Primary Entrance to your house?

stevew · 03-28-2008, 08:37 AM

We primarily use a side entrance to our house, and guests use that as well. But I have a feeling that may be a regional thing, so I was just curious as to what others may use.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 08:38 AM

We use the front door becasue we don't have a garage, I think most people who park their cars in the garage use that entrance

stevew · 03-28-2008, 08:40 AM

I guess I should have been a bit more specific, when people visit, which door do they use.

Passacaglia · 03-28-2008, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

We use the front door becasue we don't have a garage, I think most people who park their cars in the garage use that entrance

On the other hand, people in apartments probably all use the front (and possibly only) door.

Subby · 03-28-2008, 08:45 AM

Why on earth do you want to know this?

cartman · 03-28-2008, 08:45 AM

Most of the time people come to my back porch, because it is a shorter walk than going around to the front door.

rkmsuf · 03-28-2008, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Subby

Why on earth do you want to know this?

he's coming over to tickle you

Honolulu_Blue · 03-28-2008, 08:50 AM

Oops. I voted before I read that last post.

I would change mine to the Front Door. The only other entrances to our house are through the garage or through the backdoor, which leads to a fenced in backyard.

Cringer · 03-28-2008, 08:52 AM

front door, if I open it for them.

no side door. we usually come in through the garage door. my mother in law comes through both front and garage and one day I hope to punch her in the face for it.

Subby · 03-28-2008, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

he's coming over to tickle you

He'll never get past the bees.

st.cronin · 03-28-2008, 09:06 AM

Back door, baybee.

albionmoonlight · 03-28-2008, 09:08 AM

Mostly side door, but it depends on the visitor. The better they know us, the more likely they are to use the side door.

Alan T · 03-28-2008, 09:15 AM

Front door. I have an older house, and the garage, side door or back doors are all far more inconvenient than the front door is for guests or even us when we come and go. The only time we use a different door is when it snows, we'll go out the garage so no one slips going down the outside stairs.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:19 AM

I'm the only person with just a front door?

Young Drachma · 03-28-2008, 09:21 AM

I come in to my house through the garage, normally. Visitors are generally the same way. At least so far, anyway. The back door would be fine too, except it's been muddy and messy and it's easier to have them come through the garage because they don't track all that damn mud in the house.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

I'm the only person with just a front door?

do you live in an apartment?

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

do you live in an apartment?

No, a house.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

No, a house.

I find it odd that you live in a house with only 1 entrance.

gottimd · 03-28-2008, 09:29 AM

This poll is ridiculous. What about all the people who live in tents? I don't see a flap option anywhere.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

I find it odd that you live in a house with only 1 entrance.

Yeah me too. But I thought more people would've had that too.

gottimd · 03-28-2008, 09:31 AM

This poll isn't even official.

Pumpy Tudors · 03-28-2008, 09:33 AM

People usually just come in my house.

Edit: I mean through the front door.

Edit: I mean the back door.

Edit: I mean there's only one door, and it's an apartment.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Yeah me too. But I thought more people would've had that too.

Do you have a backyard?

Subby · 03-28-2008, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

People usually just come in my mouth.

Edit: I mean through the front door.

Edit: I mean the back door.

Edit: I mean there's only one door, and it's an apartment.

You need to shave your lawn, btw.

Edit I mean mow your pubes.

Pumpy Tudors · 03-28-2008, 09:45 AM

Shit. I meant people usually just come in my HOUSE.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

Do you have a backyard?

Yes.

rkmsuf · 03-28-2008, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Yes.

Do you have stairs?

Draft Dodger · 03-28-2008, 09:48 AM

side door - it's the one that goes to our driveway (no garage). front door is just used by delivery people and jehova's witnesses.

gottimd · 03-28-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

side door - it's the one that goes to our driveway (no garage). front door is just used by delivery people and jehova's witnesses.

Thats odd, delivery people and jehova's witnesses enter your house through the front door? Usually I open the door for the delivery people and take the food or product and pay them, they don't enter.

As for Jehova's witnesses, why the hell are they entering your house in the first place?

