Doors

[potioncat]

 "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> Perhaps Geoff, or resident Brit, can help me with this, though
> I readily admit it is not a point of any importance.
> 
> It has to do with doors in British home, and the question is,
> why so many?
> 
> I'm watching "Keeping Up Appearances" with Patricia Routledge.
> I notice that every room has a door on it, and it is invariably
> a door that gets used. I think this might even be true of the 
> Dursley's house in the movies. 

Potioncat:
I know you're asking about real British houses, but I happened to think of my own US Southern home with it's various doors, and for some reason, American TV homes. Beaver Cleaver's house had a door from the kitchen to the dining room...and the family ate dinner in the dining room! Also a door to the father's den. Three's Company had a door into the kitchen. 

Can anyone else think of American TV houses, doors or non doors? I'm just wondering if the real reason for all the doors in a TV home is to close off the other rooms when those sets aren't needed, or because the door doesn't really lead to that other room/set.

My own home had two doors that separated the bedrooms from the front of the house, and more importantly, could limit the heated air to the bedrooms and bath. One door opened into the living room, and the other into the dining room. But with both doors open, my friends and I could race around the circle from living room, to central hall to dining room to living room, laughig and screaming until we drove the adults crazy.

Potioncat, whose dining room was only used for holiday meals. The rest of the year it was for homework and projects.