The front palace, foyer, or entrance, is an important area in the home that is often overlooked.

This is the very first area where new energy enters the home, flowing through the ENTIRE space we live in, carrying with it energy currents that are charged with frequencies that affect the home’s inhabitants.

Check out this post to read more about the front palace from a Feng Shui perspective, and how to find yours in your home.

Based on your Human Design Environment, consider how you want the energy to feel when it enters your home. Prepare your space so it imprints the surrounding energy flow with that charge. Let’s tend to your front palace!

Draw the eye upward

How can you bring height to the space based on what’s available to you? Create an uplifting and spacious feel at home by creatively drawing the eye upward. This can be done through light, art, colour or something else that is unique to your space. We’re wanting to create the feeling of a big exhale when we come home. Can you DIY board and batten siding? Wallpaper the ceiling? Add a skylight or chandelier? Make there’s just an amazing piece of art reminding you to look up and breathe.

Reminders to breathe

Sigh! You’re home! And that’s a sigh of relief; when you walk through the front door, you want your space to greet you with the sensation of taking a biiiiig exhale. Honey I’m home. I’ve returned to my place of sanctuary. With Mountains people, sometimes we emphasize the retreat, the oasis, the getaway, the vacation… but it’s important to remember that HOME needs to feel this way. While travel and adventure should feel restorative, coming home is an equal delight. The home is your place of sanctuary and retreat from the world. What can you have in your entrance as a reminder to breeeeathe and leave the world behind as soon as you walk through the door?

Keep things spacious

We can’t bring everything up on the mountain, so it’s inherently more refined than some of the other landscapes. It’s as if we have to mindfully select what essentials to bring with us up onto the mountain. There is an openness and a flow, and your space needs to reflect this. If you are bumping into things, or if doors/windows can’t open properly, or if something doesn’t have a place, this is all going to impede the spacious flow around you. This will create blockages in the wider scope of the life.

Use mirrors to maximize space

Strategically using mirrors can significantly shift the energy of a space and very quickly create the feel of more room. Be mindful not to hang a mirror across from the front door because all the fresh energy that enters will bounce right back out the door. The same goes with reflecting too much window. Always be mindful of what the mirror is reflecting, and ensure it is reflecting something appealing to your eye.

Keep floor clutter to a minimum

Where the Cave Person prioritizes the floor, the Mountain Person gets things up off the floor. Being able to see under furniture, or even experiment with floating furniture that is wall mounted helps maintain an airiness in your spaces. Even though clutter can collect in an entrance, ensure everything has a place and that there is as much free-flowing energy as possible.

Make it fancy!

Remember, this is your home. It’s the space that holds YOUR energy. It should have the best of the best for you. When you walk through that door, what do you want to see? What’s going to make you feel excited and at ease all at once? Is it terrazo? A specific colour? A coveted piece? Is everything pink? When you’re evaluating the space available to you, take a moment to consider, “What would take this to a whole new level?” Remember, you’re co-creating with the space and it has an energy of its own!

Intimately consider your philosophy

What’s important to you in a home? How about in life? How can this be reflected to you as soon as you walk through the door? Now, you don’t need art on the wall that says PEACE NOT VIOLENCE (although that might be really cool), but consider how the choices you’ve already made depict your lifestyle philosophy. Maybe you have moccasins to slip into that greet you at the front door. Maybe you have a change dish at the front door. Maybe there’s a special spot for your dog’s leash and poo bags. Maybe you have a big front closet to fit all your family’s outerwear. These choices all say things about you, and they outline your philosophies and values in life. If certain things are important to you and you’re not seeing them in this space, be sure to add and fill them in to suit you.