in under three weeks and on a budget.

No more shoes and coats cluttering up our kitchen {jumping for joy}!

You would think we need a break from all the construction and mess, but my husband is already sketching out plans to renovate our kitchen this spring. That will be lot's of FUN  work!

Thanks for sharing part of your busy day with me. Hope you will follow along so we can keep in touch!

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Mudroom progress week 2

I'm back today to share how our mudroom addition is coming along. I'm happy to say that all of the construction is finished! So happy to be done with all the mess that comes along with construction...tools all over the kitchen, coats and shoes  temporarily scattered everywhere, not to mention all the drywall dust!

So here is what we {okay mostly my husband} has been up to this past week.

My husband mudded and sanded the drywall.

I primed and then painted the mudroom this pretty yellow.

My husband put in the flooring {with a little help from me}.

He then got started on building our bench/shoe cubby storage unit.

He has now completely finished the unit and I have given it a coat or two or three of paint. We also added baseboard throughout the room.

Tomorrow I get to do my favorite thing...GO SHOPPING! I need to find a few more accessories to go in the room. Next week I will be back with the big reveal!

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Mudroom colors

Our mudroom project has been keeping me busy this week. My husband has been mudding and sanding the drywall each evening after work and as a result our kitchen and family room have been covered in drywall dust.

While he was busy with that I was trying to decide what color to paint the room. I went to the home improvement store on Sunday and grabbed quite a few swatches that caught my eye.

The problem was once I got home and placed them all out to look at I felt a little lot overwhelmed by all the choices.

I decided to do a little inspiration shopping to help get a plan for the room. I fell in love with a rug from Target and also found some other cute items to match. When I got home I pulled out all those paint swatches and quickly decided on my colors. It was so easy once I had my inspiration pieces to help guide me.

My husband finished sanding last night and then we got busy priming the room. This morning I painted the mudroom and love the color! Plus I had to spend a couple hours cleaning up our construction mess.

We still have quite a few things to complete but we are working hard to move this project along as quickly as possible. 

Next week I will be back with more pictures and updates.

                                                                                         Amy

Mudroom progress week 1

It's been a week now since my husband and I began the large task of building a mudroom in our garage. I'm actually surprised at how quickly the room is coming together.

I took tons of pictures of the progress and can't wait to show you all what the mudroom looks like today!

This is the door from our garage. The door we use coming and going. It leads you directly into our kitchen/family room combo. It drives me CRAZY because there is nowhere to put coats, shoes, and backpacks. The plan is to build a small mudroom beyond this door in our garage to serve as storage for all that STUFF!

Okay I know this looks really really bad...but this is our garage. That is the door that leads into our house and where our new mudroom will go.

The first thing we did was begin building a platform for the mudroom.

What you don't see here is that we put a vapor barrier and insulation under the subfloor. 

Then we started framing out our walls.

 We had to carry that heavy wall through our messy garage.

Yes, that's me all bundled up looking chic as ever! It was freezing cold that day

We added heavy insulation to make sure the room will stay warm. This is the view from inside the house.

Saturday my husband had a friend come over and help hang drywall and move the interior door.

My husband added this arch to match the rest of the doorways in our house.

Our new entrance.

The view from inside garage.

Our new entry from garage to mudroom.

It's hard to believe we accomplished all that in one week!

This week we my husband will be focusing on mudding and sanding the interior drywall to make the walls look flawless. Fingers crossed that in another week I can primer and paint the walls.

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