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Yes.

so you need to go out your front door to get to your back yard?

stevew · 03-28-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Subby

Why on earth do you want to know this?

Just something my wife and I were talking about. Nobody uses the front door around here, it seems. She wanted to redo the walkway to the front, I was commenting on how it would be a waste of money cause nobody would use it anyways. Figured I would go to a unscientific poll option on FOFC.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Do you have stairs?

Stairs going down yes.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

so you need to go out your front door to get to your back yard?

Yes.

gottimd · 03-28-2008, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Stairs going down yes.

But they don't go back up? So you have an escalator that goes down in your house?

Well hopefully this thread at least reminds St. Cronin that he needs to get around to fixing his side door.

st.cronin · 03-28-2008, 09:53 AM

This thread reminds me, I need to get around to fixing my side door.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Yes.

thats the silliest thing I ever heard!

MJ4H · 03-28-2008, 09:56 AM

I have a front door and a door to the fenced in backyard. There is an entrance through the garage, but obviously most people can't get in that way, and the garage is messy anyway.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

thats the silliest thing I ever heard!

Yeah it's not great.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gottimd

But they don't go back up? So you have an escalator that goes down in your house?

Well hopefully this thread at least reminds St. Cronin that he needs to get around to fixing his side door.

They just go down. I've lost many friends that I still hear wailing down there, asking to come back up.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 10:00 AM

I wonder if there used to be a door somewhere and the previous owners replaced it with a window or something.

korme · 03-28-2008, 10:03 AM

LOL MikeVic you need to take a pic from your backyard pointing at the rear of your house, everyone's interest is piqued.

As for me, I just use a window, depending on what house I'm sleeping in, they are usually unlocked. I have lots of houses. The rest of the residents just don't know I'm a co-owner in spirit.

Dr. Sak · 03-28-2008, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

Shit. I meant people usually just come in my HOUSE.

Do you have stairs in your house?

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 10:07 AM

We are the original owners. It was just designed stupidly. My dad bought it, and voila. House with no backyard door. I think every house on my block is like that. It does look dumb from the back.

Lathum · 03-28-2008, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

We are the original owners. It was just designed stupidly. My dad bought it, and voila. House with no backyard door. I think every house on my block is like that. It does look dumb from the back.

I need a pic, I just can't wrap my brain around the stupidity of this.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 10:24 AM

If it helps, there was no garage. And when my dad built the garage, he made it free-standing. No connection to the house. The neighbourhood is all the same.

Alan T · 03-28-2008, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

I need a pic, I just can't wrap my brain around the stupidity of this.

I actually don't have much problem understanding Mikevic's house layout. It sounds pretty similar to how most houses in my neighborhood are built. All of the houses here were built in the 1950s and all are pretty similar in style. Basically the original design of this house looks like it had a front door, and a garage and that is it. All of the rooms on the back of the house were the three bedrooms, none of which had a back yard.

Somewhere before I bought this house (1970s or 1980s I guess), someone added a sunroom on one side of the house and a larger living room to the other side of the house, both of which come with sliding glass doors going to the back yard now. If those additions hadn't been done, my house would have had no back door either, and I gurantuee there are probably at least 10 houses in my neighborhood like that.

Passacaglia · 03-28-2008, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Stairs going down yes.

But they don't go up?

Too bad you don't live in an apartment. I've always wanted stairs in an apartment.

gottimd · 03-28-2008, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Passacaglia

But they don't go up?

Too bad you don't live in an apartment. I've always wanted stairs in an apartment.

I am putting stairs in my condo, I already have an idea of how it will look.

I can't wait, this way I can overlook the entire condo.

MikeVic · 03-28-2008, 10:54 AM

I like the racing stripe.

stevew · 03-28-2008, 10:59 AM

Has anyone ever taken out a window cut out and installed french doors? Or is that a "pay the man" type of thing? I have a large picture window in our sunroom addition, but no in house exit to the back deck. The deck is pretty sweet in size, but it's a pain cause you have to walk around the side of the house to make use of it. Anyways, removing the window and cutting out the underneath of it to install a door to the deck is on the agenda this summer. But I'm not totally sure it's a DIY type thing.

