Nice re: root cellar! And the mudroom/greenhouse would be great. Good idea. I grew up with a "cold room" under the concrete front porch. Here, I'm in a tri-level with no real basement since the lowest level is finished space. I have a crawl space, not easily accessible, and use that for storing paint and holiday decorations. We have an attached garage where DH installed a natural gas heater and that's our main work space, especially during the winter. Attached to the garage is my little heated GH. I can walk from the house through the garage into the GH in the winter which is really nice. I do have some re-purposed kitchen cabinets down in the laundry area where I can store some canned goods (mainly tomatoes) but not a lot. My main long-term storage is a freezer in the garage.
