when you walk into a house or an apartment and there's a dedicated space to take off your shoes and coat etc. before stepping into any of the actual rooms like the living room or the halls etc. what is that part of the house called?
"lobby" sounds like something a large office building has
>Genkan (玄関?) are traditional Japanese entryway areas for a house, apartment, or building—something of a combination of a porch and a doormat.[1] The primary function of genkan is for the removal of shoes before entering the main part of the house or building. Genkan are often recessed into the floor, to contain any dirt that is tracked in from the outside (as in a mud room). The tiled or concrete genkan floor is called tataki (三和土).
John Brown
We don't really call it anything but I've heard mudroom being used
Elijah Adams
I think the mudroom is a side or rear entrance near the laundry room for taking off dirty clothes after yardwork.
t. knower of American houses
Landon Campbell
Mudroom is a secondary entryway
Josiah Jackson
will using the word "vestibule" make me sound autistic? (yes)
Camden Ortiz
We call it пpoхoжaя, roughly translated is "walk-through room", so you could try using that?
Oliver Price
Just use entryway
Ayden Garcia
i don't think that's a room, sometimes we have coat racks hanging on the wall but that's it
Noah Cook
>We call it пpoхoжaя >British flag
Juan Martinez
Пpихoжaя Prikhozhaya >bringin mud from the streets to your home
Hunter Lee
what's the point of not taking your shoes off inside your home? do burgers view it as a sandnigger tradition? srs question
Nicholas Flores
burgers have bad smelling feet because >american hygiene
Benjamin Reed
Apparently it's less offensive for guests to make someone's home dirty in the US than it is to treat it like a home.
Asher Diaz
We call it a mud room where I'm from.
Aaron Diaz
Esik.
Grayson Harris
I grew up in the American SW and you just realistically weren't going to drag in anything that wasn't already on the floor. We still cleaned our floors regularly but mud/dirt wasn't a big problem except maybe 5-10 days a year.
Dominic Bailey
it's not just mud any type of shoe catches little rocks and pebbles and sand on the sole
Adam Reed
>walk through old chewing gum >walk through the dried remains of peoples' spit >walkt through the dried remains of dog pee >UR NAWT GOHNTA HAVE ANYTHING ON YER FEET HWHICH WASNT ALREADY DERR
Charles Johnson
antre. from french "entree" i think
Zachary Russell
Rocks sure, but sand in going to be in your home already because it's a desert and that shit never leaves. You have some dumb fucking ideas about how stuff sticks to shoes and/or how clean your home is.
Gum is certainly a thing but that's not exactly a hard problem to fix. And it's not like it's going to actually do anything to the floor, unless you mean carpet.
Alexander Thompson
> i don't watch where I'm walking > i don't know how to wipe my feet
Grayson Thompson
>I make sure to avoid every piece of rock when I walk on the sidewalk
Zachary Ramirez
wind closet.
Benjamin White
It's called the porch
Jaxon Rodriguez
Landing
Jonathan Powell
Finally someone said it
Jack Edwards
In Norwegian it's called "gang". But I don't recall ever hearing an English name for it.
Samuel Price
It's called a doormat you fuck. You wipe your shoes and it dislodges the pebbles. Anything bigger than that you should have noticed and removed yourself.
Ethan Walker
předsín or hala
Carson Walker
>he actually believes doormats work well enough to justify wearing shoes indoors please stop embarassing your fellow countrymen
Hunter Powell
>wearing shoes inside house For Christ's sake America. What kind of animal are you? Do you even switch to indoor shoes?
Dylan Bennett
If you live in a relatively clean dry environment then it should. Right now I live in Hawaii and know that it won't work.
The fact that this still confuses you makes me worry about you.
Kayden Lopez
Hausflur
Hunter Reed
dry environments are full of sand. and unless you live inside a plastic bubble or a controlled environment like a laboratory there's no environment clean enough that you won't bring in little rocks and stuff with your shoes. just accept it and stop deluding yourself with muh doormat
Aaron Smith
Porch
Oliver Campbell
Motherfucker if you live in a desert there will always be sand and dust in your home anyways. And you seem very concerned about pebbles which is baffling me because that has literally never been a problem in my life(hint: because I wiped my shoes on a doormat).
Jeremiah Baker
my family has always called it a breezeway, don't know if anybody else calls it that
Xavier Ward
This, though "entré" works just fine and gives you a better understanding of what the room is.
Joshua Ward
>I've always walked inside with shoes >there's always sand inside anyway ??? buy a vacuum cleaner and stop bringing your shoes in the house genius
Brandon Garcia
It's a mud room.
Ayden Moore
Hallway
Brandon Bennett
>deliberately baking your feet inside shoes instead of letting them breathe whenever you can
Logan Edwards
aaj
Caleb Moore
Take off shoes?!?!?! WTF MAN
Asher Anderson
Your council estate is showing
If you're middle class it's the porch
If you're filthy rich it can be a foyer and not sound pretentious (if it is big enough) or whatever you want to call it