Exterior door to garage should go IN or OUT?

RobertMacy · 2014-09-20T00:20:55+00:00

Help here. Have an exterior door to outside world that opens INTO the house. ok. Then there's a garage access door that opens OUT to the garage. Is there any rule associated with an exterior door? Or preference based upon some kind of logic? I want to add a door to the garage through a bedroom wall where we turned that bedroom into a storage/box room. However, if the door is the same as the other door, it will open out and hit the bumper of one of the cars. Well, at least try to hit the bumper. It's a big Mercedes so eats up a lot of length in the garage and NO, it will be parked there. Therefore, just like the 4 by 8 foot 'entrance' door that opens IN, why can't I make this door open IN also. There's clearance in the box room for it to swing into the house. Anybody share the logic of selecting an IN vs OUT swinging exterior door?