ᐅ Patio doors, opening outward

Sebastian79 schrieb:
By the way, our door also opens towards the cooktop – I don’t really see why that should be a problem. .

You can’t leave the door open while you’re cooking. You would have to keep opening and closing it from time to time, which some might find a bit annoying.

Yeah, that would be the case – but at least here the door is rarely (never) left open when I’m cooking – I have an exhaust fan and, if necessary, two window sashes.

Well, directly in front of it the door doesn’t slam either – you can still stand there fine.

But okay, everyone has to judge for themselves. I just wanted to say that it doesn’t necessarily have to be an immediate nuisance.

One advantage of outward-opening patio doors is that a gust of wind will effectively close the door rather than blowing it inward into the room, where it might slam uncontrollably against something.

I’m not familiar with Steffi’s kitchen plans, but she does have some thoughts — the island probably won’t be such an issue....

For your kitchen: can the right side also be opened? Maybe the handle would be better placed there, so you could quickly grab some parsley from outside while standing in front of the stove.

That gust of wind can also push the doors outward beyond the hinges, potentially bending them or causing the door to hit the exterior wall.

I suspect if it were that bad, more people would have noticed.

@Yvonne: No, it’s a fixed panel. Unfortunately, the parsley is still from the herb section – emphasis on still!

P.S. Nice tiles!