Front Door Opens Directly Into Stairs

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 energy battle right where you don t want it.

Front door opens directly into stairs.

In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room. And then there s the problem that the rest of us face. I have this same problem thanks for the post. 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.

You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room. My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma. My front door opens into the hallway and stairs. I put a piece of old wood with some vintage gym hooks on the wall and a rustic wine barrel mirror there for hanging backpacks and jackets and having some extra light via the mirror reflecting the light that comes through the glass in the door.

This creates an awkward experience for guests and occupants alike. 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. 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. 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.

For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it. At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic. No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess. In older homes it is not uncommon to have doors that open over the stairs to the basement.

When you enter a home and the stairway is located directly across from the front door your attention is pulled straight upstairs exposing the most private area of the home to the public area of the home. 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. There are two kinds of homes. The gravity force of chi energy coming down the stairs is greater than the incoming chi from the door.

Interior doors do not require landings at both sides of the door like exterior doors do. Here is the problem as it relates to feng shui. Chi will enter the home and rush up the stairs to the private more yin spaces of the home bedrooms and will not sufficiently energize the home with it s positive vital life force energy.