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Five Benefits of Adding a Mudroom to Your Home

March 28, 2019

When deciding to renovate your current home or completely build a new house, you’ll want to consider adding features that are functional, beautiful and will pay off in the future. One of the best additions you can choose to include in your remodel is a mudroom.

What is a Mudroom?

Mudrooms gained popularity in the midwest and northern regions of the United States due to their functionality in cold and wet months. Mudrooms are the space that connects the inside of your home to the outdoors. It was most commonly used to shed rain jackets, umbrellas, or snowshoes. Now, we can enjoy mudrooms even here in North Central Florida.

Benefits of a Mudroom

A mudroom helps keep the rest of your home from feeling the effects of the outdoors, whatever the weather may be. We’ve outlined 5 of the biggest benefits of adding a mudroom to your home.

1. A Mudroom Keeps Your Home Clean & Minimize Messes

One of the biggest reasons homeowners choose to add a mudroom is to contain messes. A mudroom ensures that dirty or muddy shoes won’t be tracked through the house. The potential messes stop in the mudroom. You won’t have to worry about constantly cleaning carpeted areas of your home because you’ll only have to worry about one entry point for family members.

Mudrooms are especially helpful in homes that have pets. You can wipe off your pet in the mudroom and diminish the risk of muddy pawprints ending up in the rest of your home!

2. Promote Organization in Your Home

An example of a mudroom. Pictures shows a bench with coats and backpacks hanging from hooks.

Mudrooms ensure that your home is organized. Instead of having backpacks and jackets strewn around your home, you can outfit your mudroom with all of the features necessary to keep your family organized right when they walk into your home. This is crucial on the busiest mornings. You can easily get your kids ready for school with everything being exactly where they left it the day before. Instead of having sports equipment all over the house, you can neatly tuck it away in dozens of storage spaces in your mudroom.

3. Customization and Personalization

Mudrooms can be tailored for any home and to fit all of your needs. You can add cubbies for each family member. You can even add an area for grooming and cleaning your pets. Sometimes, mudrooms are combined with the laundry room so dirty clothes never have to go anywhere else. This keeps the area efficient, and usable, but still beautiful.

4. An Easy Addition to Your Current Home

When you choose to add a mudroom, it’s one of the easiest additions you can make because it’s a small space. Most often, a mudroom can be added to existing spaces by converting areas near entry points. It’s a small change that can make a huge difference.

5. Increase the Value of Your Home

It’s not just kitchen remodeling or a great bathroom renovation that will sell your home. A mudroom is a unique feature that will make life easier for you and your family while increasing the value of your home. Mudrooms used to be limited to a certain region, but they can now be used everywhere. It’s an added feature that future buyers will want to see. Mudrooms are beautiful and functional, meaning organization and more storage for potential buyers in the future.

Not only does it add value, a mudroom helps to protect your investments throughout your home. If you have renovated or are planning to remodel other areas of your home, you’ll want to protect those investments. Mudrooms confine messes to one area that could have traveled into other areas of your home. This saves you money in the long run and keeps your home looking just as beautiful as the day you remodeled it.

Factors to Consider

When deciding to add a mudroom, it’s important to consider a variety of factors. This room will experience a considerable amount of wear and tear, being the first room your family will enter when coming out from the outdoors. It’s important that it’s functional but long-lasting.

Location

Will your mudroom be located near the entryway of your home? Or will it be tucked away by the garage entrance? Location affects which features you’ll be able to add and the amount of space you’ll need in order to make it happen.

Flooring

Blue and grey narrow flooring tiles laid out in a repeating chevron pattern

You’ll want your mudroom to have slip-resistant flooring because Florida weather is unpredictable and rain is often in the forecast. Leaving muddy or wet shoes in your mudroom is expected, and you want your floor to be slip-resistant and easy to maintain. Tile and concrete are the most popular options.

Doorways

The door connecting the mudroom to the outside should be extremely energy efficient. Your family will be coming and going from this room so you’ll want to make sure that the outside air doesn’t constantly make its way in. By ensuring that the door is sealed properly, your energy bills will be lower and your HVAC system will operate more smoothly.

Fixtures

The mudroom should have places for storage and include functional areas. After all, the purpose of the mudroom is to keep messes contained and stay organized. The design of the mudroom should include cabinets, shelves, cubbies, hooks, or a bench where family members can easily take off shoes.

Add a Mudroom with McFall Builders in Gainesville, FL

Mudrooms are just one addition that can make your house feel more like a home. For any home addition, trust the experts at McFall Builders. For over 35 years, we’ve been transforming houses into dream homes. If you are interested in learning more about our home addition service or our process, be sure to contact us today!