Front Door Opens Right Into Stairs
I have a big landscape photo on the wall heading up the stairs.
Front door opens right into stairs. I will probably do nothing until i give up the idea of turning the front porch into an entrance but a window partition could be a lovely solution. That led us to discovering a leak in the threshold which led to discovering the support beams for the header over the door weren t installed correctly and well one thing led to another and we had a new front door. For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it. There are two kinds of homes.
At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic. Remember earlier i mentioned that the original owner had to step up onto the first stair tread in order to open the front door. However it just does not feel right. I have this same problem thanks for the post.
Our front door opens right onto the staircase leading upstairs which is open and with a metal railing. This stair is right in front of the front door. And then there s the problem that the rest of us face. My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma.
My front door opens on a corner of my living room one wall is entirely windows the other wall is the only place to have a living room. No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess. May 17 2013 removing wall on staircase. In the 1 000 plus years of asian feng shui practices an internal staircase in a two story home that faces the front door creates an.
I have hung a crystal in the small space and placed a fish tank at the bottom of the steps. Thank you so much for any advice. You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room. In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room.
The main door is called the mouth of chi in feng shui as this is how the house absorbs its much needed chi or energy nourishment.