Feng Shui and Design
       

Feng Shui design can be effective in your home or living space so that your house can have an optimal flow of Chi. Like the positive and negative energies called yin and yang existing in nature, in every room and in every home has both positive and negative areas. There are strengths and weaknesses that exist. The Feng Shui design changes that are carried out in a house can help to enhance the weak areas and decrease Chi that is too strong, can yield a balanced, harmonious feeling which is the cornerstone of a successful life.

A concept used in a Feng Shui design is the idea of ‘power’ areas. Feng Shui recognizes nine power areas inside building and some have excellent supportive energy and some are much less favorable. A power spot is an area of the home which can be as big as a room or as small as a tiny little nook, but this area has strong associations with your life that mean a great deal to you at a particular point in a given time frame. Feng Shui power spots are unique to each person, family and home. They are determined by the things that are going on in a person’s life presently was well as by design and architecture of their particular living space.

If you are planning to build a new house, you are in a position to draw the maximum benefit from the Feng Shui design. You can consult a Feng Shui expert who can offer many Feng Shui design ideas that can be implemented in your home. The most ideal situation according to the Feng Shui design would be to define the power areas first and then design the whole house around them. It would be in your best interests to apply Feng Shui tool ‘Bagua’ to have the best Feng Shui design in your house.

The areas where you are likely to spend most of your time are the best power areas. These areas can reside in the center and then you can have the whole house designed around it . For instance, the bedrooms can be located in the area that corresponds to a section of bagua which represents love, marriage and health. Feng Shui bedroom design also provides you tips for deciding the direction of your bed. The home office can be in a direction that supports financial and career achievements. The entrances to the house can be designed to receive the Chi, or life force energy, from favorable directions for the home.

As there are power areas in the house there can also be problem areas, that can affect your health, relationships and finances in a negative ways. Feng Shui provides guidelines for knowing problem areas and provides Feng Shui design ideas for improving these. By exploring Feng Shui design ideas, you can take the most beneficial and effective actions in every part of your house or the problem areas to encourage the optimal flow of Chi. While experimenting with the Feng Shui design ideas, it is important to keep in mind that instead of using the Feng Shui design in the whole house , it is best to target particular problem areas first and then move systematically from room to room as a means of improving Chi flow in all parts of your living space. You can determine a problem area in your house by relating it to the problem you are facing presently. For instance, if you have financial problems you can find out the areas that correspond to finance using the bagua and then use Feng Shui design to enhance the Chi flow in that area to bring about the desired change.

Every Feng Shui design change that you make is important, even when the change is in a form of a furniture placement or positioning of other inanimate objects using Feng Shui . As has already been discussed, elements have their own yin and yang energies. Wood represents life force and spirit—the wood grain rings indicate how many years that the tree has lived. And since wood represents growth, too much wood in a home can cause the energy to become too vigorous, too aggressive. Feng Shui design uses all elements in moderation for creating the balance in a space.

Try to keep your Feng Shui design ideas focused on areas that deserve your utmost attention, and don’t spread your energy too thin. Instead of addressing five power spots or problem areas at once, for example, start by addressing one, then move on to the next.