Your front door

The front of your home is like your face. Your front door is your mouth. You should give great care to this vital element of your home. There are two important points on which you would be advised if you consulted a Feng Shui expert. The first concerns the access route to your front door. Try to make sure that any path, stairway, or corridor leading directly up to your front door does not resemble a straight arrow, pole, or the barrel of a gun. Straight lines leading to the door are to be avoided if at all possible. (If you are looking at apartment of the corridors in the building, as if you were studying the energy movements on the roads). There is a second important question to ask: is there more than on front entrance to the house? In Feng Shui, homes with two front doors in use are held to be like people with two mouths: unreliable, confused, and argumentative! A harmomious home has only one front door. If you are designing a domestic entrance for people with disabilities, the same principle applies: on door for the whole family.

A combination of doors

A revolving door flanked by two ordinary doorway is a common sight at the entrance to hotels, department stores, and theatres, This is fine for public buildings and other places through which people pass in transit. It would be most inappropriate - and unlikely - for a private dwelling.

One face, one mouth

The principle of "one face, one mouth" applies to access routes to main entrances. It is common to see double approaches or curving stairways swirling up from different angles to public buildings. To the Feng Shui expert, this is the equivalent of having two tongues - a sure recipe for perpetual argument and discord among all who work inside.