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Feng shui guides: check your room, rule by rule
Every guide here comes with diagrams scored by the same rules engine that checks your own room, and a 30-second check you can do right now.
Layout rules
The placement rules people search for most, each with an engine-scored wrong vs right layout.
- Bed facing the door: is it bad feng shui?
- The command position: where to put your bed
- Bed under a window: feng shui and simple fixes
- Headboard not against the wall: floating bed feng shui
- Mirror facing the bed: what feng shui says
- Mirror facing the front door: feng shui rules for entryways
- Front door aligned with a window or back door
- Desk with your back to the door
- Desk facing a wall: good or bad feng shui?
- Sofa with its back to the door
- Beam over the bed: feng shui remedies
- Sharp corners pointing at the bed (“poison arrows”)
- Clutter in the bedroom: feng shui’s first cure
- Plants in the bedroom: good feng shui or not?
- Fish tank or fountain in the bedroom
- Bed pushed against a wall on one side
Kua numbers
Your personal favourable directions for sleeping and working, by Kua number.
- Kua number 5: why it becomes 2 or 8
- Kua number 1: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 1: best desk direction for working
- Kua number 2: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 2: best desk direction for working
- Kua number 3: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 3: best desk direction for working
- Kua number 4: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 4: best desk direction for working
- Kua number 6: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 6: best desk direction for working
- Kua number 7: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 7: best desk direction for working
- Kua number 8: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 8: best desk direction for working
- Kua number 9: best bed direction for sleeping
- Kua number 9: best desk direction for working
Room sizes & shapes
Where the bed goes in common room sizes, worked out by the layout optimiser.
- 9×10 bedroom feng shui layout
- 10×10 bedroom feng shui layout
- 10×12 bedroom feng shui layout
- 11×12 bedroom feng shui layout
- 12×12 bedroom feng shui layout
- 12×14 bedroom feng shui layout
- Small bedroom feng shui: layout for tight rooms
- Narrow bedroom feng shui layout
- Square bedroom feng shui layout
- Studio apartment feng shui layout
Colours & elements
What each colour means in the five-element system, and how it changes a bedroom’s balance.
- Wood element in the bedroom
- Fire element in the bedroom
- Earth element in the bedroom
- Metal element in the bedroom
- Water element in the bedroom
- Green bedroom feng shui
- Red bedroom feng shui
- Blue bedroom feng shui
- Black bedroom feng shui
- White bedroom feng shui
- Grey bedroom feng shui
- Yellow bedroom feng shui
- Pink bedroom feng shui
- Purple bedroom feng shui
- Beige & brown bedroom feng shui
Annual guide
The year’s flying-star chart and directions, computed.
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