How to Determine Door Handing (Swing Direction)

Inswing, outswing, left-hand reverse? When you're shopping for a swinging door, how do you know what handing you need? This simple guide makes it easy to determine door handing. For entry doors and exterior doors, door handing is determined from the exterior of a house. For interior doors, stand outside of the room - for example, stand in a hallway looking into a bedroom to determine handing for a bedroom door. If the hinges are on the left side, the door has left handing. If the door swings into the room, away from you, it is a left-hand in-swing door. If it swings toward you, out of the room, it is a left-hand out-swing, or left-hand reverse door. The opposite is true of right hand doors –the hinges will be on the right side. If the door swings into the

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