How to Create Good Feng Shui in Your Home

Creating a good feng shui in your new home can be overwhelming, especially when you're trying to figure out where to start. Which room should you start with? What should you do to an already decorated room, or how can you begin fresh?

Thankfully, cultivating a good feng shui in your new home does not have to be a challenge. This article will provide you with some ideas to create a good feng shui and kick-start your journey to a healthier, happier, and more organized home.

What Is Feng Shui?

"Feng Shui" is a Chinese word that means "wind-water." It is the art of creating balance with the natural world by arranging objects in our living spaces to channel natural energy (known as "qi") to benefit our mood, wealth, health, and energy. According to feng shui, by arranging the items in our interior spaces properly, bad qi will be deflected while encouraging good qi to flow into our lives.

How to Cultivate Good Feng Shui In Your New Home?

Whether you're a feng shui expert or a newbie, the steps below will help you create good feng shui in your new home.

1.   Brighten the entry up

When creating a good feng shui in your new home, your entry is naturally the first place to start. According to feng shui, your home entry, especially the front door (called the "mouth of qi"), symbolizes how energy flows into your life and home.

Many items tend to accumulate at the home's front entrance. That is because most people often overlook this entry (exterior and interior) when cleaning up. Start by removing any debris and unnecessary items from your front entrance to make it uncluttered.  Next, clean and tidy up the area to make it spacious and more inviting.

Finally, add lighting to ensure the space is bright and well lit.

2.   Clean the windows

In feng shui, windows represent the adults' eyes in the home. It also signifies the voice of the children in the home. To cultivate good Feng shui in your new home, you should ensure that your windows are clean at all times. That is because clean and clear windows let in more sunlight that naturally wakes us up and energizes us while making us feel happier and more positive.

Moreover, sunlight renders all the objects and colors we see. So, our homes will become more energetic, vibrant, and expansive when we maximize natural light by letting in more sunlight. Metaphorically, clean windows awaken us to see the world around us with maximum clarity, color, and precision.

Quick tips: Use non-toxic cleaners when cleaning your windows. One of the cleaners we recommend is a simple white vinegar solution with a few drops of essential oil and water.

3.   Pay more attention to your doors

The door symbolizes communication and voice in feng shui. They are the gateways or entry points where opportunities can enter into your life. That's why you should pay more attention to your doors.

 To cultivate a good feng shui, you should look out for two things. First, ensure that all the doors in your new home can open to no less than a full 90 degrees. If it can't, then check behind the door for a bunch of clutter and remove it. A door that cannot open all the way means that you can't receive all the opportunities life has to offer. You're only open to receiving a portion of it because there are some parts you are shielding yourself from or not allowing yourself to receive.

Second, examine all your doors and ensure that they are in perfect working condition. Check the hinges, ensure that they are not squeaking, and the hardware to ensure that it is working properly. Check if the door can close properly and with ease. You want the flow of natural energy within your new home to be as smooth as possible, and all these minutiae impact how this energy finds its way to you.

4.   Commanding position

The commanding position is one of the essential feng shui principles as it oversees how to position yourself in life. Make sure you apply this principle to your stove, desk, and bed location.

The bed, stove, and desk signifies you, your wealth, and your career, respectively. Whenever you're in any of these three spaces, make sure you can see the door without positioning yourself directly in line with it. For instance, when you're sitting at the desk, cooking at your stove, or lying in your bed, you should be able to see your door. Most of the time, that means you'll be situated diagonally opposite the door. You're in charge of your life when you're in the commanding position. You'll receive the best opportunities and positive energy in this position.

5.   Remove clutter or obstructions in your path

we become insensitive to all the clutters and physical obstacles on our daily path. It might be a sticky door or the light fixture that flickers. When you have a cluttered hallway that you have to squeeze through or a closet packed with clothes that do not fit you anymore – all these are obstacles that affect you. Just like a plaque in the artery, these obstructions will accumulate over time and create problems if we do not remove them.

Obstructions or clutter are not just visually displeasing; they act as an energetic anchor that prevents the unfolding of the best thing in our lives.

Examine the daily physical path you walk through your new home. Check your pathway from your bed to the bathroom or other rooms as you walk past your front door. Check your path from when you get back home to your kitchen and then your bed. Notice the obstructions on your way and remove them.

Quick tips: Ensure you put the right organizational system in place to manage everything in your life, from recycling to bill payments to having a spot designated for your keys. This will help you feel more efficient, lighter, and less frazzled.

6.   Be spacious

feng shui is more about creating space and less about de-cluttering. So how do you make your new home more spacious? Start by finding a physical spot: a desk, corner of your refrigerator, room, drawer (irrespective of the size), and remove all items that are no longer necessary or needed. When you remove the unnecessary things, you're creating an open space to invite a fresh, new opportunity.

7.   Give your visitors a reason to pause

Your front door is the main portal where energy enters your home. You don't want energy to enter and shoot straight up your stairs. When a guest visits your new home, having them head straight to your bedroom or fridge would be weird, right? Instead, you'd want them to remain in the common area.

Slow down the energy flowing into your new home by adding an artwork or stair runner that causes your guest to pause and reflect. You can also place a grounding element that represents heaviness at your stairs' top to stop the qi and force it to slow down.

8.   Add green plants

Plants symbolize life energy in feng shui. When you add green plants to your home, it brings vibrancy, freshness, health, and vitality into your home and connects you to nature. However, you should consider your home's natural lighting and overall lighting conditions and look for plants that you can care for and are suitable for your space.

9.   Strike a balance between the five elements

Metal, water, fire, wood, and earth are the five elements of feng shui, and they can be present in your new home either symbolically or physically. For instance, you can have actual fires with a burning candle or fireplace, or you can include this element with warm tones like oranges and reds.

Most of the time, people get drawn to elements that either causes an imbalance in their lives or the ones they need more of. For example, you should avoid having too many fire elements as part of your interior décor if you have aggression issues. Conversely, you should include more of the fire element in your home to give you a boost if you have a personality type with lower motivation.

Quick tips: Take a close look at the symbolic and literal elements showing up in your new home and examine if they are the cause of imbalance in your emotional life. then, aim to strike a balance between all the five elements of feng shui

10.                 Get rid of negative symbolism

we are constantly bombarded and guided with symbolism on a daily basis, from traffic signage to literature, to movies. In our homes, symbolism is even more pronounced since we create intimate environments that often represent our challenges and fears. In most cases, we innocently reinforce our fears and life challenges by including their symbols in our home.

Evaluate your fears and the challenges you're facing in life and check if their symbols are showing up in your home. For instance, if you have an issue with your self-esteem, check if you hung your mirrors too high. If you are chronically single, check if you've filled your home with single imagery – a single person in a picture, a single chair, a single vase. Remove the negative symbols and substitute them with the ones you want to attract into your life.

11.                 Rebalance your kitchen workstations

Do you have two kitchen workstations that are situated back-to-back? This type of kitchen configuration is not practical for efficiency's sake. That is why most kitchen experts recommend a triangular arrangement between the sink, stove, and fridge. however, a feng shui reasoning is also behind it: "a conflict can arise in the house when you have fire close to the water – water extinguishes fire."

If you have this kind of kitchen configuration, you don't have to perform any renovation yet. Instead, place a wood element between the stove and sink – wood feeds fire, and water feeds wood. The wood element between these two opposing forces will reduce the conflict in the house. In feng shui, the green color also represents wood. So, you can use this instead of the actual wooden material.

Final words

Creating a good feng shui that gives good vibes in your new home can be a challenge. However, with the tips above, you’ll be able to cultivate a good feng shui for a healthier, happier, and more organized home.