Front Door Opens Directly Into Stairs

My front door opens on a corner of my living room one wall is entirely windows the other wall is the only place to have a living room.

Front door opens directly into stairs.

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. 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. In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room.

And then there s the problem that the rest of us face. How to fix the stairs in the front of the door for feng shui. You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room. For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it.

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. I have this same problem thanks for the post. 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 first one has an entryway a small hallway a nook near the front door or even a sharp turn that separates the front door from the rest of the home.

There are two kinds of homes. My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma.