Feng Shui Decor

Your feng shui living room needs to be a warm, welcoming and happy place in which to entertain and for your family to gather together. Whatever style of Feng Shui decor  you choose, whether it be formal, casual, traditional or contemporary, your living room affects your friendships, family relationships and your success.

The feng shui living room is the most public part of your home, It is the liveliest room so the qi needs to flow in a lively fashion. It is a yang room so take care to add touches of yin softness such as scatter cushions, and also coolness, like leafy, green plants.

The best orientation is the one that captures the most sun. It should face towards the south (In the southern hemisphere it should be face north), For an early rising family it should have a easterly aspect and a westerly aspect for one that likes to stay up late.

If your living room doesn’t have the ideal orientation, you can adjust the feng shui by other means. Bright, cheerful colors will make it livelier. A tropical fish tank will add a restful focal point while the movement of the colorful fish will help to stimulate qi.

The shape and size of the furniture in your feng shui living room should reflect the dimensions and the shape of the room. If your pieces of furniture are too large the flow of qi will be disrupted causing you to feel uncomfortable. If you have a square shaped room, use a square, round or octagonal table. If the room is rectangular use a rectangular table.

How you place your furniture will have a huge affect on how well on how well your feng shui living room works. Where possible, place furniture against the four walls. Avoid placing chairs in a position that puts the persons back to a full-length window or door as it gives the feeling of insecurity. Chairs should be placed to encourage a free flow of movement for people and qi, as well as for conversation. Take care not to place chairs between two opposite openings. The qi generated by members of your family passing through will interfere with your conversation and you will lose concentration and probably your temper. You can put them to the side of the qi channel, encouraging a flow of qi rather than disrupting it.

Sitting face to face can be confronting so place the chairs at a slight angle. A shared table between the chairs helps to break down the barriers between people.

Don’t place chairs under exposed beams because anyone seated beneath will find it oppressive. If it is unavoidable, hang a pair of bamboo flutes or the like from the beam.

Apply these simple feng shui principles and you can ensure that you will live the tranquil, serene life in your feng shui living room.

A Feng Shui expert would take into consideration the many different elements affecting your environment. For example, they would look at how the energy or qi (chi) moves around your home.

The following would also be analyzed:

• The position of your house and its surroundings.

• The shape of the land.

• The shape of your house.

• The directions your rooms face, the location of each room and whether they are at the front, back or center.

• The shapes of your furniture and its placement.

• The décor of your home as well as the landscaping of your garden.

All these things would be looked at in terms of the balance of yin or yang and whether they are associated with the elements of earth, fire, metal, water or wood.

This may seem a bit overwhelming but you don’t have to become a feng shui expert overnight. You can take small steps. This blog introduces you to the basic concepts behind feng shui.

There are two basic formulas to choose from, the bagua or the mingua, which you can apply to your own home to balance your particular problem areas. Sometimes major changes are suggested but there are also less dramatic alternatives to pursue.

Remember, the remedies you use are likely to have different effects. Some will have more impact than others. Installing a window or skylight for example in a windowless room will have more effect than placing a mirror there. The window is a physical solution while the mirror is a “psychological” cure because it affects your perceptions and therefore your feelings about the place.

If you are thinking where to locate your feng shui house and you are lucky enough to be able to choose the land to build it then you should apply the feng shui principles when selecting your block. If you haven’t the luxury of choosing your own block don’t despair there are plenty of ways with feng shui that provides alternatives to offset anything that may not fit feng shui principles of house siting.

The ideal fenq shui site is said to be where the descending heaven qi meets the ascending earth qi. There is no hard and fast rule about the perfect site but there are some general conditions you can look for. Generally, half way up a hill facing the sun is considered a good location for your feng shui house because you will have a distance view and you will get cool summer breezes and warm winter ones.

The best feng shui house location is called the xue (shu). It incorporates an open space in the front, called the “bright hall” or ming tan, with four mythical animals or spirits around it. A spirit called the red bird provides the distant front view. Another the black tortoise is the hill at the back which provides protection. On the left is situated the azure dragon with the white tiger on the right. Ideally you should have a stream flowing across the front of the feng shui house site as water is regarded as a source of food and method of transportation. It is also believed that the heaven qi descends down the hill and is held back by the water.

All the above provides a protective armchair shape that can be applied not only to your feng shui house site, but to the feng shui of a particular room, where the chairs are placed so the backs are protected and there is an open space in front of you or your garden. At the rear of your garden can plant protective trees if there isn’t a hill. Being safe and secure is a large part of being happy.

The shape of your block of land plays an important part of the feng shui house. Symmetrical shapes are the best. An L shaped piece of land poses problems because it is incomplete and unbalanced. If this is the case you need to look at ways of balancing it.

A rectangular block of land that is wider at the northern and southern ends is considered to have the best shape for siting your feng shui house. If your block is not a true rectangle then it is better that the back be wider than the front. With feng Shui you will find there are several ways of balancing a block of land that is not an ideal feng shui shape. You should investigate the best ways for your particular block for your particular feng shui house.