Atypical Decor: 4 Tips for Designing a Feng Shui House

Feng shui lies on a bedrock of simplicity, but beginner practitioners often find it simultaneously complicated.

You do not need to be a feng shui guru to start applying the essential principles to your home.

We’ll explain how to use this ancient method to elicit peace and harmony in your home – even if you only heard of it for the first time today.

All you need to get started are these four tips for a feng shui house.

Four Simple Steps to a Feng Shui House

Learn the basic principles of feng shui as you go by starting your journey with these four steps for a feng shui home.

Need a quick refresher on what feng shui is? Try this article.

1. Focus on Areas of Need

To create good feng shui, you’ll eventually need to view your whole house as one. For now, this of it in a different way: look for areas that exude negative energy and tackle those first.

Your house is a system, and it’s energy sways according to changes even in the smallest, darkest corner of your home. Start with the areas with strong intent to eliminate the most significant barriers to harmony before worrying about those hidden pockets.

2. Keep It Simple with the Five Feng Shui Elements

The five feng shui elements are:

• Wood
• Fire
• Earth
• metal
• Water

Each element expresses itself with a unique energy quality. The elements go much further than this and relate to colors, body organs, flavors, planets, sounds, and directions. They also interact with each other to change their energy.

But don’t worry about the complexities for now. Begin by incorporating each element into the correct part of your house room-by-room.

3. Allow Your Chi to Flow

Your feng shui goal is to not only allow but encourage the chi to flow as it pleases through each area of your home. The flow carries good energy to you and the bad away.

Think of energy like water. If a river flowed into your home right now, where would it go? Would the river refresh your home? What would impede it?

One of the simplest ways to allow your chi to flow is to avoid straight lines in your home. Does your furniture point in a single direction? Straight lines create harsh energy. Think of the same river: would the water run in a natural straight line or would it ebb and flow gently?

Curved lines allow natural flow and warmth, so start by removing the straight direct passages created by your furniture.

4. Declutter

Clutter clearing helps you identify the bare bones of your space and see what’s truly important in the room. By removing clutter, you’ll narrow your focus and making room design simpler.

Clutter also impedes the flow of chi and creates negative energy.

Keep Feng Shui Simple

You have plenty of time to create the ultimate feng shui house. But complex cures and interactions aren’t required to get started. Feng shui doesn’t demand the world: you only need to try.

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