How to Feng Shui the Bedroom - Colors and Object Placement
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Ask yourself whether you feel that your bedroom is a peaceful sanctuary, your favorite spot of retreat and a wonderful love nest or not. If the answer is no, maybe there is something wrong with your bedroom feng shui. A simple rearrangement of furniture and a little tweak in the color theme may be able to enliven your bedroom quite a bit.
Feng shui (pronounced fung-shway) literally means "wind and water." It is an ancient Chinese art of space arrangement, object placement and decoration. In feng shui practice, everything is categorized into either yin or yang. Yin conveys slowness, relaxation, passivity, coldness, gentleness and tranquility. Yang, on the other hand, stands for rapidity, excitement, vigor, heat, hardness and restlessness. The fundamental idea of feng shui is to arrange things in a way that keeps yin and yang in good balance so that the "life force or spiritual energy" called "chi" can flow through all objects in your home freely.
This notion applies to bedroom feng shui as much as the rest of your home. A good bedroom feng shui should depict a sense of comfort and safety, create a romantic atmosphere for lovers, and invigorate sleepers for a new day. According to all feng shui gurus, if you keep everything in good balance and allow chi to flow freely, longevity, contentment, success and prosperity will also come. Everything that surrounds us, so to speak, affects our life.
On a higher level, feng shui can get quite complicated. If you hire a professional feng shui consultant to help decorate your bedroom, a lot of things will be called into consideration. For example, in which direction your bedroom faces, in what year your home was constructed, your birthdate, your partner's birthdate, other buildings surrounding your home, etc. But of course, not all of us can afford to hire a feng shui consultant. So we will just have to do it ourselves! And the good news is it's not that difficult. Here you will learn some basic feng shui precepts, applicable to all types of bedroom.
Colors
In feng shui, colors are divided into two groups. Yin colors are supposed to soothe your soul and help you relax whereas yang colors tend to motivate and excite you. As a bedroom is a place for retreat, yin colors should be dominant. Having too much yang will stir up too much tension and stop you from relaxing. However, your bedroom should not completely lack the yang energy, for having too much yin can cause languidness and the lack of motivation.
Yang Colors
- Red
- Purple
- Yellow
- White
- Gold/Orange
Yin Colors
- Pink
- Green
- Blue
- Gray
- Black
Color Feng Shui for Good Health and Longevity
Green and blue are said to be the colors that can enhance our health. Feng shui practitioners believe that the color green symbolizes longevity, growth and rebirth while the color blue represents calmness, flexibility and inner peace. To paint your bedroom walls green or to use it as the theme color is like bringing nature into your room. It can revitalize those who have been ill and be the soul tonic to those who are already healthy. Similarly, decorating your bedroom with the color blue is believed to be good for relaxation and meditation. When your mind becomes more refreshed, your body will do the same.
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Red, purple and gold, according to feng shui masters, can induce good luck and prosperity. However, they are yang colors, therefore you should not use too much of these shades in your bedroom where you are supposed to rest and relax. Use them as accent colors, instead.
Black, white and gray are the colors that can improve luck in your career. Black symbolizes good income and insightfulness. White represents creativity and mental strength. And gray is said to create the sense of self-empowerment and confidence. Keep in mind that even though black is a yin color, it tends to absorb negative chi when you use too much of it to decorate your home.
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Bed Positioning: Dos and Don'ts
Dos
- Shun away from the door - Place your bed as far away from the bedroom door as possible. (See the above picture.) The ideal corner for the bed is the one diagonally opposite to the door. Most feng shui masters say that this position can help you gain a sense of relaxation and safety while resting. Also, it's the position where you can benefit most from the chi that flows through your bedroom.
- Get solid support - The head of your bed should be placed against a wall or have a solid headboard. Feng shui practioners believe that this symbolic support will give you calmness and strength to handle difficulties in life.
- Create a symbolic scope - Create a wide space in front of your bed. The bed position should allow you to have a perfect scope of vision of the whole room. A limited range of sight within the room can block the flowing chi and diminish your life's vision. The wider the space in front of your bed, the more broadly your perception of life expands and improves. Being able to see the entrance to your bedroom also symbolizes that you are in command of your own life and feel confident to face whatever life is bringing.
