Feng Shui: Does it Make Sense?
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice that has been used for centuries to bring balance and harmony to the home. It is based on the belief that the energy of the environment affects the people living in it. By using Feng Shui principles, people can create a home that is comfortable, practical, and in harmony with the natural environment.
What is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice that is based on the belief that the energy of the environment affects the people living in it. It is a system of arranging furniture, objects, and other elements in a home to create a balance of energy. The goal of Feng Shui is to create a home that is comfortable, practical, and in harmony with the natural environment.
How Does Feng Shui Work?
Feng Shui works by using the five elements of nature: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Each element has its own energy and can be used to create balance in the home. For example, wood is associated with growth and creativity, while fire is associated with passion and energy. By using the five elements in the home, it is believed that the energy of the environment can be balanced and harmonized.
What Are the Benefits of Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is believed to bring balance and harmony to the home. It can help create a peaceful and calming atmosphere, which can lead to improved mental and physical health. It can also help to create a sense of order and organization in the home, which can lead to improved productivity and efficiency.
How Can I Implement Feng Shui in My Home?
Implementing Feng Shui in your home is relatively easy. Start by assessing the layout of your home and the placement of furniture and objects. Consider the five elements of nature and how they can be used to create balance in the home. You can also use colors, shapes, and textures to create a harmonious environment.
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What is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice that is based on the belief that the energy of the environment affects the people living in it. It is a system of arranging furniture, objects, and other elements in a home to create a balance of energy.
What Are the Benefits of Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is believed to bring balance and harmony to the home. It can help create a peaceful and calming atmosphere, which can lead to improved mental and physical health. It can also help to create a sense of order and organization in the home, which can lead to improved productivity and efficiency.
How Can I Implement Feng Shui in My Home?
Implementing Feng Shui in your home is relatively easy. Start by assessing the layout of your home and the placement of furniture and objects. Consider the five elements of nature and how they can be used to create balance in the home. You can also use colors, shapes, and textures to create a harmonious environment.
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furniture placement for dummies 101!
That was a really good explanation of Feng Shui. It's the first time I've understood it so that it makes sense 🙏🏾♥️
thank you
Please draw my wife in the picture so I know where to put her. Thank you.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you sir
So, now you know!
I feel like "energy" and "chi" could also be summed up as activities. If you misplace the furniture, you disrupt the activities of your home or living space. We have to construct clear paths for movement. It isn't just mythical or a religious thought. The flow is more about making it smooth transition between activities as well as protecting your wind down zones, like the bathroom and bedroom.
The more you talk about it, the less sense it becomes 🙂 mostly, for small house, placing furniture has to be creative and practical, fengshui or not!!
Wonderful visuals to help explain how to plan based on traffic flow!! Suprisingly enough, growing up in a 7 kid family, my mom set up quite a few of our living rooms and corridors pretty on line with some of these principles
awseome. Informative. Alot things are common sense but we never thought about it. Chi energy flow is so important.
Thank you. You have restored my faith in feng shui. I have followed it for 20 years now amd got very jaded by the ridiculous placing of red colours here, round things there, it just didn't sit well with me. Your view is practical, usefula and make so much sense.
Feng Shui makes sense because chi in a way, is just the flows of movement through the house over time. So you want to optimize for the best flowing movement.
I've been using Fung Shui for years without even knowing it. It just makes sense. I've always just referred to it as having a "flow" in my home.
I appreciate that as a content creator you recognize the diversity of your audience so you included design principles that reflects functionality. Even though you struggled to find words sometimes of why somethign doesn't make sense, you showed with the graphic clearly why. I've been struggling w decorating and setting up furniture, it's extremely overwhelming esp when you're a detail oriented person that's…tired 😅 but your videos are supporting a lot of the ways I want to structure flow in use and movement around a space and how to place objects. Thnx!
