Which Way to hang Doors

27col

It is no big deal to move light switches anyway.

Leif

spacey2012 wrote: »

The other reason for the "traditional way " of the door opening in to the room is if you have a fire in a room, the pressure will keep the door closed as opposed to blow it open and kill everyone in the house in the resulting flashpoint expansion in to air, or flash over.

Sometimes our elders had a bit more common sense than we gave them credit for.

This is off topic, but having a door open into a room, rather than a corridor, is safer too. Imagine running along a hallway, and someone opens the kitchen door. Splat! Whereas someone in the hall can open a door into a room, and be almost certain noone will get whacked, as we do not stand in a room next to a closed door.

drummer_666

27col wrote: »

It is no big deal to move light switches anyway.

I disagree with that, means chasing out and then replastering. And when patching up the plaster, it's hard to do it and blend it in flawlessly

Retro_Bunny

Depends how you're going to use the room, think about the room furnishings before you decide on the door.
E.g. our bedroom door can only open one way, as we subsequently installed a massive fixed wardrobe behind the door, opening the other way would now seem odd.

Retro_Bunny

Just re-read your post.

Have you considered other options?
Re-introducing the divide between the lounge and dining room with a larger door opening with double bi-fold doors?
Then the debate between open plan or separate rooms isn't so final, you've got flexibility to use as both, and this will appeal to future buyers also.

We've got this, and I'm happy to send a picture if you pm me a contact email (I can't work these online picture thingies).

DavidJonas

Retro_Bunny wrote: »

Just re-read your post.

Have you considered other options?
Re-introducing the divide between the lounge and dining room with a larger door opening with double bi-fold doors?
Then the debate between open plan or separate rooms isn't so final, you've got flexibility to use as both, and this will appeal to future buyers also.

We've got this, and I'm happy to send a picture if you pm me a contact email (I can't work these online picture thingies).

We had this in the old house and I didn't like it much. Door handles sticking out, not able to finalise the furniture/shelves etc because you have to leave space for the doors to open.. it didn't block out enough noise either. There are doors in the loft I could install which the former occs left and used for this purpose.

There is no need for this house to be so open plan. The lounge is open plan into the dining room and the dining room is open plan into the kitchen ! The former occupants were mad for open plan. It is airy and light but it also feels like living in a huge studio flat. Which is not ideal for a family of 4.

I want to be able to put pictures up, to have some proper privacy between the rooms and some refuge in the winter when the kids can't use the garden.

notanewuser

I hate the doors in my house. There are only 4 downstairs but 3 are extra wide. The downstairs WC opens into the hall, but the kitchen/diner and living room doors open into the rooms. The rooms are decent size but the doors need a huge 180 degree swing in each room. Doing my head in.

And that's before thinking about all of the doors upstairs bar 2 (so 4) being hung the "Victorian" way.

Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

Waterlily24

notanewuser wrote: »

I hate the doors in my house. There are only 4 downstairs but 3 are extra wide. The downstairs WC opens into the hall, but the kitchen/diner and living room doors open into the rooms. The rooms are decent size but the doors need a huge 180 degree swing in each room. Doing my head in.

And that's before thinking about all of the doors upstairs bar 2 (so 4) being hung the "Victorian" way.

Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

When we did our extension, we had to have the wider doors in some of the rooms downstairs plus a wider outside door with a slope up to it. The bathroom door also had to open outwards. They are for disabled people.

Good idea IMO.

notanewuser

Waterlily24 wrote: »

When we did our extension, we had to have the wider doors in some of the rooms downstairs plus a wider outside door with a slope up to it. The bathroom door also had to open outwards. They are for disabled people.

Good idea IMO.

Yes, I understand that. I'm happy with the width of the doors, but am seriously tempted to have them all open into the hall so that they aren't stealing useful space in the rooms.

Biggles

notanewuser wrote: »

The rooms are decent size but the doors need a huge 180 degree swing in each room.

Surely 90 deg is adequate for practically all normal purposes? Leaving room in the hall for several doors, especially large ones, all to open outwards might be even more of a problem.