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.
Front door opens to stairs.
My first problem with the house is that the front door actually touches the first step of the staircase.
The first time we walked through the house the owner opened the door for us and literally had to step up onto the 2 nd step to let us in because it was such a tight space.
In older homes it is not uncommon to have doors that open over the stairs to the basement.
Interior doors do not require landings at both sides of the door like exterior doors do.
Help front door opens onto stairs.
Here is the problem as it relates to feng shui.
My husband and i just bought a 1970 s center hall colonial that we plan to redo from top to bottom.
When a staircase is facing the front door directly the feng shui energy rushes up quickly to either the lower or the higher floor thus leaving the main entry as well as the whole main floor without good feng shui energy nourishment.
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.
In the 1 000 plus years of asian feng shui practices an internal staircase in a two story home that faces the front door creates an energy battle right where you don t want it.
It didn t help that the walls on either side of the stairs went the whole way from the floor to the ceiling.
The gravity force of chi energy coming down the stairs is greater than the incoming chi from the door.