Door dilemma – how many?

[Suomynona]

The attached is the original floor plan of a 1960’s house we’re currently renovating. We’ve already fairly substantially changed the downstairs layout (removed chimney breast throughout house, removed the wall between living room and kitchen, and created a kitchen diner).

The stairs currently are in the living room with no dividing wall. As we’re still at the stud wall stage, we’ve decided to create a wall between the stairs and living room, and therefore a hallway from the porch with a door into the living room. However we can’t decide whether to keep the door from the porch into the new hallway too, or whether to leave it open from front door into the hallway and up the staircase, with just one door into the living room.

I hope that makes sense….. does anyone have any thoughts/opinions?

Thanks

I think I would keep the two doors.

Porches are useful for, say, parcel deliveries etc if you can leave the outermost door open. Also it's a double barrier to the cold outside!

I'd keep the two doors like SoupDragon says.

You are doing exactly what I would do if I had that layout! Box off the stairs and make a separate kitchen/diner and sitting room :-)

I did this in a house a few years ago. Created a hallway and kept both porch and front door...makes the hallway/house warmer.

We had a 60s house with a porch extension open to the hallway. It always felt like it was sucking the heat out of the house and used to get quite mouldy (maybe just our house!). However it gave a really nice open feel to the hallway and almost doubled the useful space.