Help on Living, Dining, Kitchen Floor Level

[myfs_123695]

help: the lot of our dream house has a sloping terrain. our engineer suggested having different levels for the living, dining and kitchen -

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living being the highest level, then one or two-steps down will be the dining room, and another one or two steps down the kitchen. do you think this is good feng shui? please help

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Vida,

Traditionally, many Chinese homes or homes built in Singapore may consider "spilt-levels". The "spilt-levels" is very common for many homes and apartments built in the 1970's.

Here, the idea is that the living room CAN be lower than the dining room. Not the other way around. Usually, this "spilt" is only between the living and dining. And other dining is suppose to be at the "back" area of the home. The kitchen and yard should also be if possible the same level or "slightly" higher than the kitchen is OK.

Many Feng Shui practitioners do not like the idea of the living room higher than the dining. And conversely, the dining higher than the back yard / kitchen area (if it is at the back of the home). Here, we can imagine that the home slopes downwards from front to the back. Thus instead of "water" at the frontage and mountain behind; the above in general is considered not good Feng Shui.

I have included a text attachment which I had previously calculated to show what are the preferred number of steps for the home

Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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Introduction:

1. In Feng Shui, there are two traditional methods of determining the number of steps.

2. The first method is a 3 number combination. Where the first two steps are Auspicious but the last step is inauspicious.

METHOD 1 - THE THREE-STEP CYCLE
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3. Thus under the `Three-steps formula' step No. 1 (Auspicious), Step No. 2 (Inauspicious) while Step No. 3 is considered inauspicious. Usually this 3rd step is known as the `death' step.

3.1 Thus:-

Following this method, one should be able to work out the number of steps:-

3.2 Auspicious steps are:-

1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20,

3.3 Inauspicious steps:-

No. 3 is the third step
No. 6 is the following third step
No. 9 is again the following third step
No. 12 is again the following third step...etc...

METHOD 2 - THE FOUR-STEP CYCLE
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4. However, Method 1 should be used in combination with Method 2 below:-

4.1 What is the four-step cycle:-

Step 1: Auspicious
Step 2: Auspicious
Step 3: Inauspicious
Step 4: Inauspicious

4.2 How to calculate under this method:

Step 1 is Auspicious
Step 2 is Auspicious
Step 3 is inauspicious
Step 4 is also inauspicious

4.3 Next 4 steps:-
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Step 5 is auspicious
Step 6 is auspicious
Step 7 is inauspicous
Step 8 is inauspicious

4.4 Next 4 steps:-
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Step 9 is auspicious
Step 10 is auspicious
Step 11 is inauspicous
Step 12 is inauspicious

4.5 Next 4 steps:-
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Step 13 is auspicious
Step 14 is auspicious
Step 16 is inauspicous
Step 17 is inauspicious etc...

4.6 One can do similar calculations for 17 or more steps.....

5. After finding out the numbers for both Methods (1 and 2) we now derive the following sets of steps:-

5.1 Under Method 1: The Three-Step Method:-

1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26

5.2 Under Method 2: The Four-Step Method:-

1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26

Thus we have to eliminate the following numbers which are considered inauspicious in either one of the above methods:-

Number 4 - inauspicious under method 2
Number 6 - inauspicious under method 2
Number 8 - inauspicious under method 2
Number 11 - inauspicious under method 2
Number 16 - inauspicious under method 2
Number 18 - inauspicious under method 1
Number 19 - inauspicous under method 2
Number 20 - inauspicous under method 2

5.3 Thus the final result are the following numbers:-

1,2, 5, 10, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25, 26 etc...

6. Steps Landing

Yes, the number of steps is important.

Each step including the steps at landing is included as a count.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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vida miranda wrote:
help: the lot of our dream house has a sloping terrain. our engineer suggested having different levels for the living, dining and kitchen -

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living being the highest level, then one or two-steps down will be the dining room, and another one or two steps down the kitchen. do you think this is good feng shui? please help