Our front door opens right onto the staircase leading upstairs which is open and with a metal railing.
Front door opens right into stairs.
In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room.
Remember earlier i mentioned that the original owner had to step up onto the first stair tread in order to open the front door.
That led us to discovering a leak in the threshold which led to discovering the support beams for the header over the door weren t installed correctly and well one thing led to another and we had a new front door.
No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess.
I have hung a crystal in the small space and placed a fish tank at the bottom of the steps.
Thank you so much for any advice.
There are two kinds of homes.
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.
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.
How to fix the stairs in the front of the door for feng shui.
At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic.
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.
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.
I have a big landscape photo on the wall heading up the stairs.
However it just does not feel right.
For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it.
May 17 2013 removing wall on staircase.
This stair is right in front of the front door.
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 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.