[karenaviva]

So my guys, who keep muttering "cool" under their breath about the drawer "pistons" as they call them, have fixed me up with a little mud-room mod. I get 2 @ 30" drawer units with their top small drawers cut off & a little 18" space in between with shelves. These are set low to the ground to make a "bench" effect. These lowers get topped with a piece of Pronomen countertop (with a bit left over for a lovely cutting board!) and I get upper cabs that I'll paint with chalkboard paint & hooks for coats & book bags underneath.

I hope you can see where I'm going with the picture below . . . on the wall you can't see -- opposite the "benches," there is an 80" tall cab for cleaning supplies & a space next to that for an integrated ironing board (any mod ideas for that??)

"Adel Medium Brown" (not her real name) here pictured settling right in.

KR

[kisaacs]

Karen,

Very Nice! I so wish I had a mudroom. Alas, in this house, it was not meant to be. That'll look great, and so functional with the deep 30" drawers!

Kristen

[karenaviva]

So, slowly the changes occur. Will, obviously, be a handy place to stash things as evidence by the guys' tools stashed everywhere on it

KR

[kisaacs]

Ah yes, the evil of every flat surface in my home. They're "random stuff magnets"!

[karenaviva]

I have to say that I'm not sure I love it. But the doors were $4 each & they came in the size I needed. They have been sanded (and sanded & sanded) and then they have primer (and sanded) and a couple (3?) coats of chalkboard paint on them . . .

More pix when they clean up their tools.

[GardenOfDarwin]

Oooo! They LOOK nice! I have a piece of 1/4" masonite that's been waiting for a 3rd coat of blackboard paint for a year now. Sad, but true.

I soooo wish I had a mudroom! I was just rereading CindyLouWho's thread: New Kitchen, mudroom, house, etc FINALLY Pics! and the one on creating a row of lockers today and pining away. Lucky you!

Susan