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📹 transforming how you live and work in 5 minutes using Feng shui!
A Feng Shui expert visits a client’s apartment and identifies several areas for improvement. They discuss the placement of furniture, particularly the bed and work area, and how these placements can affect energy flow and well-being. The expert then proposes a new layout for the apartment, emphasizing the importance of creating a balanced and harmonious space.
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I rarely comment, but your vidoes have really made a huge difference in my life. I started perusal because of your sense of humour, but learned A LOT of practical knowledge from your articles which ended up solving many of the dilemmas we’ve had for a while now. You’re so efficient at delivering all that good information too. Thank you so much. Happy new year!!!
I have been following your Chanel. Very cool. I am wondering if you could help me out. I do have a large room with open kitchen dining table and living room, insite the hudge room is another room with the laundry facilities. So altogether two doors and a stairway to the upper floor and 3 windows, ….very difficult to set up all the furniture. I would love to get your opinion
Well.. one thing I learned from Feng Shui is that you’re not supposed to be able to look into mirrors from your bed, they shouldn’t be facing your bed, because that way your bad dreams get reflected and bounced back at you from them. So we didn’t get to see that view from the sleeping area, but I’m curious to know how you decided to address that issue!
In my previous apartment I accidentally placed my desk in the command position purely because my cat would scream at me if I didn’t look at her (or maybe she was telling me that my back was unprotected?) so I made sure I could see the entire living room/cat lounge space from my desk. After moving to my new temporary apartment (cat moved to my dad’s house) I thought the desk placement just felt off because I wasn’t used to it yet, but after perusal these articles I moved the desk a quarter turn to the command position and I’ll be damned if it doesn’t actually feel better. As an added bonus I could place my PC in the cool window instead of on the floor so it’s less likely to overheat and I have better access to it.
I just found your articles today and I am so happy I did. Do you recommend white walls? I have very few windows on the light side of my home. I know the color will help brighten up the home and if I’m not mistaken that will add good energy. If it helps to answer I’ve in a mobil home so its long and narrow with the front facing west, and unfortunately most of my windows on the long side facing north. Please keep making these you are awesome.
🙏🏼thanks for info.🙂appreciate it ! Ur explanation is good n simple. Just curious..pls clarify below.. China Government doesn’t allow it’s citizens to practice fengshui right ?? Is that true ? But it makes products of fengshui n sells it worldwide n promotes it everywhere else.. Or is my info wrong ?
Meanwhile I’m trying to Feng shui living in an SUV… Figure it’s appropriate because it’s “drive thru Fung shui” as “real practicers” call it…. pffft…. religion…. when is it just gonna get called science though? So far it’s tough though because I gotta have such a level of cramped space, but, so far most of this is true vibes yo… Still got an excess because housies are like stuff stuff stuff! And I’m like “nah foo, cash. I’m an adult now mommy, Let me pick please” Cept one thing mama won with Christmas this year… Like real talk.. bottled scent of Christmas and craft stores… Good stuff.. favorite scent in the world for whatever reason… Go mom
Using the “command” position for a desk (rather than putting a desk against a wall) is fine when you only have a laptop and a couple of pretty notebooks on your desk. But when you have a large monitor and filing trays etc., placing the desk in the command position means looking at the back of ugly monitors and other desk clutter as you walk into the room. How do you get around this?
Hmm, I don’t think it’s a good idea being able to see the couch and TV from the desk. Seems like it’s just inviting you to get distracted and start goofing off. I think I would prefer a partition, or flipping the room around. (I also tend to watch TV at night, when there’s no value to it being near the window.)
WOW It looks so good and improved! HOnestly though, for me as an ADHD person, the work space would not do at all; the view of the room would be far too distracting. I totally get why he changed it. But I’m curious if orienting the work space was only due to feng shui or to also accommodate the client’s request to have a quieter background.
That great \\o/ But I have one concern and I’d love to hear your though. As most “pinterest house ideas”, the TV is awfully far from where one sits. That’s a huge deal to me. Considering I can’t afford a huge TV, do you have any suggestions for a place like the one in the article that would keep the TV closer?
