Front Door Opens Directly Into Stairs

There are two kinds of homes.

Front door opens directly into stairs.

In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room. 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. 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. No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess.

For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into 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. At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic. 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.

My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma. 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. How to fix the stairs in the front of the door for feng shui. 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.

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.