Unequal door panels

[sun888_99]

Dear cecil,
I read somewhere that having unequal door panels is good feng shui. Is it true. Thanks.

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Anon,
1. This is an interesting question.
2. I have heard both sides of the `story'.
Some practioners say that both sides of the main entrance door must have equal panels. While others mentioned that the door panel can be unequal.
3. So far, based on what I have observed:-
a. Most (or all doors) on traditional Chinese buildings be it a temple, a very old house/building or landmark has doors that are of equal dimensions.
b. Singapore Housing board flats have a `main door' and grille gate where it fits your description.
I know that the Housing Board flats where 90 percent of Singaporean stays have their main doors that conform to Feng Shui ruler good dimensions.
Nowadays, less emphasis is placed on Feng Shui ruler dimensions.
You will be surprised to learn that most if not nearly all Feng Shui teachers (those that teach / practise traditional Feng Shui and who have websites on the internet) are not too `concern' with the Feng Shui ruler.
Imperial Carpentry especially in the Ming and Ching Dynasties are important specialisations.
In modern times, it is more often that we buy furnitures off the shelf than to go to a carpenter and order a tailor made furniture set.
For the above reason and others, one can see why most Feng Shui teachers or practioners would ask their students to say that what matters today is, see a furniture you like and buy it. (Without having to go to the `ritual' of measuring them to check their auspicious or non auspicious dimensions).
Furthermore, to add to the confusion, one can easily go to a Feng Shui store and purchase no less than four or five different `types' of Feng Shui rulers based on different ways of `calculating' auspicious sectors.
In my opinion, it is not the norm to have unequal door panels but this does not automatically mean that it is auspicious or inauspicious.
One way of looking at it is that if the door is opened without opening the second panel of unequal door, and the Feng Shui dimensions are auspicious, this is acceptable. Opening the unequal door and thus enlarging the door, but if the dimensions are again auspicious, it is equally good.


It would thus be better if the dimensions check out to be auspicious under both `conditions'. If one is an `Imperial' carpenter, he/she would insists that it must conform to auspicious dimensions. To a modern Western Traditional Feng Shui teacher or practioner, he may not look at it from the same point of view.
Warrmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 11/9/99 8:49:47 AM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear cecil,
I read somewhere that having
unequal door panels is good
feng shui. Is it true. Thanks.