Living Spaces Northumberland
The Boot Room
A bench to sit on, open shelves under it so wet boots dry, and painted panelling run up to the stone wall it meets.
A boot room earns its keep on the worst day of the year, which is the day nobody photographs it. So the whole room is built around wet things: a bench long enough to sit on while you pull boots off, open shelves beneath it so they dry instead of sitting in a cupboard, and a rail of cast iron hooks at the height a coat is actually hung.
The panelling is tongue and groove, painted a soft green-grey and taken up to a rounded rail that caps it and doubles as a shelf. On one side it stops at the stone. That wall is older than everything else in the room and has been left exactly as it was found, with the new work simply run up to it rather than boxed around it.
There is one drawer in the bench, for the things that have no home -- gloves, keys, a lead -- and everything else is left open. A boot room with doors on it is a boot room where wet boots go to stay wet.
A boot room with doors on it is where wet boots go to stay wet.
The Room
What It Is Made Of
- Panelling
- Tongue and groove, painted a soft green-grey
- Capping
- A rounded rail along the top, deep enough to stand things on
- Bench
- Fitted the length of the wall, open shoe storage beneath
- Drawer
- One in the bench run, with a brass cup handle
- Hooks
- Cast iron doubles, under a shelf on shaped brackets
- Walls
- Run up to the original stone, which is left exposed
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