My parents used to live in a house built in the 1920’s. ![]() This fear goes back as far as the early days of cars. This little space will hold its heat (or cool) without being an energy liability to the rest of the house! Build a Firewallĭid you know that people used to be afraid that parking a car in their garage might set their house on fire! The new mudroom’s three walls will actually be much better insulated against cold and heat than the rest of the house – because energy codes have become much more stringent. It is important that this small addition take as little extra energy as possible! It may get a small electric base board heater but mostly its going to share the air with the furnace system that already heats and cools the rest of the house. I don’t plan to get an HVAC contractor to come out and add any extra duct work to the house to heat this space. I also needed to wrap the space in warm walls and ceiling. (When I redo the kitchen I’ll use the same flooring material over both spaces.) Wrap up Warm I needed to create a new raised floor at the level of the kitchen. The concrete floor of the breezeway was 8” lower than the kitchen (a t the door) and then sloped away front and back. This meant I needed to insulate the heck out of the space AND make sure it was level with the kitchen floor. I wanted this new mudroom to connect to the kitchen through an open door way. I had to do three things to make this mudroom into a real part of the house: Get to Level Today I’m going to talk about the structural bones of the project. This post won’t cover the fun stuff you see on Pinterest: how to decorate your laundry area or the perfect mudroom boot storage solutions! Those come later. Here’s the planned future layout: What a breezeway to mudroom conversion requires: Like many people, I need a mudroom to take the pressure off the existing kitchen. With the best of intentions I am always cluttering up the entry way with coats, boots, hats, bags and dog paraphernalia. If your garage or back yard connects straight to your kitchen you know why I did this!īoth my front entry and kitchen doors open straight into practical working rooms with very little extra storage areas. win space for a laundry area on the main level.create a mudroom space to corral clutter.While fixing my De-Attached Garage Problem, I could achieve three goals: I found a breezeway to mudroom change to be essential to my plans! Here’s the original layout of the house HOWEVER if you live in the midwest you know that keeping your snow boots outside the door makes for some very cold feet in the morning. can semi-securely hold your outdoor gear (boots, coats etc).For the cost of a new door, a few 2x4s for wall framing and some sturdy screen you can have a three season room that: Thats a great, lightweight and DIY-able solution. Some neighbors with similar layouts have simply enclosed their breezeways into screened porches and then cut a door from the garage into that space. I didn’t even need to get zoning department approval to make my changes. ![]() The house and garage were already linked by a shared concrete foundation and roof. When I decided to connect my house and garage, I knew I was already in luck. While some breezeway connections are good, like this adorable one above … Mine didn’t work. Also it CONNECTS THE HOUSE AND GARAGE with aligned doors. With an 8′ wide area only 16 feet long this breezeway works like a little outdoor room, not a dark wind tunnel. Here’s an example of a house VERY similar to mine but with two bedrooms and a slightly different house/breezeway/garage arrangement. My house was separated from its garage by a 6-foot wide breezeway. Other homes in my area have a garage that shares a wall with the house but doesn’t have a connecting door. You may have a garage set off from the house in the back yard. Many homeowners with 1950’s ranches are going to have this dettached garage problem. If your ranch was built in the 1950s, you may have a detached garage or, like me, you may have a garage that SEEMS attached to the house, while there is no way to get from the house to the garage without going outside.īy the 1960’s builder had figured out that people really liked to go straight from the car to the kitchen, especially here in the Midwest. One problem many midcentury house have is lack of connection to their garages.
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