The ancient civilizations of China and modern Western practitioners relate water and wind — translated as “feng shui” — together with good health and good harvest. The art and science of feng shui can enhance the home’s living space by welcoming and boosting the energy flow through it. The front door represents the most important portal where electricity flows into the house, making its decor and colour essential to bringing balance and accord to the house.
The Workings of Feng Shui
To find the best shade for the front door of your house using feng shui practices, visit the power map used by its professionals. The traditional bagua looks like an eight-sided polygon, split into eight segments with a ninth at its center. Each of the eight departments align with a compass direction, a component, and aspects of life, including relationships, career, prosperity and much more. The middle section represents good health symbolized by the part world.
Door on the East
On the power map and represented by the element timber, an eastern-facing door decorated in hues of green or brownish welcomes good energy into the house. This management also symbolizes the spring. Because the timber element also receives sustenance from both earth and water, you may add colours from these components when green or brown is not right for your front door. The earth element brings in colors of yellow, while blacks or dark navy blues represent water.
Energy Enhancements
It’s not simply the direction the doorway faces, but what it opens from and to that may impact the living area of the house. For the best results, a front door shouldn’t face a back door, or the power just goes straight through the room. East-facing doors that look toward a park or open land having a road that doesn’t terminate at its entrance creates a favorable front-hall impact. Eastern front doors also benefit from a water feature to the left of the front door when facing out, with the water flowing toward the house.
Improve the Flow
The best door shape to get a eastern door is rectangular, and doors with 2 panels, together with the greatest panel in the door that opens, add positive energy to the home’s space. In case you have a road that terminates at your front door, hang a house protection plaque above it. For doors that face southeast and northeast, hang a crystal chandelier near the front door to attract decent luck energy. Front doors that face closets or stairs also need feng shui treatments to keep the energy out of stagnating there.