Sunday, March 2, 2008

How would one organize their bedroom in a feng shui like fashion?

Pretty hard to incorporate all the "feng shui" experts opinion / suggestions if you did not start out building your home or rooms in the feng shui set-up. As to start out, the bedroom should be at the back of the house... away from all the main active rooms. Also, a bedroom above a garage is totally out. Ideally, it will not be immediately opposite, above or below the toilet, kitchen, next to living room or children's playroom.
1. The bed should be the biggest piece in the room (here, I think they are encouraging you to go out and spend funds on a big bed). 1b. This bed should be off all natural, yet warm, materials (wooden frame, natural mattress, cotton sheets, blankets, etc. Very little synthetic around).
1c. Nothing on the wall over the head board.
1d. On bed placement, apparently, to avoid the disruptive high energy streaming through windows: Head of bed should not be placed at window. Ideally, the window should be lined up with the bedroom door so that the high energy passes through the room. If the window directly faces a wall... a mirror on the opposite wall will work to send the high energy back through the window. Likewise, same with mirror if door faces a wall.
1e. Bed should not be placed between window and door as it will be right in the center of all this high energy swirling between window and door.
1f. Do not use the space below bed for storage.
1g. Avoid mirrors facing the bed.
2. Decor color scheme and objects should be inline with your birthyear elements. That is, the colors of walls, window treatments, lighting and other décor elements should work well together and certainly work for you personally. The experts recommend that the aforementioned be in line with your birthdate elements: "In feng shui, the best colors are determined based on the occupants' birth data and the interaction of five elements. For example, if you are a Metal element person, best colors for you will be either Earth (Browns, Earthy, Light Yellows) or Metal colors (White, Gray.) You will need to avoid Fire colors (Red, Orange, Strong Yellow and Purple), as Fire Melts the Metal."
Lighting: should be mellow (preferably lightly scented candles). Personally, a 60 watt bulb works fine, after all, I don't sleep with the light on.
Other elements. Choose some sensual, romantic or relaxing art for your bedroom. I bummed out on the art as cluttered walls don't work for me.
Above is the basic... then you can take into consideration a small plant that adds more complication on the right place / corner of the room to place the plant.


fengshui is more than arranging the furnitures inside the house. i think it is more like the arrangement of rooms inside the house. this is because of the flying stars method or xuan kong fei xing, if you will refer to the wiki article. in flying stars, whenever your main front door faces a particular degree (in the 360 degrees), the distribution of good areas and bad areas in your house shifts. you cannot sense this being good or being bad, even if you are a psychic. you can only know them by using the fengshui technique/s. so now, you put the bedroom, living rooms at the good areas, while leave the garage, toilets, hallways at the bad areas.
another way of applying this method is... when you are adjusting your built house to have a good fengshui, you try to tilt your front door, and do the calculations to shift the good areas towards the rooms where you live more.
i know that this method is more difficult, but this is the real chinese fengshui.
as opposed to what most writers write about superimposing a 12 section bagua over your house. just imagine if you use this method, you end up a house without a bathroom, because where ever you put it you affect that aspect of your life. but fengshui is not like this.
most techniques/ methods of fengshui are listed under the combining technques in the wikipedia article.

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