Feng Shui my apartment

is to reduce clutter. The flow of movement is good, and there are things here and there that could be better (hello, couch?), but mostly what remains is too much stuff. It is time to haul away clothes unworn and cds waiting to spin in the player of someone more keen, to recycle old papers, to trim down material things. Cut back the branches and make room for new spirit to grow. Simplify.

1. I usually feng shui my space straight away when I move in. But this has been a strange move. I moved in near the end of June, then spent a week dating a guy who turned out to be a stalker, a week hiding at my sister’s house from said stalker, a week of teacher training, a week in Chicago… So I have not even unpacked everything yet! This place is full of clutter and junk already. There is not much in the way of storage space so it’s all about in piles.

2. The door is not facing an auspicious direction for me, but fortunately, it is already painted purple, the appropriate color to fix that! How lucky. And I have placed my bed facing an appropriate direction.

3. Thirdly, it is a loft style apartment. Living and kitchen downstairs, bed and bath upstairs. I have never done this before. Does that mean there are two levels for some of the guas and empty space above the others? or do I treat the upstairs as a separate entity with all 8 areas? Any thoughts?

4. The stairs… point right out the front door. I know this is not a good thing. How to fix…