Feng Shui Your Living Room
Your living room should be designed, if possible, as a gathering space, with no secondary purposes. Avoid using the living room as a home office, workout space or dining area. If this is impossible to avoid because you live in a small space, consider a screen or two-sided bookshelf to divide the area or using work out equipment you can fold up and store when not in use. You can also hide your computer away in an armoire when it’s not in use.
The Living Room and Your Goals
Would you like your living room to be a hub of activity and ideas, where intelligent friends gather to brainstorm and share their successes?
Consider using a variety of colors in the room to create an auspicious gathering place. Walls of blue, green, white, beige or tan, with a rainbow of colors for accents, are good for entertaining.
The rainbow colors will appeal to everyone, encouraging friends to relax, open up and have a good time.
Want to encourage learning or enhance your spirituality? Adding books to your living room, in lieu of having a separate study in a home, will encourage learning. In fact, studies show that children who grow up in a home with books in plain sight and easy reach do better in school.
You may consider creating a small sanctuary in your living room with a water element, zen garden or another object or two that you find relaxing and rejuvenating. Place a comfortable chair in the area and use this space to listen to calming music or meditation.
You can also apply the Ba Gua to your living room to help keep your goals in plain sight and increase your fortune in specific areas of your life.
Be careful, though, not to focus on trying to activate every single trigram of the Ba Gua in the living room. It’s a good space to look at your top 2 or 3 goals and empower those trigrams in the Ba Gua with some special items.
Feng Shui Success Story: “Living” with Wealth
I recently performed a Feng Shui consultation for a singer/songwriter/actress in a Manhattan apartment. Her career was not taking off as quickly as she wanted. After assessing the space, we realized that her piano — which she uses to earn her income as a songwriter — was directly in line with the door. This created a feeling of being under attack and made it difficult for her to concentrate or be creative.
She said she spent most of her time in her living room. It made sense to move the piano into an area where she already enjoyed spending time. We placed it in the wealth corner of her living room. Six weeks later, she reported that she’d been very busy writing music and had been going on auditions constantly.
