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Dear Kevin,

1. Under Feng Shui, the advise would still to have a frontage facing the street.

However, the frontage can have a main door but opens inwards towards the `balcony' area. (Where possible the main door should not be in the line of sight of the balcony or back view.

Thus one can still position the living room area towards the `back' of the house.

Please see below:-

On 2/24/00 12:14:00 PM, Kevin Dunn wrote:
>Dear Cecil and associates:
>
>Thanks for your earlier
>advice. I have used that
>advice and done more research
>but am still left with one
>question which is driving me
>bonkers:
>
>Given a rectangular lot with
>a. a gentle slope to the rear
>with park-
>like trees and grass
>b. a gorgeous city view from
>the rear
>c. much higher buildings
>across the street
> at property's front
>d. average buildings at both
>sides and
>back of lot (city view easily
>seen
> above back building),
>
>does one ever sight a house so
>that the back faces the main
>road and the "front" of the
>house actually faces the rear
>of the property?

This is usually not the norm. But at least if the main door is available this side of the house, it can usually open towards the living room facing the good view.

However, you may need to be careful of the placement of the toilet. Best to have one side share an external wall.

Avoid having the toilet next to the main entrance door or above the door. For example, see if the toilet can be placed on the side.

>Given the beauty, slope, view,
>etc., it seems a shame to
>waste the "bright
>hall/openness" effect with
>standard placement. To use
>standard placement and situate
>the home further back on the
>property, the house will have
>an elevation considerably
>lower than surrounding
>properties and will face a
>substantial uphill slope.
>
>Can I then face my house front
>to the back and place my
>home's back walls close and
>more or less parallel to the
>main road which serves the
>property? Does this idea
>break some long-standing feng
>shui tenant about homes never
>facing the rear of the
>property?

Frankly, this would break the tenant of Feng Shui unless the plot of land is large and there is a driveway thru it.

Here, if there is a water position, the house can surround it e.g. `L shaped'

As I mentioned earlier the easiest for the house to conform to Feng Shui is to make the back side the living room area.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil