Jun 25 2007
Feng Shui for the Bedroom
Your bedroom — it is the first room you see every morning, the last one you see at night. It sets the energy for a peaceful, rejuvenating slumber and then sets the tone for the day.
So the first question is, do you sleep well in your bedroom? (Some people sleep well, but only after they get up and move to another room.) If there are sleeping difficulties, do you lie awake trying to get to sleep or do you fall asleep easily but wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep?
What is your mood in the morning? Does your bedroom help you easily start your day or does it immediately set up roadblocks and obstacles, (e.g. you trip over objects on the floor, can’t put together an outfit, and then discover something isn’t clean or needs to be ironed, you discover a run in your last pair of hose and your shoes need polishing.) But hopefully not all of these on the same morning…
Where a professional organizer or clutter clearer would help you with organization, a feng shui consultant’s role is much broader. As a feng shui consultant, my job is to educate and suggest solutions on a wide area of topics, and also to work with your agenda — what you have called me in to help you with. While generally (in the Interior Alignment™ school of feng shui anyway) we won’t poke around in your closets to see if you are neat, if closet organization is on your agenda we will. But we will also look at the colours in your bedroom, the layout of furniture, artwork, symbols and how you use your bedroom - for example is it also a home office?
And while it depends on what your agenda is — what you want to work on — there is a universal ‘good feng shui’ bedroom formula. It goes like this (in no particular order):
1. Restful colours.
2. No TVs, computers, or exercise equipmement.
3. Matching or equal-sized bedside tables and lamps.
4. Artwork that is uplifting and symbols that support your goals and dreams.
5. A room layout that creates a feeling of safety and support.
6. A room that reflects who you are at this time in your life.
Copyright Deborah Redfern 2007. All rights reserved.
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I have to work on #6 - updating is the key!
Re # 1… I am believing that the colours that I find restful would maybe not be restful to another person…? What do you think? Ocean
Hello Ocean,
Yes, what you say is true, it is somewhat general.
What I mean by restful colours is actually from the physiological viewpoint — colours on the cool end of the spectrum (often called ‘night-time colours’) are restful. They are shades of blues, greens, and purples. The day-time shades — yellows, reds, oranges and pinks are more active and generally not restful. They keep us alert!
There are exceptions of course: bubble gum pink has been shown to produce calmness when people are put in a room painted that colour, but apparently only for the short term. Pastel shades of all colours are generally calmer as well. I also believe that a colour which is physiologically restful may not be so in all circumstances: for example if a restful colour is associated with a traumatic event for a person, it would probably have the opposite effect.
And…it all depends on the particular shade and how it all works together in a room.
Deborah
I’m 17 this year..and currently I’m cleaning up my bedroom.I painted the 2walls color into red out of 5walls,because I think it looks good but I would like to change the red color into another color after receiving some comments from my friends and aunties that it is a not-so-good color for a bedroom,so I would like to ask you for some suggestion on what color should I use for my bedroom? vivian
Hello Vivian!
When I was 17, I decorated my bedroom with a soft blue (like faded denim) wallpaper, but the 4th wall had big red and blue circles. I loved it!
The first thing I want to ask is how you would describe your personality. Are you outgoing or more introverted?
Second, what is your favourite colour?
all the best,
Deborah