Feng Shui For Apartments, Condos and Townhouse Living
These are the key design challenges I have encountered in multi-unit dwellings over the years. The feng shui perspective considers these designs aspects to have the greatest impact on the quality of life of the occupants.
Developers and planners should consider these 6 design features fundamental to feng shui.
- Front Door Accessibility – This should be considered for both the building and the individual units. The front door is considered a key area in feng shui and should have the most visibility. The path to the entrance must be fully accessible without any confusion about how to arrive there. When owners, tenants and guests can leave and arrive at their front door without struggle everyone benefits. On a daily basis the atmosphere will not be permeated with frustration and annoyance. In feng shui, the front door is understood to be the place where opportunities find you and enter into your life.
- Entrance Foyer – Stairs should not face the front door. All the opportunities that have arrived at the front door will be pushed out by the downward push of the opposing stairway.
- The front door and the back door should be offset so that they are not aligned. The energy will move from the front door quickly to the back door which challenges the finances of the occupants.
- Bathrooms should not be visible from the front door-this relates to health and finances.
- The kitchen should not be the focal point when entering into the condo or apartment-this relates to finances, health and nutrition.
- Bedrooms – The position of the bed and sleeping area of the bedroom is a key area in feng shui. The bed should be located on a solid wall with the door visible to someone lying in bed. In feng shui, we call this the commanding position. Feng shui bedroom design should consider the placement of the bed as a priority; a solid wall without windows, doors or closets. It is also important that the bedroom wall where the head of the bed is located should not be a shared wall with the kitchen or a bathroom. Finally, shared utility closets in multi-unit dwellings can emit a tremendous amount of electromagnetic fields and their locations should be well planned to minimize the impact on bedrooms.
Tip: The foyer or entryway should easily transition into a gathering room where the seating arrangement is inviting.
The Feng Shui Factor: Modern Homes Ancient Blueprint discusses all of these aspects in detail and the concepts can easily be applied to multi-unit dwellings.
MaryAnn Russell
Feng Shui Consultant, Author
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My fiance and I live in a townhome there is a staircase that leads up right in front of the door, the door faces east the two bedrooms are downstairs one in the east the other in the west(ours) the bathroom is in the southwest, the living room is located in the center of our home, the kitchen in the east and there is a half bath in the south east is there any information you can give me or suggest any books I can buy, there is so much information about all this on the internet, it’s so confusing, please help
by Rebeka
on 10. Mar, 2010
You will want to address the staircase front door alignment first. If you can send me a photo or two I may be able to make some recommendations. Read the 2010 Year of the Ox article to address the directions for this year. My feng shui website Feng Shui Factor and book will help you understand the key areas of influence and basics concepts of feng shui.
Feng Shui has many layers and approaches but it is important to address the obvious weak areas of feng shui and correct them. Factoring in the directions is another layer, once you strengthen the layout or as it is referred to “Feng Shui Form”.
Start with the key areas and weaknesses and make improvements there. Don’t let the information overload keep you from making basic improvements. I look forward to receiving the photos of your entryway. info@fengshuifactor.com.
-MaryAnn
by MaryAnn Russell
on 10. Mar, 2010