Little known fact – every home has Feng Shui issues that were built right into them. Here are 26 of the most common Feng Shui problems found in homes, the issues these problems cause AND the easy ways to fix them
#1 Can’t See Your Front Door from the Street
Issues This Can Cause: Not being seen at work, not having the right career opportunities coming to you, secretive behavior in the home and/or not ideal home energy
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Trim any landscaping preventing clearly seeing the Front Door, add a flag(s) to the door, mark what is/should be the natural pathway from the driveway, street or sidewalk to the door with lights, flowers or pots of flowers. Add flags or something decorative at the end of the driveway to draw attention to your house. Make sure your address numbers are clearly seen on the mailbox, from the street or near your front entrance.
#2 House is at the End of a Cul-de-Sac
Issue This Can Cause: Stagnant energy around your home and career and/or the feeling that you are taking on everyone else’s problem
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Hang up a Feng Shui mirror, pointing towards the cul-de-sac to push away energy that is not yours. Add something with movement such as flags, windchimes, tasteful decorative moving garden sculptures or art between your home and the street. Create a natural barrier between your property line and the cul-de-sac with trees, bushes, plants, garden boxes and/or flowers.
#3 You Have a Spiral Staircase
Issues This Can Cause: Unexplained feelings of not feeling safe and/or the sensation that there are “holes” in your life.
How to Solve This Problem: Put tall, “upward” things around it, such as tall plants. Carpet the stairs if possible. Add risers to the stairs for them to feel safer, if possible. Add a red rug at the bottom of the stairs.
#4 House is at a T Intersection
Issues This Can Cause: Taking on a lot of outside energy and problems and/or the feeling that you have a lot coming at you, that you don’t have control over
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add something heavy between your property line and the street such as rocks or garden boxes. Hang up a Feng Shui mirror, with the mirror side facing the street, to push away the energy from the road. Create a natural barrier between your property line and the cul-de-sac with trees, bushes, plants, garden boxes and/or flowers.
#5 House is Surrounded by Taller Buildings
Issues This Can Cause: Feeling like something is always hanging over you, feeling powerless, and/or unexplained/unexpected failures
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Hang up a Feng Shui mirror, where the mirror side is pointing towards the taller building. Do this for each side of your house where there is a building taller than yours.
#6 Back Yard Slopes Away From the House
Issues This Can Cause: That you can’t hold onto the energy/good things you want in your home and life
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add “up” things at the back of your property line such as flag poles or tall trees.
#7 Front Yard / Street Slopes Towards the House
Issues This Can Cause: A lot of energy from other people and their problems
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add “up” things near the front of the house such as flag poles, lights pointing upward, flags, tall trees or shrubs. Create a natural barrier between the street and your home with flowers, flower pots, bush, shrubs, garden boxes, large rocks, fences, etc.
#8 Part of the House Sticks Out in Front of the Front Door
Issues This Can Cause: If this is someone’s Bedroom, this person can feel vulnerable and/or not part of the family. However, this is a great place for an office as it keeps “work-life” separate from “family life”.
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: If this is not an office, put a Feng Shui mirror (or any mirror) in the far corner of this room (where the room sticks out the most) with the mirror pointing into the room. The idea is to bring the room back “into” the house.
#9 A Staircase is In Direct Alignment with the Front Door
Issue This Can Cause: The feeling that you can’t hold onto anything, the feeling that something comes into your life and then immediately leaves, feeling perpetually tired and/or feelings of exasperation.
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add a crystal from the ceiling between the Front Door and the staircase, add a red rug at the bottom of the staircase and/or add a strip of red tape above the door frame and/or below the lip of a stair.
#10 When You Walk in the Front Door You Immediately See a Long Hallway
Issues This Can Cause: A lack of focus, always feeling rushed and/or feelings that everything is moving too fast for you.
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add something to slow down the eye such as a colorful rug. Add artwork and/or mirrors to the wall. Add a crystal from the ceiling in the hallway to disperse the energy.
#11 When You in the Front Door You Immediately See a Wall
Issues This Can Cause: Feeling as if your career has hit a wall and/or that the energy of the home is “hitting a wall”
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add a photo or piece of art that has a lot of depth to it. Think: a photo of a long country road or a piece of art with mountains far in the distance.
#12 When You Walk in the Front Door You Can Immediately See Out the Other Side of the House
Issues This Can Cause: A lack of focus, always feeling rushed and/or feelings that everything is moving too fast for you.
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Put window coverings on the far windows/door to prevent always being able to see out them when you enter the house. Consider adding plants in front of the far windows/doors to create a visual distraction before you look immediately outside. Add something to slow down the eye such as a colorful rug, artwork, furniture (if possible) or sculpture. Add artwork and/or mirrors to the wall. Add a crystal from the ceiling in the hallway to disperse the energy.
