Planning Your Living Room With Feng Shui
Filed Under Living Room, Living Room Pictures | Posted on December 3, 2007
Planning Your Living Room
“Decorate a living room in Feng Shui style to allow free flow of healthy and positive life energy or ‘chi’ and improve the quality of our life in general…”
It is always important to note which direction or sector of your home the living room occupies. In an ideal world, the best location for the living room would be either the southwest – an earth area representing relationships – or the west, which is governed by the metal element and represents children and projects.
Again, superimpose the pa kua over the living room floor plan to identify quickly the various sectors within the room and which element supports each one. In this way you can decide where to place the brighter lights (south, east, southeast), or trinkets and mementos from clients (in the northwest). photographs of family (the west), pictures of ancestors (in the east), and photographs of partners and spouses (southwest). Your own comfy armchair should ideally go in the northeast, while the north should be kept as a quiet area.
Colors And Materials For your living Room
When it comes to decorating, focus on clarity and relaxation. Achieve clarity by avoiding ‘busy’ patterns, such as paisleys and chintzes, on carpets, wallpapers and sofa coverings. Use simple one tone colors that are neither distracting nor overstimulating, to enhance the relaxation.
The best colors for a living room include white, off-white, peach, cream, beige, lilac and soft shades of green or even blue. A throw in any of these hues can easily transform that orange polka dot sofa!Materials should have an emphasis on comfort – floorboards may be in vogue, but are rather cold and hard to sit on without at least a cozy mat or rug, while curtains, wall hangings and upholstery should be made of natural warm fibers.
Drawn To The Center
If you have large windows opposite the door of the living room, your guests’ eyes will immediately be drawn in that direction. If the view is breathtaking, stunning or unsightly, that will be their first impression. Generally, in feng shui it is advisable that you keep the center of the living room free to allow chi to circulate around the room but flowers, an unimposing coffee table or oriental rug will take the focus away from the view
Cutting Chi
Locate and deal with any sources of cutting chi to encourage a relaxing and comfortable atmosphere. Take a good look around the room and observe any sharp angles that may aim ‘poison arrows’ at the occupants.
The usual sources are edges of shelves, the mantelpiece, furniture and the edges formed by irregular corners in the room. Sit in each chair and notice if you’re in the line of any cutting chi. You can either reposition the furniture, round off the sharp edges or hide them with pot plants. Use plants that overhang bookshelves or mantelpieces to hide their edges.
Another common source of cutting chi is the sharp point on any central ceiling light fixture. This can create a feeling of disharmony and disruption within the whole space. Either change the light fitting or hang 8cm of red ribbon or a tassel from the point.
Lighting
You can easily and subtly change the chi of the living room from one of formality to informality. Switch on central, bright lights for more formal occasions, use table lamps and free standing lamps to ‘earth’ the chi of the room, and wire up dimmer switches to wall lights to change the focus of the chi once the central, overhead light is switched off. In this way you have the flexibility to light the space according to either formal dining or informal lounging occasions.
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there are LED ceiling lights available these days already, they are more expensive but does not consume too much electricity “-’