Is it bad feng shui to have the bathroom facing the front door?
Yes. The Form School holds that the front door is where chi first arrives, and a bathroom straight ahead makes its first stop the dampest room in the house. Keep the bathroom door closed, hang a long curtain across it, and set a tall pet-safe plant between the two doors.
Does your front door face the bathroom?
Send one photograph from the front door, looking straight in. LuckMove answers this question first, with the door’s line to the bathroom drawn on your photograph, then reads the rest of the entry.
Why the first room should not be the bathroom
The Form School calls the front door the mouth of the house: whatever chi the home receives comes in there first, and the first room it meets colors all the rest. A bathroom is the house’s drain, damp and closed, and the school holds that arriving chi should never meet it first.
It weighs most when the bathroom door stands open in the front door’s line, or when the toilet itself can be seen from the threshold, and the tradition adds that the lid stays down. The fixes all work on sight and line: close the bathroom door, curtain it, and set something between the two doors.
What to look for in your room
Standing at the front door and looking in, you face the bathroom door.
Does your front door face the bathroom?
Send one photograph from the front door, looking straight in. LuckMove answers this question first, with the door’s line to the bathroom drawn on your photograph, then reads the rest of the entry.
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How to fix it, in order
The first fix is a habit: a bathroom door kept shut takes the room out of the front door’s view.
A heavy, floor-length curtain on a rod outside the bathroom door hides it even when someone leaves the door open.
Where the hall allows, a folding screen a few steps inside the front door keeps the bathroom out of the first view and turns arriving chi into the home.
A tall plant set between the front door and the bathroom, off the walking line, gives arriving chi something living to meet first.
If you have cats or dogs
A parlor palm or an areca palm suits a hall, and both are on the ASPCA’s list of plants non-toxic to cats and dogs. A closed toilet lid also keeps pets from drinking from the bowl.
ASPCA, Toxic and Non-Toxic Plants
Questions people ask
It is the heaviest form of this finding: the school keeps the drain of the house out of the threshold’s view. Close the bathroom door, keep the lid down, and hang a curtain so the toilet is never the first thing seen.
A heavy curtain on a rod does the door’s work when the door cannot: it hides the room from the front door and still lets air through.
No. A mirror facing the front door turns arriving chi back out, which the school counts as a fault of its own. Close and curtain the bathroom door instead. Mirror facing the front door →