Feng shui, explained plainly
Feng shui traditions generally treat the bathroom door as a weak point in a home’s layout: the room behind it is associated with water and drainage, and several schools hold that chi (qi), the flow of energy the tradition describes moving through a space, can escape or stagnate there. The specific concerns, and the fixes … Read more
Most feng shui traditions agree the stove should not have its back to the kitchen door, and the cook should be able to see the entrance while at the stove without standing directly in line with it. Beyond that, classical and modern schools give different reasons and different specifics — and this article names which … Read more
Feng shui does not forbid a television in the living room. What it offers is a set of arguments — not always consistent with each other — about where the screen should sit relative to the seating, the door, and the room’s main “commanding” spot. Form School treats it as a large reflective object to … Read more
Feng shui traditionally flags three bedroom door alignments as worth attention: a door facing the foot of the bed head-on, a bedroom door lined up directly with another door across a hallway, and a door aligned straight through to a window or a second door on the far wall. Each is read differently depending on … Read more
Most feng shui guidance says the space under a bed should be empty, or nearly so — no piles of shoes, no boxes of paperwork, nothing sharp, and never anything electrical. Where storage is unavoidable, the tradition prefers soft, folded items like linens over hard or broken objects. The reasoning given is about undisturbed rest, … Read more
The most common guidance is that a mirror should not directly face the bed, because the Black Sect (BTB) adaptation of feng shui holds that a mirror doubles whatever disturbance exists in a room, including the disturbance of a sleeping body. Classical Form School sources are far less concerned with mirrors specifically and focus instead … Read more
Most schools of feng shui put the bed where the sleeper can see the bedroom door from the bed without lying directly in line with it, with a solid wall behind the headboard and no overhead beam. The exact placement differs by school, but the reasoning given is almost always about sightlines, stability and a … Read more
Yin and yang in a room refers to the balance between opposite qualities — light and dark, active and still, hard and soft, sound and quiet. Feng shui holds that different rooms suit different balances: a bedroom leans toward yin (calm, dim, soft), a living room toward yang (bright, active, harder surfaces). Where does the … Read more
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