Inside Staging area in foyer. Space large for turn around, drawers with shelf on bottom. Mirror nice touch.

This welcoming UD of zero entry (no steps) has a nice bench for staging outside the front door. Staging spots are useful for all ages that are coming and going through the front. Their personalized touch is present by using pillows and flower pots.

Char age 7, artist of her house. Notice the contrasting front door! Such nice UD. Obvious where the front door is.

Managing Steps, where UD has to work the hardest.

Ramps

Pathways

Zero Entry, smooth level surface , no stairs up or down to enter the house.

This direct pathway and large sheltering place makes it very obvious where one enters the house. Although, there is no specific staging area (bench, chair etc.) it would be easy to add. It’s TX folks so a large shelter is necessary!

Ralph Waldo Emerson said,” A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

A home is more than beams and walls.

Let’s start in the beginning….entering the home. There are features that always make a space welcoming, safe and inviting. It may reflect our culture and family. How we enter aa space from the exterior is important.

Jerome Kerner, a friend, architect and author, stated in his book, Be It Ever So Humble, “ the doorway and its components act as a symbol or metaphor for the way we make our way through our lives. Doorways present opportunities…they are as barriers…and they are protectors. Doors create privacy, which is used for secrey. Doorways welcome visitors or they keep them out; they are invitations or exclamations.” Kerner writes how the front door can be a face, giving a first impression of how accessible we ar, signaling to others what they might have to look dorward to in a relationship. The doorknob is the handshake, signaling trust and sincerity, the threshold or saddle requres us to intentionally step over it coming and going. Trnasitioning us and others from outside and inside.’’

I love how Kerner further describes the back door “is thought of as a secondary portal used by immediate family, friends, and children. Or is it an escape or a secret passage?” Both doors serve an important function. The door can be the threshold of family, ancestors, cultures, and home. That is how important the door is to a home.