The gravity force of chi energy coming down the stairs is greater than the incoming chi from the door.
Front door opens to stairs.
It didn t help that the walls on either side of the stairs went the whole way from the floor to the ceiling.
The stairs are located as soon as you walk in the door.
My first problem with the house is that the front door actually touches the first step of the staircase.
Help front door opens onto stairs.
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.
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 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.
In older homes it is not uncommon to have doors that open over the stairs to the basement.
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.
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.
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.