Wow I have an extremely small house so small and awkward that feng shui is impossible lol house is over 100 years old with no symmetry, odd rooms, different height windows, you name it. Even wall length are off so fitting things doesn’t work. I am convinced the command position is outside the house XD 😂
I have a question. I don’t doubt the usefulness of feng shui. Obviously it’s proven it’s value. However, many times I have found that when I arrange furniture to abide by its laws the space loses it’s coziness. For instance, I agree that the placement of the dinning table here makes sense… Because i can visualise it, or have seen something similar in the past in other places… But it rubs me the wrong way. I get a strange feeling when i imagine myself sitting there. Like a discomfort or an uneasiness. Hard to describe. Whereas if i imagine sitting where the table was before i feel a little cozier and secure. It’s also closer to the kitchen and for me the kitchen is one of the main hangout spots of a home. Yes, the table was very close to the desk. That was the only issue. The desk is definitely better now though. Does anyone else feel this way about certain feng shui arrangements? Even thinking about certain arrangements gives me anxiety. I think lighting has to do with it too; that direct sunlight makes me feel exposed. Idk
That was a weird place for the bed even without considering Feng Shui. Did they possibly put it in the weird place just so there would be something to change for the article? I really like the living area change and feel like his solution was non-intuitive and great so can believe the owner didn’t think of it themself before.
Glass tables for eating are usually bad fengshui and so are black and white tile patterns on floors in a place that is not a palace or temple. Also, now you have confused the energy of work and relaxation because the desk and couch share the same view and are back to back. Further, You did not address the kitchen stove being in direct line with an entry and you rearanged the bedroom only to leave the mirrors facing the foot of the bed. Also, because you negleted the patio and did not cure the elements I assume you did not use the facing direction or map the flow of chi and view the aura of the house. The way you shot the article makes me think you are aware of some of these issues, like the stove and mirror, but you negleted them in favour of a fast food fengshui or fengshui made easy. I understand the importance of following the comand position… however; including forms it is also important to consider the elements because what you have done in a classical sense is compounded the fire and water clash in the heart and stomach of the home as well as bringing shock to the hun Spirit of your client. Also the jade plant is still a flowering type of plant should be placed in a more appropriate location so its qi benefits the resident. Over all I think the house is too yang and not supporting enough yin energy. As opposed to helping your client have a home that they can eat and rest in so they are healthy and able to work you have encouraged a restless energy focused on liver chi touting the command position instead of helping the client understand the need for an appropriate space for an office.
Love how it looks and feels however when she is on a zoom call there’s not much space behind her, although the colourful picture on the wall will look nice in frame behind her. When someone is on article and there’s no space behind then it can look enclosed and like their hiding something. When there’s a view into the living space behind the person on camera (doesn’t have to be huge but a slight distance) it feels more open and inclusive. Next time you zoom or watch someone on utube see how different it feels when there’s space verse right up against the wall. I do love perusal your articles and have started to move my room around accordingly.
Is qi a part of the energy of this system? (The universe) if so then why does it have no effect or role in a single function of this universe? Could it be that it’s made up? What’s more likely? There is actually a force that exists out there that somehow at the same time does literally nothing we can notice making it literally useless if it somehow was real? Or maybe some idiot made it up and it’s stuck to for literally no good reason
I do love the redesign, but a question about the tiny two person dining table, I would find it awkward to have a meal there right in the lovely tv area, how to handle this? I would be tempted to do away with it all together and use the island with some high chairs as an eating area. In place of the space where the round table was placed I would put an armchair so there would be a place for three or four people to chill and have a chat in a round kind of area.
I have a pretty small bedroom with a queen size bed a work desk a dresser a tall dresser I need to change it out for one of those long dressers though but anyways I have no idea how to put it so it’s comfortable I have one window on the outside and the door is opposite of that. I have no idea where I should put my desk cuz I don’t like facing the wall but I don’t really have the kind of desk that doesn’t face the wall
I love rearranging and the more I rearrange the more space I have (very helpful if you’re a hoarder like me). However, due to my EDS, I have to make the space more wheelchair accessible for my bad days and it messes up any order I have. I have all these aids lying about that need to be lying about, and I need certain things away from each other to be accessible. I had to even more my bedroom into the living room to have space for it. I feel like I’ve got the best I can with this, but I wish I could have him visit me so I could get some fresh ideas. I feel like I can’t do better but I keep trying to find other ways, as my desk space faces by the bedroom which isn’t ideal, my window is so big I don’t want my neighbours to watch me sleep while they walk their dog in our garden so my bed has a limited space it can reside in and is always near the door. Very limited circumstances. D:
I much preferred the coziness of the pre-existing living room. I loved the fact that the dining table could also be used as an extended part of your office since the user only has a laptop which is easy to move around. You had multiple smaller spaces within the room to experience, like forming different nooks for Dining, Working, and Living rather than grouping things together into one bigger space. I also think that the previous position of the bed hid it away while opening up the rest, the newer position made the bed into a centerpiece making the room appear smaller. The bed is just too visible to my liking just as you open the door with the newer position.