Finding a Home with Good Feng Shui
- 14.05.2008
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A house with good Feng Shui has a room arrangement and circulation pattern that is not immediately apparent when you open the front door. Instead it gradually unfolds as you move through the house. Such a low key design approach is also more likely to produce a house with a relaxed and comforting atmosphere, which buyers everywhere say they want. A Feng Shui practitioner would describe such a house as one in which the positive “chi” energy, which is slow and meandering, is balanced, and the negative, pointed arrow “sha” energy is minimized.
According to Feng Shui, each corner of a house symbolizes a major part of the occupant’s life - relationships, wealth, helpful people (benefactors), and self-knowledge. In order to keep these “nourished,” the occupants need to use all the corner rooms with some frequency. This can create some positive life changes, however. Using a formal living room which might be in the front left “self knowledge” corner for reading would incorporate some quiet time into an all too hectic existence for many people.
The front door, which should be obvious and approachable, is one of the most critical points in a house because it symbolizes the occupants’ connection to the world and it’s the opening through which guests are received. It’s also necessary to use your front door with some frequency; otherwise you won’t get the Feng Shui benefits. Since most people enter their houses through the attached garage because of the convenience, using the front door with any regularity will require some effort.
A driveway and large garage doors emphasize coming and going. Since the house should be a place of refuge, the driveway and garage doors should, if possible, be hidden from view. A side-load garage, which will always be more expensive because it requires a larger lot, or a rear garage approached from an alley would be preferable, both Richards and Swingle said. But, they both added, a front loading garage is acceptable.
