Primary Entrance to your house?

[stevew]

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]

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]

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

[Passacaglia]

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]

Why on earth do you want to know this?

[cartman]

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

[rkmsuf]

Why on earth do you want to know this?

he's coming over to tickle you

[Honolulu_Blue]

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]

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]

he's coming over to tickle you
He'll never get past the bees.

[st.cronin]

Back door, baybee.

[albionmoonlight]

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]

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]

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

[Young Drachma]

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]

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

do you live in an apartment?

[MikeVic]

do you live in an apartment?

No, a house.

[Lathum]

No, a house.

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

[gottimd]

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

[MikeVic]

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]

This poll isn't even official.

[Pumpy Tudors]

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]

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

Do you have a backyard?

[Subby]

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]

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

[MikeVic]

Do you have a backyard?

Yes.

[rkmsuf]

Yes.

Do you have stairs?

[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.

[gottimd]

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]

Yes.

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

[stevew]

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]

Do you have stairs?

Stairs going down yes.

[MikeVic]

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

Yes.

[gottimd]

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]

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

[Lathum]

Yes.

thats the silliest thing I ever heard!

[MJ4H]

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]

thats the silliest thing I ever heard!

Yeah it's not great.

[MikeVic]

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]

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

[korme]

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]

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

Do you have stairs in your house?

[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.

[Lathum]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers/gallery/media/studio_stairs_to_nowhere1.jpg

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

[MikeVic]

I like the racing stripe.

[stevew]

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.

[gottimd]

Has anyone ever removed all of their walls in their place and made every single space a door? Its like one big MC Escher structure....stairs and doors and hallways and more doors!

[Fidatelo]

MikeVic, is it a side-by-side? I could see one of those only having the one entrance per side...

[MikeVic]

MikeVic, is it a side-by-side? I could see one of those only having the one entrance per side...

No, but there's a few of those on my street.

[Fidatelo]

No, but there's a few of those on my street.

That is so weird. Do you have a back lane?

[MikeVic]

That is so weird. Do you have a back lane?

Nope.

I know, you think you know every Winnipeg house eh?

[Lorena]

hay mike, how is it possible you have only 1 door? i mean seriously

[Fidatelo]

Nope.

I know, you think you know every Winnipeg house eh?

I'm trying to even think of what neighborhoods might have a house like that. No backlane is relatively modern, so that rules a lot out, but not too modern because I can't imagine a house built in the last 10-15 years being designed that way.

So it was likely built in the 80's. That's all I've got.

[MikeVic]

Late 1970s.

[MikeVic]

And one side has backlanes.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I'm seriously trying to recall ever seeing a house with no back door but I'm coming up blank.

[Fidatelo]

And one side has backlanes.

Does that side have back doors?

[MikeVic]

hay mike, how is it possible you have only 1 door? i mean seriously

ONE ENTRANCE. No exits.

[MikeVic]

Does that side have back doors?

You know I don't remember. I guess I'm visiting the back lane tonight.

[Fidatelo]

You know I don't remember. I guess I'm visiting the back lane tonight.

Is that safe?

[Alan T]

I'm seriously trying to recall ever seeing a house with no back door but I'm coming up blank.


Virtually every house in my neighborhood that hasn't later been added-on to has no back door. All of the houses are cookie cutter post-WW2 homes that alot of troops came home from the war and ended up moving into with their families (baby-boomer era).

Almost without exception, they all are designed in halves, with the front half of the house having from left to right when facing the house The living room -> a tiny dining room -> Kitchen. The front door is stuck in between the living room and the dining room. The back half of the house has 3 bedrooms across the back with the bathroom being stuck between the kitchen and the back right bedroom.

My house is one of several that had modifications made in the 70s or 80s, where a much larger living room was added to the left side of the house and a sun room on the right side, both of which have the only back doors to my house. Any house in my neighborhood without add-ons would have no back door either.

I think its just a regional type of style of house, I never saw any homes like this in the south growing up.

[MikeVic]

Is that safe?

Yeah, it's a small bay. So the backlane really goes through the middle.

[Fidatelo]

Yeah, it's a small bay. So the backlane really goes through the middle.

Dude, you are blowing my mind. Do you have 2 basements?

[MikeVic]

Dude, you are blowing my mind. Do you have 2 basements?

