Feng Shui at Home: Get Started with these Expert Tips

Feng Shui at Home: Get Started with these Expert Tips

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese philosophy that improves your home’s layout, while also promoting wellbeing and attracting prosperity. By arranging your spaces and objects in a particular way, you can affect the flow of positive energy, chi, in your home. With Feng Shui, you can also achieve a balance of yin and yang energy. Yin is feminine, soft, and dark, while yang is masculine, hard, and bright.

Let’s have a look at some expert tips for how to incorporate Feng Shui at home.

A clutter free space

When incorporating Feng Shui in your home, think about storage so that you can easily keep your space tidy. Likewise, try to minimize and declutter your belongings as this makes it much easier to keep your space clutter free and calm. You can of course have stuff but don’t let things sit around unused, gathering dust as this indicates a problem with the chi. In Feng Shui, it’s also very important to be able to open your front door fully to prevent energy from stagnating. For this reason, ensure that the space behind this door is clear.

The right plants for Feng Shui

Plants are an important part of Feng Shui. Opt for tall, upright plants with large, smooth, round leaves or palm leaves. Avoid anything with very sharp leaves. The right kind of plants bring natural energy into your home. Additionally, they are excellent for helping to keep the air in your space clean. For the best Feng Shui, place the plants in pots that are raised up off the floor, rather than directly on the floor. This is because raising them up helps increase the uplifting properties of the plants.

Feng Shui Furniture Choices & Arrangements

Both the choice of furniture and their arrangement are essential parts of Feng Shui philosophy. For example, your living room sofa is best placed where there’s a solid wall behind it and never under a window. Likewise, choose to place the desk in your home office where there’s a solid wall behind you to create a feeling of relaxation and being in control. Ideally, you should also be able to see the door from your workspace.

When it comes to furniture, choose pieces with curved, rounded edges. Avoid furniture with sharp corners when you are trying to create a space according to Feng Shui beliefs. Rounded furniture allows positive energy to circulate smoothly around the room and comes with other benefits too. For example, an oval or round table is more social than a rectangular one. This is because it’s easier to see everyone sat around the table.   

Mirrors have an important part of Feng Shui. They are more than just decoration as they enhance the flow of positive energy. Because of this, their placement is of utmost importance. Place your mirrors strategically to enhance the energy in each room. Always avoid placing mirrors opposite windows and external doors, and also above fireplaces. Use mirrors around your home to reflect beautiful spaces in your home. Specific places that are great to hang mirrors according to Feng Shui include on a dining room wall, behind your desk, and in your hallway. Just remember to not hand it opposite the front door.

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