What is the architecture of romulan apartment buildings like and how do they include false doors?

[Orphalesion]

According to Last Best Hope from @Una McCormack, the tradition was even still alive on romulan colonies during the late 24th century, as seen on the estate of the romulan governor Picard visits at the end of the novel.

But that wasn't on-screen (canon) that's a novel, so...
That being said a governor's house is exactly the type of house I could see follow the tradition, as he'd be upper class and that building would likely be an old one.

So i could imagine that it may have been even still common on Romulus before the destruction of the planet and probably even a feature of newer buildings, perhaps even the skyscrapers and bigger buildings, where the commoners live.

I disagree here, I just see it more as an upper-class and traditional thing. Kinda like having a fancy fountain in your garden on present day Earth.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

But that wasn't on-screen (canon) that's a novel, so...
That being said a governor's house is exactly the type of house I could see follow the tradition, as he'd be upper class and that building would likely be an old one.


I disagree here, I just see it more as an upper-class and traditional thing. Kinda like having a fancy fountain in your garden on present day Earth.

For a potential hint in canon:

Perhaps the door Picard and Data were examining, during their search for Pardek, in "Unification" was a Shaipouin. Considering the reaction of the romulan soup lady

 

[The Wormhole]

ironically i'm currently living in a house that follows this romulan tradition, unintentionally. as did my grandparents.

(my house is on a hill, and our "front" door, while functional, opens out to a porch that require you to come round the entire house to reach, while our back door opens onto a porch that is right next to our driveway and parking area. as a result, our front door is largely ornamental, and everyone comes in via the back door. (which does require them to pass through our laundry area.)

my grandparents built their place with an intentional decorative front door.. they live out in the country, and they built the front of the house to look good from the road, but the main door is far enough away from the parking area in front of the garage that nearly everyone comes round to the back door, reached by the back porch which also opens directly to the parking area.

My grandparents' house likewise was one where everyone entered from the back door. Though that had more to do with a quirk of how the property was set up, in that the driveway basically circled the house, therefore all the cars were parked behind it, and therefore everyone always entered or exited the house from the back door. I honestly don't know if the front door worked, but at least from as far back as I can remember to the point the house was sold after my grandfather's death, the front door was never used.