The first time we walked through the house the owner opened the door for us and literally had to step up onto the 2 nd step to let us in because it was such a tight space.
Front door opens to stairs.
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.
Here is the problem as it relates to feng shui.
Mandyk83 posted in general discussion on april 7 2009 05 40am hi everyone i m new to the forum.
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.
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 stairs are located as soon as you walk in the door.
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.
My husband and i just bought a 1970 s center hall colonial that we plan to redo from top to bottom.
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.
Help front door opens onto stairs.
In older homes it is not uncommon to have doors that open over the stairs to the basement.
It didn t help that the walls on either side of the stairs went the whole way from the floor to the ceiling.