Possible Clues:

• Sign of hospitality
• Step on it
• *Entryway rug
• Something just outside the front door
• A hospitable type on the ground floor gets walked on by one greeting visitors to The House
• Small rug at an entryway's floor
• Nicely shortened business degree secured by force — a walkover for entrants?
• Outdoor entryway rug
• Surface injury restricting butterfly circling close to home — one trampled on outside the door
• It's underfoot at the front door