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Form and (Multi)Function: An Inspired Laundry, Storage, Canning, & Mud Room

Over on Remodelista this week, Margot wrote about a particularly charming East Sussex, UK, kitchen with a pantry and laundry room just off of it (see An English Country Kitchen for a Vegan Family, Vegetable Processing Plant Included). Filled with design inspiration, it was all cleverly designed by bespoke cabinet maker Inglis Hall. The part that really stood out to us, though? The laundry room, which is also the mudroom, which also happens to be the utility room, which quadruples as the canning room. The owners are vegans and needed a dedicated area to prep, cook, preserve, and store the vegetables they’ve grown for their plant-based diet—and thus this extremely multi-functional space was born.

Here’s a look.

Photography courtesy of Inglis Hall.

This extra room, just off the kitchen is “the vegetable processing plant,” says Toby Inglis Hall (founder of Inglis Hall). The space also serves as a mud room, storage room, and laundry room (washer/dryer are concealed behind paneled wood sliding doors).
Above: This extra room, just off the kitchen is “the vegetable processing plant,” says Toby Inglis Hall (founder of Inglis Hall). The space also serves as a mud room, storage room, and laundry room (washer/dryer are concealed behind paneled wood sliding doors).
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Above: Wall-mounted shelves wrap around the room and provide plenty of storage. Extra jars for preserving fruits and vegetables are kept in the drawers. “It was particularly interesting to plan how to process the seasonal bulk vegetables needed to feed an entirely plant-based family for the year,” says Toby.
Utility room marble sink for washing vegetables in the Inglis Hall kitchen design at Mill House, East Sussex, UK
Above: The custom sink was designed for cleaning vegetables—”it’s deliberately shallow with a decent fall to wash away mud,” says Toby. It’s carved from a single block of Macael marble. The tall brass taps by Rudge & Co. are mounted on a soapstone counter.
Inglis Hall kitchen design at Mill House, East Sussex, UK.
Above: The view to the kitchen. The reeded-glass door is a design highlight. It was made “with super-traditional joinery detailing, including, for any fellow closet joinery nerds out there, a fine beading around panels and tapered door styles,” says Toby. The handles are from Optimum Brasses.

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