Creative IKEA Mudroom Ideas for Small and Unique Spaces

Maximizing Small Areas for IKEA Mudroom Designs

On this article:

Combining areas to create an IKEA mudroom
Becoming IKEA mudrooms in small areas
Prioritizing a customized mudroom over different choices
Why hiring an expert IKEA mudroom designer issues

Mudrooms are available all sizes and styles, and whereas it could be good to have a room or hallway devoted to storing objects and containing mess, that isn’t at all times real looking. By nature, designers are downside solvers – and lack of house is an issue IKD solves each day.

As you’ll see, even if you happen to solely have an area measuring 5’ broad, we are able to create a customized mudroom design to benefit from it. We regularly embody mudrooms as a part of a kitchen or laundry room design, or you’ll have a nook or closet you haven’t thought-about a viable house earlier than.

Simply keep in mind, even essentially the most modest mudroom beats tripping over the footwear your husband left by the entrance door once more.

Combining Laundry and Mudroom in Compact IKEA Designs

Perhaps you don’t have 5’ of house to spare instantly by the again door, however you will have further house in your laundry room. As you may see within the design under, this mudroom design buyer had loads of closed and open laundry room storage and workspace, even when they sacrificed some sq. footage for a mudroom.

Though the shopper initially deliberate to make use of the hanging house within the nook for objects that wanted to be put away, they noticed the chance to remodel it into a house for coats and jackets with a bench and shoe cubby beneath. Since this house owner’s laundry room was positioned close to the backdoor, this transfer made sense.

The higher cupboard now holds baskets containing hats, gloves, and scarves. Our designers created this look utilizing SEKTION cupboards and AXSTAD darkish grey doorways. They designed a bench seat with open shoe storage utilizing FORBATTRA darkish grey panels to match the cupboard doorways and a LILLTRASK pre-cut countertop because the bench seat to match the countertop used all through the remainder of the laundry room design.

Combining areas is a good way to get the mudroom you thought you didn’t have room for.

Making the Most of Tiny Areas: IKEA Mudroom Options

IKD buyer Srijana needed to incorporate a mudroom answer within the 23 sq. ft. house between her storage and kitchen. She was renovating the entire space, however solely a fraction can be devoted to a mud space.

“Since we’re a two-person family it was okay for minimal storage however we needed a spot to hold our coats and a few further storage for cleansing provides.” – Srijana, IKD buyer

IKD designer Frank compiled this mudroom design bundle to incorporate a 15” deep tall cupboard, which he designed by modifying a 30”W x 24”D x 90″H SEKTION cupboard. Beside it, he used a 30″W x 15″D x 15″H SEKTION wall cupboard to design a KARLBY countertop bench seat with a MAXIMERA drawer beneath for accessible storage. He completed the mudroom design with FORBATTRA cowl panels and VOXTORP doorways.

IKD designed this stunning mudroom with a built-in look in a modest house measuring 64”W x 15”D x 90”H.

Reworking Underutilized Areas into IKEA Mudrooms

We regularly talk about how design is a collaborative effort between house owner and designer – however, typically, it’s a must to get a contractor concerned, too. This was the case with Michelle, an IKD buyer from Connecticut with a Colonial-style dwelling.

The mudroom was the final unfinished room in her dwelling, and as a consequence of its location by the kitchen, she may have simply as simply made it a pantry. Nonetheless, she and her husband are outdoorsy and desperately wanted a purposeful mudroom within the slim 53 sq. ft. house.

“We’re avid hikers so we needed a coat closet; to maximise shoe and different cupboard space; so as to add a brand new charging station (or two); to incorporate a bench and to have shoe cubbies on the ground for muddy footwear and boots.” – Michelle, IKD buyer

IKD Designer Frank delivered.

The mudroom has three partitions, and Michelle and her husband tackled the set up herself. As we talked about, they employed a neighborhood carpenter to assist them full among the trickier hacks.

The ceiling slopes, so the SEKTION cupboards in direction of the again of the mudroom (together with cubbies) are 86″H, whereas the remainder of the cupboards are 102″H. The carpenter lower down the taller cupboards in response to the directions Frank included within the skilled design bundle, and he additionally took care of constructing the cuts to the BARKABODA walnut veneer counter tops. These counter tops had been used to create the wall shelf in addition to the bench seating beneath the coat rack.

They selected white AXSTAD doorways and drawer fronts for SEKTION cupboards and black BAGGANAS knobs. Resulting from its location adjoining to the center of the house, additionally they needed some show areas, a charging station, and a few storage that could possibly be allotted to workplace provides and clunky kitchen objects.

“IKEA has considerably improved the standard of their cupboards in addition to the benefit of meeting. We couldn’t be happier!” – Michelle, IKD buyer

The Significance of Skilled Designs

We benefit from our clients’ house by implementing artistic storage options, maximizing house with frameless SEKTION cupboards, and utilizing IKEA cupboard hacks to make sure all parts match like a glove. You can attempt to put one thing collectively utilizing IKEA’s on-line planner or an in-store affiliate, however in IKD buyer Michelle’s phrases:

“We appreciated the power to combine and match IKEA merchandise in artistic ways in which transcend what the IKEA retailer designers do.”

Find out how we might help match a mudroom in your house in a artistic method.