With the poker table project completed, it is on to the next project and one that has been nagging at me for quite a while. The mud room in our home is pretty much the only room that I haven't done anything with since we bought the house over twenty years ago - and to be frank - it shows.
The room is quite small as you can see by the handful of pics attached below. The project is not a very big one, but it will be a challenge as there is a lot going on in this particular room.
SWMBO and I still have to get in there with a pen and pad and go over all of the changes we would like, but the obvious ones right now are some recept's and switches that we would like moved, the water heater needs to be nudged over an inch or two from its current location - it will be built into the base cabinetry with removeable panels. We also want to move the water heater timer into the wall as a built in and we would like to add some recycling bins in the room.
I will need to build a new base cabinet to replace the one shown in the pics and will also be building two wall cabinet units as well as a large wall unit that will serve for storage of various items. There will be a large wall cabinet unit over top of where the current(to be replaced), and the new base cabinet is located. This will serve to add some needed storage and to also hide the hideous range exhaust hood ductwork from view. We will also have to deal with the whole house humidifier that is located in the room, as well as the clothes washer and dryer.
The entire room is roughly 5'X10' so space is limited and that will certainly need to be kept in mind when designing everything, which will be done on the fly.
More pics will be added as the project is moved along. I just began to clear out the room today after work. The drawers that were in the old base cabinet will be recycled into my work bench up in the wood shop.