Thanks for the quick feedback! The coop is built just above/next to a short knee-high wall, so from the outside the egg box isn't so low. In my planning I had intended the coop to be flush with the edge on that mini wall, so that 1) the slightly low box I had imagined would be easy to reach...
My wonderful husband has just built me a dream chicken coop for our flock that more than doubled during the summer. (A hen went broody and we got so excited we let her adopt eleven little chicks). We now have 16 hens and 4 young roos (will sort out the extra roos in due time). But he built it...