Entry door

[CaptainNJ]

if you want to answer the door while concealing your nakedness its a lot easier if the door opens in.

[NC211]

Can also be code driven. We ran into this when replaced a slider patio door with dual outward opening french doors to the patio. The door entrance is not covered from above, and code requires there either be one, or a certain amount of distance from the entrance to a step down. Thankfully, ours opens to a step that goes down two more before hitting the patio surface.

The code aspect is the potential to block the exit from the home (think snow). If a fire, and exits have chance to be blocked from outside, it's a problem.

[k350]

About every house I come across in Miami have it open out. Makes sense, hurricanes.

I like it opening out anyway, not in.

Hinges and security, they make security hinges, even a simple dowel in the door can help.

[k350]

Originally Posted by Threestep2

I have never seen an outward opening door in Europe. Do I want to have my groceries on one arm, fumble the key with the other hand, step down two stairs to be able to get the door open? Try that with a child or an elderly in tow.

I have seen them both, lived in a mix that had either one. My one apartment had both, an inward wood door, an outward steel door.

[blueherons]

Open in.

You don't want a storm ripping the door off if it opens out.

[gentlearts]

I believe that, after several tragic fires in which people were trapped in buildings with doors opening in, commercial buildings are required to have doors that open out. This would seem to be safer in an emergency, but Ive never had a door open out in any houses.