Don'ts
- The Death Position - Don't position your bed in line with the door. (See the above picture.) In other words, your feet should not point directly to the door while sleeping. This bed position, according to feng shui practitioners, is the "Death Position," as in Chinese culture the deceased is carried out feet first. It is a feng shui no-no. By having your bed face the door directly, you will be too exposed to excessive chi, which accordingly will bring too much energy, stress, negative influences and health problems.
- Stagnation from the foot - Avoid placing the foot of your bed against a wall. A footboard, in feng shui, is also considered "a chi blocker." It is said to cause stagnation and obstruct progress in your career.
- Overhead gadgets can create restlessness - Don't position your bed right under a ceiling fan, overhead beam, skylight or the low side of a slanted ceiling. These features, feng shui gurus claim, if placed directly above the bed will create a lot of depressing energy that can cause restlessness while you sleep.
- Don't throw the chi out the window - Avoid placing the head of your bed right under a window. Unlike a wall, a window does not provide the sense of safety and support. It can cause a fitful sleep and drain away your chi throughout the night, making you feel exhausted in the morning despite just having had a long night of sleep.
- Don't lose the chi from down under - Avoid putting the mattress on the floor. Sleeping directly on the floor, in feng shui practice, is not recommended. As I have mentioned, feng shui is all about keeping the chi flowing freely between objects in your bedroom. The gap between your mattress and the floor, therefore, will allow the chi to circulate below you.
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Object Placement
- Ward off yang energy - Do not keep your television, computer or exercise equipment in your bedroom. These things can create an overflow of yang energy, which keeps you awake and agitated at night. In feng shui practice, a bedroom is supposed to be the place for quietness, peace and intimacy. So keep away all the electronic devices that may interrupt your peacefulness. Try to shut off the stresses of the day when you step into your bedroom. If you feel like you really want to have a computer or T.V. in your bedroom, you should place a folding screen between your bed and the computer desk or T.V. stand. Hanging a beautiful fabric from the ceiling is another nice way to separate your relax space from the entertainment or work area.
- Two for two - If you want to improve your romance luck, you should put nightstands on both sides of your bed. Use them as your shrines of love. Accessorize them with things that come in a pair. For example, a pair of candles, mandarin ducks or little vases of fresh flowers. Having two or three books on your nightstands is all right, but don't overload them with piles of books or thick files you bring back from work. These things can ruin your mood for intimacy.
- Open your eyes to a sight of inspiration - Hang your favorite piece of art on the wall opposite your bed so that it will be the last thing you see before you go to sleep and the first thing you perceive after you wake up. Try to choose an art piece that inspires you or represents your goal in terms of success, love life or spirituality.
- Avoid reflections of problems - Don't place a mirror near or opposite the bed. It is believed to reflect all your concerns and worries, bounce around too much energy and accordingly keep you awake at night. Some feng shui masters even say that positioning a mirror opposite your bed will invite an unwanted third party into your relationship. If you don't want to remove a mirror from your bedroom, try to cover it with a light fabric when it is not used.
- Green corner - From a feng shui perspective, plants are associated with growth, progess and rebirth. Placing a little plant in a corner of your bedroom, therefore, is believed to prevent the chi from stagnation.
- Space under the bed - Don't store anything under your bed because that will block the flow of chi. You should always keep it clear and clean. Your life can get pretty messy if under you bed, there is another bed of dust balls.
- Erase bad memories - Fung shui practitioners believe that every object obsorbs positive and negative energy from our past. Therefore you should get rid of things that are associated with bad memories or at least do not keep them in your bedroom, the place where you are supposed to leave all your worries behind. When it comes to a mattress, every feng shui guru will tell you the same thing: you should never buy a used one. You would never know to whom it belonged or whether somebody died in it. In fact, you should buy a new mattress every few years and give it a few good hours of sunshine every few months.
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Comments
Thanks for dropping by, SweetiePie :)
Interesting ! Looks like I need to change a few things !
Hi desert blondie! Thanks a lot for commenting and good luck with your little feng shui project:-)
Very nice hub. One question though: where is the best place to hang the midgets cage? Should he face east or west?
