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How to Pick a Front Door Color With Feng Shui

In feng shui, your front door is one of the most important areas of your home and represents the face you show to the world. Feng shui colors for a front door have practical, aesthetic, and potentially energetic implications. On a practical level, it is how you come in and out of your home. Your front door sets the tone for you and your visitors entering your home. It’s also the last thing you see when leaving your home to go out into the world.

On an energetic level, your front door also represents how energy and opportunities come into your life. Just like you want your guests to feel welcome when they enter through your front door, you also want opportunities to be attracted to enter your life. Your front door is the main portal for people and energy to enter your home. In feng shui, we call it the mouth of qi, or universal life force energy.

Your Front Door Color and Feng Shui

A feng shui practitioner looks at the colors and facing direction of your home to assess how the qi (life force energy) flows to your property. These factors offer information on how the qi is received inside the building. 

One easy way to feng shui your front door is with paint. Look at things from a feng shui perspective based on your home's facing direction and work with the colors you are attracted to. Also, pay attention to what colors will work well with the house's exterior and your neighborhood as a whole.

How to Pick the Perfect Front Door Color

Red to Get Noticed

Red is the most auspicious color in feng shui, as well as a powerful color for protection and the transformation of negative energy. Red is also connected to the fire element, which represents warmth, passion, and inspiration. If you want your front door to be clearly visible from the street so that energy and opportunities can find you, a coat of red paint can be an effective way to do this. In the feng shui energy map, red is related to the recognition area. Red makes a bold statement, and it’s a great color to use if you want to get noticed.

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Black to Attract Good Energy

Black absorbs, attracts, and brings in positive energy, which makes it a great choice for a front door color. It’s connected to the water element, which represents wisdom and depth. The north direction is also tied to this element. Water is also connected to your social connections and network, so black can be a supportive color for building friendships and relationships.

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Brown for Support

In feng shui, brown and other earthy neutral colors are connected to the earth element and used to balance, stabilize, and nurture the inhabitants in the home. A brown door is perfect for connecting you and your family to the stability of Mother Earth.

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Yellow to Brighten 

Yellow is a bright, energetic color for a front door. In feng shui, yellow is connected to the earth element. Earth represents stability and grounding, so yellow is an excellent choice if you or your family could use more of that.

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Green for Growth

Green is connected to the wood element in feng shui, which is related to new beginnings and growth. If you intend to invite in new opportunities to help you grow and expand, you may want to paint your door green.

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White for Joy

Connected to the metal element in feng shui, white represents cleanliness and purity. The west direction is also tied to this element. The metal element is related to precision, communication, and joy. Try painting your door white to invite more of these metal element qualities into your life.

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Blue for Knowledge

Like green, blue also represents the wood element, which supports growth and new beginnings. Deeper shades of blue are also connected to the "gen" area of the feng shui bagua map. Gen represents knowledge and self-cultivation, so dark blue can help support an intention to deepen your skillfulness.

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Gray for Helpful People

Gray also represents the metal element, so it is a supportive color for inviting more metal element qualities into your life. In addition, it’s the color associated with the "qian" area of the feng shui bagua. Qian is all about helping people and travel, so a gray front door can support your intention to invite helpful people and benefactors into your life or to travel more.

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After you've chosen a color for your front door, make sure you use it. Many people don't use their formal front doors. It's essential to activate energy flow by opening and walking through them regularly. Even if it's not the entrance you use most often, try going out your front door when you go out to get the mail, for example. 

Finally, don't forget to keep your freshly painted door clean. Part of having an inviting entryway is having a clean entry. When cleaning your home, take some time to wash your front door, including the hinges, knobs, and frame.

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Best Feng Shui Colors for Your South-Facing Front Door

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Anjie Cho is a certified feng shui consultant, professional architect, and author with over 20 years of experience designing spaces. She co-founded the Mindful Design Feng Shui School and wrote "Holistic Spaces: 108 Ways to Create a Mindful and Peaceful Home. "

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Updated on 07/15/21

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When working with a feng shui consultant (or someone with basic feng shui knowledge) they will almost always ask about your front door. This is for a good reason: In feng shui, the front door of a home is the “mouth of qi,” or the main gateway through which life force energy (qi) enters the space. A strong front door will help attract positive energy, opportunities, and prosperity to the people living in the home.

Feng Shui and the Front Door

In Feng Shui, the front door is one of the most important areas of the home. From a purely practical perspective, your front door allows you to come and go out of your home. It's the first thing visitors see when they stop by, and the "face" your home puts on for the world. Energetically, a front door can also represent how energy (both good and bad) and opportunities flow in and out of your life. Your front door is a portal through which these energies enter your home and thus, impact you.

One way to strengthen your front door's power is to paint it in a color that supports your intentions. Color is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to shift your energy, and it can be a great place to start if you are new to feng shui. There are many different schools of feng shui, all with different approaches. Some schools, including the Classical, Compass, and Flying Star schools, take into account the magnetic compass directions of certain features of a home, including the front door. In these schools, knowing the facing direction of your front door is one thing that can help determine which paint colors would be most supportive.

