A lot of people do not like the staircase inside a house to face the main entrance. They are of the opinion that there will be loss of wealth because of this design. Wealth luck simply rolls down the stairs and rolls out of the house through the main door. Some feng shui masters recommend a screen to be placed between the staircase and the door to retain the wealth luck. How true is it?

Let us study the following two diagrams. In House A the staircase is almost right at the door (8 ft from the door). Whatever sheng qi entering the house from the main door will be blocked by the staircase and repelled out of the house. It can hardly reach other parts of the house. This is of course a bad design.

House A

In House B the staircase is over 15 feet from the door. It does not create any difficulty for the qi entering the door to reach all parts of the house. If a screen is placed somewhere between the door and the staircase, a barrier is created to block the qi from reaching other parts of the house. Good feng shui is being changed into bad feng shui. You can see how one fallacy can be spread to become feng shui gibberish.

House B

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