Home Staging Blog

In Feng Shui, your front door is the mouth of ch’i (energy).  As ch’i enters your door, it will travel through your home and feed your spaces with life giving energy.  To ensure ch’i is encouraged to fill your home with its vitality, make sure your foyer is welcoming.  A few key cures will keep you in top shape, ready to welcome great energy, great opportunities and fill your home with joy!

 Your front door should be easy to locate, clean and always in good repair.  As you enter your home, the area should be well-lit and feel comfortable in size-not cramped or crowded.  A small table to rest your things on is perfect and adding fresh flowers here will enourage the ch’i inside.

If your entry is small, you can make it feel larger with a mirror.  The mirror should be large enough to reflect you and your guest’s entire head.  Be careful with the placement of the mirror though, you don’t want to startle guests by their reflection as they enter your door.  In this case, you can hang artwork with “an open view”.  A nature scene with a wide open view would be perfect here.

If you walk into your home and look straight out the back of your home, chances are the energy is running through your home too quickly and not getting a chance to energize all the spaces.  To slow down the flow of ch’i, you can use furniture placement, potted plants or a small screen to create a meandering path to the back door rather than a straight shot.  You can also place artwork on walls in the room closer to the door to attract the eye and the energy to linger within the front rooms of your home, allowing the ch’i an opportunity to circulate through the other areas before moving on.

When your front door opens in to bright welcome spaces, your home feels inviting.  Inviting energy into your home is much the same as inviting guests, the more welcome and open you are, the more generous and giving the ch’i is.  So give your foyer a little love, a little extra light, and open the door to fresh energy in your life.