Example of a transitional entryway design in Chicago

Is your closet busting at the seams? Or do you perhaps have no closet at all? Time to consider adding a mudroom to your house. Mudrooms are a popular interior design trend these days, and for good reason - they can house far more than a simple coat closet can. They can serve as a family command center for kids' school flyers and menus, for backpacks and shoes, for art supplies and sports equipment. Some mudrooms contain a laundry area, and some contain a mail station. Some mudrooms serve as a home base for a dog or a cat, with easy to clean, low maintenance building materials. A mudroom may consist of custom built-ins, or may simply be a corner of an existing room with pulled some clever, freestanding furniture, hooks, or shelves to house your most essential mudroom items. Whatever your storage needs, extensive or streamlined, carving out a mudroom area can keep the whole family more organized. And, being more organized saves you stress and countless hours that would otherwise be spent searching for misplaced items. While we love to design mudroom niches, a full mudroom interior design allows us to do what we do best here at Down2Earth Interior Design: elevate a space that is primarily driven by pragmatic requirements into a space that is also beautiful to look at and comfortable to occupy. I find myself voluntarily taking phone calls while sitting on the bench of my mudroom, simply because it's a comfortable place to be. My kids do their homework in the mudroom sometimes. My cat loves to curl up on sweatshirts temporarily left on the bench, or cuddle up in boxes on their way out to the recycling bins, just outside the door. Designing a custom mudroom for our family has elevated our lifestyle in so many ways, and I look forward to the opportunity to help make your mudroom design dreams a reality as well. Photos by Ryan Macchione

Bedroom - large traditional master dark wood floor, brown floor, wallpaper ceiling and wallpaper bedroom idea in Chicago with blue walls and no fireplace

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Large beach style l-shaped medium tone wood floor eat-in kitchen photo in Atlanta with an undermount sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, granite countertops, blue backsplash, glass tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and an island

Bedroom - large traditional master dark wood floor, brown floor, wallpaper ceiling and wallpaper bedroom idea in Chicago with blue walls and no fireplace

Is your closet busting at the seams? Or do you perhaps have no closet at all? Time to consider adding a mudroom to your house. Mudrooms are a popular interior design trend these days, and for good reason - they can house far more than a simple coat closet can. They can serve as a family command center for kids' school flyers and menus, for backpacks and shoes, for art supplies and sports equipment. Some mudrooms contain a laundry area, and some contain a mail station. Some mudrooms serve as a home base for a dog or a cat, with easy to clean, low maintenance building materials. A mudroom may consist of custom built-ins, or may simply be a corner of an existing room with pulled some clever, freestanding furniture, hooks, or shelves to house your most essential mudroom items. Whatever your storage needs, extensive or streamlined, carving out a mudroom area can keep the whole family more organized. And, being more organized saves you stress and countless hours that would otherwise be spent searching for misplaced items. While we love to design mudroom niches, a full mudroom interior design allows us to do what we do best here at Down2Earth Interior Design: elevate a space that is primarily driven by pragmatic requirements into a space that is also beautiful to look at and comfortable to occupy. I find myself voluntarily taking phone calls while sitting on the bench of my mudroom, simply because it's a comfortable place to be. My kids do their homework in the mudroom sometimes. My cat loves to curl up on sweatshirts temporarily left on the bench, or cuddle up in boxes on their way out to the recycling bins, just outside the door. Designing a custom mudroom for our family has elevated our lifestyle in so many ways, and I look forward to the opportunity to help make your mudroom design dreams a reality as well. Photos by Ryan Macchione

Dedicated laundry room - transitional multicolored floor dedicated laundry room idea in Denver with flat-panel cabinets, white walls, a side-by-side washer/dryer and white countertops

Download our free ebook, Creating the Ideal Kitchen. DOWNLOAD NOW This master bath remodel is the cat's meow for more than one reason! The materials in the room are soothing and give a nice vintage vibe in keeping with the rest of the home. We completed a kitchen remodel for this client a few years’ ago and were delighted when she contacted us for help with her master bath! The bathroom was fine but was lacking in interesting design elements, and the shower was very small. We started by eliminating the shower curb which allowed us to enlarge the footprint of the shower all the way to the edge of the bathtub, creating a modified wet room. The shower is pitched toward a linear drain so the water stays in the shower. A glass divider allows for the light from the window to expand into the room, while a freestanding tub adds a spa like feel. The radiator was removed and both heated flooring and a towel warmer were added to provide heat. Since the unit is on the top floor in a multi-unit building it shares some of the heat from the floors below, so this was a great solution for the space. The custom vanity includes a spot for storing styling tools and a new built in linen cabinet provides plenty of the storage. The doors at the top of the linen cabinet open to stow away towels and other personal care products, and are lighted to ensure everything is easy to find. The doors below are false doors that disguise a hidden storage area. The hidden storage area features a custom litterbox pull out for the homeowner’s cat! Her kitty enters through the cutout, and the pull out drawer allows for easy clean ups. The materials in the room – white and gray marble, charcoal blue cabinetry and gold accents – have a vintage vibe in keeping with the rest of the home. Polished nickel fixtures and hardware add sparkle, while colorful artwork adds some life to the space.

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Inspiration for a contemporary bedroom remodel in New York

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Beach style multicolored floor dedicated laundry room photo in Miami with an undermount sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, white walls, a side-by-side washer/dryer and white countertops

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This growing family wanted a logical design for their multi use laundry room. Both adults are tall, so the laundry pair is raised on a tiled pedestal. There is a drain in the pedestal with a sloped floor in the event of a leak. The cats eat in the laundry room, so there is room for their bowls. The litter box is hidden under the counter, and the cabinet right of the laundry is storage for food, litter, etc. Open cabinets above the washer and dryer provide storage for laundry products. A rod allows for hanging clean laundry, and a closet provides storage for the vaccuum and other cleaning products.

The client had a deep pantry closet which made it difficult to see what was in the back. In order to decide on what custom pullout drawer depths they wanted, they took everything out of their existing pantry and measured the items they wanted to group together, for instance, canned cat food, stacked two deep. Or in another high back pull out, oils and vinegars. Then they selected the depth drawers they wanted, and we custom-ordered drawers to the width of the pantry and the depth. So now everything is in its place and everything has its place. They especially love the wide custom spice drawer as they can fit 40+ spices in there. Now their pantry is uniquely suited to their needs and is also much more efficient in its use of space both vertically and depth-wise.

After. As the owners of The Tailored Closet of Greater Washington, DC, our clients were ready to turn the Pantry into a beautifully organized space, complete with a wine fridge and customized feeding zone (with a secret entrance) for the family cats under the counter at the end of the Pantry. The room incorporates an existing window on the front of the home. Photo Credit: The Tailored Closet of Greater Washington, DC

Inspiration for a small victorian gray tile and ceramic tile ceramic tile bathroom remodel in Portland with a pedestal sink, a two-piece toilet and gray walls

Mountain View laundry station A barn door slides close when needed to hide the stacked washer/dryer and a cubby for the pet dog
Laundry closet - small transitional single-wall light wood floor laundry closet idea in San Francisco with white cabinets, a stacked washer/dryer, flat-panel cabinets, solid surface countertops and gray countertops