Feng Shui Home Tips Room by Room (Using Feng Shui in Interior Design, Part 2)
Whether you need a more peaceful night’s sleep or seek improvements in your career, family life, love life, and overall luck, the thousands years old way of Feng Shui Home Tips (pronouned like “Fung Schway”) can actually help. This ancient Chinese practice is actually quite perfect for modern life!
Imagine how just finding the ideal Feng Shui position of furniture and other objects in your home or business can help your health, peace in your family, success in your career, happiness in your marriage, and more. These are actually called the 8 Life Aspirations sections of Feng Shui Home Tips, and include:
- Career (North)
- Fame & Reputation (South)
- Children & Creativity (West)
- Health & Family (East)
- Networking & Helpful People (Northwest)
- Knowledge (Northeast)
- Love & Partnerships (Southwest)
- Wealth (Southeast)
These 8 Life Aspirations are tied to areas of your home. For example, the west part of your home is tied to children and creativity. The Bagua (pronounced “ba-gua”) is an important tool of Feng Shui that measures energy in that space. This “compass” will identify which area of your home or office’s floor plan correlates to an area of your life.
To make improvements to an area of your life, you will need to make enhancements to its corresponding physical space. As covered in Part One of “Using Feng Shui in Interior Design,” enhancements mean you will actually seek to balance and achieve harmony in that environment in order to see improvements in that part of your life.
Since every home and business floor plan is different, we will not actually go “room by room” as our title suggests but rather “space by space.”
Feng Shui Home Tips: 1. Career (North)
The northern area of your house corresponds to your career and business, including finding employment, succeeding at your job or business, and advancement opportunities. The corresponding element in this space is water and colors are black and blue.
Therefore, to “harmonize” this space, you can add a water feature like the Alfresco Home Nawa Tabletop Water Fountain , which is black and bluish in hue.
Feng Shui Home Tips: 2. Fame & Reputation (South)
If you need to improve your public image, even get some respect, you should focus on the southern part of your home. Not only does this area correspond to how people see you, it also is powered by the element of fire and the color red.
Adding the Dimplex Encore Free Standing Electric Fireplace Heater in French Burled Oak) or for outdoor areas,
the Antique Rust Cast Iron Outdoor Fireplace is a way to enhance this spot.
As covered in Part One, symbolic applications of Feng Shui principles are what are important. Therefore, your fireplaces need not be burning 24/7 to energize that space and that part of your life.
Feng Shui Home Tips: 3. Children & Creativity (West)
Head west to improve how you relate to your kids as well gain the unlimited creativity that children seem to have. The corresponding element for this area is small metal with white being the related color.
Whether this part of your home is a bedroom, kitchen, or living room, you can enhance it with the Zodax Modern Chic White Wood Pagodas or the
Zodax Modern Chic Unscented Formal Candles White with Black Greek Key Pattern . The latter might even symbolically “spark” creativity while the Pagodas certainly are playful and childlike in nature.
Feng Shui Home Tips: 4. Health & Family (East)
The eastern part of your property is tied to you health and family. Undoubtedly, this is a crucial area whether it is your house or business. If you are experiencing poor health or you just feel a need to feel better both physically and mentally, keep in mind that the corresponding element of this space is big wood and the related color is dark green.
In an ideally designed home, a family room in this area would be harmonious. Add to it an International Concepts Porch Rocker in Hunter Green Finish
or the Howard Miller Seasons Meadow Green Display Curio Cabinet . Both not only add classic character to your space but also well-built and natural pieces that will hopefully say something about your own strength.
Feng Shui Home Tips: 5. Networking & Helpful People (Northwest)
The northwest area of your house correlates to networking, helpful people in your life, and travel. Harmony in this space might mean having the right people to help you or going on an exciting trip whether for business or pleasure.
To energize this space makes use of big metal elements and the colors metallic, white, and silver.
Whichever room this ends up corresponding to in your home or business, you will always have space for this Nextime Time Piece Radius Wall Clock
or this Nextime Track of Time Room Divider Wall Clock . The Wall Divider Wall Clock is an especially unique piece. or
this Stone Top Coffee Table and comes in a white finish.
As the say, “ I was at the right place, the right time…” Hopefully, you will also know the right people!
Feng Shui Home Tips: 6. Knowledge (Northeast)
The northeast area of your property corresponds to acquiring knowledge and wisely using it. A great way to use this space would be as a library or computer room. The element that energizes this space is small earth, and the correlating color is yellow.
Of course, a bookshelf like the earth tone Solid Oak Computer Workstation with Golden Oak finish and
Solid Oak Bookshelf Hutch , both by Haugen Office Furniture Collection are both symbolic of learning and knowledge (again, remember the importance of symbolic application).
You can also add either of these Fun Rugs Flokati Yellow Rug or Fun Rugs Yellow Fun Shags to light up some learning. or
this supple Kathy Ireland Leather Loveseat that comes in Navajo Butter Yellow to compliment most offices home office!
Feng Shui Home Tips: 7. Love & Partnerships (Southwest)
Relationships and love are tied to the southwest of your property. If the area is unbalances and lacks harmony, most likely you are also suffering from a problematic relationship or even lack romance in your life. This area is tied to big earth with the dominant color being brown.
A good way to bring in the earth element is to add plants using earth-filled vases like the Alfresco Home Castagna Vase.
You might again add a furniture piece symbolic of Love in this space like the Powell Nostalgic Oak Wood End Table in Heart Shape or
Kieninger Quarzline Hearts Wall Clock
Maybe it is time for love.
Feng Shui Home Tips: 8. Wealth (Southeast)
Finally, if you want to increase your wealth and prosperity, you will need to pay special attention to the southeast area of your home or business. The corresponding element in this space is small wood and the color is light green.
Vases like the Alfresco Home Avocado Bronze Teardrop Vase and
Alfresco Home Turchese Tall Vase with Handles and Saucer may not be made of wood but do correspond in color. Fill them up with wood chips to other wooden decorative items to represent the representative element. or
This stylish yet function Powel Sage Green Magazine Storage End Table!
The Bagua 8 Life Aspirations is considered a fast, “Do It Yourself” Feng Shui for activating good chi in your home and in your life. It is also the most widely used method worldwide.
You can start by drawing a floor plan of your home, business, or other property to identify the corresponding area of your life associated with it then following some of the Feng Shui Hone Tips above. Much like results in your life are achieved through action, you will need to devote some time in each space to see improvements not only in your environment but also in your life.
Need help with your Home Feng Shui, just ask!
Nicolette Interior Design Diva
