And then there s the problem that the rest of us face.
Front door opens onto stairs.
Front door conflict with many schools of thought and philosophies related to the practice of feng shui one idea all the experts agree on is the conflict created when a front door also a symbol.
There are two kinds of homes.
You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room.
Doors would end up like this because there often wasn t a place to swing the door into the kitchen or elsewhere where the top of the stairs was located.
Interior doors do not require landings at both sides of the door like exterior doors do.
Generally speaking a landing equal to the width of the stairs is required at the top of the stairs if the door opens outwards away from the stairs.
Here is the problem as it relates to feng shui.
In older homes it is not uncommon to have doors that open over the stairs to the basement.
Having a front door open immediately to a stairway is going in the direction of financial failure whether you are a home builder or a homeowner.
At the bottom of the stairs a door is allowed to open over the landing providing there is a further clear distance of 400mm as shown in diagram 1 24 in approved document k.
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.
The gravity force of chi energy coming down the stairs is greater than the incoming chi from the door.