Bedroom Feng Shui

Thought I’d share a simple case study of a bedroom. This apartment faces South 190 degrees. There will be a full renovation of the ceiling and interior. Moving in expected in late February.

Period – 8

Flying Stars Combinations (Mountain-Base-Water)

S - 8-3-8

SW - 1-5-6

W - 6-1-1

NW - 5-9-2

N - 9-4-7

NE - 7-2-9

E - 2-6-5

SE - 3-7-4

C - 4-8-3

A good combination at the facing (Bedroom 2). It’s a shame that the room is the smallest of the bedrooms. The favourable aspects of this combination of stars will converge on the occupant of this room.

It was made known to the owner that he can consider “opening” this room by knocking off the walls that borders the room and corridor or replace it with clear “walls” to allow the energy to seep into the house. Sometimes owners are open to these ideas or are already thinking of it but would not say for being afraid to sound stupid. Nevertheless, the wall will remain. The door should therefore be kept open whenever it is convenient to do so. This enables energy in the room to flow into the corridor highway to other parts of the apartment.

To harness the wealth and health energy that concentrates in this room, a tinge of red at the window will be adequate. Open and “minimalist” concept should be used.

The interior designer proposed a shelf at the center of the room. It sounds weird but the designer showed how it can be a design masterclass with his visual mock up. A central shelf will cut up the energy and even manifest hostile energy. Not only will the favourable forces be wasted, but visually, space will appear to be constrained. The owner went with common sense and decided against that shelf. What a relief.

The designer also proposed another shelf at the left of the window. This effectively creates resistance to the energy that will enter from the window. It will also block off the view from the window.

Personally, I feel that it’s a waste of a good view. On a positive note, the shelf will act as a barrier from harmful energy entering from the East. To fully allow the essence of wealth and health energy at this area to thrive, it is best to allow it to enter the room as a whole. I don’t like the window shelf. The owner is undecided.

The orientation of the bed troubled me. A simple look and it will seem very obvious that the bed should be parallel to the wardrobe with the bed head against the wall pointing to the East. To me, I can only see this orientation.

The designer however wants the bed to run parallel to the wall. This to integrate the “art” of design. An orientation like that will leave the bed head with no “support” whether it points to the window or wardrobe. And with a storage bed, the sleeping height will be elevated above the window bay. Such a condition is akin to floating the occupant in the air. Man are not made to fly. If the orientation of the bed is not what I suggests, at least make a smaller storage bed to allow the occupant to sleep at a level lower than the window bay.

Bay window lights preferably should be centralized. This can be done by casting the lights towards the center of the bay. Or if for example 3 lights are used, they should not be spread out at extreme left and right. But all 3 at the center so that it looks like one as a whole at the center.

I have not applied personal 8 Mansions Feng Shui as there are certain limitations to the room. The macro feng shui also takes precedence over micro feng shui. The crucial significance of this room is that of the star combinations.

An LCD TV will mount on the wall at the West. Activating this area of the room can bring wealth and romance luck for the occupant. (Previously, the star combination I mentioned referred to the apartment as a whole) Metal energy will enhance this micro energy present. A metallic colour LCD TV will do the trick nicely.

The wardrobe that takes up the North and Northeast imprisons negative energy present in the room. I have no qualms about that.

There are beams present in the room. Since the ceilings of the whole place will be done up, the beams will disappear when the renovation is completed. The play of lights of the false ceiling can entice Yang energy to strengthen the good sectors of the room. Lights with more presence (if any) is preferably placed on the South and Southwest. If not, night lights can be used in those areas.

There is no study table.

There are many more considerations to look at just in this room alone. We haven’t even covered the Trigrams, 8 Mansions sectors, 8 characters to harmonize the occupant with feng shui, flying stars, etc.

Aren’t you glad that you can leave all that to a practitioner…