Top Tips for Feng Shui Throughout Your Home

When setting up your home with different colors of paint, furniture, and other accents you probably don't realize that later it can affect the mood of your family and yourself. Many real estate bloggers and other bloggers talk about home decorating, landscaping, etc. and about how the flow of your home will affect your daily life. Feng Shui is a practice in China that is made up of spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy. 

Below is a small list of how color placement in your home can affect the energy around you.

Red: Passion, power, stimulation, and high energy. (Suggestions: dining room, bedroom, or upholstery)

Orange: Creativity, happiness, enthusiasm, and communication. (Suggestions: accenting, throw-overs, or pillows)

Yellow: Cheerfulness, light-heartedness, and mental stimulation. (Suggestions: kitchens, not bedrooms)

Green: Growth, harmony, nature, safety, peace, and healing (Suggestions: bedroom, bathroom, or office)

Blue: Trust, loyalty, confidence, faith (Suggestions: accents around the house and in bedroom)

Purple: Romance, luxury, nobility, wealth, spirituality, and motivation (Suggestions: bedroom)

Black: Power, independence (Suggestions: picture frames)

Brown: Stability, humility (Suggestions: living room)

White: Cleanliness, vibrancy (Use sparingly; too much white can feel cold)

<this small list was used from TinyBuddha's website.>

• Make your front door inviting. If it is confusing to find your door it will be hard for opportunity to happen. If you're not sure if it is confusing to find, think of it this way- if a trick or treater can't find your door then how is opportunity to happen? Add some fresh paint to your door such as a mid-tone red, put some potted plants out, make sure your lights illuminate your porch, and make sure your doorbell works.
• A common misconception is to put the furniture flush against the walls. Don't. By doing so it cuts off the flow of energy throughout that area and it makes it difficult to show open communication.
• Add family photos throughout your home. However, only put pictures of the couple in the master bedroom instead of family ones. By putting pictures of the happy couple it creates a loving energy that will help improve and keep their marriage well. Do put family photos anywhere else though. It will give your guests a positive energy.
• If you're looking to start a relationship put doubles of furniture and such to open up the energy of partnership. By setting up your home for an individual it blocks the partnership energy and will make you feel not ready for a relationship.
• To bring in prosperity create a vibrant, healthy, inspiring, and clutter-free home. By bringing in plants and flowers it gives out vibrant life forces. Put some fountains either in your yard or your house to stimulate prosperity, energy, and symbolizes money.
• Finally, if the space in your home is big, people tend to live further apart emotionally. Bring everything closer to get rid of the negative energy.

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