Too Many Doors

Our new house has this odd door on the second floor that leads to... our the roof of our front porch.  Open the door and peer down towards the sidewalk and the image of Road Runner tricking Wiley E Coyote through the door and falling to his doom.

Not only does this door lead to a very unlikely exit, but it is one of the most over-secured-second-floor doors I have seen in a long time.

I mean, honestly, I was half expecting to see a moat when we opened it.

Despite it's cartoonish existence, the door is starting to make sense.  Let me introduce the mattress that wouldn't fit up the stairwell:

Oh, and please disregard the truck, rented from an undisclosed company, that turned into a makeshift step stool in the process.  Note to self: bring an engineer and rope next time.