Mudroom and pantry additions in Lancaster and Chester County, PA

A mudroom is a small room with a hard-working floor and a lot of built-in carpentry. As an addition it needs footings, a slab or a framed floor, walls, and a roof that meets the house, like any addition but smaller. As a conversion it takes the first eight or ten feet of an attached garage, with a new wall, insulation, and a floor built up to the house level.

What goes inside is what makes it work: a run of lockers or open cubbies with a bench, hooks at child height and adult height, drawers under the bench for the things that get lost, closed cabinets above, a utility sink or a dog-washing station, a tile floor with a drain where it makes sense, and a closet for the vacuum and the off-season coats. A pantry often goes in the same addition, because the kitchen next door never had one.

The built-ins are what turn a back hall into a real mudroom. We build them on site from paint-grade stock, fitted to the room, with face frames and doors that match the kitchen if you want them to, and we finish them with the same trim and paint as the rest of the house. Dalton spent years at a trim-only company before King’s, and the cabinetry is the part of this job he enjoys most.