![]() ![]() Before it was torn down they let us all go through the school and get a few things that they were giving away. This past year, our kids elementary school got torn down and a new one got built. It was so fun for the kids to draw and leave messages on, but they have all kind of grown out of it, and I was ready for a change, so I painted over our chalkboard wall with Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee. I keep it simple adding a couple things, focusing on highlighting the storage as a focal point.Īnother big change I addressed was our big green chalkboard wall. Its a very high trafficked place in our home and it needed to keep that functionality. You don’t want to deck out the space in so much stuff that it takes away from the functionality of the space. The basic mudroom design plan works well, I just wanted it to be updated. It wasn’t a huge change, with just new hooks and paint but it was just what the space needed. It was nice! I really did like it, but I was ready to change it up. Here is what our breezeway looked like before…. This fall, I have been really loving Benjamin Moore Gettysburg Grey paint and decided that was the color I would paint it. I originally painted it all white, which was great, but after a couple years it was showing its age and needed to be repainted. Over the years our hooks have been bent, pulled out of the wall and were all loose and had torn the wood they were screwed into. We also added hooks to the walls above and each person had their own. We can hide all their shoes and basketballs easily. ![]() The mudroom bench with tops that lifts up. A couple years ago, we built a mudroom bench in our breezeway with storage for all our kids stuff and today I want to talk about our mudroom design and our mudroom decor. I am always changing something up and this week it is my mudroom. In his Case Study design of the mid-1940s, Plan 529-1, it's simply labeled as a porch but becomes a breezeway/garden room, but is really an indoor dogtrot.Well its bound to happen when you live in my house….there have been a few changes! Haha I feel like that is just the way it goes in my house. Of family room or indoor-outdoor dining room. Wurster expanded the glazed corridor into what he often called "the room with no name," essentially a sunporch or lanai that could have multiple uses as a kind Of the street front and the privacy of the porch at the same time.Īdd a glass wall and things start to evolve. Oriented to catch the breeze, while in traditional examples the front door preserves the dignity Side-yard houses are houses are usually only one room wide and the porch is Here's a design, Plan 900-6īy C3 Studio LLC, echoing that idea. The front door opens to the porch, which in turn leads to the front hall (in some examples, the porch is In the Charleston, South Carolina single-houses of the 19th century, also called side-yard houses. Would be abrupt, exposed to the weather, and unwelcoming (photo courtesy Henry Bowles).Ĭlassic American examples of the porch as passage are found If there had been no overhang the entrance walk Norton, 2001).Īnother example, this time on a slight downhill slope, is the entrance at the Wallace house of 1933 near Santa Cruz, California by Henry Howard. The long corridor, paving The portico shades the entrance,Ĭreating an outdoor room within the larger outdoor room that is theĬourtyard (photo by Robert Reck from Facing Southwest: The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem, by Chris Wilson, W. In his McCormick residence of 1931, north of Santaįe, the entry is along a covered walkway that opens to a terraced courtyard, as shown above. Was particularly deft at the use of transitional spaces to tie New Mexico regional modern architect John Gaw Meem The open-air corridor or gallery reaches back not only to the dogtrot, but also to other archetypes. Plan 450-3 uses the breezeway idea for a contemporary vacation cabin - it becomes a warm weather living room between the bedroom on one side and the kitchen-dining space on the other. Plan 888-17 by architect Nicholas Lee incorporates a breezeway between the main house and the adjacent casita - shown on the left in this photo. Here the breezeway is also a dramatic modern outdoor foyer and living room. Their recent Sonoma house reinvents the classic American dogtrot idea for today (two rooms linked by a breezeway). T urnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects are especially adept at making such spaces celebrate the setting. The most compelling part of a home can often be a transition zone between rooms, and between indoors and outdoors. ![]()
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