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look great when I get around to actually attaching it for real to the door.By that, I mean when Chris does.. For some reason, people seem to think my mud room looks too nice in pictures and sometimes they find it hard to believe that I should really call it a mud room.

Here’s the room for real.With actual mud in it.Also, you can’t see it, but there are about 4 giant trash bags waiting to go out to the garage sitting on the floor just outside of the frame.

Why am I acting all smug about the fact that my room is a mess again?.Anyway.. It’s not really a pretty room, but the door knocker definitely gives it a nudge in the right direction.. A little extra hardware is always a good idea in my books!.

Have you ever added non-functioning hardware to something just for the look of it?.

Subscribe by email to receive free posts straight to your inbox, or follow along using any (or all!)Water had been splashing there for the last 30 years and we knew there was mold under there somewhere.. Well, as it always goes with these things, Chris pulled the flooring back and found that it was even worse than he’d thought.

Isn’t that always the story?We knew at that point that we couldn’t just do a bit of demo work right now and then more later, we just needed to get all of that mold out NOW!.

I honestly wasn’t really fond of Chris being in there breathing all of that in, so we decided to call in a contractor, just to help us get the place safe and get all the nasty stuff out so we could have a blank slate.About 2 days later, here’s how things looked.. A few of the floor joists actually needed to be replaced because they were so bad.