Mudroom Features
The one room in a Toronto house designed around February. Everything here assumes wet boots, a wet coat and someone in a hurry.
What the room needs
Mudroom Features
A mudroom works or fails on whether a child can use it without being asked. That is a design constraint, not a slogan: if the hook is above their reach or the boots need lifting onto a shelf, the coat ends up on the floor and the room has failed at its only job.
So almost nothing in a mudroom has a door. Open lockers, open hooks, an open bench with the boot space beneath it — because a door is one more action between a wet child and putting something away. What doors there are go high up, on the things nobody touches between seasons.
One at a time
What each one does, and what it costs you
Every item is a separate line on your drawing, so you can take one out and see exactly what comes off the price.
- Open lockers, one per person
- A bay each, full height, open at the front. Ownership is what makes a mudroom work — a shared rail becomes a pile, and a locker with a name on it does not. Sixteen to eighteen inches wide is enough for an adult coat on a hook plus a shelf above.
- Bench seating with boots below
- A bench at seventeen or eighteen inches, which is the height you can actually pull a boot off at, with open space beneath it for the boots to live. Not a drawer, not a door — an open shelf or a tray you kick things onto without bending.
- Two heights of hook
- A row at adult height and a row at about forty-two inches for children, on every locker. It is the cheapest thing on this page and it is the one that decides whether the room is used as designed.
- Drying trays and removable liners
- A shallow metal or moulded tray under the boot space that lifts out to be emptied and wiped. In a Toronto winter this is what stops salt and meltwater going into the carcass and onto the floor.
- Closed uppers for the off-season
- The one place doors belong: the cabinet above head height that holds last season's gear — sun hats in January, snow pants in July. Out of the way, out of sight, and touched twice a year.
- Baskets and cubbies for small things
- Gloves, hats, dog leads, sunscreen. Open baskets on a shelf rather than drawers, one per person where the lockers allow, because a basket you tip out is faster than a drawer you rummage in.
- Surfaces that take a beating
- Laminate or a hard-wearing melamine on everything below waist height, and a wipeable back panel behind the bench where wet coats rest against the wall. This is not the room for an open-grain wood finish and we will steer you away from one.
The full list
Everything available for this room
- Open lockers, one per person
- Bench seating at boot height
- Open boot storage below the bench
- Adult-height hooks
- Child-height hooks
- Removable drying trays
- Closed upper cabinets
- Open baskets and cubbies
- Wipeable back panel
- Laminate bench top
- Adjustable shelving
- Coat rail with heavy-duty rod
Questions
Questions, answered
About sixteen to eighteen inches per person for a proper locker, so a family of four wants six feet or so. Below that we build a bench with hooks above and shared shelving rather than individual bays — it still works, it just shares.
Mostly no, and this is the one place we argue with people about it. A door is an extra action between a wet child and putting a coat away, and the coat loses. Doors belong on the upper cabinets holding out-of-season kit, where nobody is in a hurry.
Removable trays under the boot space, a wipeable panel behind the bench, and everything below waist height in a laminate that takes salt and water. The trays lift out and get emptied, which is the part that actually saves the floor.
Both are common. A garage entry mudroom is often the more useful of the two because it catches everything before it reaches the house. A hallway run is shallower — twelve to fourteen inches rather than twenty — so the bench gets narrower and the boots go on a tray beneath rather than a shelf.
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