People asked for some organizing tips. I am very proud of my mudroom and wanted to share it here. It's small - maybe 5' x 5' and has lots of doors - laundry room, garage, basement, coat closet and entry way. So, not much wall space and some of the walls get covered by doors. But, we come through this room daily from the garage.
Here is the corner between the laundry room and the entry to the house. I have Command Hooks for coats and backpacks and bins for the kids shoes. DS1 is green, DD is pink, and DS2 is blue. They know where to put their shoes and where to find them and it works great!
I hope to get peg board up on the wall, but we haven't figured a good way to hang it because of the pocket door.
This is the opposite corner. The back of the garage door has magnet hooks. We have swim floaties and a bag for the pool here. In the winter, we'll hang snow pants here.
Same corner, but the back of the basement door. It's a mesh shoe storage hanger from the Container Store. Right now, it's full of sunglasses, sun screen and other summer things. In the winter, it holds hats and mittens. The mesh lets things dry.
There's a boot bench next to the garage door, but it never gets sat on and it becomes a place to pile stuff. I'm thinking I'll get something for DH and I to put our shoes in or on there and get rid of the bench. But, wet boots went under it in the winter and that was nice. I'd need a new idea for the boots.