Your living room is the heart of your home. It’s a space where the members of the household gather, talk, receive guests and spend the most of their day.

This space is abundant in yang energy, and the most important thing to do is to achieve a sense of harmony.

If the other rooms of your home are unbalanced, the living room can alleviate or even neutralize that entirely.

Separate it from the kitchen, dining room or bedroom

It’s desirable for the living room to physically be separated from the kitchen or dining room.

If that’s not possible, it’s necessary to visually separate the living room from the spaces where you eat and prepare food.

The living room should not be a place where one sleeps every day and it should be separated from bedrooms by a wall.

Wall and ceiling colors

It’s best to choose light shades for the walls.

Shades of yellow ranging from vanilla to beige are ideal. A warm yellow color encourages grounding to the earth and is the embodiment of power, safety, strength and warmth and create a feeling of community.

You can paint one wall to the south of the living room in a lively color – orange, red or pink. Soft yellow colors are the best choice for all other walls.

Unlike the walls, the ceiling is best painted white, and you should avoid having any decorations on it.

Floor

The floor is a very important segment of the living room. You should feel safe and protected when you stand in or step into the center of your home.

Parquet and laminate flooring are the best and all shapes and designs are allowed.

Rugs are not necessary, unless you opt for a stone or marble floor. In that case you should cover at least a part of the floor with a rug because of the cold energy of the stone.

It’s better not to cover wooden floors. Avoid dark colors when choosing rugs and carpets.

Selecting furniture

When you are furnishing your living room, leave sufficient space in the middle of the room.

The most important choice is that of your seating furniture – chairs, sofas and couches.

Tastes differ, but Feng Shui suggests you avoid furniture with sharp corners.

Place the main piece of furniture where you spend most of your time up against a sturdy wall as doing so will provide a sanctuary.

Arrange the remaining sofas or chairs so they create a shape with right angles or form a circle or a horseshoe.

Avoid distributing furniture around the room chaotically.

It’s favourable that you have a view of as large a section of the living room or entire home as possible when you are seated.

If you can, get new furniture.

Used furniture often carries a stagnant, old chi energy which impacts health and happiness negatively. The same is true of antique details.

Cabinets and shelves in the living room primarily have a decorative function and they should therefore not take up too much space.

If you need to store things you don’t have enough room for in other parts of your home here, always choose closed cabinets.

Open shelves symbolize blades which injure the space and the people in it and they should therefore be avoided. They indirectly harm the careers of those in the household who are employed.

Chairs can be any shape as long as they are not asymmetrical.

When choosing a color for your furniture, avoid black, because it can set loose fear, depression and violence.

Appropriate lighting and electronic devices

The living room is the place where we keep the most electronic devices. Keep them in the right location – to the north, northwest or west side of the room.

Televisions, computers and acoustic devices should never occupy the central position in the room which everyone is facing because they have a negative effect on the interaction between members of the household.

Materials made of crystal create the most favourable energy. But if you are not able to have a crystal chandelier or don’t like crystal décor, you can also use other lighting.

What matters is that the lighting has some sort of shade and that the light it provides is a milky color which doesn’t tire the eyes.

The space can be lit up in various ways and using multiple light sources.

But be careful not to create dark spaces in the room with your use of lighting. Such an atmosphere brings feelings of sorrow.

Put up decorations carefully

Feng Shui recommends moderation and orderliness. The space should not be overcrowded with unnecessary things.

Because important symbolic objects and decorations are often kept in the living room, their proper placement can bring about balance in various areas of life.

Souvenirs or other objects which have been sitting in the same place for years create a stale energy which makes progress impossible.

Dare to make a change.

You can make things dynamic by changing photographs.

You will attract new energy, people and things in life by occasionally moving things around and getting rid of things you no longer need.

Arranging objects according to parts of the world

The north part of the room represents work and career and it needs to be clean, well-lit and looking towards the future.

Memories can’t be collected here, nor can antiques or anything related to the past. Ideal motifs include turtles, mountain tops or winter landscapes which can be hung on the wall in the form of photographs or paintings.

The northeast part of the room represents learning and wisdom. It’s under the earth element and will be activated by a picture of the world, a globe or crystals.

This is also a place for symbols of the spiritual leader who is important to you. If you are going to school, you can occasionally light a candle or incense in that part of the room for success.

The east section symbolizes health, longevity, relations with loved ones and the oldest son, if you have children.

A happy photograph of friends and family will ensure harmonious interpersonal relations.

Greenery in this part of the room can be good for your health if the plants are robust and healthy. You can also keep a vase with your favorite flowers here.

The southeast part represents prosperity and fortune. This is also a good place for plants and small fountains or other water decorations.

Recommended symbols include gold, graphic depictions of money, decorative coins, pictures with motifs of oranges, forests, green areas of water surfaces, or something else which reminds you of increasing your income.

The south side of the room is the field of popularity and the opinion of others.

You can activate it using the same symbols as in the previous section, but also with crystals, strong lighting, candle and the color red.

The southwest section represents love, marriage, family happiness and the oldest woman in the house.

You can here place objects which remind you of a powerful and wise woman who has special meaning for you.

Of course, you can find everything which represents love here, but in an even number.

That can include wedding photos or other photos with a romantic partner, family portraits, two red candles, heart motifs, stone rosaries or amethyst.

The west section symbolizes creativity and off-spring.

In order to encourage the growth of your own creative energy, ensure the happiness of your children or encourage fertility, decorate the space with photographs of children, families with children or with motifs of an elephant with its trunk raised up in the air.

The northwest part represents teachers, help and the oldest man in the house.

It’s under the influence of metal and will therefore be activated by metal motifs, bells, symbols of spiritual teachers, images of a successful man who did not die young, crystals and motifs of well-being.

Undesirable characteristics in a living room:

•  stuffy, gloomy atmosphere
•  walls painted in dull colors and extremely dark furniture – they have a cold and pessimistic effect
•  sitting under uneven ceiling or ceiling beams
•  uncomfortable furniture or furniture with sharp lines
•  furniture facing the TV
•  accumulation of unnecessary items and non-functional electronic devices
•  constant noise (loud music)
•  photos and images of sad or tragically deceased people
•  gloomy motifs or abstract symbols
•  lack of live energy (space without houseplants)

　
How to counter undesirable elements

By properly selecting blinds and curtains which maximize the amount of sunlight entering the home.

Avoid heavy fabrics for curtains and upholstery because they interfere with the flow of energy.

If you have ceilings with wooden beams or paneling that cannot be removed, put up metal motifs and objects to soften the wood element.

The living room can be visually separated from the bedroom, dining room or workspace with movable screens.

Furniture with colors that are too dark, too light or too fervent can be countered or improved with blankets and decorative throw pillows in the right color.

Cover up protruding walls or sharp corners on furniture with plants or mirrors.

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