Entryway Clutter

So we spent this Labor day holiday weekend with my brother and his family in TN. What a great fun family weekend. My brother needed a little help with a household task today before we left. They live in a house where you usually enter through the garage into a mudroom/ laundry/ pantry. This is common in modern homes with garages. Rarely do people park their car in the garage and then walk around to the front door.

Anyway, they wanted to stack the washer and dryer so that my sister-in-law would have more room and put a small folding shelf in the room to help manage the laundry for a family of 5. So the question was do they stack them so they are closer to the door (or coat cubbies) or do they push them back further toward the utility sink which is at the back of the room. They had them stacked toward the front because she felt it would be more convenient to reach and open, but then after they were there something didn't seem right. I pointed out that having them toward the front of the room made the entryway feel more tight. In other words, bad feng shui. The energy flow into the house from the outside was being stifled because of all the stuff by the door.

It is important to keep your entryway uncluttered. Have you ever been in a great mood only to return home to a mess right inside the door that kills that good feeling. That's bad feng shui!