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Dear Miriam,

Please refer to attached illustration on how to count the no. of steps.

Usually, the landing is also included (as shown under the attachment).

Please see below:-

On 8/22/2002 8:10:00 AM, Miriam Davis wrote:
>I have a couple more
>questions:
>
>1) How do you count the steps
>in a staircase? Do you
>include the floor of the level
>above and/or the floor of the
>level below, or only the steps
>in the middle? If there is a
>landing, does it count as a
>step? Does it depend on the
>size of the landing?

Please refer to attachment.

>If the steps are outside the
>unit (in the public staircase
>between the units) does it
>have an influence on the
>unit's feng shui? What about
>steps on the hillside on the
>path approaching the building?

All these should be looked at collectively under Shapes and Forms Feng Shui i.e. your building in relation to the surroundings.

>2) We live in an apartment
>building where the entrance to
>the stairwell between the
>units is on the south side but
>facing up the hill. However
>the door entering our unit is
>in the center of the east wall
>of our unit, facing the
>stairwell from the side. Does
>this make our main entrance an
>east-facing entrance? Inside
>the unit, the living, dining
>and kitchen areas are on the
>side facing down the slope
>(north) while the bedrooms and
>bathrooms are on the south
>side. On the north side near
>the east end, there is a door
>going out to the balcony. So
>what does this say in general
>about which direction our
>apartment is facing?

Thank you for your description. Usually, it is best that if you can provide a sketch. As often, descriptions can often be interpreted wrongly. And I would like to minimise it, if I can.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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