No other room in the house can really compete with the lounge in terms of importance. This is the room where the family spend a lot of their time together. It’s the place where visiting friends share good times with you. It therefore makes sense to give a lot of attention to detail when planning Living Room Feng Shui.
The living room can have a positive effect on every other room in the house as far is Feng Shui is concerned. Planning your lounge in harmony with the nine divisions of the lo shu square (or bagua) will therefore result in a positive energy flow to all other sections of your home. If there’s a room in the house that is not balanced in Yin-Yang terms, the negative energy of this can be canceled out by a well-balanced lounge.
Think in this regard of the Yin-Yang symbol located right at the heart of the bagua, which is referred to as the tai chi. When you should apply the principles of bagua to a big area, such as for example your whole house, we refer to that as the large tai chi. On the other hand, if you apply the same tai chi principles to something that forms part of that whole, for example a particular room such as your lounge, we then call it the small tai chi. The tai chi can not only be applied to a room though – you can even apply it to a particular item of furniture, for example a sofa.
When planning the Feng Shui layout for your lounge, remember that there are numerous rules to be adhered to. You can’t randomly apply Feng Shui principles to any specific part of the house without taking into account the rules related to the whole house. An example of this is that the north-western area of your house should never be exposed to open flames. An open fireplace or even candles in your lounge are therefore taboo if it’s situated in the north-western part of the house.
The way you arrange your furniture in the living room is of the utmost importance. Since the lounge is supposed to be a place for the family to gather and share good times, everything you do in this room has to take that fact into consideration. That is why an L-shaped lounge suite is taboo. Since people are not facing each other, they will immediately feel uncomfortable and there will be an emotional distance between them.
According to the rules of Feng Shui, it’s important to avoid conflict and create a feeling of calmness in the lounge. To achieve this, it is recommended that you introduce the colors red and gold. This could take the form of a red and gold colored drape, or even flowers with these colors.
You want your lounge to have an ambiance of happiness and prosperity. One way of achieving this in terms of Feng Shui is to hang the correct pictures on particular walls of the room. The eastern wall, for example, relates to family life and health matters. Here you should thus hang pictures of family members having good times and who are therefore smiling. The northern wall has to do with career success, so a nice photo of you or one of your children at a degree ceremony is appropriate.
In Feng Shui, Yang is the bright, positive force of life. When you plan living room Feng Shui, you should therefore attempt to give the room an extra dose of Yang. A good example of this will be painting one of the walls a bright red, or introducing a bright chandelier.
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