Yes they can be classified into Yin and Yang spaces too.
The living, kitchen, dining and family areas are Yang places which are meant for plenty of human activities.
The bedroom and study are Yin places. The bedroom is meant for rest and recover while the study for concentration.
The storeroom is obviously a Yin place.
The principle of Yin and Yang can be applied to many things including the body.
For example, the front of the body is Yin while the back is Yang. The internal organs are Yin, while the external ones like the skin is Yang.
Anything below the waist is Yin while above is Yang.
The internal organs can be further subdivided. For example the heart, lung, liver, spleen and kidney are Yin organs while the small intestine, large intestine, gall bladder, bladder and stomach are Yang organs!
With technology as it is, will the traditional Chinese Lou Pan or Feng Shui compass change its shape or form?
Here is one possible scenario.
Watches that incorporate a digital compass have been around for many years. It would not be long (maybe already available) for mobile phones especially the PDA ones to have a built-in compass.
It is then not difficult to develop software programs that will display the ‘qi’ distribution chart for each of the 24 mountains depending on which direction the mobile phone is pointed at.
And water formula charts can be incorporated as well followed by date selection etc.
Will this happen? Will the mobile phone replace the Lou Pan? If you think about it the idea is not far fetch. Could you have imagined 15 years ago that the mobile phone will one day also double up as a camera, audio and video player, recorder, GPS, alarm, calendar, to-do list, email client, browser, instant messenger, game machine etc?
Client: “Where do I place this painting of bird?”
Me: “I practice classical Feng Shui and I do not use pictures”
Client: “That is beside the point. I am paying you, so you must tell me where”
Me: “South lah!”
It is not a real conversation but I am prepared in case they ask!
Why place the picture in the south sector? I use the following ration.
In the four celestial animals, south is represented by the red bird (north by the tortoise, left the dragon and right by the tiger).
South is also the location of Li Gua in the later heaven arrangement and Li Gua is also associated with the bird!
So south lah! 
No.
The saying, “Three persons living in the same house walk a different path” that imply that people living in a house with good Feng Shui will benefit differently.
Although it is a Feng Shui practitioner aim to make sure that everyone in the house benefits from good Feng Shui, he is in practice, constraint by many factors that include the facing of the house, location of the bedrooms etc.
In practice the Feng Shui is optimized for the head of the household (these days the spouse as well). The ration is that if the head of the household do well, the rest of the family as well.
Yes. I need the date of birth of the head of the household (nowadays the spouse as well) to check if the facing or sitting direction of the matches their natal chart.
It would be better if they can also provide the time of birth.
With the time, I can draw up a detailed personalized birth chart to study how the facing and other directions would affect various aspects of their life. It will also allow me to make better recommendations during the Feng Shui audit.
The answer is absolutely not.
The Lou Pan or Chinese Feng Shui compass is an accurate compass that comes with many Feng Shui formulas embedded in it in the form of rings.
It makes the task of auditing much easier as you can now check and come out with recommendations by simply looking at the ‘rings’ surrounding with compass.
The alternative is to use an accurate navigation compass that has a straight or flat edge in conjunction with a chart or table of ‘Feng Shui formulas’.
The straight or flat edge of the navigation compass allows us to align the compass accurately when we placed it against the door or the facing.
Have you notice that those who are very successful in their careers and able to accumulate a vast fortune, tend to be less lucky in relationships and/or health?
Let me explain this from a Chinese Astrology perspective.
Our natal comprise of a certain number of stars (both good and bad) placed in domains that affect or power and wealth, relationships (with spouse, children, siblings, parents and friends) and health, both mental and physical.
If the good stars fall into the power and wealth domains, it implies that you are likely to be very successful in your career and can accumulate wealth.
If this is the case, where do the bad stars fall into? Obviously they are left with no choice but to fall into the relationships and/or the health domains. This is why successful people (by today’s capitalist standards) tend to have poor relationships or health.
The other extreme is one where the good stars fall into the relationships and health domains. Here the person has good relationships, great health and happy (good stars in the mental domain) but no money or power!
Which do you prefer? I suppose a balance is best. Remember the yin and yang?
The story goes that he visited a Buddhist monastery in Hanzhou in 1950. While there he instructed a senior fortune teller to tell him about his future.
Apparently after evaluating Mao’s date and time of birth, he simply wrote down four numbers, 8, 3, 4 and 1. When Mao pressed him to explain he refuse and just gave the reply that, “Heaven’s secret cannot be revealed”.
Mao was not happy but when he returned to Beijing he named his garrison force 8341. Nobody including Mao knew what it meant.
However when Mao passed away, the meaning of the numbers became clear. Mao was born on the 26th Dec 1893 and pass away on 9th Sep 1976. The first two numbers 83 is his predestined age.
Mao firmly established his domination of the Chinese Communist Party in 1935 with the end of the Long March. He never gave up his position and held it until he died. He was in power for a total of 41 years! Hence 8 3 4 1!
In almost every Feng Shui talk that I give, at least one participant will ask me to clarify on the facing direction of an apartment.
This is not an easy question to answer which differs between schools and sometimes even between practitioners of the same schools.
Here is my thought on determining the facing direction of an apartment.