Would this put you off - Boot room entrance at front

[Helpmyreno]

Drawing up plans for full renovation project. Our architects have put our boot/utility room entrance at the front of our house. So front door is middle of house as you'd expect and to the right of it a window (looking into utility) and then another door which will go straight into utility. I feel like it looks odd having another door - like an annex but without an annex! It feels a bit old school.

Would this put you off if you were viewing the house to buy?

Can I see a floor plan please??

I think this all sounds like good plans! I assume placing the boot and utility rooms at the 'front of house' have to do with the view and considerations of where to put kitchen/family room? Most modern houses would like a kitchen-diner- family room overlooking and opening into the back garden, so making the 'front of house' rooms, which traditionally were the main, posh rooms, a bit redundant. I think it could be very practical and conducive to modern life to swap the 'back of house' or 'downstairs' to the front.

Why would you assume that when she had also spoken about the utility room??

lots of people have boot rooms without living in a traditional country house.

@Helpmyreno

As you are only at the architect stage, I'd change it, it's not ideal. I miss my boot room more than I miss the Ex it came with!

Ours was to the side of the house where we entered. Family door into the Utility room, straight ahead leading into the Boot room, (washable runner), or turn right into the kitchen, French doors into the back garden - all tiled. (Beautiful big tiles, but I'd choose wood now) it kept all outdoor mucky shoes/boots/coats etc down that end. Main Entrance at the front was carpeted with a 'built in' large mat. Perfectly fine for normal shoes. House was kind of side on to the driveway, so delivery drivers naturally went to the Family Entrance. It worked beautifully, much more so than the relationship! 😂

I'd want it by the back door & garden - with the utility, I wouldn't want either by the front door.

I now see that a boot room is like an orangery

It really isn’t, it’s just a room for boots/coats. Where do you live because most uk people would understand this 😀

We have no porch wide enough for a boot rack (or coat hooks). It's a pain as we garden and hike a lot. We keep wellies in the utility, but that has no outer door, and it's a pain in the neck tripping over the wellies all the time as the utility is too long and narrow to put them anywhere they don't get in the way of a cupboard or are too close to the radiator- it's also near neither outer door, so you have to cart them through the house. Walking boots are currently on a rack in a sitting room, hardly very elegant. They're going to have to move to the dining kitchen when that room is done- again, not a great place. If I could have a boot room/boot space next to the front door, I'd jump at it.

I meant a room with a pretentious name- trying to emulate the Victorian Country House

No-one has a conservatory (or lean to) anymore -they are all orangeries

@CentralLondonLife yes it is pretentious to call a room you put muddy boots in a ‘boot room’.

Sounds like a good idea. I'd love even a hallway!!

The bit about shoes outside visible from the front of the house being something to avoid made me smile, as a row of shoes outside the front door/on the verandah is so quintessentially Australian, and If I had the space I'd do it.

And if I had verandah I would so have a sofa out there too. It's the law, like having a lemon tree in your yard.