Surrounding residence with chicken run

We recently moved to our homestead, and I've built a coop and a chicken run, hoping to get chickens in a week or two.  The run currently abuts the south wall of our house, where this past spring I noticed tons of box elder bugs sunning themselves on the bricks.  I'm hoping the chickens will suppress that population of bugs next spring, by scratching the dirt long the house and eating all the eggs and larvae they find there.  
That got me thinking: should I extend the run along the rest of the wall, then along the east side of the house?  I could even go all the way around the north side, because they could go underneath the front porch, so I wouldn't have to block our front steps.

Does anyone here do that; surround their house with their chicken run?  It wouldn't be their primary area, so I don't think the smell would be too bad (egg birds are what I'm planning to get).  Prevailing winds tend to be from the SW to the NW, so that shouldn't blow odors into the house much anyway.

That area under the porch would worry me.  Could you get under there to retrieve an egg or rescue a trapped bird?  Otherwise this sounds like a great idea.  I have heard of people doing this around gardens to keep pests out.

Hi G,
I  don't know if I would want to do it, but I'm sure it could work. I would worry about the smell getting bad personally. If you don't move chickens around and/or add a ton of carbonaceous material, it will smell. And that is not something you want next to your house no matter how the wind blows. I think it would be fine for a temporary thing to help with the bugs.

I used to do exactly this where I used to live. I took some pvc pipe end caps, drilled through them into the house wall, and arched pvc electrical conduit from the ground up to the caps.
Caps held the conduit to the house and I cut the ground end of the conduit at an angle to stab into the ground. I wove the conduit through woven wire fence, which covered about the bottom half of the arch. The top half got covered with plastic net.
Crazy that my coop was also on the south side of the house, the hoop run along the east side, and I also fenced up under the porch so they could run there too!

The chickens enjoyed their run extension, and I enjoyed them keeping the grass and bugs away from the house. No issues with smell, but I didn't have a ton of birds crammed in there.

Maybe let them in a fews hours a day or a couple of days a week instead of permanently.