Should I buy a house whose door facing the neighbours?

[lightlove22222]

Dear Sir,

 

Could you pls advise?

 

I live in England and am looking for a house.

 

On this road, most of the houses have this common feature: The main door is located at the side, and it faces the neighbour's door. 

 

Pls find the images.

 

Is it alright to buy such a house, or should I stop looking at such properties?

 

Thank you for your kindness.

[Cecil Lee]

Firstly, thanks for sending these photos; your question is very clear.

These are some considerations:

1. Actually this is not really Feng Shui. But rather, like a "high-noon" situation where opposite family members stand at their respective main door and "confront" each other. But really, who is too free to do so.

2. In fact, in highly populated country like Singapore, majority of flats has the front door opened facing exactly the neighbour's door. With just 1.2 metres to 1.8 metres distance apart from each other. It is a situation of Live and let Live.

3. Is it because of the "staring incident" that some say is inauspicious. And somehow translate to Feng Shui. Frankly, this has more to do with symbolism than Feng Shui. But everyone seems to push this to Feng Shui.

4. Under Shapes and Forms Feng Shui, contrary to "popular" belief, the main door at the side works well. This is because, the architect of these houses make it a point to let light and if windows are opened = wind and light to come into the house.

4.1 Which otherwise would be wasted by a front door at the frontage of the house. Majority of the time, the front door is shut. Thus might as well place it at the side of the building!

4.2. In Feng Shui we call this frontage advantages because of the bright hall effect.  With the ground floor having both a set of bay windows and protuding windows. So much light and "airy".

4.3. Furthermore, such as frontage is virtually "protected" even if the opposite side where this photo was taken has homes that pose a poison arrow(s).

5. Kudos to the architect of this project!

[lightlove22222]

Wonderful. Thank you so much for your kind and clear reply. So it means I should not be concerned about the door's position. And as you explained, the door, placed like this, may even have the advantage.

My sincere thanks,

[Cecil Lee]

These are further considerations:

1. As mentioned earlier, this sort of thing be it room door facing each other or a home's front door facing each other.. is more like a "high-noon" gun fight encounter. Common sense. But again, everyone seems to lump it as inauspicious and shift the blame to bad Feng Shui.

 

2. (Below) If the front door is as shown, it is a waste of the frontage. As the only openings and natural light can only come through windows at "A".

3. Only thing here is that there is no longer a "High-noon" confrontation.

[Cecil Lee]

2 minutes ago, lightlove22222 said:

Wonderful. Thank you so much for your kind and clear reply. So it means I should not be concerned about the door's position. And as you explained, the door, placed like this, may even have the advantage.

My sincere thanks,

1. I was typing additional considerations. When you posted this message.

2. Do check my reassurance in my last message thread.

3. From a Feng Shui point of view, a good design!

4 Who in the world world be so free as to wait for High-noon, hands holding garden tool and cursing and swearing at the neighbours? LOL

[Cecil Lee]

1. One last thing is of the natural world of animal rescue. Where a person who is trying to rescue a confused dog would approach the animal without eye contact from the side.

2. Thus if all these home's main door is like this (see below) it mimics the natural world of a non confrontation with one's neighbour(s) if their doors are also at this frontage.

3. This the only advantage of the above. LOL.

4. Common sense is that if one places lots of things at the side Main door and slowly it creeps towards the neighbour's main door ... sort of an obstacle course.. then for sure... WWIII is about to crash down on both homes... bad blood... another Battle of Britain. This time without Churchill to the rescue! LOL

5. Yeah! No hoarders.. be it the you the buyer and your neighbours.. Hehehee...

[lightlove22222]

Thank you again. I feel very assured thanks to your advice.

 

By the way, I should say that this type of ‘side door’ is rare in England. Most of the time, I think a front door (frontage design) is most common. It is very interesting to learn that contrary to popular belief, the frontage may not be the best, in terms of symbolic meaning.

 

Regards,

 

[Cecil Lee]

45 minutes ago, lightlove22222 said:

Thank you again. I feel very assured thanks to your advice.

 

By the way, I should say that this type of ‘side door’ is rare in England. Most of the time, I think a front door (frontage design) is most common. It is very interesting to learn that contrary to popular belief, the frontage may not be the best, in terms of symbolic meaning.

 

Regards,

 

Most likely the architect returned home from overseas. From a Commonwealth country.

As in the past, in Singapore, there were many British bungalow designs that has this sort of design.

Large bungalows the size of at least 10,000 sq feet. where the car comes and drop off the occupants at the porch.

In fact one home is still around at Mountbatten Road SIngapore. The road was formerly Olive Road. But renamed in honour of Lord Mountbatten (grandson of the former Queen) who was later murderd by the IRA in UK.  
 

Drop off from side of the house.