Hmm...it depends.....
What is the midget's date of birth?
I loved this. I live in a bedroom in my parents house while i'm saving up to buy my own place, and space is a challenge for me. These kinds of tips are very helpful for me to get things right, and to get good ideas for what I can do with my own space.
I'm glad you found my hub helpful. If you have any questions about feng shui, feel free to ask me. I'm not really a feng shui expert, but I do know a lot about feng shui. :)
This is a GREAT hub! I've been trying to get better at the art of feng shui and this has certainly helped put me in the right direction. Thank you for such an informative piece!
Jenn, thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you found my hub useful!
Very good info, as I'm trying to think of how to redecorate my tiny bedroom. I love the color green, which is what I was planning to paint...But, I have a question, what is your opinion about putting the bed diagonally in the corner opposite the door?? Is it ok as long as there is a headboard??
Pam, as long as the foot of your bed does not point directly to the door, it is ok. And since you will position your bed diagonally in the corner, the head of your bed will not be directly against the wall and therefore you will need a headboard in order to create the symbolic support.
Thanks for dropping by. If you have more questions, please feel free to ask :-)
Hello, my bedroom awaits you.
HAHA!
Sorry, where are you located?
I'm in Sacramento. why?
Also Bed position according to Vastu (Indian belief) can be considered.
Hi dear it seema that u belong to india. Anyways, very intersting hub. I have raed many articles of your all are very intersting. Good Keep it up Dear........
Hi, countrywomen! Thanks for commenting. I had never heard of Vastu before, though it actually sounds very interesting. Maybe you should write a hub about it so i can learn from u :)
Tring-sandra, I seem to belong to India? LOL i'm actually Thai ;) Anyway, thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Hi just found this hub. Thanks for the great advice. One question -my bedroom is on the upper floor of an older house (100) and the walls follow the roofline so two walls are slanted above the four foot mark. The only place to put a bed is against one of those walls. The doorway falls on the side of the bed near the foot area so it faces across which is not too bad. The headboard faces North which I understand is good. My concern is that from just above the headboard the roof slants up which I think think would mean that energy could flow down the roof line onto the bed? Is there any remedy for that? I did have a dream catcher hanging on the ceiling above the bed where the slant began would that be a good thing or not? I am not a good sleeper so am looking for any help I can get. Thanks
Irishwoman, thanks for visiting my hub. A slanted ceiling can create too much chi and make you have a restless sleep. Try hanging a bamboo flute above your headboard. It is supposed to create peace and restfulness. :)
Great tips. I believe in Feng Shui but too lazy to remember complicated rules. One time I actually followed a TV program and moved my bed to a different spot of my bedroom then my husband got a terrible nightmare the night. I then switched the sleeping place with his and I got a nightmare next night, too. It is a big deal and need to be very careful if you are moving your bed to a different spot of the room. I guess the general foamular of Feng Shui somehow doesn't exactly work for everyone due to "people" are one of the factor that affects the result.
yxhuang, thanks for stopping by :) These tips are just basic ideas of how to keep things in good balance and let chi flow freely. But you're right that if we want to dig deeper into the art of feng shui, a number of other factors including the home dwellers themselves will also have to be called into consideration.
Hi. Our marital bed 's footboard is agains the wall that has a window(with window blinds), and the headboard is not against the wall. Also the bed is accessible to one side only. And 2 meters from the headboard there is a big vintage mirror hanging on the wall. I know it's bad feng shui. But it is so impossible to rearrange the bed. If I do rearrange it, then the head board would be against the wall which divides the bedroom and the bathroom. Do you have any suggestions on what fengshui cures I could make? Thanks
Hi pinay rn, if your bed has a headboard, it doesn't need to be against a wall. And it's also ok to have your bed's footboard beneath a window. However, is it possible to move your bed slightly so it will be accessible from both sides? Also, I suggest that you remove the mirror from the bedroom. :)
Hi. I don't think it is possible to move the bed, not even slightly, to make it accessible to both sides...Is there any thing ( a charm ) to treat or cure that? With regards to the mirror, I am considering your suggestion to remove the mirror...But I have read in one site that a a mirror in the bedroom should be covered with fabric at night so it will not cause any negative effect on us. What is your opinion about that? Thanks again.
pinay rn, a bed that is accessible from only one side is not an ideal, but it's not such bad feng shui, either. So you don't have to worry about the bed too much. And yes, covering the mirror with a fabric can help. But besides reflecting too much yang energy, a mirror is also believed to be an unlucky object for a marriage, so it shouldn't face or be close to a marital bed at all.
