In the house of my dreams, I have a mudroom. What I mean is, in the house of my dreams, I would have an actual room in which one can make the transition from indoors to outdoors. There would be coat ...

Sure, walk-in closets and sprawling kitchen islands are luxe design details, but if you were to poll parents ’round the world, the most lust-worthy space in a home would surely be a mudroom. Why?