This will also slow the energy on the way down.
Stairs up to door.
If you can see the landing of the stairs from your front door place something attractive there to draw your eye upwards.
Also in such locations it is permissible when screen doors or other doors are installed especially on the same jamb as the exit door to swing them over stairs steps or landings.
The revision in the 1988 ubc which limited the door to opening on an interior stair and excluded exterior stairways was an important change that is often overlooked.
We also do not use stoops in the uk.
They would not be called stairs.
How to fix the stairs in the front of the door for feng shui.
Mount paintings photographs or wall art along the wall of the staircase to enable the energy to meander up the stairs.
When a staircase is facing the front door directly the feng shui energy rushes up quickly to either the lower or the higher floor thus leaving the main entry as well as the whole main floor without good feng shui energy nourishment.
The main door is called the mouth of chi in feng shui as this is how the house absorbs its much needed chi or energy nourishment.