Call me old fashioned then! We have 4 doors on various levels/areas of the back of the house. We built almost 10 years ago now.I guess back doors are out of fashion these days.
99% of the homes I've been in the backdoor goes to the backyard and so there's zero reason to go in and out of it. People don't tend to leave their house out the backyard around the side of their house to the front of it as a norm. Not unless you're talking about a bedroom/living space there.I guess back doors are out of fashion these days. My parents house had a sliding glass door in the family room, and living room, and a back door. I sold it 9 years ago and the buyer remodeled and took out the back door!
At my house and my parents' house, the garage/driveway goes to the side of the house. It's actually closer to go to the back door than the front door from the driveway.99% of the homes I've been in the backdoor goes to the backyard and so there's zero reason to go in and out of it. People don't tend to leave their house out the backyard around the side of their house to the front of it as a norm. Not unless you're talking about a bedroom/living space there.
The only exception I've seen is when a door is built into the garage to give entry in and out of it to the outside but commonly those are located on the side of the garage rather than the back (at least in my area seems more common to do side rather than back).
My mom worked graveyard shift for many years and she normally went out the back door to the back door of the garage. No door directly from the house to the garage. She would get in her car in the garage, and only when locked in the car in the garage would she open the big garage door. But the back door was built to be used, it had it's own door bell with a unique ring. We used to get milk delivered in the 1960's and they delivered to the back door and rang the bell.99% of the homes I've been in the backdoor goes to the backyard and so there's zero reason to go in and out of it. People don't tend to leave their house out the backyard around the side of their house to the front of it as a norm. Not unless you're talking about a bedroom/living space there.
The only exception I've seen is when a door is built into the garage to give entry in and out of it to the outside but commonly those are located on the side of the garage rather than the back (at least in my area seems more common to do side rather than back).