Mar 07 2009
Mud Room / Pantry
One of the things that really attracted us to this house is the mud room/pantry. It is basically an indoor laundry off the garage that also has a small half bath and a nice walk in pantry. The idea of not having to run into a cold garage at 10 pm to get the laundry was very enticing to me. Plus I liked the way it was off the kitchen and had access to the backyard and the garage. The funny thing about the mud room when we bought it is that we do not think they used it as a laundry room because they had a refrigerator there. We finally determined they could not bring the refrigerator into the kitchen because of the size of it and the size of the kitchen door openings. But that still left us with the puzzle of where they did their laundry? Like many things about the house I do not think we will ever find out why they did certain things but speculation is a lot more fun.We decided to build a platform for the laundry because we have the front loading washer and dryer. We figured we could make it storage or something underneath and build a platform for a fraction of the cost they sell the pedestals for. The platform idea was and is a good idea until I started tiling the floors. I had to tile around the wood framing of the platform requiring more cuts and it was a lot harder to work around. Tiling the pantry was not fun as I found out there isn’t any light in there which has now been added to the list of places that needs light fixtures installed. While the tiling may not be perfect in certain places due to my frustration of having to cut the tile 2 to 3 times before I could get the measurement right, it is at least done and no one can tell where I messed up unless they crawl into the corners of the pantry or stick their heads all the way to the back of the platform under the laundry.
