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Search for Dutch stairs and you will understand why they need this door to get furniture upstairs
2025-10-17 02:37:39
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moi :
So its for ,when you've had enough
2026-04-17 14:21:42
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Bee_🍉 :
late as hell but in Canada we have these too for when the snow gets too high to use the first floor door lol
2026-11-05 01:48:01
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geri 🇨🇦🇨🇱 :
it's to move their furniture in. there is a hook you use to lift the big furniture into the upper levels
2025-06-21 02:11:33
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Jenny Pie Javier :
Our house has the same. We use it to bring the furnitures upstairs. We have a farm, so we also open it for fresh air.
2026-08-19 03:38:47
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Avery Miller :
its a hold-over from when most of those houses were actually stores with houses. made it easier to load your product right from a boat into a storage space
2026-06-07 19:20:03
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SpicyHairGumBrand :
notice how many of them have beams and hooks over them? lift your second floor furniture straight into the second floor. narrow houses had even narrower stairs. impossible to get furniture up and around corners. some of them were also merchants houses or, later even, dedicated warehouses where they stored goods that were floated down the canal to/from the port
2025-06-13 20:49:37
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KH_First :
People were taxed on the size of the door on the main level
2025-06-30 11:26:53
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BrwnGuyOnABuffalo :
very narrow stairs and moving furniture to the second floor very easily.
2026-01-23 03:11:33
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FLO🐆spirit🪶 :
To move furniture because these type of houses have verry steep and narrow stairs.
2025-07-05 11:16:25
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Penna Farmers Daughter :
people use to fly..you asked
2025-06-12 03:14:37
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Superbecks17 :
Sweeping and cleaning the home. When all people used were brooms 🧹 they opens and sweep it out
2025-06-14 10:30:40
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Katie Cora :
I wish I had that option when I moved into my first home. Our bedroom furniture was too large to get up the narrow stairway so we improvised. We had old wooden windows we had to remove in order to hoist the furniture up through the window on the 2nd floor. It worked perfectly except we eventually replaced all of the windows so when we sold the home we had to include the bedroom set. I was devastated to leave my beautiful furniture behind.
2026-01-23 16:59:46
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Devyn.strick :
lol
2026-02-02 14:07:57
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JusAshleyRenee :
casket doors cuz it was considered bad luck to take caskets out of front door.
2025-07-03 09:34:56
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Soph ♡ :
In case of flooding or insane snow- access to getting out of its enough snow to cover the door on the first floor
2025-09-06 22:20:08
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Diana Munoz :
I live in the states but before I read comments I assume it’s to help with furniture move in- I just saw a video those steps leading to the 2nd floor were to narrow to even walk up
2026-01-24 22:11:25
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Golden :
Fire escape
2025-06-15 21:26:53
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Reece :
probably flooding, and the houses are narrow, so moving furniture could be done through that door
2025-03-30 20:43:32
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Nannypop63 :
To confuse blonde family members. 😂
2025-08-04 11:25:04
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Lebonbon :
snow?
2026-09-20 17:15:23
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Monique Johnson :
how else are you going to get furniture up the ladders they call stairs? 😂
2026-08-23 19:33:15
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Lori🌬🍃 :
To some we call it the mother in law’s door but I rather call it the in-laws door lol that’s just so when they gets on your last nerve you can just shove them out of it🤣🤣
2026-10-21 11:29:19
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Brizuela869 :
in case they want to add on a balcony or terrace😒
2025-08-17 17:46:23
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Marigold :
Cattle, supplies, trade and a lot more different reason’s
2025-07-21 14:11:40
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