Seven Great Feng Shui Design Ideas

Try out these feng shui design ideas to get your house in perfect order! 

Looking for design ideas to improve the flow of chi throughout your home? You're not alone: the web is full of places to learn about feng shui and get fantastic design ideas. If you're intrigued by the concept of feng shui, these are great places to start looking for new design ideas. So without further ado, here are the seven best places to find great feng shui information online!

1. Feng Shui Decorating Online

Okay, shameless plug: this is the site for my book, "Feng Shui Secrets for a Fulfilled Life." But you can also get loads of free feng shui information, and the tips the book contains are the best I know!

2. Feng Shui Art

A great place to start browsing inexpensive basic feng shui products and design ideas. If you're wondering what sort of artwork could perk up your home's chi, this is the place to look.

3. Jade Market

Jade Market has excellent feng shui design ideas for all budgets. But if you're not looking to buy, you can still get some great feng shui information by browsing the different categories.

4. The Spiritual Feng Shui

This site offers fantastic feng shui design ideas, great practical advice, and a wealth of information on the various practices of feng shui.

5. Feng Shui Products-Decorating-Tips

Lots of great information on this site on topics ranging from good luck charms to artwork and other decorating styles.

6. Home and Garden TV

Home and Garden TV has an extensive section dedicated to feng shui design ideas, tips, information, and many other great tidbits. You'll enjoy browsing this site for sure!

7. Ezine Articles

Ezine Articles is a great source of information on just about any topic, and feng shui design ideas are no exception. Visit this site and do a quick search for whatever you're looking for -- you'll be amazed at the wealth of information you find!

So there you have it: the seven best places on the web for learning about feng shui, getting design ideas, and expanding your virtual horizons!



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Feng Shui for Bedroom Happiness

Use feng shui for bedroom comfort, romance, and relaxation!

When people ask about feng shui for bedroom and bed, they usually have one of two things in mind: relaxation and romance. And with good reason: these are the two things you should be saving your bedroom for!

This isn’t just a feng shui idea. Most sleep experts recommend keeping your bedroom sacred to rest and romance. In fact, some theorize that many sleep disorders originate from trying to do too much in your bedroom (acknowledging, perhaps, that a busy energy isn’t conducive to a restful one -- science catching up with feng shui at last?).

Feng Shui for Bedroom Rest

In this area, feng shui for bedroom comfort coincides with a lot of advice from scientists and sleep experts -- so even feng skeptics can enjoy these tactics without worrying about looking strange to their family and friends (hint, hint: it’s a great place to start a wishy-washy friend or family member along the path to feng shui!).

Follow these tips and enjoy a more restful, relaxing bedroom:

• Never work in your bedroom: no laptop in bed, studying on the floor, or desks in the corner. In those situations where it’s completely unavoidable, create a physical barrier (such as a folding screen) between your workspace and your rest space.

• Don’t use your bedroom for exercising -- it creates too active an energy.

• Don’t watch TV in bed. In fact, don’t even have a TV in the bedroom: the electromagnetic energy isn’t conducive to sleep.

• Avoid having mirrors in the bedroom as these can reflect sha chi back at you in your sleep.
  

• Position your bed so that you can see the door but your feet aren’t aiming straight at it.
  

These simple tips will help you create feng shui for bedroom relaxation. But what about...

Feng Shui for Bedroom Romance

Obviously, we mainly use our bedrooms for sleeping. But bedrooms also tend to be the romantic center of any couple’s relationship, so it’s worth keeping a strong romantic energy in the room, too. Even single people will benefit from emphasizing romance in their bedrooms, especially if they’re “looking” -- it can help create a receptive energy.

Follow these tips to emphasize romance:

• Keep the love and marriage sector of your bedroom clean, free of clutter, and full of pink, red, candles, rose quartz, pairs of items -- anything that evokes love.
  

• Treat both sides of the bed with equal respect and make sure one partner doesn’t dominate the room.

• If single, make sure there is physical space in the room for a prospective partner -- ie, space in the closet, the night stand, etc.
  

• Keep one or two romantic keepsakes (NOT from ex-lovers) in the room to help establish the mood.
  

By following this advice, you’ll keep your bedroom sacred to love and rest, enabling you to get more out of both. Remember, feng shui for bedroom life follows the same principle as all feng shui: emphasize the positive chi!

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Creating a Feng House

There's more to creating a feng house than just observing the basic principles of feng shui!

Creating a feng house isn't difficult, but it does take a bit of focus and work. While the basic principles of feng shui are necessary to creating a feng house, there's more to it: most of your chi comes from the people in and around your home.

• Given that, there are a few tips you can take to purify your home and create a warm, welcoming, and homey atmosphere for you, your family, and your guests.
  
• Make sure the entrance of your home is particularly welcoming. Never use it for storage and put coats and shoes away as much as possible. Touches like water fountains, green plants, or attractive artwork make a visual welcome when you return home.
  
• Use "air purifiers" to absorb negative chi in your feng house. You can go traditional with this (green plants, candles, incense, a bowl of sea salt) or more modern (a HEPA filter, for example). Small amounts of black in your color scheme also help to absorb negative energy (although too much black creates it).
  
• Observe the old adage "never go to bed angry" to a tee. No matter how mad you are, it's not worth the negative energy that will fester through your house that night. You don't have to resolve the argument, but make sure you give your son/ wife/ husband/ sister a hug and tell them you love them all the same.
  
• Root out and eliminate sources of sha chi in your home. Whether it's an "obligation" item you're keeping around because it was a gift from a rich relative or tokens from failed relationships or their ilk, this sort of negative energy can permeate your entire home, destroying any chance of a feng house.
  
• Balance the elements in your home and your life. Even if you're an overwhelmingly fiery person, you know that you need some water around to keep you balanced. This sort of technique will create a more even energy in your home.
  

Combining these tips with basic feng shui will help you to establish the perfect feng house!


Interested in feng shui? Check out my book, "Feng Shui Secrets for a Fulfilled Life!"

Looking for great deals on feng shui products? Try Jade Market!

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