Adelaide Feng Shui Property Audit

Local homes and terrain

Adelaide's housing stock is rich in 'Character Homes' — single-fronted and double-fronted bluestone and sandstone villas, return-verandah cottages, and Federation bungalows on the flat grid Colonel Light laid out. Many sit on long, narrow allotments running back from the street, while the eastern suburbs climb toward the Adelaide Hills, where blocks slope and outlooks change quickly.

Feng shui formations common in this city

On Adelaide's long, narrow single-fronted allotments, a front door aligned straight with a rear door or window is a common Through Hall (穿堂) setting. Sloping Hills blocks raise questions of grounding and water flow downhill, while corner allotments on the grid can face a neighbour's sharp building corner (Corner Sha, 角煞).

The Chinese community here, and what they look at

Adelaide's Chinese community is smaller than the eastern capitals but long-established, spread through the inner suburbs and the eastern foothills. Two very different housing types dominate what people look at: the single-fronted character home on a long narrow allotment, where front door and back door can sit on one line, and the sloping Hills block, where the land itself falls away and the question becomes how the house sits on it.

Related formations

• Through Hall
• Corner Sha
• Missing Corner