Now imagine if you re inside the room or outside the room.
Front door opening direction.
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.
Let s start by being inside the room inside the square and you want the door to open out into the next room.
The design of the room typically determines the left or right swing designation for doors.
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.
Generally interior doors will swing into the room opening towards the nearest perpendicular wall in the room.
The majority of external doors will open inwards.
Do external doors have to open inwards.
After you determine door swing direction you can use the above method to determine the hand of the door.
In order to determine your door swing direction by using the diagram shown above imagine the square box is the room.
Deciding which direction a door should open is sometimes a matter of circumstance x2015 and sometimes circumstances change.
You get home you unlock the door and you push.
This is particularly so in the case of front doors.
Before addressing specific cures for a front door that faces an unlucky direction first be sure your front door is well taken care of so that the chi or energy can flow in easily and that overall you have a strong feng shui front door.
You ll want the door to allow the most open space in the room when the door is open.