9 Things to Avoid if You Want Good Feng Shui in Your Home!
When it comes to designing your home, there seems to be an infinite number of choices and decisions that you could make. Should you paint the kitchen walls neon pink? Should you get the bigger TV or those fancy bookshelves?
Is it too bold to use the biggest room in the house for studying? Is a guitar-shaped swimming pool a feasible option? This kind of question never stops, and of course, among all the things you need to consider, there’s also feng shui! In the end, not only do we want to design our home in a manner that represents our style, but we also want to feel good in it.
And when it comes to good feng shui, you need to follow the rules, no matter what. Here’s what interior designers and feng shui followers would never do in their own homes!
The doors of perception
Doors have their own important significance, and that’s because they lead from one place to another. The thing is, if your front door has bad feng shui, you might be on a highway to hell.
Your front door brings specific importance and energy into your home because it is where you get your daily dose of chi, also known as universal energy.
If your door faces the wrong direction or is painted the wrong color, then the quality of that energy might have to suffer. As you can discover in “Feng Shui Nexus”, feng shui practitioner Victor Cheung’s book, if your door is not proportionate to your home, it might have a negative influence on your health and career. As it turns out, the bigger the house, the bigger the door, and the other way around.
In the meantime, the color should also depend on the direction it faces, because getting too far into details might bring you more trouble than it’s worth.
The hallways are always
While we love a long and narrow corridor in horror movies like The Shining, we wouldn’t recommend them in real life. In fact, it’s fun to question why we’re always dealing with narrow corridors in horror movies.
As it turns out, they are magnets for the worst combination of chi types that bring disharmony and could make you feel off unless you actually do something to counteract them.
Feng shui is quite simple when it comes to narrow hallways: if you add some vibrant artwork carefully arranged along the walls, you will bring positive energy. A gloomy hallway is up to no good, so it might benefit from some strategically placed lights, too.
Odds and ends
Isn’t clutter the most annoying thing? You definitely can’t live with it, but you can’t get a decent price for it either. The only thing that’s left is to store it under the bed, in the closet, in the garage, in the attic, in the basement, and wherever you get the chance.
Somehow, all the clutter serves one purpose and one purpose only: to bring bad feng shui! As it turns out, clutter stops your personal, professional, and spiritual growth.
According to feng shui experts, we need to be repotted if we want to keep growing. When you’re overwhelmed by a lot of stuff, you outgrow the pot you’re in, and your relationships start to suffer from it; business opportunities dry up; and your health and vitality go down the drain! More than that, your finances become tighter, too!
Keep the lid on it!
Stop leaving the toilet seat up! It’s not only unhygienic, but it’s also bad feng shui, and it can leave you feeling drained in every possible sense. Toilets are the biggest pipe in the home, and they can suck all the vital chi energy out of you.
Moreover, it seems that bathrooms are a potential minefield for good feng shui because that’s where all the tubs, sinks, and showers are. Drains have the potential to strip the good feng shui from your house, so close your bathroom door after every use!
You might be surprised to find out that the most dramatic imbalances always involve toilets and drains.
Mirrors
Besides Count Dracula, we all love a good mirror. However, did you know that where you decide to place your mirror might have everything to do with the positive or negative energy in your home’s feng shui?
Hanging a mirror should reflect an intention, like bringing more opportunities for yourself. Dining rooms are seen as the ideal rooms for mirrors because they show great potential to retain wealth.
Also, kitchens are off-limits for mirrors. One facing a stove is a fire-proof way to store up all that negative energy. But if you have a beautiful view from your home, it should reflect it.
Back to front
What goes up must also come down. If you have a straight path from your front door to the back door, then all that energy within your home is rapidly leaving via the rear entry before it even gets the chance to blossom within those walls.
If you didn’t know already, chi energy behaves just like water, and it flows faster than any cheetah. That’s why you need the feng shui to properly circulate and linger for a little while before it waves your home goodbye.
Naturally, a complete remodeling of your home’s layout might be extreme, but there are a couple of tricks you could use to prevent a damaging full-scale feng shui energy leak.
Beams can be mean.
You probably didn’t know this, but exposed wooden beams could give your home a cultured and interesting look, but they will also cut up the energy of space faster than a sharp knife through hot butter.
As feng shui experts call this effect, it’s “cutting chi”. They are particularly problematic if you spend too much time beneath them, especially when you’re watching TV, working remotely, or fly-catching.
It’s a well-known feng shui principle that daily, prolonged exposure to exposed beams could cause health problems in that part of your body that’s linked with cutting chi. Low beams could also lead to feelings of frustration, hopelessness, and powerlessness.
Stairway to misery
A front door that opens right onto a staircase is up to no good. The energy coming down the stairs will push all the good energy that would naturally enter your home via the one and only “Mouth for Chi”, or the front door.
If your ground floor is starved of good feng shui energy, it will become a wasteland, leading to financial issues and other assorted woes. Naturally, if you have a big foyer and the staircase is removed from the door, it won’t be an issue.
In these cases, the incoming energy has enough time to settle and spread its wings to other areas of the house.
A room with a view
Everyone loves a room with a view, and there’s truly nothing like watching the sun rise and set as you are looking for cloud shapes in the sky.
However, never put your bed under the window. A bed beneath the window would mean that you’re sleeping right in the middle of the Chi energy flow that enters and leaves your home.
So if you put yourself right in the path of that incredible flow, you will both be spiritually and mentally tossed around.
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