#13 A Bathroom is in the Middle of the House
Issues This Can Cause: Money “going down the drain” and/or health issues.
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Keep drains closed. Add a red strip of tape on top of the Bathroom door frame. Add earth element such as the colors orange, brown, tans. Add things that are square or made of earth such as ceramic, pottery, brick or cement. Remove anything that reminds you of water or is symbolic of it. Think seashells, fish art, pictures of the beach. Limit or completely remove anything black or blue.
#14 Have a Pool, River, Lake or Other Water Feature Behind the House
Issues This Can Cause: Reputation problems
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add earth and fire symbols. Earth symbols include the colors oranges, browns and tans. Anything made of ceramic, terracotta (how about adding some potted plants around the pool?), pottery, cement and square shapes. Fire symbols include actual fire (how about a fire pit or tiki torches?), the color red and pointy or triangle shapes.
#15 You Have A Home Address that Isn’t in Alignment with What You Want From Life
Issues This Can Cause: Feelings that no matter what you try things aren’t working out the way you want
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Depending on what you want out of life your home address can support you or distract you. You figure out your address “number” by adding the individual digits together. For example, if you lived at 158 State Street, you would add 1 + 5 + 8 = 14. You need a single number, so you then would add 1 + 4 = 5.You live in a five house. Learn what each number means and how to fix it if you don’t like it, here.
#16 You Live on a Busy / Noisy Street
Issues This Causes: Feeling overwhelmed, that things outside of your control are influencing, an overabundance of outside influence on your life and/or the feeling that life is moving too fast
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Put a wind chime between your Front Door and the street. Add a natural barrier between your home and the street such as a line of bushes or shrubs, trees, a solid fence (avoid chain link), tall gardening boxes, etc.
#17 Your Bedroom Layout Requires You to Put Your Bed Under a Window
Issues This Cause: General feelings of vulnerability, unnecessary/unexplained fear and/or sleeping issues
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add a window covering and close it at night. Put a red strip of tape under the window sill and/or under the part of the bedframe closest to the window.
#18 Your Bed Shares a Wall with the Kitchen
Issues This Cause: Difficulty sleeping and/or health issues
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add a mirror near the head of your bed that faces towards the Kitchen.
#19 You Have a Straight Pathway from the Street to Your Front Door
Issues This Can Cause: Feeling overwhelmed or an overabundance of outside influence on your life and/or the feeling that life is moving too fast
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add something to slow down the eye from the street to the Front Door. This can be a line of flowers or plants or lights added to highlight a pathway.
#20 You Live Near A Church, Hospital or Cemetery
Issue This Can Cause: Persistent negative feelings, an overabundance of outside influence on your life and/or health issues
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Put up a Feng Shui mirror pointing towards the building or area. Sprinkle your property line with paprika with the intention of keeping outside energy – out. Put up a natural barrier between you and the building or area such as a fence, garden sculpture, tall trees, tall bushes or shrubs.
#21 You Can’t See the Kitchen Door While Cooking at the Stove
Issues This Cause: General feelings of vulnerability, unnecessary/unexplained fears
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add a mirror above the stove to allow you to see people who enter the room.
#22 You Don’t Have a Barrier Between You and Your Neighbors
Issues This Cause: Too much outside influence from outside influences especially neighbors
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add a windchime between you and the neighbor(s). Put up a Feng Shui mirror with the mirror side facing the neighbor. Add a natural barrier such as a fence, trees, bushes or other landscaping.
#23 Mirrored Closet Doors in the Bedroom
Issues This Cause: Problems getting a good night sleep, feeling as if the passion in your romantic life is being “doused”
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: If possible, remove the mirrors. If not, hang a crystal between the bed and the mirror, cover the mirrors at night and/or add a strip of red tape under the bedframe between the bed and the mirror. Move the bed as far away from the mirrors as possible while still being able to clearly see the door while lying in bed.
#24 You Live on Top of a Hill
Issue This Causes: Unexplained feelings of vulnerability, the feeling that things always sneak up on you and/or the feeling that “no one has your back”
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Create a natural barrier especially around the sides and back of the house. Think: a row of bushes, trees, landscaping, fences, sculpture, etc.
#25 The Entry to Your Home is Not Well Lit
Issues This Causes: Not Having the job/career opportunities you want come to you and/or dark energy in the home
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Add lights, replace lightbulbs as needed.
#26 You Walk Into Your House and Immediately See the Kitchen
Issues This Causes: Weight Gain
How to Solve This Feng Shui Problem: Put a visual distraction between the entryway and the Kitchen. Consider a rug, a piece of artwork, a piece of furniture, etc.
