Is your closet busting at the seams? Or do you perhaps have no closet at all? Time to consider adding a mudroom to your house. Mudrooms are a popular interior design trend these days, and for good reason - they can house far more than a simple coat closet can. They can serve as a family command center for kids' school flyers and menus, for backpacks and shoes, for art supplies and sports equipment. Some mudrooms contain a laundry area, and some contain a mail station. Some mudrooms serve as a home base for a dog or a cat, with easy to clean, low maintenance building materials. A mudroom may consist of custom built-ins, or may simply be a corner of an existing room with pulled some clever, freestanding furniture, hooks, or shelves to house your most essential mudroom items. Whatever your storage needs, extensive or streamlined, carving out a mudroom area can keep the whole family more organized. And, being more organized saves you stress and countless hours that would otherwise be spent searching for misplaced items. While we love to design mudroom niches, a full mudroom interior design allows us to do what we do best here at Down2Earth Interior Design: elevate a space that is primarily driven by pragmatic requirements into a space that is also beautiful to look at and comfortable to occupy. I find myself voluntarily taking phone calls while sitting on the bench of my mudroom, simply because it's a comfortable place to be. My kids do their homework in the mudroom sometimes. My cat loves to curl up on sweatshirts temporarily left on the bench, or cuddle up in boxes on their way out to the recycling bins, just outside the door. Designing a custom mudroom for our family has elevated our lifestyle in so many ways, and I look forward to the opportunity to help make your mudroom design dreams a reality as well. Photos by Ryan Macchione

Main entrance. Front Railing: Removing the 1970’s railing and going back to the original style. Handrail: Restored to its formal glory. Paving: Replacing the 1970’s ‘crazy paving’ with 150 year old York stone to match the rest of the street. Front door: Removal of the non-original door and replacing it with a Victorian-style 4-panel door adorned with door knocker, central knob and letter plate. Lighting: We fitted a solid brass Victorian lamp (replica) and period-style light bulb to give a Victorian-look as well as match the street lighting. Windows: UPVc windows are replaced with slimlite double glazing using a special distorted glass to match the original look and charm. This gives the look of single glazing but still functions as double glazing. Decoration: Overall we tidied up the cables, repainted the front courtyard and renovated the window sills.

The Lakota Residence occupies a spectacular 10-acre site in the hills above northwest Portland, Oregon. The residence consists of a main house of nearly 10,000 sf and a caretakers cottage/guest house of 1,200 sf over a shop/garage. Both have been sited to capture the four mountain Cascade panorama plus views to the city and the Columbia River gorge while maintaining an internal privacy. The buildings are set in a highly manicured and refined immediate site set within a largely forested environment complete with a variety of wildlife. Successful business people, the owners desired an elegant but "edgey" retreat that would accommodate an active social life while still functional as "mission control" for their construction materials business. There are days at a time when business is conducted from Lakota. The three-level main house has been benched into an edge of the site. Entry to the middle or main floor occurs from the south with the entry framing distant views to Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier. Conceived as a ruin upon which a modernist house has been built, the radiused and largely opaque stone wall anchors a transparent steel and glass north elevation that consumes the view. Recreational spaces and garage occupy the lower floor while the upper houses sleeping areas at the west end and office functions to the east. Obsessive with their concern for detail, the owners were involved daily on site during the construction process. Much of the interiors were sketched on site and mocked up at full scale to test formal concepts. Eight years from site selection to move in, the Lakota Residence is a project of the old school process.

外壁には遮熱断熱塗料で断熱性と遮熱性を向上
地中海スタイルのおしゃれな玄関 (白い壁、淡色無垢フローリング、緑のドア、白い床) の写真

グランドラピッズにある高級な中くらいなアジアンスタイルのおしゃれな玄関ロビー (白い壁、スレートの床、白いドア) の写真

アジアンスタイルのおしゃれな玄関 (白い壁、グレーの床、木目調のドア、板張り天井) の写真

シドニーにあるコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな玄関ドア (白い壁、木目調のドア) の写真

Потолочные светильники, диз. Майкл Анастасиадис, Flos. Картина, Джим Авиньон.
モスクワにある高級な中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな玄関ホール (白い壁、磁器タイルの床、マルチカラーの床) の写真

トロントにある中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな玄関ドア (白い壁、濃色無垢フローリング、濃色木目調のドア) の写真

Color control chandelier in “Sea Foam” scene.
アトランタにある高級な中くらいなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな玄関ドア (白い壁、無垢フローリング、濃色木目調のドア、茶色い床) の写真

バンクーバーにあるコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな玄関ロビー (白い壁、木目調のドア) の写真

Photo by: Myshsael Schlyecher Photography myshsael.com
バンクーバーにある高級な広いモダンスタイルのおしゃれな玄関ロビー (白い壁、御影石の床、淡色木目調のドア) の写真

Paul Robida
他の地域にある高級な広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな玄関ドア (白い壁、大理石の床、黒いドア) の写真

ニューヨークにある広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな玄関ロビー (白い壁、淡色無垢フローリング、白いドア) の写真

Travaux de rénovation entrée
マルセイユにある小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな玄関ロビー (白い壁、クッションフロア、白いドア、マルチカラーの床) の写真

The PH Mirror is at home in the office, bath, living, office, or corporate space. Illuminated from behind, the PH Mirror can hang alone as a statement work of art, or is a beautiful addition to spaces in all design styles, from traditional to modern.

マルセイユにあるインダストリアルスタイルのおしゃれな玄関 (白い壁、青いドア) の写真

他の地域にあるお手頃価格の中くらいなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな玄関ロビー (白い壁、白いドア) の写真

ヒューストンにあるモダンスタイルのおしゃれな玄関 (白い壁、紫のドア) の写真