To find your front door facing direction, stand in the doorway of your home facing out. Use a compass to determine which direction you are facing—you can use a dedicated feng shui compass to do this, or simply open the compass app on your smartphone.

Feng Shui for South-Facing Doors

In Classical Feng Shui, the south direction is related to the fire element, as well as Li position on the feng shui bagua. Li is also connected to fame, reputation, and how you are seen by others. 

When you’re deciding what color to paint your south-facing door, it may be helpful to choose a shade that supports the fire element. This can either be a color directly related to the fire element itself, or a color related to the wood element, which feeds fire in the five elements system used in feng shui. Fire also represents passion, inspiration, and expression, so painting your door a fire or wood element color can help you bring more of these qualities into your life. 

Fire Feng Shui Colors

Wood Feng Shui Colors

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Colors to Avoid for a South-Facing Front Door

As a general rule of thumb, try to avoid any colors like yellow and black that are associated with the earth and water elements. The reason: at their most basic nature level, these elements deplete fire—earth can weaken it, and water can extinguish it altogether. Since fire is the energy of the south sector, if fire supports you, you may not want to do anything that may diminish its power.

If You Can't Repaint Your Door

If you can’t paint your door, you can still incorporate fire and wood element colors into your front door decor. Here are a few ideas to get you started, but feel free to get creative!

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Home Feng Shui: Front Door and Hallway

Home Front Door The front door is the main entrance and exit for the flow of chi energy. In an ideal situation, qi is accumulated and distributed in the space in front of the house, and its flows are activated by the movement of people entering and leaving.

In ancient China, the front door was called the “mouth of the house”, through which all positive and negative energy passes.

First of all, you should make sure that the “secret arrows” that we have already talked about are not directed at the front door. To do this, stand in front of the door and look around. Pay attention to any sharp corners, drains, satellite dishes, lampposts, or spiers directing negative sha energy toward the front door.

Obstacles to the front door worsen feng shui. If there is not enough room in front of the door for the accumulation of qi, this can be corrected by painting the door in the color of the direction in which it opens, or by hanging a lantern over it to illuminate the space in front of the door well.

The location of the front door at the foot of the stairs is considered unfavorable for the health of family members. An easy way to avoid negative impacts is to raise the threshold by 1-2 centimeters so that you have to step over it when entering the house. The same remedy can be used if the door leads to an elevator, as this also impedes the free movement of qi.

If the front door is at the top of the stairs, tenants may find that they don't hold money for long. In such cases, it is recommended to hang a medium-sized round or octagonal mirror above the door to reflect negative energy.

The sector of the house where the front door is located, as well as the direction in which it faces, is associated with the head of the family. Traditionally, in a Chinese family, the eldest man has always been the head. These days, of course, this is not always the case, so you need to think and decide if this direction meets your needs and the desires of your partner.

If the front door faces northwest, it is considered a good direction for the father and the oldest man in the family. It will favor such qualities as leadership and dignity of this family member, trust and respect for him from other residents.

The north-facing door creates a peaceful lifestyle for the inhabitants of the house. However, there is a possibility that calmness will turn into lethargy and apathy and eventually develop into mutual alienation. If you are concerned about this, you can enter the qualities of the opposite element to activate other characteristics of chi energy. Add a touch of the earth element to the water element, such as painting the door brown or ocher yellow, or hanging a small crystal in the hallway.

In the northeast, the energies are quite volatile, and residents of houses whose front doors face in this direction are likely to be actively affected by external forces. But if other indications of feng shui are favorable, this direction is great for young people who want to expand their knowledge and get an education.

East direction is also favorable for young people, especially if they are just starting their careers and dream of realizing their ideas and aspirations. It promises a bright future for those involved in business and commercial transactions.

The southeast direction of the front door is favorable for those who want to improve their financial situation. Progress will be slow but sure, and peace and prosperity will reign in the family.

The door that faces south promotes active life and social activities, helps those who aspire to recognition and even fame. However, in such a situation, one should proceed with caution, since self-indulgence can create a tense atmosphere and lead to quarrels in the family. If necessary, moderate the fire by adding symbols of the element of water to this direction.

If the front door faces southwest, this is considered the most favorable for the mother of the family. The southwestern direction promotes strong and harmonious family relationships, although there is a danger that the mother's personality will become too dominant and intrusive, destroying the overall harmony. To soften this effect, you can bring in colors or symbols associated with the tree.

The west-facing door is good for families with small children, it provides the best opportunity for their quick creative development. This direction is also associated with romantic feelings and pleasure. However, you need to make sure that your hobbies do not lead to excessive expenses. Here you can add some stability given by the earth element.

Having established the direction of the main door of the house, you should choose a color or shade that matches this direction in order to maintain the qualities of this or that element. For example, if you want to emphasize the quality of the stability of a southwest-facing door, you can paint it red; if the inhabitants of the house are more in need of family harmony, you can choose brown or yellow. If circumstances change, the door can always be repainted using spawn cycle elements.

If the door faces west or northwest, then the qualities of the main element - metal can be enhanced with a white, golden or silver tint, and yellow or brown can be used for support. Do not use red, blue and black colors.

