The first one has an entryway a small hallway a nook near the front door or even a sharp turn that separates the front door from the rest of the home.
Front door opens onto stairs.
Here is the problem as it relates to feng shui.
While the egress door still has to follow the strict requirement of having no more than a one step height difference 73 4 in.
There are two kinds of homes.
Having a front door open immediately to a stairway is going in the direction of financial failure whether you are a home builder or a homeowner.
Doors would end up like this because there often wasn t a place to swing the door into the kitchen or elsewhere where the top of the stairs was located.
Max between exterior landing and threshold an exception was added for all other exterior doors which are now allowed up to two steps between the landing and the threshold.
At the bottom of the stairs a door is allowed to open over the landing providing there is a further clear distance of 400mm as shown in diagram 1 24 in approved document k.
Front door conflict with many schools of thought and philosophies related to the practice of feng shui one idea all the experts agree on is the conflict created when a front door also a symbol.
The gravity force of chi energy coming down the stairs is greater than the incoming chi from the door.
And then there s the problem that the rest of us face.
In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room.
You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room.