Why do some people not use their front doors?

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Why do some people only ever use their back doors? I just don't see the point in having a front door and walking all the way round the back to use the back door. Is there some sort of logic to this?

Growing up I wasn't allowed to use the front door ... But I did

It seems to be a thing among some people that using the front door is for important people only - so if a grandparent came they would be allowed to use it. Personally I have always considered it insane.

The front door is however used too many times a day to let the dog in and out - although when we're feeling lazy he goes through the living room window :-)

We use the back door, but only because it's right next to the drive way so it would be further to walk to get to the front door. It would feel really weird to use the front door now!

I use the side door that leads to the kitchen/dining room, which is in our tiny driveway.

I hate it when people use my front door. Most delivery people use my side door but those who don't know us enough use the front. I need to put a note up. I use it because that door is always unlocked, and most people go straight through to the kitchen when visiting so it just makes sense.

The door in my living room leads to the back garden, the only time that door is used is to enter the garden or if the children need to get their bikes out. It's difficult to get in and out that way due to the fence and lack of space.

All my neighbours use the side door.

I pass a house daily which has a front door facing onto the road, approached by steps.
There are a number of planters on the steps, blocking access, and a sign saying 'Use side door'

Admittedly there is parking at the side, but the letterbox is in the front door. Bet the Royal Mail folks get irritated.

Wow this is an eye opener. I've never in my life come in or out of a back door. Ours is for coming in and out of the garden, that's it.

Here is a house in our village which had a fake front door added to improve the aesthetics of the house. It even has a letterbox and handle and other furniture.

Am unsure if the letterbox is a functional one,suspect not, unless they have chiselled through the external house wall. I see that they have now added a sign saying 'door not in use, go to side' or similar. That must perplex callers / post people too.

Our back door is closer to our preferred parking spaces so hardly ever use the front door apart from takeaway deliveries and online food shop deliveries.

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Because I am disabled and there are two high steps leading up to my front door. I have to navigate getting my outdoor walker (4 wheels, basket and seat) down these steps at the same time trying to lower myself which is really difficult. Having once fallen down them resulting in a hospital stay, I prefer not to.

Much easier to get walker and myself out of the french windows with only a four inch drop to the patio and walk round to front.

Our side door goes on to the drive. If we walk we use front, car use side.
My dp don't se the front much as it has two double locked doors that tend to jam. Means by the time they've opened it the cold callers have given up. Suspect that's deliberate.

Front door knock means it's a stranger. Side door has the letterbox so a knock there means it's a delivery or general caller. Back door which is reached through garden gate and walking the length of the house is friends and neighbours, straight into the utility, then kitchen and a and made in the Aga

Front door opens into carpetted front hall. Car parking is at the back, back door opens straight into kitchen where we "live" and can contain muddy dog, take shoes off etc. Also easier to get everyone in and get shoes off at leisurely pace in large kitchen rather than shuttle everyone through hallway to kitchen still with shoes on over the carpet before we have room for everyone to get them off.

It's a bit strange. Why not put tiles in the hallway where you get in, rather than carpet? Seems silly to me :p

Rented house. Not my decision.

And even if there were tiles. My car is still out the back, we'd still all need to stop to take our shoes off etc. Would be even stranger to come through the front door given all that.

My grandparents and my parents all used/use the backdoor. Never really thought to question why tbh!

My mum uses her back door because once a lady came in, used the toilet and went out again when I was little. So the front door has been locked ever since. Dont even know if they know where the key is for it.

I mostly use then back door. It's closer to the shed where we store our bikes, main mode of transport. When I come in with boxes of shopping (car is parked at the front) using the back door means negotiating one door and I can dump them in the kitchen. From the front it's three internal doors and a treck through the (carpeted) living room.

My front door is a very, long dark walk away on an uneven path. My back door is right by our drive and where we park. It is light and leads directly to out utility where we have our coat pegs and we leave our shoes. We only open the front door if someone delivers a parcel.

Ive no idea. My neighbours either side have the same layout as us and both use back door.

Front doors open into front gardens so not right on the street. Driveway at front of house.

All houses have a big hallway so not right into the sitting room. It makes more sense to me to use the front door and dump coats and shoes in the hall.

Back door goes straight into dining room.

We use the side door because that's where we keep our coats/bags/shoes (there's no room for all that near the front door). It also has a waterproof and easy-to-clean floor so any mud can be quickly and easily wiped up.
My dream lottery-win house will have an enclosed porch in front of the front door so that we can go in through the front.

Certainly in Yorkshire most people use the back door, via the ginnel. Means you can arrange your furniture in the front room more efficiently if you're happy to block the front door off.

When I first moved to a rented house in S.Yorks I took possession of the keys as normal. When I'd been for the viewing the agent had let us in the back door. I discovered the front door key didn't work, or rather the lock mechanism was so stiff that the key wouldn't turn. I phoned the landlord and he said "So... you use the front door, do you?" like it was a really unusual lifestyle choice

My grandparents used to use their back door only though, and they were southerners. But again their front door opened straight onto their lounge, so it made sense to keep that door shut and fit the armchair in that corner.

Side door leads to boots and coats dumping ground, laundry room then kitchen and is a happy state.
Front door leads to carefully constructed illusion of aesthetic perfection of -staged-- hallway and sitting room, only for the eyes of unexpected guests of delivery man. It's my way of showing the outside world I can cope really

I live in the countryside, and my front door looks out onto a small woodland. No road, or parking, only a basic pathway in front of the houses. Lovely, and great for the pets and neighbours' children, but I only ever use the front door to go to the outside box for the electric meter.

We park at the back and use the back door, which leads directly into the kitchen.

I can see why it sounds mad to those with inaccessible back doors from the street/driveway though!