A house with four entrances

[Anonymous]

We have three, but I grew up with a house that had four as well. Front, kitchen, off another side room and basement.

[Anonymous]

Our house in Chevy Chase has 4: main front door, side door for service people and visitors (very convenient because people can use the hall bathroom without having to walk through my house), a back yard entrance from the kitchen, and a back yard/deck entrance from the family room. It's wonderful to have options and great for flow

[Anonymous]

Our Chevy Chase DC house has SIX—front, deck, kitchen, garage, laundry/mud, and walk-out basement.

[Anonymous]

Where do you live where you think 4 entrances is unusual?

3 to 4 is very standard in single family homes: front door, back door, garage access, basement. Sometimes there is a side door as well to access things like trash cans.

2 is unusual.

4 is normal.

[Anonymous]

Maybe OP has only lived in apartments, condos and townhouses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My parents' house is large and has 8 entrances. This always made me super-nervous. It's out west and there are a ton of sliding glass doors.

Houses out west have patio access from bedrooms. It is nice to have so much inddor/outdoor living space.

[Anonymous]

OP, please come back and explain why you think 4 doors is unusual.

I am genuinely curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our house in Chevy Chase has 4: main front door, side door for service people and visitors (very convenient because people can use the hall bathroom without having to walk through my house), a back yard entrance from the kitchen, and a back yard/deck entrance from the family room. It's wonderful to have options and great for flow

Visitors are the same status as service people and you don't let the service people use the front door... fancy.

[Anonymous]

Why is it painted 2 shades of gray? I know they're different materials (brick vs. vinyl), but it looks really odd painted differently, and looks like a separate home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, please come back and explain why you think 4 doors is unusual.

I am genuinely curious.

OP here - I grew up with four doors, but none of them were redundant in this manner. This is neither a 'service' entrance, nor a walk-out from the basement. Its like having two doors on your front-facing wraparound porch but worse. And with both of these facing prominent streets this is actually a security concern in my eyes. They should have blocked up the second one, also what in the world is that hole UNDER the door? Looks like the perfect hidey hole for someone you don't want on your property.

[Anonymous]

OP, if it were my house, I might not have done the whole porch-like portico on the side door, but it's hardly excessive or weird or confusing. Your reaction is a bit odd, tbh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, if it were my house, I might not have done the whole porch-like portico on the side door, but it's hardly excessive or weird or confusing. Your reaction is a bit odd, tbh.

The house is clearly a flip and I expect someone who buys a home to renovate it and turn it around in months to know two entrances like this is redundant.

Second - even the real estate agents think its weird:

Eclectic lay out with interesting spaces. - Redfin agent

Also, the only exterior entrance to the basement is through the garage. - Redfin agent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, please come back and explain why you think 4 doors is unusual.

I am genuinely curious.

OP here - I grew up with four doors, but none of them were redundant in this manner. This is neither a 'service' entrance, nor a walk-out from the basement. Its like having two doors on your front-facing wraparound porch but worse. And with both of these facing prominent streets this is actually a security concern in my eyes. They should have blocked up the second one, also what in the world is that hole UNDER the door? Looks like the perfect hidey hole for someone you don't want on your property.

Where is door 2 on this house?

So your issue is 2 front doors? Not 4 total doors? Because 4 total doors is very standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, please come back and explain why you think 4 doors is unusual.

I am genuinely curious.

OP here - I grew up with four doors, but none of them were redundant in this manner. This is neither a 'service' entrance, nor a walk-out from the basement. Its like having two doors on your front-facing wraparound porch but worse. And with both of these facing prominent streets this is actually a security concern in my eyes. They should have blocked up the second one, also what in the world is that hole UNDER the door? Looks like the perfect hidey hole for someone you don't want on your property.

That house looked like they primed but forgot to paint.

Don't those flippers know that gray is out?

[Anonymous]

I grew up in a 1500 sq. ft. Colonial with an entrance ion each side. Great for kids. The front door was only used for guests. Even today I do not use my front door. Any one who knows us knows to come to the side/back door. We enter thru the kitchen, not the living room.