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Our kids are getting to the age where they can put their own coats and shoes away when we get in. Unfortunately the coat rack is way too high for them to reach so they end up plonking their coats on the floor or the bottom of the stairs.
I've suggested putting 2 rows of coat hooks in the porch so the kids can have a row and we can have a row. My wife likes the idea but she doesn't want to get rid of the coat rack in the hall. She wants 2 places to hang coats about 2 feet apart, on opposite sides of the same wall actually. Her reason is she doesn't want the porch to be full of coats but I've told her we'll put the hooks in a place where the coats won't be pushing against the window so won't look untidy from the outside which is her main concern.
Our porch doesn't get used for anything else at the moment and think the coats would be a good use for it.
What does everyone is their porch for? I'm talking enclosed ones, not ones open to the elements
Amazon deliveries
Shoes, poo bags, ball thrower, wet coats till they are dry enough to come inside. Porch not big enough or heated enough to keep nice coats in all the time.
I drive it to the shops just down the road then park it on the drive to show my neighbours how rich I am.
I’ve got some lovely original artwork up in ours. God knows why? It’s not like I, or anyone else, is ever going to stand in the porch and look at it.
I’ve never even given this a moments thought. I really should move it to somewhere I can actually see it
Other than that it’s the standard shoe and coat mountain
We call ours a Beetl, it’s not posh enough to be a Porch.
Wellies & a metal cow (not full size)...oh, and like pat, Amazon deliveries. Bit damp/dusty for coats
Chilli plants, peppers, a big pot thing with walking poles and large plastic windmills in it and a couple of dozen pairs of shoes/boots/wellies/Crocs...
I like to sit on mine with a shotgun.
Banjo practise.
Nudity.
Naked banjo practice with a shotgun FTW.
Amazon. And spiders...
Shoe Jenga with the added pushchair tumbling risk... Some rocks from the alps, the occasional dead mouse...
Coats, shoes, cycle helmets.
Matt has a point - last time I cycled through his scheme, a bloke was standing by his front door in his undies wondering why his world was suddenly illuminated by a mass of mountain bikers. #TrueStory
Tempted to build a porch extension . 3 sqm allowed I think .
Shoes and coats would be kept there and pram. Tight fit no doubt
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Hot tub huntin'
Oops!
I keep pop and beer in ours as it's nice and cool.
We use the side door so coats get dumped in the utility which is toasty warm due to the boiler living in there.
haven't got a porch
Should this kinda presumptuousness not be in the middleclasstrackworld sub forum? 😆
I use my porch for porching,obviously! Some people are so dumb.
Insulation mostly, and a break between the weather.
Amazon deliveries and a log store for dry logs.
Access to the boot room - obvs
Making sweet sweet love to the umbrella stand
Oh yeah, keeping a couple of baskets of logs in too.
breadcrumb - Member
I keep pop and beer in ours as it's nice and cool.
Ours gets too hot to porch ma cans.
I store perch in my porch. I like to pitch a patch of putty on the wall too.
Actually our utility room does the job of a porch so the porch is a place where the junk mail piles up and we fill a carrier bag with the stuff once every 6 months.
Have not had one since 2001 but back then we had a cupboard (sliding door type) for coats and shoes and a bench (cut down old pew) for sitting down to put shoes on and off. Kids would take their coats off there and we would hang them in the cupboard.
A porch? A *ing porch?!
Who's got a *ing porch these days?
*ing bourgeois **.
I store perch in my porch
Help! I'm imprisoned in a porch.
Our porch is completely empty and only has one door to the outside and no door to the rest of the house.
Porch, I can only dream of a porch. You’ll be telling me you have a downstairs loo next. Yuppie bastards.
I wish we had this dilemma. Front door threshold is 600mm above ground level
what are people meaning by porch here? I’m seeing a big wooden walkway with one of those swing seats, a screen door and a fancy handrail.Has this forum moved to the Deep South?
We do not have a porch. We have a Spaniel biohazard decontamination chamber.
With a direct comms link to Porton Down.
Porch, I can only dream of a porch. You’ll be telling me you have a downstairs loo next.
Wait until you find out how many have a 'spare' room for drying washing...
I sometimes pretend our porch is an airlock, just in case I ever need to eject an alien into the cold emptiness of space. It's the little things that get you through the day.
funkmasterp - Member
what are people meaning by porch here? I’m seeing a big wooden walkway with one of those swing seats, a screen door and a fancy handrail.Has this forum moved to the Deep South?
In the OP I was meaning a 6x4 upvc type thing in front of your front door.
what are people meaning by porch here? I’m seeing a big wooden walkway with one of those swing seats, a screen door and a fancy handrail.Has this forum moved to the Deep South?
Your thinking of a veranda
My auntie had a veranda, she pulled it down to build the orangery.
Does anybody anywhere ever use an orangery to protect oranges during winter?
breadcrumb - Member
I keep pop and beer in ours as it's nice and cool.We use the side door so coats get dumped in the utility which is toasty warm due to the boiler living in there.
