Let me play Devil's Advocate, and say that if the door opens outward, you might want to have some room to stand to one side of it when you open it, so you don't get pushed back out into the rain.
Having said that, it looks like shit. Even worse is the mix of red brick and stone. Even worse than that is building a brick Nazi bunker on the front of the house when a simple overhanging roof would have been sufficient. It's too fucking small for a porch, so why enclose the sides? Bad design, bad judgment, bad taste.
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