Feng Shui for the home, from an architect's perspective.
Most advice on Feng Shui for the home stops at symbols and ornaments. The classical discipline is structural — it begins with the building, its orientation and how it is lived in.
1. Start with orientation, not decoration
Every classical Feng Shui reading of a home begins with the compass facing of the main door. Orientation determines which energies enter the house, which rooms benefit and which need calibration. Symbols placed without knowing the facing direction do nothing.
2. Read the floor plan as an architect would
Missing corners, long dark corridors, staircases opposite the front door, kitchens sharing a wall with a bathroom — these are structural conditions. They are what a real Feng Shui audit examines first, because they shape how the house is lived in every day.
3. Light and air are half the practice
A room that never receives natural light is a room the classics call yin-heavy. Cross-ventilation, window placement and the depth of a room relative to its openings matter more than any cure you can hang on a wall.
4. The three most sensitive rooms
The main door, the kitchen (stove position) and the primary bedroom (bed position) are the anchors of a home's Feng Shui. Get their orientation and placement right and most other adjustments become minor. Get them wrong and no ornament will compensate.
5. Flying Star: timing on top of layout
Once the layout is understood, the Flying Star chart adds the dimension of time — which sectors of the house carry favourable energy this year and this period, and which should be kept quiet. This is where an annual review becomes useful.
6. What a good remedy looks like
A good remedy is often a shift in furniture, a change of colour, a mirror re-hung, a door re-hinged. Occasionally it is a considered structural change. It is rarely a purchased object.
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A residential Feng Shui consultation begins with your floor plan and orientation.