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Some of you younger gents might not know what a mud-room is . Where I come from it is a room before the entrance to a home . Kinda like a sun-room only smaller . A place for bulky winter coats , outer boots , wet umbrellas , skates ,extra stinky or bad dogs and attitudes, with a welcome mat or two .Oh and mud........ .
Usually single paned glass and heated through its proximity to the front or back door and being attached to the house . It speaks of home to me .
My home in the country had one . Some would call it an entry-way or foyer .
Only five foot square . a short rack for coats . a place for the tool box and firewood that had as much snow as you could wack off of it removed and waiting in preparation for its turn in the maw of the biggest wood stove rhat would fit through the door . It was a full 16 inches lower than the living room floor and had a boot tray below it to receive the detrius descending from the offending boot sole as you whacked it on the step . Living room/bedroom carpeting of ultra low knap, leaf and earth colored industrial strength fibres .
Just about fire-proof which was a good thing as it faced the cement pad of the woodstove and its occasional escape artist by the name of sparky . It got to the point where I did not rush over to said earth bound comet and end/crush its pyrotechnic existance . I merley picked up the broom and coal dust pan and swept it up . All the while quietly chuckling at its puny attempt to set flame to my domain . Yep that was a good carpet .
I could let the dogs out at midnite without supervision as the front door bordered on woods . I could let myself out at midnite to water the cedars as well . Also without supervision .
All this centered around the mud-room in a way . All made possible by its contribution .
I live in a small community of duplexes and single floor family dwellings . Not much more than shacks really . Flat roofed and usually square unless there was a mud-room or sunroom tacked on to break up its plain sided appearance . Tucked in between long narrow duplexes it usually had a long narrow front yard and a tiny backyard or vice-versa . The only reason they have not all been gobbled up by condo mad developers is there are just not enough services for condo style occupants . Only one supermarket and a main street that is more bars than boutiques .
Its not my dream to own one of these shack like dwellings . I would much rather have one of those with a mud-room and central heating woodstove than any condo I have seen . Shoes off at the door ? Well maybe if you stepped in something . If not give em a whack or a wipe . The coffee is on .
Usually single paned glass and heated through its proximity to the front or back door and being attached to the house . It speaks of home to me .
My home in the country had one . Some would call it an entry-way or foyer .
Only five foot square . a short rack for coats . a place for the tool box and firewood that had as much snow as you could wack off of it removed and waiting in preparation for its turn in the maw of the biggest wood stove rhat would fit through the door . It was a full 16 inches lower than the living room floor and had a boot tray below it to receive the detrius descending from the offending boot sole as you whacked it on the step . Living room/bedroom carpeting of ultra low knap, leaf and earth colored industrial strength fibres .
Just about fire-proof which was a good thing as it faced the cement pad of the woodstove and its occasional escape artist by the name of sparky . It got to the point where I did not rush over to said earth bound comet and end/crush its pyrotechnic existance . I merley picked up the broom and coal dust pan and swept it up . All the while quietly chuckling at its puny attempt to set flame to my domain . Yep that was a good carpet .
I could let the dogs out at midnite without supervision as the front door bordered on woods . I could let myself out at midnite to water the cedars as well . Also without supervision .
All this centered around the mud-room in a way . All made possible by its contribution .
I live in a small community of duplexes and single floor family dwellings . Not much more than shacks really . Flat roofed and usually square unless there was a mud-room or sunroom tacked on to break up its plain sided appearance . Tucked in between long narrow duplexes it usually had a long narrow front yard and a tiny backyard or vice-versa . The only reason they have not all been gobbled up by condo mad developers is there are just not enough services for condo style occupants . Only one supermarket and a main street that is more bars than boutiques .
Its not my dream to own one of these shack like dwellings . I would much rather have one of those with a mud-room and central heating woodstove than any condo I have seen . Shoes off at the door ? Well maybe if you stepped in something . If not give em a whack or a wipe . The coffee is on .
