Apparently there's a lot of different terms...

[deird_lj]

Okay. I’m officially intrigued.



[Poll #1553763]

Comments

[next_to_normal]

What is this "passage" of which you speak? Do you mean the hallway?

[deird1]

Well, kinda. But I'd think the hallway meant the bit attached to the front door - whereas the passage is just a long area with doors coming off it, but not including the front door.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

I'd call either of those a hallway.

[next_to_normal]

Nah, I call anything that's long and narrow a hallway. The space attached to the front door is the foyer. In my house, there is no hallway attached to the front door, it's a big open space, but there are multiple hallways upstairs where the bedrooms are.

[klme.livejournal.com]

I think we may be uniquely odd in saying "passage" Deird - most people I have asked don't use it

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'm probably weird and a bit out of step because when drawing plans I actually make distinctions in these terms that aren't generally made in casual speach but when labelling plans: hallways and/or passages are smaller (6ft or less in width) ancillary circulation. Corridors are wide (6ft+) primary circulation. But that's commercial/industrial/institutional buildings. In residential they're pretty much all hallways or passages.