In feng shui, the entrance is the most important place to bring good qi energy flow into your home.
Here are some examples of Lucky Paintings to place in the entrance to bring good fortune into your house.
It’s best to place a flowers design painting which match with the direction of your entrance.
Also scenery of seasons paintings are excellent as well.
Paintings which you can imagine the painting is like a window, can be placed near your entrance door.
The best type of paintings or photographs based on the directions of your entrance
North entrance - Pink color flowers image, Bright image of lake or harbor’s scenery ,
Northeast entrance - Morning image, White flower image, Snow mountain image,
East entrance - Red color flowers image, Sunset image, Car ,
Southeast entrance - Spring or summer image ( spring or summer trees, flowers, etc .. ) , harbor image, girl’s image,
South entrance - South Island image, Beach & sea image, Prairie image, Summer image, sun flowers, ( time : during the day with sun shine around noon to 2 pm, )
Southwest entrance - Country side image, farm, Fruits or vegetables image, Flower garden image, Plants image,
West entrance - Yellow flowers image, Autumn scenery image, a Lady image, European scenery image,
Northwest entrance - Church image, Star sky, European building town image, Ocean or water related image,
The items to avoid to place in the entrance
* Calendar
* Family photos
* Dry flowers
* Doll
* Stuffed animal
* Sports equipment
Good luck items in your entrance
* Happy Buddha ( Laughing Buddha )
Happy Buddha is also called "Hotei " was one of seven lucky gods.
When Happy Buddha is displayed in front of the entrance, facing outside, it's believed that he will bring a lot of joy and happiness into the home.
* Mirror
Best to place a mirror facing to sun but avoid to place it in front of the entrance door directly.
* Plant
Plants clean the qi energy and catch negativity. Great to place some plants in front of the entrance, outside and inside for protection.
* Crystal
Crystal activates qi energy, and it fixes the balance of Yang and yin.
It’s great to place one crystal in your entrance, and also one living room and one bathroom in your home. It can be a strong protection and also brings good luck into the home.
Before using the crystal after you purchased it, you will need to clean the crystal by putting it in a sea salt or sea salt water in a small bowl for about 3 days to get rid of negative energy.
You can also put the crystal in sunlight for clean the energy.
Good to do cleaning once a week or every two weeks.
* Flowers
Fresh live flowers activate positive good qi energy around the space.
Good to change the water and keep clean the vase every day.
* Rug mat
Rag mat can get rid of any negative energy which comes from outside and send only positive energy into the home. You can choose whatever you like for the design which make you feel good.
For color, good to choose lucky color based on your entrance direction.
* A pair of Foo dogs or temple lions ( protection )
One of the most important and famous feng shui guardian item is a pair of foo dogs ( also called temple lions ).
It’s believed that Foo dogs have strong power to kill negative bad energy, and by placing them, negative energy doesn't go into your home.
Also, it has power to increase luck of wealth, career, business and make a good balance of family relationship.
The right position for these foo dogs is Male foo dog which is holding a globe should be in the right side ( looking from the foo dogs eyes, facing out side) and female foo dog which holding a baby on the left side.
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