hello to you all,

i am an architectural designer from istanbul/ turkey, and very new to feng shui. thank you very much for your very informative site.
i am a bit confused with compass reading. my family will move to a new house next month but although i studied your informative pages, i;m not surehow to take the compass reading because the living room of the house faces the street, however, you enter the building and the house from the rear. besides, it is not a square or a rectangle, it is L shaped. what am i supposed to do? face the street or the main door at the back? thank you for your attention. god bless you.
regards, nilg?n

Dear nilg?n birg?l,

You should check out these two articles by Cecil

Part 1 - Facing direction of a home

Part 2 - Facing direction of a home

nilg?n birg?l wrote:
i am an architectural designer from istanbul/ turkey, and very new to feng shui. thank you very much for your very informative site.
i am a bit confused with compass reading. my family will move to a new house next month but although i studied your informative pages, i;m not surehow to take the compass reading because the living room of the house faces the street, however, you enter the building and the house from the rear. besides, it is not a square or a rectangle, it is L shaped. what am i supposed to do? face the street or the main door at the back? thank you for your attention. god bless you.
regards, nilg?n

Based on what you tell me so far. I am guessing that your home is an apartment. So you should based on these general guidelines.

1. If betweem 2nd-7th levels, take the main door.

2. If above 8th levels, then take the living frontage.

If you follow these two guideline, should not be wrong. If in doubt, you can always take the living room frontage. This will not go wrong either way.

If still in doubt, attach a layout for us to advise you.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research