Apparently mudrooms (now known as "transition rooms") are all the rage. I read an article in the New York Times yesterday titled, "Oversize Mudrooms Tame Clutter At the Door." Turns out my household is hip--and we didn't even know it.
The first year we got married, my husband and I bought our first major piece of furniture together--our dining room table. I wanted glass, he wanted wood and we happened upon this beauty below at Plummer's Furniture that we both really liked.
With a move to a new house, we discovered that the table (which is conveniently located near where we enter the house) became a dumping ground, more like our own modern day mudroom. I soon decided we spent too much money on this table to cover it up with jackets, bags, mail, etc. So I began my search for a drop off space.
I finally found it. But who knew that when I created our little kindergarten cubby hole area that I would be part of a trend in housing. Wow! If you take a look at the NY Times article, you'll see that some of these rooms are huge. Boy, we Americans really know how to take it up notch.
They ended the article with a quote from mom who said, “There is status to having a mudroom,” she said, “because there is a status for a mom who works and has kids and can keep things calm. And a transition space contributes to calm.”
Now that's something I can definitely agree with!
And that space gets used. My husbands shoes usually fill up all the cubbies and when my sister comes to visit with her clutter, she knows right where to drop it. And if I need to remember something before I head out the house--I check the cubby area first!
Yeah, cubby hole calmness. There's nothing like it!
