{"id":50129,"date":"2024-08-16T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50129"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:42:53","slug":"i-always-wanted-the-front-of-my-house-to-look-like-an-office-vestibule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50129","title":{"rendered":"I always wanted the front of my house to look like an office vestibule"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I saw this meme from Black Twitter about how now that glass-enclosed front porches are becoming a thing, it\u2019s only a matter of time before black people start tinting their front porches.\u00a0 It was one of those things that I thought was kind of funny because of the stereotypes that were being implied by such an observations, but really my mind went to being fascinated that glass-enclosed front porches were actually a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The examples I\u2019d been seeing since being curious don\u2019t really sell me on their benefit, other than the fact that they\u2019re a hard-shell that stands as one more layer to protect the front door of a home from the devastating effects of prolonged rain exposure.<\/span><\/p>\n

But otherwise, they make the homes that choose to go in that route look like, a vestibule to an office building.\u00a0 And frankly, I don\u2019t even understand what the point of vestibules are in the first place; Google is telling me that they\u2019re:<\/span><\/p>\n

for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The thing is, most everywhere I\u2019ve been, offices, hotels, airports, or any place that might have vestibules, the only rationale that really makes any sense is the prevention of loss of a desired air temperature; cold in the summer, heat in the winter, and anything in between.\u00a0 I guess they could be used as something of mudrooms for a patch of space where people can reduce the amount of dirt and mud they track into the larger part of the structure.<\/span><\/p>\n

But to basically turn homes into having a glorified vestibule once a front segment of a home is enclosed in glass?\u00a0 Yeah, seems counterproductive in my opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only does it look aesthetically ridiculous, it\u2019s an invitation to greenhouse effect your front stoop\/porch, and microwave the inside of it during a sunny and\/or hot day.\u00a0 Short of having some logical ventilation in there, I have to imagine that moisture gets trapped in these things and now you\u2019ve also now got a sauna, pressing and permeating moisture onto one of the exterior walls and doors to your home, and if there\u2019s one thing that I\u2019ve ever learned about homeownership is that moisture is definitely not a good thing in most cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

Provided on whether they\u2019re locked or unlocked, these doors just create an extra layer for packages to be dropped off at; like Amazon will just plop the boxes outside the vestibule instead of next to your actual front door, and the risk of package theft goes up.\u00a0 Or in a true nightmare scenario, a place for bums and squatters wandering by to meander to the door and give a tug, to see if they can get a free place to sleep overnight, or drop a deuce in the corner.<\/span><\/p>\n

And of course, even if they\u2019re not making up of straight up actual glass, plexi, acrylic and other forms of transparent surfaces still shatter and shard into sharp, dangerous pieces, and all it takes is one local vandal, an errant baseball, golf ball or football being struck or thrown, or a drive-by destruction of property in order to trash one of these glass boxes, and now you\u2019ve got one more fragile thing that can break and cause a lot of harm and trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to make an assumption here and assume that it was white people who came up with this silly idea, of glass-enclosed front porches because this definitely sounds like something white people would really come up with.\u00a0 Have the pleasure of feeling like you\u2019re outside enjoying a picturesque day, except not have to be influenced (as much) by summer heat or winter cold; and that\u2019s provided that these are built to be remotely temperature controlled.\u00a0 But completely not take into considerations of building little glass boxes that live outside, and all the consequences of creating such silly things.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for real though, it will be entertaining if when the first time I actually see one of these out in the wild, it\u2019s tinted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this meme from Black Twitter about how now that glass-enclosed front porches are becoming a thing, it\u2019s only a matter of time before black people start tinting their front porches.\u00a0 It was one of those things that I thought was kind of funny because of the stereotypes that were being implied by such … Continue reading I always wanted the front of my house to look like an office vestibule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,45,121,83,156,190,49],"class_list":["post-50129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-batarians","tag-fail","tag-homeownership","tag-observations","tag-social-media","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50131,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50129\/revisions\/50131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}