Similar to breadcrumb, used to store wife's baking paraphernalia plus beer/pop, multi-buys from Costco, excess chairs, box of backpacks.
The outer door is usually jammed shut and unusable over the colder months so we enter/exit through the extension at the other end of the house.
I keep pop and beer in ours as it's nice and cool.
How does Pop feel about this?
Wait until you find out how many have a 'spare' room for drying washing...
Pretty much us I'm afraid to say... 😳
Occasionally we have guests staying over so it serves its more useful purpose but 99% of the time it's the clothes drying room.
No porch but we do have a conservatory which is basically a 7m x 2.5m storage bay for coats, shoes & damp bike clothes.
I'm feeling left out because I don't have a porch, a downstairs toilet or a spare bedroom.
miketually - MemberI'm feeling left out because I don't have a porch, a downstairs toilet or a spare bedroom.
Well I don't have a porch but I do have a downstairs toilet (formally the coal shed/larder) & the only bedroom that is spare is full of drying washing & a through floor lift?
I'm feeling reet posh!
Porch for Barbour & leather country boots
Downstairs loo
Drying room
Back boot room for dirty dogs
Finally, just installed 2 dishwashers in my new kitchen
I keep pop and beer in ours as it's nice and cool.
How does Pop feel about this?
Chilled.
I'm feeling left out because I don't have a porch, a downstairs toilet or a spare bedroom.
Me too. Although porch / hallway / entrance / vestibule seem to be interchangeable descriptions. Therefore I do have s downstairs loo. Although it has grass, a car, isn’t weatherproof and isn’t advisable for taking a dump in 🙂
Our porch had been added on at some point, it's a single skin brick/block affair. Our hallway/vestibule is tiny so I can see why it was added on.
Just for the record have a downstairs loo, a "sun*" room and 2 spare rooms. Ay iz wel posh.
*In Cumbria! Ha!
Twenty years from now, veranda's will be all the rage.
(Global warming, etc)
The cat spends a lot of time in ours. Watching. And plotting.
They say cats don't have facial expressions but ours does a pretty good WTF if anyone tries to go in or out
The footmen, whilst they await their morning thrashing
I'm feeling left out because I don't have a porch, a downstairs toilet or a spare bedroom.
I have all of those. But then I do live in a bungalow and have fewer children.
The porch remains empty. Remarkably it’s the one “room” Mrs North has yet to fill with clutter....
Sitting in my hammock while shooting at the natives.
A pair of rugby boots (muddy)
An Umbrella (drying)
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My porch. 4 of my pairs of wellys on display. Apparently that's unreasonable 🙄 One coat tree thingy made of sticks and antlers covered in tatty wax cotton. Floor littered in drying cycling shoes. That's unreasonable as well. But the settee or chair that she wants in it isn't! Why FFS? The postie chucks the mail on the floor and we get no visitors.
I see it as a good place for chainsaws as well.
That hot tub hunting pic reminds me of my dad who used to take the 12 bore with him to his hot tub. For some reason the rabbits and pheasants didn't notice him steaming away there and made easy targets.
So we put up hooks for the kids and some at adult height too. Kids use it, I use it, Mrs S has put a couple of coats in it but has also left a few on the one in the hall. She doesn't like the look of it from the outside of the house (through obscure glass) but having 2 coats looking lost inside the house is fine! 🙄
I'm going to give it some time so she gets used to the porch hooks and I can persuade her to put her other ones on there too and we can lose the rack in the hall.
We have an multifunctional porch, crapper in the corner, spare bed against the wall and drying rack in the middle.
Nah, actually we don't, just a front door.
Space for a bike rack?and we can lose the rack in the hall.
Rear porch (main entrance into cottage) is used for shoes, dog leads etc,. but also has a large cupboard used as a larder
Front porch is open and used for garden shoes, large light and other stuff for going out in garden when it is wet/dark/cold
(Notice how casually I say have I have TWO porches)
So we put up hooks for the kids
That's a bit cruel. You should let them have their own bedrooms.
No porch here at the moment, but it is something I'm looking to do in the future..
One fridge freeze
One tumble drier
One central heating boiler (see other thread)
One ammunition cabinet. (nothing to do with us - was there when we moved in. gets used to hold spare light bulbs and things like that)
Lots of clobber.
We don't use that door anymore!
I'm looking forward to finally having a porch. Will revisit this thread for ideas of what to put in it..
Old house of 12 years didn't, new house has a 4.5m x 2.5m porch and a spare bedroom, boot room/utility [i]and[/i] a conservatory 😀
Chest freezer and a tumble dryer in ours
Don't slam the yale locked inner door shut before checking you have the key to the outer door. That day I discovered that I could put my hand through the letter box to open the yale lock.
Milk deliveries, gas meter. Money tree plant in the summer and this year a surprisingly successful bell pepper plant.