When using feng shui to improve your qi (life force energy), it’s helpful to overlay the feng shui Bagua map over your entire home to determine where the bedrooms are. This can give you insight into the best bedroom location for the members of your household. The bedroom Bagua location also offers a perspective on how to decorate your bedroom with consideration to the overall energy of the home.
How to Find Your Bedroom on the Bagua Map
Take a floor plan of your home and turn it so the front door is on the bottom. Then, divide the floor plan or house sketch into a three-by-three grid (like tic-tac-toe). Use the image to mark each of the nine areas of your floor plan with the corresponding Bagua areas. Then, look at the floor plan to determine which Bagua area(s) overlap the bedroom. Now what? Once you’ve figured out where your bedroom falls on the Bagua map, read on for tips on how to work with a bedroom in your particular Bagua area. It is likely that the bedroom overlaps more than one area, which is okay. Just like in life, everything doesn’t fall into neat little boxes. If possible, work with the Bagua area that is covering most of the bedroom. If it is about equal with one or more areas, you have a couple of options. You can work with the Bagua area where your bed is located (especially for a studio apartment). Or, just check out all the Bagua areas and work with the one that applies to you most accurately. Enhance a bedroom in Zhen by decorating with living green plants. You can also try to incorporate accent colors of green, blue, teal, navy, black, or charcoal. Living green plants are great in these bedrooms as well. To enhance a Xun bedroom, try to use charcoal, purple, green, blue, teal, navy, or black as accent colors. In this case, you would also want to position a mirror on a wall so that it energetically expands your bed and wall into another gua. You do this by placing a mirror on a wall near the rear of the Bagua (Xun, Li, and Kun). Make sure you can see the reflection of the bed in the mirror. Bring in earthy and neutral colors to enhance the stability of a bedroom in Qian. Heavy earthy objects like statues, stones, or ceramics also contribute to a bedroom’s stability. Enhance a bedroom in Dui by decorating with heavy, earthy objects like ceramics, stones, or statues. Ideal colors in a Dui-located bedroom include earthy and neutral colors. Whites and grays would also work well here. Because Gen is an Earth element, you can enhance the stability of a bedroom in this area by using earthy and neutral colors in this room. Decorating with heavy, earthy objects like ceramics or statues would also be helpful. Even the best locations could use a little boost. Enhance a bedroom in Li by bringing in accent colors such as green, blue, and teal. Red and fiery colors also work well here. Decorate with tall lamps, triangles, and living green plants. Enhance a Kan bedroom’s stability by decorating with earthy objects like heavy statues or ceramics, or by bringing some stones into the bedroom. Helpful color schemes for this room would be anything earthy or neutral, like browns and beiges. Enhance a bedroom in Kun by choosing colors that are either earthy and neutral, or using pinks, reds, and other fiery colors. Living green plants are good in here, as are strong shapes such as triangles and squares.
