In the entryway: Why not give your wet boots their very own woodstove to dry them off and warm them up?

"We knew we needed to open up the spaces to each other to create views from room to room, which would make the house feel bigger," says Smith. This meant altering the entire floor plan, beginning with relocating the main entrance. Smith created a "mud alley" here, which navigates the space between the existing sunroom and former garage. "Although the space is only four feet wide, there are plenty of places for the eye to go, both vertically and horizontally," Smith says. High ceilings make the space feel more open, and a Rais woodstove draws the eye to the end of the room, where light comes in from either side. Additionally, this space is packed with storage: underneath a long bench, bookshelves, places for coats and other winter gear, a counter, angled shoe shelves and cubbies for mail.

Wood-burning stoves are not nearly as common as fireplaces, so if you’re lucky enough to have one in your home, make it stand out. This designer created a wall shield using textured ceramic tile, which makes this modern, clean-burning Rais wood stove feel distinct and separate from the rest of the hallway.

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AFTER: The space now contains a "mud alley," where the family members enter the home and hang up their snowy outerwear, organize the mail and leave their wet boots to warm next to the woodstove.

Add a softer mat inside the mudroom door to get a second swipe at those shoes and boots. Provide a spot where everyone can sit and remove footwear and then skip over to a dry floor in their stockinged feet. This incredible mudroom even provides a woodstove for warming up snowy boots.

I like this mudroom. theres a bench with drawers underneath to put stuff in, and your shoes are across the waay

Woodstove for yoga den

me gusta que haya una salamandra en la parte de arriba

backing around stove - put around our stove, then stone wall with tv, then dark shelves/display on other side to balance

Heater

Freestanding? Dbl?

Tucked away

Storage

Wood burning

Can woodstove be worked in, but not look too rustic?

love the h

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Behind the heater

ceramic tile behind stove. Stove top back splash?

Stove

pass-through mud room

壁炉

I want this

Wall

Stove

Stove surround

mud room lockers with bench

Lighting and shelves

firepalce office

Angled shoe shelf in mudroom

Fireplace

simple lights

Tiles behind stove

Fire on raised platform

Lights

Wood burner

Wood stove, cubbies

Stove

Lights

Hallway

entryway

Idea for stove backdrop.

Globe pendant

Fixtures

wall color & color transition between floors

modern stove with corner feature wall...good for living room

Great use of a small entry space!

metal wall

Lights

Penant light

Kachel

Fireplace.

stove

Камин

Pendant

Stone tile

Ash can, fireplace tools, wood stack

wittus zues woodstove

nice area for stove

Camp fire place

Wood stove

Wood stove

wood stove design

We want one

The fireplace

Back splash

stove

woodstove

breeze way fro the garage to basement

Wood burner

Boots

woodstove for basement

Mudroom

Copper backdrop to stove

mudroom built ins

Heater

Behind reef tank

this space is packed with storage: underneath a long bench, bookshelves, places for coats and other winter gear, a counter, angled shoe shelves and cubbies for mail. -- something draws you in...in our case it should be view, not stairs?

the built in bench and shoe storage

tile behind stove

Lighting

Hall way put to good use

Steel wall for furnace

bosca

Outside utility room

Backwall

Chimenea (dealer)

exposed pipe 3

Wood burner

would like this in a master bedroom

Wood stove tucked away.

moving the fireplace thing

woodstove..like shelves on sides etc.

tiled wall behind wood burner

fireplace in bedroom

very sweet modern woodstove... will be replacing...

Natural wood and drawers

Fire place, hallway, lights, storage, floor, behind fireplace.

For decoration in my mansion

Wall shield for stove

small size stove

wall tile

Hodnik

Stove

homey

Soba

hearth

Small European style wood stove

the Zeus stove is great.

Fireplace

Mudroom

mudroom

Stove

Mud room

Fireplace

Gas heating

Color palette and mud room execution

Globe pendant $99

Fireplace

Wood choice

Cori

stove

Reaserch Rais wood stoves... Saw one in a screened porch

Stove

love the tile

stove- A Ranch Re-dressing Hanover NH

Indoor heating

elevation of wood stove

mud alley

Ideal of space usage in between house and garage/studio

Ok wood stove

wood stove

like wood stove in mudroom

Hall

Shelves and lighting

mudroom cabinets and i like lights for kitchen island

gray florr bambu light color kitchen

kalyha

entry shoe shelves, bench and storage on other side

Mudroom corridor

handingy doney thingings

wood stove

Modern

modern woodstove

the warming welcome of the fp in the hall/foyer

Stove in corner of our dinning room

wood stove

light

woodstove

Front entryway

Shoe rack

تدفئه

The bench, storage & stove

lighting

Light

Fire place backsplash

Overhead lights

Wood burning stove

Garage conversion

warm, modern,

Second (better) look at build in organizer

lights

The lighting

stove alcove

modern wood stove

wood burning stove

accent wall

Lights

fireplace in mud room

basement

"mud alley"

lts. add an Edison style bulb?

cubbies, perhaps instead of glass doors to the back?

antares behind room stove

textured ceramic tile wall

Furnace

stove and backsplash

Slate wall tile.. Good idea for bathroom

floor, mud room with pull out drawers & double layer shelves

Wall behinf the stove

mm

lockers

Stove wall ceramic tile walker zanger

The cubbies and storage

woodstove and tile

stove

lampas

Fireplace

Mudroom

Wittus

wood stove

is this what george wants

Hearth

same. nice

ceramic tile that looks like slate

Walker Zanger Metaltech tiles

another contemporary wood burning stove

mise en situation du poêle

light fixtures in mud room