Feng Shui Home Design

What is Feng Shui Home Design?

Feng Shui Home design is arranging harmoniously the exterior and interior elements of your home and environment to shape the life force energy to manifest your intentions.

What is Feng Shui Home Design?

This article is meant to introduce you to practical examples of feng shui home design. It is such a large subject, too large to cover it all in this article. That being said if the feng shui tips, in this article are applied, it can be nothing short life transforming. Are you ready? Let’s get started!

First, it should be said that great feng shui begins with choosing the right location. It matters far more where you are than feng shui home design. For example, it won’t matter how well your home looks if you live on a flood plain; eventually your home and fortunes will be washed away!

Exterior Feng Shui Home Design

The second most impactful element is the exterior feng shui. What is in your environment around you, like rivers, hills, road and structures will determine what you need to do to harmonize the interior with the exterior and your goals.

For instance, if you live at the head of a “T” intersection you might want to install features such as a stone fence, brick fence, landscaping boulders or mounds to protect your home from traffic accidents! Keep exterior doors and windows clear; including inside and out. This means things like walls, staircases and trees.  If energy cannot flow in or out leaving your home stagnate.

Install a stone fence, brick fence, landscaping boulders or mounds to protect your home from traffic accidents!

Interior Feng Shui

To Feng Shui your home design you first need to take a compass reading to “Fly the Stars”. This is the most powerful interior feng shui technique to determine where to place or NOT place objects. This technique comes from the San Yuan School, aka Three Harmonious cycles. Placing objects or installing certain features can activate prosperity, health and create harmony or disaster. However, without this deeper knowledge there are certain feng shui home design principles that always apply.

Proper maintenance is bedrock feng shui principal. If your foundation is cracked, crawl spaces are wet, your roof leaks, you have pest problems or appliances that leak or don’t work will drain you more financially than if you address them before they are a problem.

Clear clutter. Your home is like a heart; if it is cluttered or blocked it isn’t healthy. Many peoples’ homes are cluttered with things they have outgrown or haven’t enjoyed in years. Reclaim your space. Release that which no longer serves you to make space for what does.

Get Organized. How much trouble and heartache have you suffered because you were disorganized? How much time and money have you wasted looking for what you couldn’t find and spent more money buying something you found later? There is no one way to get organized but there are basic principles. Here’s the test: can you find and use what you need in two minutes or less? Store things in or near where they are used. Do you have a shoe rack in your closet but your shoes pile up by the door? Move the shoe rack by the door.

Water Placement

Water is a common element in feng shui. Finding the right place for water placement to create wealth can be tricky. While its true that water can bring wealth it can cause destruction and instability. There is an old saying, “The same water that keeps you alive is the same water that can drown you”. There are two general rules: don’t place water in the center of your home and don’t have use water feature in more than two or three areas in your home. Water features in the center of your home can foster blood related illness and financial losses.

Poison Arrows

Poison arrows are formations or decorations that are unstable, sharp and dangerous. Poison arrows can break your concentration and hurt your health. Examples of poison arrows are overhead beams, wall corners, weapons or even cactus.

Proper bed room feng shui

The beds in both aren’t visible through a window. The bed on left has good headboard.

The bed on the left has two feng shui errors; no headboard and is underneath overhead beams.

Make sure your bed has a head board that is proportionate to your bed. Headboards create support and stability in life. Avoid sleeping under overhead beams. Overhead beams can cause health issues in the body where they cross. Make your bedroom a sacred space for rest, romance and connection between you and your partner. Keep TVs and pets out of the bedroom. They will distract, divide and isolate you in loving relationships. Position mirrors so that you cannot see yourself or partner while sleeping. Seeing yourself or partners in bed can foster infidelity and violation of trust. If this is part of your romance cover them up afterwards.

Applying feng shui home design can truly transform your house into a home and fill your life with vitality, prosperity, and rich relationships. I hope you have enjoyed this introduction to the beautiful and fascinating topic of feng shui.

If your interested in more about Feng Shui’s practical application and history check out the link below:

https://whitecranefengshui.com/current-events/what-is-feng-shui