The functions of releasing and eliminating waste material from the body are essential life processes. Like the other vital functions of a human being they have particular organs and mechanisms. Following this same principle, the location of the bathroom/toilet in your home is just as important as that of any of the other rooms and has a bearing on your living arrangements. In this way, your home can be understood as a model of the human body and its functions - and arranged accordingly.
In some countries, the bathroom/toilet is in a separate room to the bath; in other countries all such facilities are put together in the same room. For the purposes of Feng Shui, both are considered to have broadly the same purpose and so in this book they are examined as one unit.
Next to the kitchen
The bathroom/toilet should not be next to the kitchen. If you have no choice, be sure to keep the door closed at all times. In many countries this layout is illegal for reasons of hygiene. Such prohibition in law is in line with good Feng Shui practice.
Facing the front door
The bathroom/toilet should not face the door due to energy movement problems.
The appropriate arrangement
Think of this house as a human body. The kitchen (stomach) falls in the sphere of the front door (mouth). The bathroom/toilet (organs of elimination) is toward the rear. This is the natural arrangement.
To be avoided
In this house the natural order is reversed: the bathroom/toilet falls in the sphere of the front door and the kitchen is to the rear. Although this configuration is common, it is best avoided.
At the center of the house
If you draw intersecting lines between the corners of this home you will find that the bathroom/toilet is exactly in the center. This places the excretory function at the center of the "body" of the house. The advice from a Feng Shui expert is: don't move into this house; or close up the central bathroom/toilet and don't use it; or move the bathroom/toilet elsewhere.
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