The bedroom is where you get your rest and the importance of this part of the home cannot be stressed enough. While the living room is the go-to room to activate the small tai chi of your Home Feng Shui, most of us co-habitate; i.e we are not the only ones living in the house we live in. So unless you’re the head of the household with a free hand to design and decorate as you wish, chances are you’re not in a position to simply move furniture around.

Placing cures and enhancers perhaps is more doable, but completely overhauling your layout each month when the stars change position, for instance, may not be so straight forward. Your personal bedroom however is your own space for you to do with as you please.

Learning to achieve near perfect feng shui in your bedroom is especially useful for college or boarding school students who may be living most of the year in a room away from home, where the feng shui of that room may affect them more than the feng shui of their “family home”, where they spend only the holiday part of their year.

Here then are 10 useful things to remember when planning the feng shui for your bedroom.

1. POSITION OF BED IS MOST IMPORTANT

The first thing to remember is that in your bedroom, the positioning of your bed is THE most important. If there is one thing you can improve, it would be this – to make sure you sleep with your head pointed to one of your four good directions. Check your auspicious directions with our Kua Calculator and have your head point to a direction that’s good for you.

If you’re working, best to tap your Sheng Chi direction. If you’re a student, tap your Fu Wei direction. If you’re a full-time homemaker, your Nien Yen is best for you. Those with health issues should have their head point to their Tien Yi direction.

If you’re a student and having to pick smallish rooms where you have limited freedom to move the furniture within about, the first thing to do when picking your dorm room is to try to go for one where the bed position satisfies the good direction rule according to your personalized Kua.

2. COLOUR SCHEMES MATTER

Your bedroom colour scheme is the other important factor to take into consideration. The safest colour for the bedroom is white, or some other neutral colour like cream or beige which is soothing on your eyes. Remember that the bedroom is firstly your place where you recharge, so avoid large blocks of bright primary colours. If you want edgy, use your soft bedding like pillows, cushions or beanbags to give yourself a splash of colour. Don’t do it with the colours of your walls or other big surfaces such as wall-to-wall carpets or curtains.

3. HAVE A SOLID WALL BEHIND YOUR HEADBOARD

Don’t let your bed float in the middle of the room just to tap into a good direction positioning. Beds should also always have proper headboards, and these should be aligned with a solid wall. If you want to position your bed where there are windows instead of a solid wall behind the headboard of the bed, best if you can cover up the window with heavy enough drapes while you are sleeping, so you cannot “see” the window. Otherwise you will lack stability and support in your life.

4. WATER FEATURES IN BEDROOM CAN CAUSE “LOSS” ENERGIES

Avoid water features of any kind in the bedroom. This includes art featuring water like scenes of ponds, pools, the sea or waterfalls. No matter how restful such paintings may look to you, water of any kind in the bedroom can lead to money loss energies. And definitely avoid tabletop fountains, waterfalls and the like in the bedroom.

5. AVOID “DEATH POSITION”

Never ever have the foot of your bed directly facing the door. Better if your bed is placed diagonal to the door into your bedroom. Do not have your feet aligned with the door into your bedroom as this is the “Death position” and is extremely dangerous from a Feng Shui viewpoint.

6. STAY AWARE OF MONTHLY INFLUENCES

Check which sector your bedroom is located in, in relation to the whole house. Then stay aware firstly of the yearly flying star that occupies that sector, and also by monthly stars that fly in each month. When the month flying stars change position, the new stars of the month that have the greatest impact on you after your own animal sign sector will be the sector in which you reside. Whenever your bedroom gets afflicted by the negative stars of #5, #7 or #2, it is a warning to be careful. Such months, minimize the risks you take, and if possible, install the relevant feng shui cures to counter any ill effects of such stars.

7. ELIMINATE POISON ARROWS

Poison arrows are the other thing you always need to watch out for, everywhere in the home but especially in your bedroom, as this is where you are most vulnerable, since this is your place of sleep. Make sure there are no poison arrows aimed where you are positioned when you’re in bed.

This includes overhead beams, protruding corners or edges from structural beams, sharp corners of cabinets etc. If there are such poison arrows pointed at your bed, look how you can camouflage them or better still, move your bed out of the line of fire.

8. NO MIRRORS IN BEDROOM

Avoid exposed mirrors in your bedroom. Keep these within cabinets where you can hide the mirror when you sleep by shutting the door. Exposed mirrors can cause sleeplessness and will definitely hamper a restful night’s sleep.

9. KEEP TVs IN THE TV ROOM

Keep TVs and computers out of your bedroom. If you’re a student and your bedroom doubles up as your study, try to keep your sleep and study areas distinct if possible. If not, then in such cases, a laptop you can close during sleep hours is preferable to a desktop monitor which you cannot cover up during sleep time.

10. REMEMBER TO DECLUTTER REGULARLY

Lastly, and this point is important, remember to declutter from time to time! Really, clutter builds up so quickly and if you don’t make it a habit to schedule in periodic spring cleans, before long, such a lot of junk will have accumulated and this is definitely not good feng shui. If you find yourself scatter-brained, forgetful, stressed out or disorganized, a good way to snap out of that mindset is to clear and clean out your bedroom.

