What are correct directions for mobile home?

[myfs_115167]

I am confused from books I have been reading. I am seeking a favorable mobile home, and do not understand what method is correct to take facing compass direction. Most of these single wide homes are side by side lengthwise on lots, so they face foreward to the street - but the main door is always on one side. Which side is the true facing direction?

I am also confused how to use bagua on this sort of home, for example, 14' wide by 72' long. Is it true that I should use only the center 3 guas? If so, do I take these from the facing direction or the direction the main door faces? I read that narrow dwellings are impractical for compass school and the 9 squares methods. That would also make flying star impossible, no?

Would you feel the closeness of mobile homes is similar to the closeness of apartments in a building, or should be treated like houses too close to each other?

Thank you for your thoughts on this matter.

Carla

[Robert Lee]

Dear Carla,

Carla Rothacker wrote:
I am confused from books I have been reading. I am seeking a favorable mobile home, and do not understand what method is correct to take facing compass direction. Most of these single wide homes are side by side lengthwise on lots, so they face foreward to the street - but the main door is always on one side. Which side is the true facing direction?

The reason why youget confused is because Feng Shui was never designed for mobile homes. There is no such traditional analysis that will work for a mobile home.

I mean say we know North is good. For a mobile home you can always park it in such a way that you face North so it is unlike a pre-built house which once you build it it remains fixed or unchangable.

Carla Rothacker wrote:
I am also confused how to use bagua on this sort of home, for example, 14' wide by 72' long. Is it true that I should use only the center 3 guas? If so, do I take these from the facing direction or the direction the main door faces? I read that narrow dwellings are impractical for compass school and the 9 squares methods. That would also make flying star impossible, no?

Since a mobile home changes depending on how you park, it is not possible to apply like the flying star or eight house concept effectively. Reason I say this is simply, if you park facing North, then design your home based on this North facing. The moment you park say West, then your feng shui layout that you arranged based on North will be entirely different.

So for mobile home, the only tools you can use are like your ba zi, the types of colour scheme. Based on what I know about mobile home, the space is so limited that even choosing direction which is good is also going to be hard simply because of the space constraint. So there will be very little you can apply except the correct colour scheme and decoration to make the mobile home look nice and welcoming.

Otherwise, very little of the normal feng shui method will apply well on such a homes. Mobile Home as the term means ability to move from place to place.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[myfs_115167]

Here in America, we often have mobile home parks where the homes are set up on a semi-permanent basis. Some are in the form of a single long home of 14 by 70 feet or 16 by 64 feet, while some are made in 2 pieces and assembled on site as what we call a "doublewide" mobile home. Wheels are removed, and the homes in both cases are supported by construction blocks at key points beneath them, sitting upon concrete.

Yes, they *can* be moved, but generally are not. It takes a special moving company to do so, and is expensive. These are different from recreational vehicles, which are small homes on wheels, or small campers to travel in. I am sorry if that was unclear.

Thus, I am still wondering if facing direction is more important than the entrance to the home, and if flying stars *may* be useful.

Is the book I read that suggested using the central 3 guas only, due to the narrowness of such homes, incorrect?

Also, what might be done to counter the effect of ungroundedness from the home not having a proper, full foundation to rest on?

Thank you for your thoughts.

Carla

[Robert Lee]

Dear Carla,

Carla Rothacker wrote:
Here in America, we often have mobile home parks where the homes are set up on a semi-permanent basis. Some are in the form of a single long home of 14 by 70 feet or 16 by 64 feet, while some are made in 2 pieces and assembled on site as what we call a "doublewide" mobile home. Wheels are removed, and the homes in both cases are supported by construction blocks at key points beneath them, sitting upon concrete.

Carla Rothacker wrote:
Yes, they *can* be moved, but generally are not. It takes a special moving company to do so, and is expensive. These are different from recreational vehicles, which are small homes on wheels, or small campers to travel in. I am sorry if that was unclear.

I see, when you talk about mobile home, I was originally thinking only on those trailer homes. In this case, of course, you can still apply feng shui since you the homes isn't going to be moved around.

Carla Rothacker wrote:
Thus, I am still wondering if facing direction is more important than the entrance to the home, and if flying stars *may* be useful.

If based on what you have mentioned, that probably the choice of the lot or land that you park the home will be most important followed by the best facing direction. The only issue with flying star application in this case would be that there is no real year of birth. So the true influence of the flying star may be harder to deduce.

Thus, I would think that you should follow more the shapes and form of the land, suitability of the direction, rather than the flying star influence.

Carla Rothacker wrote:
Is the book I read that suggested using the central 3 guas only, due to the narrowness of such homes, incorrect?

I still think that you should assess the home as it is, however, as I am unsure exactly whether the dimension you given relates to a typical terrace house in singapore (ie longish retangular type). But in either case, we still apply the full direction divided equally. If it is really too longish, then sometimes we break the it equally similiar to this:-

Carla Rothacker wrote:
Also, what might be done to counter the effect of ungroundedness from the home not having a proper, full foundation to rest on?

I don't think you can do much as mentioned it is a mobile home not one that is built from scratch. Really there isn't any much guidelines as to how feng shui can truly be applied.

But what I can say for sure in such cases, the shapes and form of the external landscape would be the most important factor more than just the interior of the home.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research