Home Tour: Mudroom/Entryway

When we bought our house 4 1/2 years ago, I could see the potential it had (and still has) to be an inviting, stylish, functional home. Since then, we've been working away at it and have made a lot of cosmetic changes to many of the rooms.

This summer we completed a huge project on the main entrance to our house that was functional as well as cosmetic. We gutted the room, which had rotted paneling, astro-turf carpet, and zero insulation, and turned a messy, ugly mudroom into a pretty, welcoming entryway. We also added a new door to the basement that will allow us to wall off a section where the old door was for a kitchen pantry. That's our next big project! ;)

Here's what the room looked like before/during:

We installed new, bigger windows, a new steel door, new light fixture and added a porch light, insulation, drywall and beadboard, new flooring, hooks and stenciling. Most of the supplies we purchased from Mr. 2nds and got amazing prices - the whole room cost us less than $1000. We also had help from my dad, the master woodworker, making the trim from scratch which saved us a ton of money.

This is what we have now! Hello, beautiful!