Feng Shui in home extension
example 2

Why Feng Shui

These folks were planning to build a significant extension onto their existing home, creating three new bedrooms, a new day room and kitchen, and reworking existing space. They had become uncomfortable with the plan that had been created for them, and asked for the additional perspective that a classical Feng Shui evaluation could offer.

Feng Shui Evaluation

A number of issues were found, but here are two to consider:

• The direct pathway that would be created between the front door and the back of the house effectively cuts the house in half. As the lounge was already mostly unused, with family primarily using other parts of the house, creating a further energetic feature that would serve to cut off the lounge even further, would work against the purpose of the extension. 
  Part of any improvement to the plan would need to encourage people to use the lounge so that the space could be comfortably put to good use.
• The new day room would have provided little additional space to actually use productively. The area by the open archway to the kitchen and the entrance to the hallway made that part of the room unfit for any kind of seating. A large patio door/window, a second window and a large opening into the lounge meant there was little or no comfortable sitting space in the room. Even if the room had none of these, it was still so narrow that two chairs opposite each other would block the room.

So while there was additional floor space being created, it was not really going to help the family that much.

Feng Shui Recommendations

• Block the through pathway from the front door to the day room. This will create a much calmer space around the entrance to the kitchen, where a chair or two could be comfortably placed, and also another potential sitting space - indicated by the yellow dots in the diagram opposite. 
• Replace the two windows with a single. This gives solidity to more space in the room.
• Making the family room wider would also improve the usability of the space.
• Rehang the door on the lounge so that people could enter more easily; the current door was getting in the way of people entering the room.

On the whole, the energetic flow is now more calm and appropriate for a family home.

Comment

The Feng Shui perspective looks not only at the space itself, but how people are likely to use it.

As always, the time to look at the Feng Shui perspective of your extension, is while it is still at the planning stage.

Mike can offer a planning service; working with you and your architecht to build you a better home.

The original plan

The existing part of the building is shown shaded in blue, showing approximately how things look now, and the planned additional space shown in green.

The likely flow of people indicated by the red arrow, cuts the house in half, and means that a large part of the day room can’t be used for comfortable seating.

A revised plan

In this version, incoming energy is forced to take a curved and more homely route; the energetically faster straight path is gone. Also the day room contains two more comfortable areas indicated by the yellow dots, where seating can be reasonably placed. There is also another corner available that could hold a TV.