No entrance hall?

phoebe1989seb

knightstyle said:

We are looking to move and we see so many houses, new and second hand that you have to walk through the sitting room to get to the kitchen, imagine carrying the shopping in when it is raining!  many of these new houses have cream carpets in the show houses as well!!!

That's (mainly) what prompted us to swap the configuration of rooms in our current house. Although there's a (tiny) hallway, the stairs take up the full width and therefore you originally had to walk from front door through the hall, living room and dining room before you arrived at the kitchen.....with all your groceries etc. Ridiculous, imho.

Now you come from the hall into the kitchen where you can plonk your shopping straight onto the island 

Ours was originally an agricultural building so not built as a place in which to live. It was converted to residential in Victorian times when expectations were very different......

teddysmum

Our estate has a large number of two bedroomed bungalows, where the front door opened onto a tiny hall with doors to lounge, (side) kitchen front) and a small cupboard other side and sharing its back wall with a walk in pantry in the kitchen.There are very few , now, that have not had the front door bricked up and the walls behind the cupboard and holding the hall to kitchen door removed, to make a larger kitchen. This means that entry is into the kitchen, via a side door which is only a few steps from the front, anyway.
These are very popular and sell quickly in semi or detached version.

RelievedSheff

We like to have a hallway as an entrance  to the house so no hallway would be a deal breaker for us.

Our current home has a decent sized entrance hallway with kitchen to the right, living room to the left and stairs dead ahead with the downstairs loo underneath. 

That said we tend to use the patio doors and enter the house through the kitchen as it is easier with the dog and to get from the driveway to the front door means walking all the way around the house rather than the few steps to the back (well side) garden!

HampshireH

I would disregard a property with no hallway/entrance area of any kind.

I lived in a rented flat which opened into the lounge and I hated the lack of privacy. Anyone at the front door could see If I was sat on my sofa/making dinner etc it was far to open plan.

Our house has a 1m2 entrance area and then the stairs. The door leads to my lounge which then leads to the kitchen. This is enough of a barrier for us. (Though an full hallway would be lovely)

However we have a back door which we use 100% to go in and out as our parking is by our back gate. Only visitors turn up on the doorstep.

elsien

I live in a terrace house which is pavement, porch, straight into the living room, then the second reception, then the kitchen.
Yes a hall would be nice - mainly because the sitting room is one of the colder rooms, plus somewhere to dump the shoes rather than a shoe rack in the corner would be good; however I really can't see the issue with having to walk through the rooms to the kitchen with shopping. I just kick my shoes off on the way in and keep a pair of clogs that slip on and off by the door if I need to go out for the second load. 
I've trained the dog to wait in the porch so I can wash/dry his feet if I need to.  I'm not the most house proud person in the world anyway. 
You find a way; and it's the norm where I am. In the same way that off road parking would be nice to have but parking isn't a problem so I can live with it.