Word: mudroom
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...Boston, like all major port cities, is a mudroom to America. And, as is often the case, the door to the outside is more exciting than the door to the inside. The international terminal of Logan Airport, high-ceilinged and abuzz with travelers, invokes adventure and exoticism. North Station, by contrast, is a dark concrete platform in the shadow of the Boston Garden. There’s no adventurers here—just commuters, lined up to travel into the country’s inner rooms...
...conventional dairy farmer that he had to sell all his cattle and burn furniture to heat his house. Today, though, he proudly shows off his three dozen lowing, impatient cows as they wait their turn to give it up to a mechanical milker. He nods toward the new mudroom and double-hung windows and pale yellow siding on his home and talks about building two more winter shelters for the livestock. And he plans to keep improving his 85-acre spread near North Troy, Vt., with financing from his local bank. "The vice president told me that if I wasn...
...pressure ironing board and a sewing table--not to mention stations for crafts, gift wrapping and potting plants. "I'm not trying to create a huge, superfluous room," says Barbara Irons. "When you look at historic houses, they had all sorts of rooms for maintaining the house--the mudroom, the butler's pantry. I'm trying to create one room to provide those functions and get them out of the kitchen...
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