Feng Shui – Buying A Home And What To Look For In Doors And Stairs

For those of us who believe that houses can have inherent attributes that can influence the success or failure of the occupants, here’s a brief tutorial on what to consider when buying or leasing a home.

What I find fascinating is that whether you believe or not, all I ask is that you observe others who’s homes run counter to these rules, and see if anything I say here correlates.

For openers (pun intended), it’s a bad practice to have a house where the front door and a back door are in alignment. If you can stand at the front door and see all the way through the house to the back yard through another door, that’s bad. The perception is that all of the good luck that runs in your front door will immediately run out the back door, draining the house of all of it’s luck.

Worse, yet, is if there’s a swimming pool in the back yard that’s also in line with the front door, and can be seen through a back door or window from the front door. Not only is all the luck drained from the house, the luck and good fortunes are forever drowned in the pool of water. That’s really bad luck.

Speaking about swimming pools, having a pool immediately adjacent to a back door will also cause any good fortune that manages to get into the home, to be sucked into the pool and drown.

Even if there is not a direct sightline path from the front door to the back door, the pool’s existence adjacent to a door will ensure that the occupants will have no good luck.

This concept of “doors” extends to interior doors, too, especially doors that open to rooms that have water. Would you believe if I told you that a bathroom door that opens onto a sightline that goes out a back door will also act as a “Luck Vacuum”? Running water is associated with motion, and having a bathroom door that faces an exterior door will cause luck to “flush away” out that exterior door!

In the same manner, stairs that are in line with exterior doors are also something to be wary of: stairs, by their nature, cause luck to slide from the home if they face an exterior door. You’ll notice that all “proper” homes that grant their occupants mounds of Good Fortune, also have exterior stairs that are not directly in line with the front door, but the stairs are offset, or angled, or have jogs to prevent having straight lines from the front door down off the property.

By: Norman Huffnagle