Clear out your closet of tee shirts that have gone grubby with too many washes, give away clothes that no longer fit you, clear out your desk of old receipts, clothes labels and outdated correspondence, dispose of old makeup and creams that are probably expired.

The mere act of spring cleaning is therapeutic and symbolically representative of making new space in your life for new things and new opportunities to enter.

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Step 1 – Setting Out

The first step is to identify how the bed needs to be orientated. In most typical bedrooms, there are four walls to work with. First you need to identify the facing direction of the bed headboard, which is the direction one’s head is pointed to when lying down on the bed. Based on one’s four auspicious directions, there will be at least one direction of the four that is beneficial.

For couples, especially those from different Kua groups, the bed direction can either be determined based on the matriarch’s direction, or the patriarch’s direction if the main door of the house is suited for the mother. In this manner, both would have an equal share in tapping their auspicious directions. However, this rule would be superseded if the bed direction taps onto either person’s total loss direction.

Once you have established which direction to use, the next step is to identify the wall to be used. Ideally, the bed should be positioned such that it is in direct line to the door into the bedroom, but rather, have the door to the corner’s edge of the bed and the window to the side. If the window is directly behind the bed, have the window remodelled to the side to create a solid wall backing flanked by window panels.

Step 2 – Things to Look Out For

Once you have figured out which general space within the room the bed should be located in, you need to see if the location is suitable. Avoid elements that create stress on the bed placement such as overhead beams, overhead ceiling extrusions, roof trusses or sharp ceiling pelmets.

Not being the obvious item to look out for, but lighting and colours are also mighty important for creating the mood in the bedroom. Take note that the bedroom is a place for rest and peace, so the last thing you want are excessively bright lights that create glare. Avoid overhead chandeliers as there is a place for pendant lights in the living and dining rooms, but never in the bedroom.

And finally, the selection of flooring should be of a monotonous nature, such as a neutral patterned timber, but avoid sharp, distracting lines, as these cause more disharmony to the atmosphere of the room. Wall-to-wall carpets are a good option, as any mistake can be changed without too much cost impact, while offering a selection of soft and soothing textures for the room.

Step 3 – The Concept

Having understood what to look out for in the bedroom, the final stage is to set up the bed. Arrange your bed to maximize the views available, but always making sure the headboard is positioned to one of your auspicious directions.

Identify what type of bed you are using, whether a standalone bed or one with a built-in headboard. When you design a headboard, try to match a light colour fabric with a darker timber texture for the body. Doing this helps to centralize the bed position, while creating a neutral and calming feel for the room.

Selecting your bed linens is also important. Pick a colour that complements the colour of your headboard. Avoid overly contrasting colours, as this creates visual disarray. For the foot table, there are a multitude of options. You can introduce a settee set for lounging, or a low cabinet to store sheets, or you may opt for Hope Chest to store your wishes, notes and items close to you.

Once you have established the bed position, the next item on the list is to design the rest of the room. Always have the window or view positioned to the side of the bed, as this allows a source of natural sunlight but also gives you a direction to focus on when you wake up each day. Match the room curtains with a darker tone to create a contrast to the bed headboard. Doing so will establish the fabrics of the room. Avoid matching the bed headboard fabric with the curtains, as this would seem as if you had surplus fabric and ran out of ideas!

Position a lounge chair or sofa set by the window area to offer an alternative place to sit and read. Again, the colour selection of the sofa should be in line with the fabric of the bed to give the sofa area a distinct look when set with the contrasting curtain fabric.

While designing your bedroom can encompass a list of options to sift through, with these easy feng shui design tips, you will find it not too difficult to choose between your options to help you create an ideal sleeping sanctuary. And yes, it is important to get this sanctuary right, as your bedroom probably has the most bearing on your personal luck than any other room in the house.

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When it comes to Design, the end product is generally quite subjective. As clients, you tend to put your faith into your Designer hoping they can translate your aspirations into reality. Sometimes you get a product that you can be proud of and sometimes not. But through all my travels, this has got to be the Ultimate Design Question Mark of the Century.

Different designers have different styles and taste. I can understand that. I can also understand some designers are rather flamboyant, daring to explore contrasting colours and shapes to create the shock value when you enter the room. I also understand the concept of installing windows into the bathroom to create the feeling of space, as well as to pull natural sunlight into an otherwise enclosed room.

But I have never seen a bedroom that literally pulls the toilet into the bedroom. If it were a feature wall with glass panels at the side, it wouldn’t be so bad, but the use of a fully glazed panel where the main view from the bed is that of your loved one taking a S*** is beyond me. The shower at the corner is not so bad as one may envision, but I have to draw the line somewhere. Either the Designer was trying to create this no holds barred concept or there is a weird fetish behind their ideology.

So maybe the use of glazing was to make the room feel bigger. But as I walked into the adjacent room, I found that it was double the size and therefore not lacking the need for space. The same ideology is shown again with the WC directly facing the bed. Now one may say this is definitely NOT good luck to have a toilet facing the bed, but this definitely takes the cake for sure, as I think it is definitely NOT good luck to see someone taking a dump from the bed itself. If anything, it would be feel like your bedroom was next to the sewer line.

So next time you start to trust your Designer, make sure they are not on some ideological fetish crusade to change the world and be sure to know what you are getting before you commit to what you are getting.

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