We keep calling our kitchen door our back door, primarily because most kitchens are at the back; however, our kitchen isn't on the back of the house - it's at the side and forms one arm of a crucifix. To complicate matters, there's a porch on the back door with two exits - one to the back-back (or front) and one to the side back.
As a consequence, we refer to both the front and the back of the house as the back, leading to massive confusion. It doesn't help that we have one, large living room that goes from front to back, or back to front, or back to back, or indeed front to front.
The main access to the house should, I suppose, be called the front, but we refer to it as the back because of the back door being there, which is the main access. I guess the reason we call it the back is because we don't have a front door - or rather we do, but it's a French door, which we also have at the other end - the back (above).
It's all very confusing.
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Our ancestors overcame this issue by referring to their properties as ,North Wing, or ‘South WingK etc.. maybe you could do the same?
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