Thanks for your advice. I will now secure a fabric to cover the mirror at night. Thanks :)
It seems I have no choise but to have my bed under a window. Can you recommend a feng shui cure that will keep the chi?
Dan, thanks for visiting my hub. A feng shui remedy for that is to hang thick, heavy curtains over the window and keep the curtains closed when you're sleeping. Having a big, solid headboard also helps. :)
hi. most of the rules in here are already in my room jus purely because my room can only fit things in one way. as for dividing the room for soem things- i got a teeny teeny box room and to divide it would make moving in it impossible- i need a tv in there... and the thing that is somewhere bout l-shaped rooms... the floor is an l and the ceiling a square (the box was cut halfway down to make more room) what do you make of that?
good to know i can solve my bed-by-window problem...
Hi, Katherine, thanks for visiting my hub. I would love to answer your question but can you clarify what you meant by "the box was cut halfway down?" Sorry...
HI!!! My question is...I have a tree 5feet from the entrance of my home, then you walk in to the stairs that let up to my home. What can I do to cure this problem? Thank you so much
Hi lvpinoyboy, a tree near the entrance is not necessarily considered bad feng shui. But if the branches of the tree point to the entrance like "shars" or poison arrows, then that's a bad feng shui. You may hang a bagua mirror somewhere near the entrance to reflect the shars and bad fortune back :)
Thank you sooo much for the tips!! I have another question if I may. I'm not sure I fully understand the whole Element circle when it comes to decorating. I understand the philosophy of it but am afraid that when I decorate I will be setting up a bad cycle. How do I know if there is too much of one thing or does it matter what part of the room I put each element? For instance, My livingroom consist of a lot of Water, Metal, and Wood. Is this bad?
lvpinoyboy, the idea is to keep everything in good balance. It also depends how you want to use the room. For example, the bedroom should have more yin elements than yang because you want it to be the place where you can rest and relax. The study room or home office, on the other hand, should have a lot of yang elements to energize you. :)
Thank you soooo much!!!
Hi, Im newly married and have moved to my husband's house 5 months ago. From the day one Im not getting good sleep in this house. I suspected about mental stress and i tried my best to keep my mind relaxed. Its been months since I had a deep sleep. Wihout which Im unable to be active at work, not able to concentrate and my life, career, relationships are getting impacted. Even after 5 or 6 hours after going to bed, i wont be asleep. I will be always be alert. I get frustrated and helpless. My husband thinks it could be because of the Vastu problem. Could any of you give me some Fengshui tips to induce good sleep if its because of vastu problem. Hoping to get a resolution soon. Thanks.
bhagya27bk, can you give me a bit more info about your bedroom such as its color or bed position, etc...? It's hard for me to give you advice if I don't even know what your bedroom looks like. So far it sounds like you might have too much yang energy in your bedroom.
hi...i gona movie house soon...can i have some tips about gud feng sui for bedroom, do i need to see the direction earth,south or west for placing my bed n my sleeping position? and it is ok if my leg be facing toilet door?
Hi SammieJordan, thanks for stopping by. The foot of your bed shouldn't point to the bathroom door. If possible, you should also put a screen or room divider between the bed and the bathroom. You don't really need to check the direction. Just use the tips I mentioned above and your bedroom will have a pretty feng shui :-)
OMG my bed is opposite my door and if i have my head against the wall my feet will be facing the door and if i have my feet against the wall my head will be opposite the door! I am in the Death Position and I can't move my bedroom around at the moment because we are having our house redone! What do I do?!
Try putting a room divider between the bed and the door. Having the head of your bed pointing towards the door is actually not bad if your bed has a solid headboard. :)
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SweetiePie says:
12 months ago
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