The Feng Shui Behind Your Floor Plan ProperQi™ Score

A 3×3 grid divides your home into nine zones, each traditionally associated with an area of life -- a cultural mapping the tool uses to organize the layout, not a forecast:

• Wealth & Prosperity -- Xun, Wood
• Fame & Reputation -- Li, Fire
• Love & Marriage -- Kun, Earth
• Family & Health -- Zhen, Wood
• Health · Tai Chi (center) -- Earth
• Children & Creativity -- Dui, Metal
• Knowledge & Growth -- Gen, Earth
• Career & Path -- Kan, Water
• Helpful People -- Qian, Metal

The center (Health · Tai Chi) isn't one of the eight compass trigrams -- it's the calm "heart" of the home, and Form-School tradition wants it kept open, light, and uncluttered.

The map is built in a fixed order, no compass or questionnaire involved:

1. Start at your front door. In BTB Form School, the front door is the "mouth of chi," where energy enters the home -- the single anchor the entire map is built from.
2. Find the wall it sits on. Your front door sits on one of your home's four walls -- the "entrance wall." This is the piece that replaces the compass: instead of asking "which way is north," BTB asks "which wall do you walk in through." The whole grid is squared to that wall.
3. Lay the nine zones, always the same way. With the wall fixed, the grid drops on in one consistent orientation every time: standing in your doorway looking in, the near row (the side you enter) is always Knowledge · Career · Helpful People, left to right; the far row opposite you is Wealth · Fame · Love; the middle row is Family · Center · Children. The grid never flips or mirrors -- it only rotates as a whole to match your wall.
4. Your gate, the zone you enter through. Because your door sits on the entrance wall, it can land in only one of three zones, the "three gates": Knowledge on your left, Career dead center, Helpful People on your right -- decided entirely by where along the wall your door sits.

Finally, the score reads only physical features it can see in the plan -- the home's shape, what greets the front door, how chi flows through it, and where draining rooms (bathrooms) and the kitchen sit relative to each zone. It starts from a base of 70 and adds or subtracts for each factor below; the deltas always sum exactly to your score.

Where a room's real footprint is traced -- an angled wing, a bay, a cut corner, any room that isn't a plain upright rectangle -- its zone read follows that traced shape, not a simplified box around it. A room split across a zone boundary is credited to each zone in proportion to how much of its actual floor area falls there, rather than being assigned wholesale to whichever zone contains most of a bounding rectangle.

Commanding shape. A corner carved out of your home's completed rectangle (an enclosed notch) reads as a "missing" life-area for whatever zone it falls in -- a penalty scaled to that zone's traditional weight, down to −12 at most. Without a missing corner, a tight, regular rectangle is fully "commanding" (+3); a more irregular footprint (an L or multi-wing home) earns less, down to a neutral 0 for a highly irregular or sprawling shape.

Auspicious extension (provisional, pending Feng Shui master review). A modest projection beyond the main rectangle into a favorable zone (Wealth, Fame, Love, Career, or Helpful People) classically strengthens that zone -- the mirror image of a missing area. Worth up to +2. The "modest" size threshold and exactly which zones an extension benefits vary by lineage, so this bonus is flagged provisional in the tool until a practitioner confirms the rule.

See also: general guidance on missing-corner floor plans in our Feng Shui observations reference.

Entry sequence reads whatever your front door opens directly onto. A bathroom facing the entry drains arriving chi immediately (−5); a kitchen or a staircase in the same spot is similarly unsettling (−4 each); a garage is heavy, stagnant energy at the mouth of chi (−3); a bedroom exposed straight to entry chi is also −3. An open living space or a proper foyer receiving arrivals is ideal (+3 each); a gathering space like a dining room is +2; nothing crowding the entry axis at all is a mild +1.

Chi retention checks whether your front door lines up straight through to a rear door or opening. A straight run lets chi rush through instead of settling ("piercing heart," −6); no such alignment means chi meanders and is retained (+2).

Door alignment flags two specific interior conflicts, each geometry-checkable from your plan: an interior door that opens straight toward the front door (−2), and two interior doors facing each other across a gap, "fighting doors" (−2, stacks with the first, capped at −4 total).

Bathroom placement is read per zone: a bath draining the home's strongest zone (Health · Tai Chi center) costs −6; Wealth −5; Love −4; Fame or Career −3; Family −3; Children or Knowledge −2; Helpful People, the most forgiving, −1. A bath sitting directly on the front-door path costs an additional −2. Bathrooms landing only in the more forgiving zones score a flat +1.

Kitchen placement reads the stove against the five-element character of whatever zone it occupies (fire working against or drawing on that zone's element), on top of two geometry checks: −2 if the stove sits on the front-door path, −3 if it shares a wall with a bathroom. A stove that avoids the center, the door path, and a shared bath wall scores a flat +2.

Primary bedroom placement combines its zone (Love and Family are supportive, up to +4 and +2; the center and Career are not, down to −4 and −3) with two geometry checks: +2 for sitting in the rear "command" third of the home away from the entry, and −2 if an ensuite or adjacent bath drains the room.

Bed command position reads whether your bed's headboard sits against a solid wall, diagonal from the door, in view but not in its direct path -- the traditional "commanding" position (+4). A bed floating with no solid headboard support is −1; a bed set directly in the door's path ("coffin position") is −5. Additional beds beyond the primary are read too, weighted less (up to +2 combined for being in command, or a further penalty for a coffin position).

Bed backing checks whether a headboard backs onto a bathroom or kitchen wall -- unsettling in Form School practice. −3 for the primary bed, −1 per additional bed, capped at −5 total.

See also: general bedroom and command-position guidance in our Feng Shui observations reference.

Tai Chi center (the home's heart) wants to stay open. A bathroom occupying it is the steepest penalty (−6); a kitchen −4; stairs or a garage −3; storage or a bedroom a mild −1. An open living space or hallway at the center scores +2.