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Thanks you so much!!

Recently the dark mode theme has stopped working for me. I tried clicking the moon icon and using the customize menu on several different devices and with different web browsers. Is it just broken for me?

Hi Cecil, Thanks again for continuing to provide such a great resource. I hope this question is general enough. I've read that a bathroom near an entry door is considered less desirable for feng shui. However, a common use case in some parts of the world is to have a bathroom and laundry room close to a side/back entry to clean up and change clothes in before entering the living areas of the home, e.g. after yard/garden/woodworking/farm/automobile work, or to have easy access to a bathroom while working on these kinds of projects. This prevents mud, leaves, sawdust, engine oil, etc from being tracked into the living areas of the home. How would you balance this practical need while also keeping a bathroom door suitably far enough from an entry door to avoid bad feng shui? Some options I can think of: A) a layout that keeps the door from immediate view of the entry, but still a close walking distance to the entry door, though this may require more square footage and expense B) a mudroom with no toilet, and only a shower/sink, possibly combined with a laundry room, which could work for cleanup but is less convenient for toilet use C) a separate outbuilding just for this purpose, but this would be the most expensive option and is not possible on some properties Or are these considerations not so important in comparison to the practical reasons that help keep the living areas clean?

Dear Cecil, Thank you so much for providing this site and forum as a resource. I am wondering, would such a partition in the photo above be either sources of sha qi or "slicing/cutting" the dining table? Or does the arrangement of the columns negate this, i.e. since the columns are forming a "wall"/partition, they are no longer considered to be individually cutting, and the assembly only projects poison arrows from its ends?

In the general case, is it unfavorable to have stairs or a stair landing crossing above the front door? Here is a picture to illustrate such a case (not a real design, for example only): Thank you

Sorry my question was not clear. Each image is a top down view of an imaginary floor plan showing the position of a staircase within a house. The blue arrows indicate the direction of travel for the stairs. Each staircase ends on the second floor at the green colored step. Because situating the stairs at the center of a house is considered bad feng shui: I am curious to know from this group of plans, which numbered examples would be considered cases of situating the stairs at the center of the house?

Hi Cecil, Thanks again for your help with the earlier post about window/sliding door pillars and sha qi. In many places one can find guidance regarding "stairs at the center of the house". In the most obvious case of #8, it's unambiguous that this is the "stairs at the center of the house". What I am unsure about is the remainder of these cases, some of which such as 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 14 are possible to interpret as "stairs at the center of the house", whereas others are more of a stretch to consider as being at the center. note: the black lines are simply to illustrate the centers of each house. I just drew them intersecting through everything because I was in a hurry

This is very helpful, thank you. FYI for anyone else reading this, I forgot to mention that I only colored the window frame pillar in red for easier visual reference; the coloring is arbitrary.

Hello Cecil Lee, Thanks so much for providing such a concise and clear set of general feng shui information. I also appreciate that you use diagrams and pictures often. I am curious to know, if you have two windows next to each other (operable or not; I just labeled them in case it would reduce ambiguity), does the shared frame border highlighted in red below create a source of sha qi? Thanks!