Ok, so there's a street that's a semi-circle. There's houses on both sides of the semi-circle. And then there's a back lane going through the middle of the semi-circle.

No, if I had two basements then one would be a sub-basement.

[Fidatelo]

Ok, so there's a street that's a semi-circle. There's houses on both sides of the semi-circle. And then there's a back lane going through the middle of the semi-circle.

No, if I had two basements then one would be a sub-basement.

So only 2 houses are directly next to the back lane? And the rest face it? I seriously need to see a diagram.

[Passacaglia]

ONE ENTRANCE. No exits.

Oh, I think I came across your house while playing ADVENTURE.

[MikeVic]

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[st.cronin]

Best thread of the day, so far.

[Pumpy Tudors]

but you could still put a door back there

[st.cronin]

How is "Petriw" pronounced?

[Lathum]

So if you have a dog you have to let him out the front door, weird

[MikeVic]

but you could still put a door back there

If I wanted to make a hole in my sister's or my parents' rooms, yes. And then I'd need some kind of stairs going down or something. Or jump.

[MikeVic]

So if you have a dog you have to let him out the front door, weird

Yeah, I guess you're right. But I don't have dogs. I did have guinea pigs that I would let run on the front grass. Our old neighbour had dogs and they'd shit on our front lawn sometimes too.

[Fidatelo]

That's an interesting street layout, but it makes sense now that I can see it.

[MikeVic]

How is "Petriw" pronounced?

I really don't know. I say it as Pe-trew. "Pe" as it "pet." And "trew" as in "true." But I always have to spell it out for people. I started just spelling it out, not even saying it. But people would get confused.

[MikeVic]

That's an interesting street layout, but it makes sense now that I can see it.

Yeah it's weird. A lot of cookie-cutter homes.

[Lathum]

Yeah, I guess you're right. But I don't have dogs. I did have guinea pigs that I would let run on the front grass. Our old neighbour had dogs and they'd shit on our front lawn sometimes too.

well of course they did, they had no idea where the back yard was.

[Lathum]

I am thinking of all the annoying scenerios not having a back door creates and I think it's enough to not make me buy the house.

[MikeVic]

I've never lived in a house with a secondary door, so I don't know if I'd know what to do with a secondary door.

[stevew]

Yeah, it's a lot harder to take a dead hooker out the side or front doors when you want to bury her.

[Passacaglia]

Where in the house is your kitchen?

[MikeVic]

Where in the house is your kitchen?

When you walk in, the living room is right there. Then there's a small 3-step stair that goes to a hallway, and the first opening to the right is the kitchen. The kitchen overlooks the living room, so you can see the living room and front door if you're in the kitchen.

[gottimd]

ONE ENTRANCE. No exits.

Is your home the thunderdome in Madmax?

[cartman]

Is your home the thunderdome in Madmax?

MikeVic is Master Blaster?!!?

[Cringer]

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Could you please point out which house is yours, and list all valuables please. :p

[Fidatelo]

I'm curious, was this post:

Where in the house is your kitchen?

Inspired by the one above it?

Yeah, it's a lot harder to take a dead hooker out the side or front doors when you want to bury her.

[Fidatelo]

Could you please point out which house is yours, and list all valuables please. :p

No need, I'm just planning on hanging out in that back lane tonight...

[Lorena]

so mikevic, what would happen if there was a fire in the front entrance? i hope you have windows.

[Fidatelo]

so mikevic, what would happen if there was a fire in the front entrance? i hope you have windows.

Windows? What do you take the man for, a King?!?

[Izulde]

At the fraternity house it's the back door.

At home it's the front door.

[MikeVic]

MikeVic is Master Blaster?!!?

Shh.

[MikeVic]

Could you please point out which house is yours, and list all valuables please. :p

Yeah, it's at coordinates (alpha, beta).

[MikeVic]

No need, I'm just planning on hanging out in that back lane tonight...

Now I'm not gonna go there!

[MikeVic]

Windows? What do you take the man for, a King?!?

Yeah what he said. Windows, schmindows. Just go outside if you want air or sun.

[Lathum]

At the fraternity house it's the back door.


:eek:

I always suspected something but....

[Fidatelo]

Now I'm not gonna go there!

Foiled again!