North facing door can be painted blue, black or white as you choose. Avoid brown, yellow and green colors.

If the door faces northeast or southwest, use brown or yellow as the main color and red or orange as the secondary color. Green and white colors are not recommended.

For a door facing east or southeast, the best colors are green, black or blue, not white.

South facing door can be painted red or green; blue and black cannot be used. To a lesser extent, yellow and brown should be avoided.

In addition, the forms associated with the basic five elements can be used to improve the qualities of qi passing through the front door (below).

Door shape according to the five elements:

a) water (north),
b) tree (east, southeast),
c) fire (south),
d) earth (southwest, northeast),
e) metal ( northwest, west).

If your front door faces north, use the symbols of water to enhance its cleansing properties and the symbols of metal for strength and support.

If the front door faces east and southeast, you can use tree symbols to activate opportunities for growth and development, and water symbols to cleanse and renew.

If the front door faces south, the symbols of fire will give liveliness and good spirits to the inhabitants of the house. Additionally, tree element symbols can be used.

If the front door faces southwest and northeast, the symbols of the earth element accentuate its stability. As additional, you can use the symbols of the element fire.

If the front door faces west and northwest, metal symbols will give it strength and strength. Additionally, you can use the symbols of the earth element.

Since the front door is designed to protect the house, it should be solid and solid, but never made of glass. In addition, it should be the largest in the house in order to ensure the maximum flow of qi energy into the living quarters. In height, it should exceed the tallest member of the family. In this case, no one will experience inconvenience when entering the house or going out.

It's good if the front door opens inside the house. If it opens outward, it is better to hang it by placing hinges on the other side. This is what Feng Shui masters think.

If there are windows on the sides of the front door, then the chi energy, having entered the house through the door, can freely exit through them, bypassing the house. In this case, lace curtains on the windows or potted plants on the windowsill will protect you.

Ideally, the front door should be hung from the side closest to the wall of the house or apartment and open towards this wall. This creates a sense of space and promotes good hallway feng shui. If the door is hung on the opposite side, the person entering is momentarily enclosed and feels uncomfortable.

If the front door is opposite the back door (that is, the “back door”), this creates a powerful flow of qi, which, passing through the house, practically does not stop in it. To correct the situation, it is necessary to install barriers in the form of mirrors, screens or decorative lattices on the way of qi movement.

If it is difficult to build a physical barrier between the front door and the back door, you can improve the situation by hanging a curtain in front of the second door. Moreover, it does not have to be a heavy velvet curtain, it is too expensive for a corridor, an ordinary muslin curtain, which has an attractive appearance, is also suitable.

Entering any building, be it your home, your friends' home or even your work space, you immediately feel how harmonious the interior is. If you immediately bump into the corner of a wall or the edge of a large closet when you enter, you will almost certainly have an instant spoiled mood. Such a negative impact can be mitigated by using a decorative screen, plants or ornaments.

The hallway should be well lit and kept clean so that the qi energy does not stagnate, creating a feeling of apathy and fatigue.

It's bad if there is a staircase leading to the second floor in such a small hallway. The qi energy in this case will not cover the first floor, immediately rising up. You can correct the situation by hanging shamisen or bells, which will slow down the movement of qi energy. Since there is nowhere to hang a mirror, you can install an ornamental plant obliquely from the entrance, which, moreover, will improve the interior.

If the staircase is located on the side of the entrance, you can put a partition or a movable screen that forms a barrier that prevents the exit of qi. If you hang a mirror on the side of the door, it will increase its size.

The entrance hall is not the center of family life, so a neutral yin-yang balance should be maintained here in both design and lighting.

If the hallway is very bright and angular, this can be softened with pastel colors and curtains, or the brightness of the light can be reduced. If the hallway is too dark, use more saturated colors, increase the lighting and hang pictures or photographs in rectangular frames on the walls.

Mats can be used to attract beneficial chi energy. Choose a color that matches the direction of the front door: red for the south, brown for the southwest, etc., as well as additional colors: green for the south, red for the southwest.

Some feng shui experts recommend putting three gold coins under the mat for luck. These should be Chinese coins with a hole in the middle, strung on a red string.

To bring good luck into the house, Feng Shui masters advise brightly illuminating the area in front of the front door and directly behind it.

From the hallway, chi energy spreads throughout the house through passages and corridors. This is reminiscent of its flow along the meridians of the human body. Qi should move freely, but not randomly. Long empty corridors usually get on people's nerves and make them unconsciously speed up their pace. If qi stagnates in remote corners, it creates a feeling of gloom and despondency.

To prevent the chi energy from flowing too fast and in a straight line, you can hang mirrors on the walls that create the effect of undulating movement.

You can also use wall decorations, dim lamps, hanging pots with climbing plants, if space permits.

Corridors tend to cause more problems in offices than at home. But if you have a large apartment or a separate house, you should pay attention to this.

Both hallways and corridors should be kept clean and yin-yang balanced by using a relatively neutral tone of wallpaper or wall coverings.

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