I have just been to a show house purportedly design with FengShui in mind. The sales person were happy to disclose that the layout has been arrange in accordance to the FengShui principles such as, the wall is placed facing the Dining so that a full height mirror can be located to double up what so ever that is placed on top of the Dining table. The island counter is placed so that the sink would not counter the stove. All walls are aligned so that no door will face the edge of the wall, where it is consider as poison-arrows, and so forth. Are all these valid principles.
Answer:
That depends on how you evaluate so called principles.
The first choice of defense is always selection. Selections means to select an appropriate unit based on your luck capacity, the door in relations to the rest of the ingress and egress of Qi movements. Then only, we speak about the interior “land forms” of the house.
It is not about the mirror doubling the food on the table. If you insist for the food to be doubled up, then cook more. Neither is it regarding the stove and the basin clashing into each other. The notion of water clashing into fire is no longer the same during the Dynasty period and our modern period. We don’t use fire wood anymore, so there is no risk for anyone falling into the well when the smoke filled the kitchen.
Alignment of the wall is important for these are hidden “dangers” waiting for the time to explode. Another point to note is missing corners.
What is missing corners? It simply means the absent or the extra projections of any corner of your house with reference to the center of your house. It denotes the lack of affinity with relation to that particular representation of the corners in relation to wealth, human relationship and others. It is an entire stand alone topic in itself. Anyway to cure it? The answer is yes but not by means of placing a PiYao, mystical animals or knots, plants, mirrors, symbols and others.
In doubt, look for a square room. That will be safe.
