Doors face each other

[wendy_90503@yahoo.com]

Dear Cecil,
Thank you very much for answering my questions many times in the past.
There is one more quesiton in the meantime that also bothered me for a while. People told me that inside the house, or outside the house for that matter, it is bad chi when a door directly faces another door. For example, if a bedroom door is facing another door, which could be the bathroom door, study room door, or even another bedroom door, it somehow affects your well-being. Another example is that, when your entrance door faces directly with your neighbor's entrance door, same thing happens.
All this, does it matter?
-Wendy

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Wendy,
1. Thank you for bringing up an interesting question.
2. It is also related to complexities of the human beings. Here, our up bringing and `tolerance' comes to play. And as we are aware, each of us vary in this aspect.
3. On a commonsense approach to Feng Shui, if we happen to live in an apartment, it is always preferred to have our main door at a private area. As opposed to facing a neighbours (more from a privacy issue).
4. But, let's say our neighours are the `untidy' sort and leave their shoes scattered around the common enclosed space. Sometimes even end up at our door steps.
5. Some of us may be tolerant, while others may not. Some neighbours are noisy and if one prefers quiet, then the chances of `conflicts' occuring here is more prominent.
6. For many of us, since our neighbours are not our immediate family members, we may not have a high tolerance level with what we may perceive as `their nonsense'.
7. For bedroom doors facing each other
This is an interesting point. As we are now usually dealing with family members.
There is a higher chance of family members not getting along well, if the two bedroom doors face each other:-
7.1. There is not much problem if one room is occupied by adults e.g. father and mum. If the child is young.
But if the child grows older e.g. in their teens, there may be situations where this can occur.
For example, I was recently doing an audit, and noticed that the parent's bedroom door faces the teenage child. Perhaps, by coincidence, the teenage child is at loggerheads with his dad.
These are some of the more common `problems' that I encountered after auditing many homes of such nature. Perhaps, call it a coincidence, if you want to.
Feng Shui is continously evolving. What we can do is to try to learn from similar situations. Those that most likely work, should be applied to many people. This is the best way to progress.
Frankly, no Feng Shui Master can say that they have all the answers. It goes with experience and also `encounters' likely, not so often, encounters of the `third kind' - spiritual kind!
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 5/13/2002 5:07:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear Cecil,
Thank you very much for
answering my questions many
times in the past.
There is one more quesiton in
the meantime that also
bothered me for a while.
People told me that inside the
house, or outside the house
for that matter, it is bad chi
when a door directly faces
another door. For example, if
a bedroom door is facing
another door, which could be
the bathroom door, study room
door, or even another bedroom
door, it somehow affects your
well-being. Another example is
that, when your entrance door
faces directly with your
neighbor's entrance door, same
thing happens.
All this, does it matter?
-Wendy