Different situations

In assessing the situation and in order to make sure that you don’t miss any considerations, use or draw a scaled floorplan of the building, property, and environment showing all:

• interior and exterior walls;

• all doors, if they open inward or outward, accentuating the ones that are used most;

• all windows, accentuating windows that can be opened, if they open inward or outward;

• all other openings or gateways;

• interior hallways and pathways;

• rooms, including their function, main furniture, appliances;

• the immediate landscape and environment, including waters, trees;

• roads, direction and intersection of roads, sloping roads, direction of traffic;

• any other of your assessments of (in)tangible environmental Qi.

A well defined house in terms of Feng Shui would be situated according to the Armchair Setting and includes:

• a clearly defined Facing side at your architectural front including the main entrance, windows, road, river, landscaping, open and active space, all acting as the exterior Ming Tang;

• a clearly defined Sitting side at your architectural back including elevated ground, hill, walls, trees, this Sitting side being closed and calm;

• both architectural sides are being locked in by other buildings or Mountains;

• some sort of smaller mountain (Chao Shan) beyond the exterior Ming Tang;

• interior design matching the exterior situation, i.e. active rooms to the architectural front, the more passive rooms towards the architectural back.

Before we show you some typical situations, let’s move on with some more considerations pertaining to Facing.

Main Entrance Inside a Residential Building

For residential and apartment style buildings, Facing most likely is not where the main entrance is when this main entrance is inside the building.
The Facing side is usually where most of the windows and the balcony are located because this is where most of the Qi is activated into the home.
Also, when you share a building with other people, with you living on one of the floors, it may very well be that different floors have different Facings.

Main Entrance Inside a Commercial Building

For commercial buildings – or offices - the Facing side is not necessarily where the main entrance is when the main entrance is inside the building. The Facing side is usually where most of the windows are located because this is where most of the Qi is activated into the business. Sometimes the Ming Tang is where customers enter the premise. In these cases you need to rely on the floorplan, the traffic of people, your assessment of the situation, what the owner tells you about the premise’s use and function.

Front in Alley

When the architectural front or main entrance is in an alley, the Facing side will most likely be elsewhere. Look for the Facing side, Ming Tang, at the architectural back.

Front has Qi Obstructions

Sometimes you have it all, a road and a river in front of your house, the main entrance at the architectural front, a lot of windows at the front. Still your facing side may be elsewhere if your main entrance and the front windows are completely hidden behind trees or other rude obstructions of Qi and no sunlight can enter your space. Either take down the obstruction or look for your Facing side in your back garden, arranging all of the house’s interior likewise.


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