Interior Door Opening Direction
After you determine door swing direction you can use the above method to determine the hand of the door.
Interior door opening direction. However there are a few cases where this is not true. Now imagine if you re inside the room or outside the room. The handle is on the left indicating a left hand door. Internal doors should open into a room as long as there is an obvious into direction.
Generally when drawing interior elevations of doors windows and built in cabinetry such as in a kitchen bath or office dashed lines are used to indicate hinge location and door swings as shown in figure 7 14. An inward opening door should swing in the direction needed to provide adequate passage. If it bumps or blocks passage because of a wall barrier or other object when you open it such as a toilet or cabinet the door should swing in the opposite direction. Stand with your back against the hinge side of the frame and extend an arm in the direction you wish the door to open.
If you extended the left arm then you need to order a left handed door set. Deciding which direction a door should open is sometimes a matter of circumstance x2015 and sometimes circumstances change. One such case is if you have a wall close to the opening. You ll want the door to allow the most open space in the room when the door is open.
The door pulls toward you from the outside. In order to determine your door swing direction by using the diagram shown above imagine the square box is the room. The angled dashed line near the midpoint of the door points to the hinge side. I want to place a lever handle on an interior door.
The design of the room typically determines the left or right swing designation for doors. That s the way it is normally done. Screw the door on in the opposite direction using the new hinge mortises. If an interior door in your home is opening in a direction that doesn t work with how you want to arrange the room or if it just doesn t feel right to you you re not stuck with it.
Now a good rule of thumb is that you want the handle of the screen door to be on the same side as the entry door. Let s start by being inside the room inside the square and you want the door to open out into the next room. Work the knob several times.