You will need to place a thin piece of similar wood in the side of the door for each unused hinge slot for a good appearance.
How to hinge one door to another.
If you re hanging new doors onto old frames you will need to cut or mortise new hinges onto the door.
Hold the door in place using blocks under the bottom to support it if necessary.
This will let you check the the new hinge plates will be in just the right spot.
Now it was time to mortise out the hinges.
Connect the door to the jamb.
You can move the door and move the hinges to the new location by chiseling the wood door.
Likewise you should place wood in the old door frame to fill in the hinge slots.
You just get a bag of shims place the door in its closed position and then use the shims to hold it in place.
To make your doorway accessible a 36 door is ideal.
According to international code standards interior doors the ones that allow passage from one room to another are required to be at least 80 in height and 32 wide.
Line up the two hinge plates so that the ones on the door match the ones in the jamb.
Ask this old house carpenter nathan gilbert helps general contractor tom silva change the swing of an entry door subscribe to this old house.