I still don't get it. Here, in construction, you might hear: 'veranda' and 'vestibule'. I decided to look them up. ====================
" ... is that vestibule is a passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building while veranda is a gallery, platform ..,"
Vestibule vs Veranda - What's the difference? Wiki Difference
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Nothing at all alike.
In some houses, you open the front door and step into the vestibule. Close the outer door. You can take of your dirty boots, leave the umbrella, then enter to home.
If the weather is nice, you may want to go sit on the veranda overlooking the back yard, sit and enjoy a drink. Think back deck or porch.
A veranda is where you sit and sip mint juleps while watching the darkies at work. A vestibule is where the umbrella holder is.
I would have said back yard - deck < covered or open >
front yard - veranda < covered >
Vestibule is your fancy front-door mud room. Mud room is your messy side/back door vestibule.
... then there's your porch ..
John T.
At my house, you don't enter beyond the vestibule until the butler says you can enter. Many times I just meet my callers there.
How can that be when all those sultry women in 1940's movie say, while indoors, Shall we walk on the veranda?
When I had a summer job at Bethlehem Steel, in Ingot Molds, my mother made me come in the back door and she made me get undressed befoe I came in.
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