In Feng Shui, main door or entrance is given very high degree of importance and that’s because it’s the main door from where the Qi energy enters into your home.
Now, I’m sure that you’re aware of the problems that very fast or extremely slow moving Qi and misbalance of 5 elements (and colors) can lead to and that’s why its extremely important that you feng shui the entrance of your home.
Feng Shui Home Entrance – Why To Do It
Since a house is “the place” where we all tend to retire , relax and enjoy after strenuous day of office and work, we want the place to be comfortable, relaxing, calm, welcoming, cozy and everything positive that you can think of off the top of your head.
Now, having a feng shui compliant entrance helps to usher in health, wealth, happiness, prosperity, calmness, love, trust and a lot of positivity into your home and that’s what we all want. Isn’t it?
Furthermore, a feng shui compliant main door also tries to keep all sorts of negative energy away from your home thus saving you from landing into many troubles and issues.
Feng Shui Main Door – Here’s How To Do It
As said earlier, we don’t want very fast or slow moving Qi to enter our home; in fact, the type Qi that we all need – or rather want – to enter our houses is the moderately moving one and that’s because a really fast moving Qi brings in lot of anxiety and an extremely slow one brings lethargy.
Now, in order to have such a Qi enter our home and have a balance of 5 elements, we need to feng shui our house’s entrance and here’s how to do it! (in do’s and don’ts format)
Main Door Feng Shui – What To Follow
- Make the entrance, welcoming, cheerful, happy and inviting; all in all, it should be very positive.
- Make sure that the main door is larger than other doors.
- Let it open inwards and clockwise.
- It should open in to a big space and not a cramped one. For cramped spaces, use mirrors to make it look big.
- If there’s an altar that faces the living room then it’s very auspicious.
- The door must be 90 degrees to the ground and not leaning inwards or outwards.
- Use best quality materials for main door.
- The main door mustn’t make any noise while opening or closing.
- Keep the entrance well lit.
- Make sure that the entrance is visible; if it isn’t then place plants and lights to make it visible.
- Hang a beautiful name plate and keep it well lit too; this’ll help auspicious opportunities to find you easily.
- If there’s a crack or dampness in the main door then either get it repaired or change the door.
- Place three coins tied with red ribbon under the ground or rug inside the main door.
- A good feng shui tip is to place a photo of 100 birds near the entrance as it symbolizes 100s of opportunities flying your way.
- Placing fortune plants is another good feng shui trick.
- Placing plants next to the home’s entrance is very good feng shui; just make sure that the plants don’t block the entrance.
- If there’re plants near the entrance of the home then they must be thriving, well maintained and not dead.
- A pair of Foo Dogs helps to prevent negative energy entering your home.
- Placing a pair of dragon inside main door is considered auspicious.
- A water fountain towards right side of the door is good feng shui; this brings prosperous energy in the house.
- Placing statue of any friendly animal, religious figure (such as Buddha, Ganesh) or an angle provides stability.
- Put a bright and colorful welcome mat at the entrance.
- Keep the path that leads to your home, clutter free and clean; remove broken sprinklers, old newspapers, dead leaves and plants etc.
Main Door Feng Shui – What To Avoid
- No clutter near the entrance.
- Avoid sliding, circular or slanting type of doors as entrance.
- Avoid another house’s main door facing yours.
- No septic tank under the entrance.
- No toilets above the main door.
- Shoes, shoe racks, garbage and dustbins near the main door are a strict no.
- Avoid doors that close automatically.
- Try to avoid main door that facing intersecting roads.
- Poles, trees, wires etc. directly in front of the main door are poison arrows; either avoid such houses or see poison arrow section for remedies.
- Avoid houses where a shadow from another building or a tree falls on the entrance.
- Avoid main door facing a staircase.
- Avoid keeping the main door dull; you can have some nice carving or designs on it.
- No mirrors in front of entrance else all positive energy will bounce away from the house.
Main Door Feng Shui – What Colors To Use
Now, it won’t be a new thing if I tell you that colors mean a lot in feng shui; also, as with everything else there are some feng shui tips for choosing colors when it comes to main door.
Now, to make it really easy for you to understand what color to choose for your main door, I’ve created a small table (that you can see below); do have a look at it and you’ll understand feng shui colors for home entrance in a jiffy.
Below table shows you how to choose the best color for the main door of your home depending upon its direction.
| Direction | Color(s) |
| North | Blue or Black (prefer Blue) |
| South | Red or shades of red. |
| East and South-East | Wooden color (make sure it’s a shade of green and not brown; brown is color of earth. Avoid colors resembling dried out wood; it represents decay) |
| West and North-West | White color is good |
| North-East and South-West | Yellow, brown, pink or ochre shades |
Apart from all this you also need to pay very special attention and need to look for any poison arrows that may be directed towards your home’s entrance. Since remedying poison arrows are a very important part of feng shui, I’ve dedicated the next section of the article to them, so just read on.
Feng Shui Home Entrance – The Poison Arrow Angle
Poison arrows are one of the worst things that can point to your home; they tend to alter the movement of calm and positive Qi to a fast and rapidly moving one; and that’s what we – definitely – don’t want to get into our home.
But there’s something more bad about poison arrows and it’s that they’re present in many shapes, ways and forms;
Here are some:
- shape edges from another building
- staircase in front
- cemetery near entrance
- Light pole in front of main door
And those are few – in fact – very few.
But that’s certainly not the end of the world as there’re remedies that you can apply if you ever happen to live in a home that’s got poison arrows aimed at it.
Now, depending upon the direction from which the poison arrow is coming towards your home, you need to apply the remedy.
Again, for ease of understanding and simplicity, I’ve created a table that’ll reveal to you the remedies that you can – and must – apply in case you find a poison arrow towards your home.
Here’s the table:
| Direction | Element To Use | Item To Use |
| North | Earth or Wood | Place a plant or crystal |
| South | Water or Earth | Place water fountain or a crystal |
| East or South-East | Metal or Fire | Place a wind chime or light |
| West or North-West | Fire or Water | Place light or water fountain |
| South-West or North-East | Wood or Metal | Place plants or wind chime |
