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=In or Outswing - Right or Left Hand= | |||
Exterior doors: In or out refers to inside or outside your house. Inswing means that the door opens to the inside. Outswing means the door opens to the outside. In-and out requires a reference point: from the inside. If you enter from the outside, you are in-swinging a door - the in refers to the house inside or outside - not the direction you are pushing. From the outside - you are pushing away from you, not pulling towards you. | |||
For interior rooms: consider the room being secured being the inside. Same logic applies as above. If you pull your door to leave the bedroom - you have an inswing bedroom door. | |||
Inswing is desirable - so you don't clothesline people in the hallway. Inswing is desirable for exterior doors for safety- if it's a break-in - you can push the door shut with your body. If the door swung out, if you decide that you have an intruder, it would be harder to shut the door in their face. | |||
Ambiguous case: for a door between two rooms - it can be ambiguous which direction is inswing and which is outswing. | |||
The ambiguous case makes you ask questions: 1. Is the door identical on each side? Then hinges can likely be remounted so you obtain inswing or outswing. 2. For handedness - is the door hinge on right or left side? If the door can function equally upside down, then the door could be right or left-handed. | |||
This gets into how left and right hand is defined. | |||
When you go up to a door, are you using your right or left hand to open it? That determines the handing. But that is not a transparent definition. If you go up to a door, you can open it with your right hand or with your left hand. For a person without a right hand, the left hand would be more convenient. So the right- left- distinction based on which hand you use is a poor one. | |||
=Door Handing= | |||
'Right hand' or 'left hand' refers to the hand that you use to open the door. The convention is that the door knob is on the right side for a right hand door, and on the left side for a left hand door. | |||
=Deck= | |||
In Seed Eco-Home 2 and 4, deck door is left | |||
=Bedroom= | |||
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2973493/left-or-right-swing-door-for-the-master-bedroom | https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2973493/left-or-right-swing-door-for-the-master-bedroom | ||
The main design for bedroom door inswing: '''It provides just enough privacy to person/people in bed from anyone who may be walking down the hall or entering unexpectedly.''' | The main design for bedroom door inswing: '''It provides just enough privacy to person/people in bed from anyone who may be walking down the hall or entering unexpectedly.''' | ||
Revision as of 05:01, 29 April 2023
In or Outswing - Right or Left Hand
Exterior doors: In or out refers to inside or outside your house. Inswing means that the door opens to the inside. Outswing means the door opens to the outside. In-and out requires a reference point: from the inside. If you enter from the outside, you are in-swinging a door - the in refers to the house inside or outside - not the direction you are pushing. From the outside - you are pushing away from you, not pulling towards you.
For interior rooms: consider the room being secured being the inside. Same logic applies as above. If you pull your door to leave the bedroom - you have an inswing bedroom door.
Inswing is desirable - so you don't clothesline people in the hallway. Inswing is desirable for exterior doors for safety- if it's a break-in - you can push the door shut with your body. If the door swung out, if you decide that you have an intruder, it would be harder to shut the door in their face.
Ambiguous case: for a door between two rooms - it can be ambiguous which direction is inswing and which is outswing.
The ambiguous case makes you ask questions: 1. Is the door identical on each side? Then hinges can likely be remounted so you obtain inswing or outswing. 2. For handedness - is the door hinge on right or left side? If the door can function equally upside down, then the door could be right or left-handed.
This gets into how left and right hand is defined.
When you go up to a door, are you using your right or left hand to open it? That determines the handing. But that is not a transparent definition. If you go up to a door, you can open it with your right hand or with your left hand. For a person without a right hand, the left hand would be more convenient. So the right- left- distinction based on which hand you use is a poor one.
Door Handing
'Right hand' or 'left hand' refers to the hand that you use to open the door. The convention is that the door knob is on the right side for a right hand door, and on the left side for a left hand door.
Deck
In Seed Eco-Home 2 and 4, deck door is left
Bedroom
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2973493/left-or-right-swing-door-for-the-master-bedroom
The main design for bedroom door inswing: It provides just enough privacy to person/people in bed from anyone who may be walking down the hall or entering unexpectedly.