Post by Kyle St. Romain. 

Feng Shui design principles are used to help create a balanced, happy, living space. Surprise! The bedroom is one of the best rooms to apply Feng Shui to. After a closer look, you may find that the way your room is currently arranged is creating negative energy and impeding your sleep. Fortunately, the way your bedroom is arranged is often an easy fix.

To get started, you’ll need to “map” the energy of your bedroom using a nine-section diagram called a Pakua, Bagua, or Lo Shu Square. While there are slight technical variations, each diagram uses the same underlying principles. Below is an example of a map you can use to understand the energies of your room.

As far as colors go, pink is generally considered to be one of the best colors for the bedroom, because we often associate pink with relationships. Pink brings out feelings of joy, love, happiness, and romance. It is also associated with good health and life.

Light blues and light greens (think pastel, sea green or sea blue) are also good colors for the bedroom. Green represents good luck, youth, vigor and renewal, whereas blue brings forth feelings of tranquility, life, purity, and stability. Dark colors are better used in other rooms of the home as they can make the bedroom feel heavy. Ultimately, the color you chose for your bedroom should reflect your personality and taste.

Another important cornerstone of bedroom Feng Shui is how to orient the bed. While there are complicated calculations Feng Shui veterans use to determine the best way to position your bed, design the overall room, and chose furniture accessories, the below list should serve as a useful guide to get you started.

• Position the headboard against a solid wall, that isn’t shared with the bathroom. Avoid putting your bed against a window or in the center of the room.


• You should have matching nightstands on either side of the bed. Pair up smaller accessories as well: two pictures, two lamps, etc.


• Do not place your bed underneath an overhead beam or other sharp object.


• The bed should not be in the direct line of sight from the doorway. If you cannot avoid putting your bed in the direct path of a doorway, be sure to keep the door closed at all times.


• Determine what is above and below your bed: avoid putting your bed on a floor of the house below a bathroom or above a stove.

Bringing Feng Shui into your bedroom can be as simple or complicated as you make it. However, even simple Feng Shui principles can greatly enhance your bedroom’s positive energy, which translates into a better night’s sleep.

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Post by Murrye B: Applied to interior design, Feng Shui principles often seem common sense. Literally translated, Feng Shui means “wind-water” in English. It can serve as a guide for how you organize your home’s interior, particularly the bedroom. Promote positive energy by de-cluttering the space, carefully positioning your bed, and choosing a soothing and sensual color palette.

Reduce Distractions
Many of us like to watch TV from the bed, but it actually interferes with the activities that the space is intended for—rest and romance. If you can’t part with your TV, then place it in a cabinet such as an armoire that allows you to close the doors when you are not watching. Clear out clutter in the closet and on your bookshelves. A compromise is to place a folding screen in order to block your view of these areas from the bed.

Feng Shui Bed Placement
Symmetry is an important aspect of Feng Shui. Don’t align the bed with the door; instead locate the headboard against a solid wall. A headboard also helps to anchor and stabilize the bed. Also, you should not place your bed against a wall length-wise; it must remain easily accessible from both sides. To further maintain balance, add night-stands on each side of the bed.

Soothing Color Palette
Feng Shui experts recommend decorating your bedroom with skin tones, such as peach, cream, and chocolate. You can also go with soothing cool colors evocative of nature, like blue and green. Add a splash of a bright shade like coral or red, which are considered to be ‘passion colors.’

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Feng shui is an ancient Chinese spiritual practice that ties the beauty and design of one’s surroundings to one’s inner peace, if I may crystallize thousands of years of architecture, design, and philosophy into one half of a sentence. You can apply simple principals of feng shui to your own living space to make it a more tranquil and pleasant experience. It’s about feeling at ease where you lay your head, clearing the clutter out of your daily life.

Soothing colors are important. Harsh or clashing color schemes that aren’t pleasing to the eye lead to bad vibes. Likewise, a propensity for electronics, work desks, and things of that nature in your living space attracts the wrong kind of attention as well. Bed location is important. Your bed easily and comfortably accessible from both sides. Anything that leads to stress and discomfort should be banished from your bedroom. Take a look around your bedroom. Move things around a bit. Experiment. You’ll feel better in no time.

Here, this might help, and try not to fall asleep until you put the crystal up in your own room.

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