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03-28-2008, 08:45 AM	#6
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03-28-2008, 08:50 AM	#8
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03-28-2008, 08:52 AM	#9
Cringer Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Edinburg,TX	front door, if I open it for them. no side door. we usually come in through the garage door. my mother in law comes through both front and garage and one day I hope to punch her in the face for it. __________________ You Stole Fizzy Lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and steralized, so you get NOTHING! You lose!

03-28-2008, 08:38 AM	#2
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	We use the front door becasue we don't have a garage, I think most people who park their cars in the garage use that entrance

03-28-2008, 08:40 AM	#3
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I guess I should have been a bit more specific, when people visit, which door do they use.

03-28-2008, 09:06 AM	#11
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	Back door, baybee. __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

03-28-2008, 09:08 AM	#12
albionmoonlight Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: North Carolina	Mostly side door, but it depends on the visitor. The better they know us, the more likely they are to use the side door.

03-28-2008, 09:15 AM	#13
Alan T Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mass.	Front door. I have an older house, and the garage, side door or back doors are all far more inconvenient than the front door is for guests or even us when we come and go. The only time we use a different door is when it snows, we'll go out the garage so no one slips going down the outside stairs.

03-28-2008, 09:19 AM	#14
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	I'm the only person with just a front door?

03-28-2008, 09:21 AM	#15
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I come in to my house through the garage, normally. Visitors are generally the same way. At least so far, anyway. The back door would be fine too, except it's been muddy and messy and it's easier to have them come through the garage because they don't track all that damn mud in the house. Last edited by Young Drachma : 03-28-2008 at 09:22 AM.

03-28-2008, 09:29 AM	#19
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03-28-2008, 09:31 AM	#21
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03-28-2008, 09:33 AM	#22
Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	People usually just come in my house. Edit: I mean through the front door. Edit: I mean the back door. Edit: I mean there's only one door, and it's an apartment. __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor. Last edited by Pumpy Tudors : 03-28-2008 at 09:45 AM. Reason: I meant HOUSE

03-28-2008, 09:45 AM	#25
Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	Shit. I meant people usually just come in my HOUSE. __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor.

03-28-2008, 09:48 AM	#28
Draft Dodger Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Keene, NH	side door - it's the one that goes to our driveway (no garage). front door is just used by delivery people and jehova's witnesses. __________________ Mile High Hockey

03-28-2008, 09:53 AM	#35
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	This thread reminds me, I need to get around to fixing my side door. __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

03-28-2008, 09:56 AM	#37
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	I have a front door and a door to the fenced in backyard. There is an entrance through the garage, but obviously most people can't get in that way, and the garage is messy anyway.

03-28-2008, 10:00 AM	#40
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	I wonder if there used to be a door somewhere and the previous owners replaced it with a window or something.

03-28-2008, 10:03 AM	#41
korme Go Reds Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio	LOL MikeVic you need to take a pic from your backyard pointing at the rear of your house, everyone's interest is piqued. As for me, I just use a window, depending on what house I'm sleeping in, they are usually unlocked. I have lots of houses. The rest of the residents just don't know I'm a co-owner in spirit.

03-28-2008, 10:07 AM	#43
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	We are the original owners. It was just designed stupidly. My dad bought it, and voila. House with no backyard door. I think every house on my block is like that. It does look dumb from the back.

03-28-2008, 10:24 AM	#45
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	If it helps, there was no garage. And when my dad built the garage, he made it free-standing. No connection to the house. The neighbourhood is all the same.

03-28-2008, 10:54 AM	#49
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	I like the racing stripe.

03-28-2008, 10:59 AM	#50
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Has anyone ever taken out a window cut out and installed french doors? Or is that a "pay the man" type of thing? I have a large picture window in our sunroom addition, but no in house exit to the back deck. The deck is pretty sweet in size, but it's a pain cause you have to walk around the side of the house to make use of it. Anyways, removing the window and cutting out the underneath of it to install a door to the deck is on the agenda this summer. But I'm not totally sure it's a DIY type thing. Last edited by stevew : 03-28-2008 at 11:00 AM.

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