In Feng Shui, before you can attract beneficial Chi to a specific area of your home (wealth, health, romance) you need to draw Chi to your front door. Your front door is the “mouth of Chi”, where Chi enters to nourish and energize your home and your self.
A classic Feng Shui cure is a red front door. How does a red door work? It captures attention, it has energy (in this case color energy), and in traditional Chinese culture the color red is thought to bring luck.
How to draw Chi to your front door so it can enter and energize your home?
Something that catches the eye will also catch Chi. The best Feng Shui cures are objects with their own energy: plants, and personal treasures; and things that enhance the energy of a space: mirrors, stained glass or crystals in sunlight. This creates many options for enhancing your front door.
“Where the eye goes, so goes Chi.”
1. Color
Red is traditional, but any bold color will work. (The “Good Taste Lady” in me suggests the bold door color compliment the basic color of your house.)
Consider: Purple, Cobalt Blue, Sunny Yellow, or Bright Green.
2. Plants
Planters, potted plants or a walkway bordered with greenery or living colors. Healthy plants have chi and will attract Chi to themselves and to your front door.
3. Bold Decoration
Add a stylish mailbox instead of your standard, utilitarian one. Find a mailbox with bold color or intriguing hardware.
Use large graphic house numbers.
Working with a client, who was a graphic designer, we came up with the idea of painting his house number on the extetior wall next to his front door in a very large font in a color that complimented his house. This not only attracted Chi, but added zing to the modest exterior of his ranch house.
4. Lighting
Your house needs more than a single 40 watt bulb above the front door. I’m not suggesting you spotllght your entry, but a couple of energy efficient light fixtures near your front door will make your home more welcoming for visitors and Chi.
5. Good Maintenance
All of the above assume you give your house good maintenance. Enhancement will be useless if you have a broken step, stuck front door or non-functioning door bell. It would be like putting lipstick on a pig: It won’t attract Chi and the pig will be mad.
Note: While some of these photos show several cures, more is not necessarily better. One good cure is more powerful than several weak cures.
What is the first and easiest thing you can do to create Front Door Magic for your own home? Please share your ideas in the comments below.
How do you bring chi to your front door and home if your home does not face the street? My garage faces the street but to get to the front door I have to walk to the left side of my home to enter.
thank you
Debbie – This is an excellent question. If your home does not face the street, or your front door is obscured in some way, then you need to guide and encourage the Chi to journey from the street or the driveway to your door. Line your walkway with healthy plants and flowers, and/or with low walkway lights like the solar-powered ones you can simply plant in the ground. Let me know how this works for you.
Linda