The feng shui of mansions and country homes can be adapted for small bungalows and cottages.
1. Bungalows must have depth
Depth is important, as it represents the family鈥檚 ability to keep wealth and assets within the family down the generations. It is ideal if your house is at least 3 rooms deep, i.e. from front of your house, you pass three rooms before reaching the back door. You can create depth by demarcating a large room into separate spaces using low dividers, potted plants or just by how your furniture is arranged.
2. Front & back doors
Make sure these doors do not run between each other in a straight line. If they are aligned with each other, place a screen so they are not in plain view of each other. The main door should also be the largest door in the house, and the most solid looking.
3. Fill out missing corners
Regular shaped houses are infinitely superior to irregular shaped houses. It is generally bad to have missing corners in your home. Deal with missing corners by using wall-to-wall mirrors to visually reclaim your space, or install a bright light in the missing corner to enhance and replace the missing chi there.
4. Land behind should be higher
Land at the rear should always be higher than at the front irrespective of compass directions. This is to signify the presence of solid support for the home and its inhabitants.
5. Land in front lower
The land in front of the property should be level with or lower than the front of the house. This is to symbolize no obstacles to success in your life.
6. There should not be roads on both front and back of the house
This is like the sandwiched between 2 roads. This is very bad feng shui.
7. Land on left should be higher
The land to the right of the home (inside front door facing out). This signifies the dominance of celestial green dragon over the white tiger.
8. Leave some garden
The house itself should be located in the inner half of the plot of land. This is to avoid losing the bright hall.
9. Keep some distance between fencing & house
Do not build a high wall or a fence too near to the house. This is to allow the auspicious chi to flow around the house.
Apartment and Condominiums
Apartment dwellers usually have less control over their feng shui than those living in houses.If you choose to live in an apartment, the best advice is to choose your apartment very carefully.
1. Make sure the lift is not facing your front door
This is a poison arrow and can be likened to a tiger coming out to eat you.
2. Go for spacious and airy apartment
Apartments with a large central open space are preferable to those which open up to tiny corridor leading to all the separate rooms. Choose one with a large living area where the family can congregate and hang out.
3. Too many structural beams not good
Avoid apartments with too many structural beams, especially if your unit is located on a lower floor. Sitting or sleeping under an overhead beam is bad enough in a grounded property, but in an apartment, imagine, if there are 20 floors above you and you are on the 1st floor, you would have 20 beams pressing down on you!
4. Penthouses not necessarily the best
Penthouses located at the very top of apartment buildings do not necessarily have the best feng shui. It is too high up from the earth. To enjoy good feng shui, you need to have a combination of heaven, earth and mankind energy.
5. Swimming pools on roof very bad
Avoid apartments where the swimming pool is located on the roof of the apartment building. Water on top spells danger and living under a swimming pool can bring much misfortune.
6. Avoid buildings on stilts
Buildings standing on columns like stilts with empty space above the ground level are bad feng shui. It represents a lack of foundation. Choose instead apartment buildings where the car parks are on ground level away from the building, or concealed below ground in basement, so it does not appear that the building is standing on stilts.
7. Narrow corridors
If there are narrow corridors inside the apartment, they should be well lit up and brightened up with paintings.