Mud Room

At either end of the mudroom is a rectangular entry area. Both are fully done in H.F.’s cocoa matting. At the end which leads to the cobbled tractor entry, a flex grate panel is set into the cocoa mat to catch the worst of the mud before hitting the cocoa mat.

The mud room, between those two entry areas, is tiled in the dark green MSE Series Cypress tiles in a Greek key pattern with saddle brown centers of the same tile. These tiles continue around from the mudroom to floor the back hall, past the kitchen and dining room. They have a wonderful look of easy substance.

Each of the doorways from the porch, mudroom, kitchen, dining room, and living room has a honed or polished bluestone threshold. The bluestone makes a pleasing, understated connection between different tiles or between tiles and old, hard wood.

One wall of the mud room has a double row of H.F.’s big wooden hooks, and a row of H.F.’s small wrought iron hooks. The accommodate coats, hats, and anything else to be hung up. A special cat wrougt iron hook holds — what else — the dog leash. And others take care of battery powered lights kept at hand for power-outs.

Off the mud room is a particularly charming "little back john". Its floor and walls are in H.F.’s PGY Series Dover White tiles — 4 X 4s on the wainscot, and 8 X 8s on the floor. These are high quality tiles of unpretentious but substantial character, charming for their color variation in the oatmeal colors. Atop them is a border of hand made 4 X 4s painted with scenes of spruce tree covered islands from H.F.’s KW Series.

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