Which door in the house do your friends and family come in by?

Garage door. Its usually open and lead to the kitchen.

Ours leads to a hallway, then the kitchen. I think the kitchen is the heart of any house.

At my mom’s house, friends come in through the front door, but we use the back door pretty often as well. Both easily lead to the kitchen so it’s a win-win. :)

Friends?
To come in through the back door in my house will prove to be a bit difficult, since i live on the eight floor and my back door leads to my balcony.
So, the front door it is.

Our back door is the only accessible one. The front door leads out to a balcony with no staircase. We live on the 2nd floor. I sometimes just jump down, though. I wouldn’t dare that with the back porch. It’s higher up.

OK @rebbel Enemy’s too!

I prefer to use the front door especially for guests, but the garage works best as that is where we can take off the shoes before coming in the house.

My parents friends and other family and cops use the front door.
My friends use the basement door.
We use the garage door.

The front door is the only door I have for people to come through, because the back door leads to the balcony.

Front door. The back is not convenient from the street. Front door is usually open; friends know that.

In my last two houses then the garage door opened into the kitchen so that’s been the busiest spot. Only guests who arrive on their own come through the front door. Both homes have had heavy screened metal outer door which have been nice to lock and keep the solicitors at bay.

Side door off the screened in porch. The back door is for the dogs to go in and out to their yard and the front is for the mailman.

Front door.

Always from the garage door. I only use the front door when my garage door opener is on the fritz ;P
Family comes through the garage, and friends come through the front.

Always the front door. Seems kinda silly to use any other entrance…

I only have one door. So that one.

Mostly the back door. If a friend is visiting for the first time they might come to the front (which is kind of a long walk from where their car is parked, because I have a backload garage, and the area to park is behind my house) I try to remember to tell them to just come in through the back door. I think maybe some people miss seeing a door is there maybe? Depending on how far they pulled up to park their car.

Everyone either comes through the front door or through the garage, just depends.

Front door for friends and family.

Back door for service folk and deliveries.

Basement window for homeless squatters.

Attic window for Spiderman.

Everyone comes in our front door, because all the others are two levels down the hill and stay locked.

Front door, because someone’s usually sitting on the front porch. The side door usually has things sitting in front of it and the back door is too awkward. We rarely use the backyard, so no one thinks to look for us there.

Our front door is behind a locked porch gate. We do not use it at all. Most common entry point for family is through the garage and into the kitchen/family room door.

There are several other garage and patio doors known to family to allow access, but not commonly used. All of the alternative doors require passing through latched gates.

So all of you who have people enter through the garage, is ou garage practically always open? Can you see it from the road? You don’t need to worry about theft?

Front for every day use, but if we are having a BBQ peopel usually head straight round to the back coz that’s where the food is :)

@JLeslie

For us, in order to get to the garage, you have to get past a gate, which is not always open. People enter through the garage when they drive to my house usually.

I went through the garage all the time at my friend Kenna’s house, but it was because she drove me there and opened the garage with the control in her car, so I doubt they ever left the garage open.

@DominicX I did not even think to interpret the question to mean the guest is actually with the homeowner. I’m thinking the homeowner is inside of the house. If my friends were with me in the car, we would all come in the house through the garage. I have a front door, a garage door, and a back door.

@le_inferno Not really. Not if your driveway runs behind the house. It would be silly to get out of your car at the back of the house, then walk alllll the way around to the front just to use the front door, when the back door is just a few feet from where they park their cars.

@JLeslie Our garage door is open from the time I get up in the morning until I go to bed at night. We live in a limited access off shoot of the main street. The only time we had anything stolen was when thieves came in the unlocked side door in the middle of the night. They were apparently neighbor people who knew about the unlocked door.

Students from the Police Academy came and took finger prints. The crooks were eventually caught red-handed breaking into another house in our neighborhood. The house they lived in sat empty for several weeks, but is now re-rented. Our neighborhood is about ¾ owner occupied and ¼ renter, and mostly Mormon.

@YARNLADY Thieves came in the middle of the night while you were in the house? Not sure what Mormon has to do with it?

@JLeslie Yes, and my dog barked like crazy, but they were gone by the time the police came.
The Mormons watch out for each other, and are much like a family, or a very close knit community.

Every time a house is for sale or rent in our neighborhood, they tell the church about it, and more Mormons move in. It’s just like the neighborhood where I grew up.

@YARNLADY Wow, they takes chutzpah or stupidity to break in when people are home. Scary. Now I see what you mean about the Mormons. Same thing happens with the Orthodox Jews.

The kitchen/backdoor as well. But only because it’s a little easier and a shorter route to get there than to do to the front door, where you first have to go through a gate leading to the garden and then cross a section of the garden and then you find the door. From where you park your car, you walk straight to the kitchen door.