At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic.
Front door opens directly into stairs.
I will probably do nothing until i give up the idea of turning the front porch into an entrance but a window partition could be a lovely solution.
The main door is called the mouth of chi in feng shui as this is how the house absorbs its much needed chi or energy nourishment.
No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess.
In the 1 000 plus years of asian feng shui practices an internal staircase in a two story home that faces the front door creates an.
The distance between the stairway and the front door is not that far it s a small foyer.
When a staircase is facing the front door directly the feng shui energy rushes up quickly to either the lower or the higher floor thus leaving the main entry as well as the whole main floor without good feng shui energy nourishment.
You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room.
Right when you open my front door its directly towards my stairway which leads right into a wall and then you have to make a turn which then leads straight up into a room.
For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it.
I have this same problem thanks for the post.
How to fix the stairs in the front of the door for feng shui.
And then there s the problem that the rest of us face.
In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room.
My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma.