Please help to settle a debate...

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What do you call the door at the back of a house that leads into a garden? My friend and I have completely different words!

Her younger brother says back door and reckons she does too. She now thinks she calls it the back door but in panic has come up with garden door. The plot thickens

@ladybee88 the front of the the house, where the sitting room, is backs onto the side of another garden, as do all the houses in our row if 10 houses, where we only have short gardens, but the one we back onto is really long. We all share a footpath along the front to the end house, which is ours, but it is for the sole use of the residents. Our main door opens onto the road and is where the kitchen is. There you, go, clear as mud!

Erm womble, can we have a diagram? I am so confused!

For me its a back door, whether I am talking about the sliding patio doors or the door from the utility.
Also I had never heard a front door called anything else until a friend called hers the street door...it didnt even lead on to a street as she lived down a country lane!

@WombleOfTheThighs do you live in an Escher painting? Or Narnia? I cannot BEGIN to picture what you're describing but I LOVE it.

It's like some kind of cryptic fairytale riddle: When is a front not a front? When your garden is longest by the footpath...

This thread is reminding me about a conversation I had with DP recently about how every house I grew up in had the living room at the front, so I've always called it the "front room". Now even though we live in a flat where it's not at the front I still sometimes call it the front room out of habit.

In the house I grew up in my parents called the living room / lounge the front room, even though it was at the back of the house. I never thought about the oddness of that until now 🤷🏼‍♀️

My current house we have front door, kitchen door which is on the side of the house and opens onto our front / side garden, and the conservatory doors that open onto the back garden.

@WombleOfTheThighs
I think we need a diagram 🤣🤔

Back door. But it's actually on the side of the house, and the one most people try first.

Shit diagram. Let me know if you can't read it. It's not to scale, obviously!

@WombleOfTheThighs
I get you now, I think I’m near houses like this, can you drive along the road and cross it to your garden?

The back door is the one from the kitchen and the one from the lounge is the garden door.

@DisgruntledGuineaPig my dc have only lived in houses with the kitchen at the front and the living room at the back.

Dh and I both grew up in houses with front rooms/back kitchens so call the living room the front room. The dc have just accepted it and do the same

The gardens are not accessible from any roads.

The DPs had a front door opening into the garden at the front, a back door opening at the left hand end of the house (looking out of the front door) and a garden door at the other end opening into the conservatory. The front door was never opened, the back door had the letter box.

I'm intrigued to know what else it can be called, it's the back door

House arse

We've got the back door (in the utility room) and the kitchen doors in the kitchen/diner.