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Aren't door knobs supposed to be on the right hand side of entry doors?
FlamingoKicker1
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When you enter a building from the outside isn't the door knob supposed to be on the right hand side of the door? I honestly have never thought about this in game before but tonight I noticed all my doors on my houses have the knob on the left hand side? What? Is this a glitch or a mistake or what? I think I remember in some of the earlier Sims games you could jiggle the door back and forth and the knobs would move back and forth (if you had enough room on the wall to adjust it) but I couldn't get that to work in Sims 4.
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This is really interesting.
So the front door of the building where I live has the knob on the right side (viewed from the outside, but otherwise it would block the stairs).
My flat door on the left side (viewed from the outside).
And my neighbor's flat doors on the right side (viewed from the outside. In the same building on the same floor!).
I never payed attention to that ^^' But I think, since our flats are mirrored, the open flat door would block the bathroom door.
My daughter's flat has the knob on the right side too (other building, viewed from the outside, otherwise it would block the counters).
But the building's front door: left
Where I lived before: right, where my daughter lived before: left hahaha, I think it depends what lies behind?
When you ask google to show you entrance doors, most knobs are left. Maybe because most people are right handed and open the door with the right hand?
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It can be on either side. Plus as previously said, you can flip doors by rotating them (though using , and . buttons is simpler...).
I sims you can rotate doors by pressing < and > while placing them. (on my azerty keyboard this is, and ; ) For doors that look the same on both sides, this works very well. For doors with a different appearance on both sides, for example some of the realm of magic doors, flipping them makes less sense.
also like sometimes you have to alternate which way door opens/which side has knob cause otherwise you'd get stuck in corner
you can turn around most of the doors in the game to have knob either side but it will also affect if the door opens in or outwards and some of the doors have different look inside and outside so it'd look silly
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If I were to guess, it would have to do with the flow of traffic inside when the door is open-- preferring for the open door not to block a hallway or other door for example.
I don't know, personally, of any hard and fast rule as to which side of the door, the knob is supposed to be. In my current RL house, the front door handle is on the left. One of the bedrooms upstairs, the knob is on the right, but that's mostly, I think, because the room opens into a large hallway. My loft office is on the opposite side of this room. But the bathroom and front bedroom doors have the knob on the left, as well. So, there's a real live example.
If you click and hold the door upon placement, I believe you can still change which side of the door the knob is. Same as the windows.
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