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designed-for-life: Feng Shui No No’s Bed squashed in a corner A...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:13:17 -0500

Feng Shui No No’s

Bed squashed in a corner
A bed squashed in a corner unnecessarily creates a lopsided room. Lopsided rooms affect or prevent relationships symbolically. Also, a lopsided room suggests only one side of your brain will be stimulated. That is definitely not what we want in any room, especially not a room where you body restores itself!

Chandeliers over beds
Chandeliers over beds create a “poison arrow” like a skewer poking through you while you sleep. If you can centrally hang a chandelier in a non-intrustive, non-over-the-bed place in a bedroom, go for it.

Primary colours on the walls
Super red,orange or other primary colors on the walls are generally too caustic and loud for a bedroom, as they are too YANG (loud) in a YIN (quiet) room. Splashes of fire colors and patterns are fine, but go too crazy and so will your sleep and feeling of peace.

Black walls and floors
Black or near-black walls and floors in abundance create an overall morbidity. Severe pointy furniture like the night table edges above in the dark bedroom photo create “poison arrows” like those lovely chandeliers do directly over beds. Any pointy upbeats or corners that point toward where people will be spending time should be avoided.

Avoid ceiling fans
Avoid ceiling fans overhead in the bedroom, especially over the bed. The severe “chopping” and slicing” of energy overhead- no matter how hot it may be in your bedroom - is just plain bad news.

Sleeping under ceiling beams
Don’t situate your bed directly under ceiling beams. If removing them is not an option, hang auspicious items such as a faceted crystal above you. This will ‘soften’ the negative Qi and make it safe for you, or a trick like a canopy can help reduce the weird “room slicing” that the beams manage to do visually and energetically.

Under bed storage
Try not to use the space under your bed to store things, especially old junk. Sleeping atop “stuff” doesn’t let energy flow. I have never heard of a person feeling better with stuff under their bed as storage. I have, however, heard of miraculous better rest and clearer minds when people have cleared out the storage under their beds.

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myidealhome: simple beauty (via Fantastic Frank)

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myidealhome:

simple beauty (via Fantastic Frank)

designed-for-life: Feng Shui No No’s Bed squashed in a corner A...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:50:43 -0500

designed-for-life:

Feng Shui No No’s

Bed squashed in a corner
A bed squashed in a corner unnecessarily creates a lopsided room. Lopsided rooms affect or prevent relationships symbolically. Also, a lopsided room suggests only one side of your brain will be stimulated. That is definitely not what we want in any room, especially not a room where you body restores itself!

Chandeliers over beds
Chandeliers over beds create a “poison arrow” like a skewer poking through you while you sleep. If you can centrally hang a chandelier in a non-intrustive, non-over-the-bed place in a bedroom, go for it.

Primary colours on the walls
Super red,orange or other primary colors on the walls are generally too caustic and loud for a bedroom, as they are too YANG (loud) in a YIN (quiet) room. Splashes of fire colors and patterns are fine, but go too crazy and so will your sleep and feeling of peace.

Black walls and floors
Black or near-black walls and floors in abundance create an overall morbidity. Severe pointy furniture like the night table edges above in the dark bedroom photo create “poison arrows” like those lovely chandeliers do directly over beds. Any pointy upbeats or corners that point toward where people will be spending time should be avoided.

Avoid ceiling fans
Avoid ceiling fans overhead in the bedroom, especially over the bed. The severe “chopping” and slicing” of energy overhead- no matter how hot it may be in your bedroom - is just plain bad news.

Sleeping under ceiling beams
Don’t situate your bed directly under ceiling beams. If removing them is not an option, hang auspicious items such as a faceted crystal above you. This will ‘soften’ the negative Qi and make it safe for you, or a trick like a canopy can help reduce the weird “room slicing” that the beams manage to do visually and energetically.

Under bed storage
Try not to use the space under your bed to store things, especially old junk. Sleeping atop “stuff” doesn’t let energy flow. I have never heard of a person feeling better with stuff under their bed as storage. I have, however, heard of miraculous better rest and clearer minds when people have cleared out the storage under their beds.

designed-for-life: Having your study in the north area of your...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:26:51 -0500

designed-for-life:

Having your study in the north area of your home, covering the career, the south, covering fame and self esteem or the south east representing wealth will help to ensure that if you use your study for business purposes you will be recognised and well rewarded for the work that you do. Placing your study in the north east area, representing knowledge, will be especially auspicious if you use the room for learning and self development. If you or members of your family are studying for qualifications a desk in the north east of the home or the north east of any room should help you retain the knowledge you need to do well at exams. If your study is in the north west area which covers helpful friends this can be very auspicious if you are self employed as it can ensure that your business network and friends will provide you with any support you need to keep your business prospering.

So what happens if your study is not placed in one of these areas? Well nothing particularly bad if you are aware of the potential problems that this may cause and take positive steps to minimise them. The worst areas to place your study are in the relationship and family areas as this may mean your work impacts negatively on the relationships with your family or significant other. If one of these areas is the most practical place for your study and cannot be avoided it is important that you decorate your study in the colours representing family or relationships (either green, cream or pale pink) and place photographs of your loved ones around the room to remind you why you are working.

The desk in the study should be free of clutter, and certainly when you finish working for the day, books, files and papers that you have been using and working on should be put away. Leaving these on the desk can have the impact of cluttering your mind, preventing you from focusing on long term goals and plans as your mind is filled with day by day short term objectives.

http://www.fengshuiweekly.com/category/feng-shui-design

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