Hmmm, we have the bedhead against a solid wall, window down one side, and wardrobe+main doors along the other side, but the ensuie door is at the foot of the bed.
I find I sleep better in this place (exactly north-south - head towards north) than at our old one (east-west - head towards east).

(but then maybe that's because we don't have the 3am fart-can exhausts & doof-doof-doof crap beside us anymore.)

CDN wrote.


Aside from the lack of doof doof CDN, that is actually a pretty good bedroom layout. re the ensuit door, the trick is to close it at night so the room is not draining into the ensuite.

And re north south - we all have a position that suits us - and it not N-S for everyone.

Go camping for a week and you'll find that if you litined to how you feel - you might even move the tent or swag because it just feels better that way.

for instance - I nearly always wake up facing in a north west direction, and no I'm not in any way related to that religious belief.
Steve

Hi everyone

Sleeping in the coffin position is really an old wives tale ie if your bed faces the bedroom door with your feet pointing towards the door.

Classical Feng Shui looks at where Qi is in the environment so what happens in this situation is the Qi that enters the bedroom through the door is crashing into your bed and causing your sleep to be disturbed.

Remedy: move the bed so that you are not sleeping head or foot in direct alignment with the bedroom door. If you cant move the bed for whatever reason even if you can move it slightly away from the door - a screen placed at the bottom of the bed can be used.

There are other aspects you need to look into in a bedroom, what energies are present there, what are the annual energies affecting the room and also you can use your Ming Gua (favourable directions) for placement of the bed head...happy snoozing...

Cool

A feng shui expert. Welcome to the for um (hmm damn memory loss)!

I daren't ask what the 'annual energies' might be!


Cheers!


Ash.

Welcome Jane…..nice to have you with us!!

Hi everyone

The annual energies commence 4th February. Next year is the Year of the Rat. Certain sectors of your home will have positive energies and other sectors wont. The idea in Classical Feng Shui is to activate the positive energies as much as you can and avoid the negative ones.

For example the South sector next year has 3 negative energies so it is recommended not to renovate or break ground in this sector.

The positive sectors are the East and South East. If you have a door here use this sector the most, if windows have them open, use this sector as a TV room or a room of activity.

The North West has the sickness energy. The West sector has the argumentive energy.

There are also monthly energies that arrive but the annual are more potent.

The effects sometimes can be felt as early as late November but mostly around end of January.

cheers.....

welcome janeyds

that sounds complicated. does this mean that the negative/positive energies change yearly i.e. in 2009 arguments could occur in another sector?

A friend of mine consulted with a feng shui expert and made some significant changes to her house design. Has she focused on the wrong things i.e. if energy is mutable then why would you move your kitchen to another part of the house?

Are there some rudimentary principles that a novice could follow in designing their home?

I'm fascinated ... how do I find out more.

Cheers

http://www.fengshuiresources.com.au/Default.htm

BTW Jane, you might like to correct the typo in your web address in your profile.

Ash.

Thanks to Ash for picking up my spelling mistake...

Re your kitchen - there are 2 ways of looking at the kitchen.
In 8 Mansions Feng Shui which is for long term kitchens should be in one of the 4 negative directions. This helps suppress the negative energies that are associated with that sector. I have seen kitchens that suppress the relationship direction that is Tian Yi and the occupant did not have a relationship since she moved in and that was at least 10 years. If your kitchen suppressed your wealth - well, I guess you can see the picture here.

The other way of looking at the kitchen is Flying Stars - this is a little complicated for the layman but there are 9 energies - #3 and #4 are wood energies...the kitchen is considered an active area - if you have either one of these energies as a facing star in your kitchen you are activating a good energy. In Flying Stars sitting stars govern health and relationships and facing stars govern wealth. A natal chart is drawn up of your home - this shows up what energies are present after the home was built. Energies go in 20 years cycle - we are currently in Age 8 that started on 4th Feb 2004 and will finish 3rd feb 2024. Energies #8, #9 and #1 in this period are considered good.

The next thing to look at your kitchen is you break the room down into its own compass sectors and see where the stove is located. Sometimes we recommend the stove to be moved to a better location - also the direction the knobs are facing are also important - these need to be facing the direction of the main bread winner and it has to be one of the positive directions.

Hope this helps....cheers

Jane,
When you mention south and southeast in the Year of Rat - is that taking into account the southern hemisphere as well?

Steve

Hi Steve

It does not matter whether you are in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere in regards to the energies. I did my training in Feng Shui whilst living in Singapore and started my Feng Shui consultancy there at the end of 2003/beg 2004. I moved back to Sydney in Oct 2006 and have been consulting for the last year here in Sydney and have seen plenty of houses and have done lots of audits so I am confident that it does not matter where you are the energies are still the same - northern or southern.

cheers Jane

Interesting - As I have read and heard otherwise - based on the sun's angles above and below the equator.
Steve.

Hi Steve

I know there has been a debate on this for a while. My Asian Masters that I have trained under consult and teach in both hemispheres and they dont change or advise differently. And as mentioned I have consulted in both and have seen the same events etc occurring at the same time in both!

cheers
jane

The room for maneuvre is very small looking at your design. My advise is to reduce the size of the door and move it near to robe.

ozn

Who told you it's a coffin position. Have you ask a feng shui expert?

looking at your plan you have a very difficult bed room to me it looks like you will only be able to really put the bed head against the windows for you to be able to access the bathroom and the walk in ok .

For the coffin position. I thought that it was only this if your bed was directly in line with the door .
your door will be to the right of the bed . i might be wrong.
Huggles

I was going to post a reply to this thread yesterday but got carried away with work (how dare it! ) but I wanted to post a message in response to the comment about modifying feng shui for the southern hemisphere.
I'm not an expert in feng shui and I can only done my own readings on it, but I have read various sides of the hemisphere debate with reasons why you should and should not alter.

One thing I read basically said (this is my summation of it) that if you were to alter you'd basically be reversing what you did and also took into account that even though you may be below the equator the energies are still the same.

a correction to the coffin position.

bed in a coffin position means none of the sides of the bed is against a wall. regardless of where your feet is facing.

I presume this is only relevant to double beds then - single bedrooms almost always have the bed with one side against a wall

And double beds rarely have either side against the wall - never mind Feng Shui, this seems very impractical to me, for very obvious reasons.