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Dear Mette,

Thanks for your detailed description of your home.

I can certainly understand the problem faced by you in determing which is your front door. Worse still when it is determine, it really sounds and feel not right.

In your case, we should try to apply another concept based on the facing direction of the front house.

Let not determing the `front' or main entrance deter you.

In your case, lets `forget' the actual main door or back door for the moment.

Where is the frontage of your house?

Here, you should consider the location where light goes into the house. It can be a window.

For your special case, is there a window as I mentioned above where light flows thru or looks like the frontage of the house? If there is a door at this location, then it should be your main entrance door. If not, you can take the subsitute window as the main entrance door.

Perhaps, you can feedback on the above and whether it can apply to your situation before, we go further to determine the `frontage' of the house rather than the main entrance door.

Under this concept, the `frontage' " replaces " the main entrance door.

One method of using this concept is to place the house number above the window.

For those who have changed or use alternative doors, it would be best to place the house number on this door or above this door. To symbollically make this the `front door'. (You can still leave the house number on the other door).

Warmest Regards,
Cecil



On 10/16/99 6:01:54 AM, Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas wrote:
>Hello Cecil,
>
>I hope you can give me advice
>on this problem: About a year
>ago we bought a home by the
>fjord. The land slopes
>unevenly down from the dirt
>road toward the sea, creating
>on its way 5 'plateaus' on
>which the land levels out,
>only to gently (and sometimes
>not so gently) slope down
>again to the next plateau. Our
>parking space is on the first
>plateau - levelling with the
>dirt road, our main house is
>situated on the 'third', -
>middle - plateau from the dirt
>road, and the beach is the
>fifth plateau. Our main door
>faces West - leading us up
>toward the dirt road. However,
>once inside the cabin, our
>'panorama view' faces East -
>toward the sea and the distant
>lands. In trying to analyze
>the layout of our main cabin,
>I keep getting stuck on the
>fact that although I would
>like to consider East as our
>'front', our main door
>actually is to the west - and
>there is no denying that.
>According to the Form School
>Feng Shui - I should be in
>serious trouble. Which I don't
>feel... I have considered
>actually closing off that door
>and using our back door (to
>the East) as our main door -
>but concluded that that won't
>work. It is truly frustrating
>to get stuck on something as
>primary as for example
>categorizing the cabin as an
>East-Group or West-group
>house. I would greatly
>appreciate any advice that
>could guide me in making the
>right choices on these
>categorizations.
>