Btw, out of respect we can't/don't (some people dont follow it) put our feet in the direction of prayer. So rn my bed can only be directed towards thst direction (not directly but slightly) and that's the only way the solid wall can be behind the headboard. It makes sense for us but that's the dilemma I have. 😕
I get it now thank you
The person that planned access to the bathroom through the kitchen should be banned from planning anything ever again. They could have made a much bigger bathroom and a much better kitchen – I frankly am astonished that the Feng shui expert does not mention this.
Thank you for this. Your positive energy and cheerfulness add to your lesson on Feng Shui.
Horrible bathroom door location. It could have been entered from the corridor. That will free up more room in kitchen for counters.
Great video, creative
1. All interior designers and builders should study this.
2. Good for u to explain in a tangible way, for conservative Americans who might think it weird. Many of us dont use the word vibe or chi or yen yang but we understand energy, balance, and harmony.
I built my home without studying feng shui, but as i look at it, while i could have done better, i made some good, flowing decisions! pat on back!
I never really thought about psychology before when it comes to furnishing apartments and homes. Very interesting.
The practical applications of feng shui are undeniable
This is really well explained. Thank you 😊
I feel weird that he didn't end the video with "So now you know!"
Honestly, thanks a lot for your videos! Ive recently reareanged my furniture according to tips you often give to other people and I feel so much better in my own home now. Also im totally gonna use this knowledge to build better sims homes from now on 😂
I really love this! Thank you!
A very useful and clarifying video to understand the importance of 'chi' at home. I 'll take all of this into consideration soon. Thank you!! 🙏
Yeah, but why no fans? I quite like the breeze when it’s 100F outside.
If you have a house, you usually go in through garage.
I do believe in feng shui, it works for me and my family and friends. But thank you for this comprehensive video! This will certanly sink on designers! <3
Its like how disney created their paths in the original parks. They had no pathing and just let the visitors walk around to attractions then they pathed the most used walking areas
I never familiarized myself with Feng Shui and always thought just by name and by seeing people talking about how "that room needs more Feng Shui" that it was an incoherent & random thing, where 2 people would tell you 2 different things about the "energies" they feel in your house or something. But indeed, explained like this, this really makes sense even to someone who doesn't actually believe in anything spiritual. As someone who is quite minimalist about my living space, now I really want to try and re-plan my interior with this in mind ! You made a really simple and easy to understand introduction
2:00 that's why I don't understand why people put beds in the middle of small bedrooms when you literally can put it against the wall and don't need to bump you legs on your bed any time you go to lay down on that side further away from door.
Very helpful thank you.
No one believes in chi until you're having to push your dining table with your front door to get into your space.
4:29, "it looks nice, but its just wrong" 😂
I did the opposit in one place of my house deliberately. My kitchen has two doors, one which has a nice path from the sleeping rooms and the front door and one which goes through the living room. The shortest path was the previous one I described, but that would be a shortcut which makes things more efficient, but shows less of the home. So I closed that door and now you have to walk all around though the livingroom to get to the kitchen. That way my appartment feels bigger and since you walk pass more of furnitures it feels more like a home and less like a hallway. The only reason I use that door is because it has the only power plug just behind it with which I can vacoom the entire appartmend without unplugging the vacoom. I also use that space in front of the door (inside the kitchen) as a space to store all my recycling stuff.
Love this explanation!
Help is needed!! I have 2 parrots,the cages are quite big, they are portable and during summer they are in the porch. But now they are inside the living room. How can I use feng shui ??where is a good,consider, location for them? Thanks
Optimize and make your place nice should be an interior decorators tagline.
I think feng shui is really good for people who get stressed out and paranoid. When my back is to a door or a window, I tend to look over my shoulder every now and then. Even though birds are the only creatures that can see into my room, they still occasionally land near the window and make a lot of noise. When my back is to the window it disturbs my focus and makes me tense up. Also it's just really bad to have sunlight at your back especially when you are at a desk with a computer. The sun used to always shine on my screen and I had to close my blinds to see it properly. Now I can see my screen perfectly even during the day and because my back is to a wall, I don't feel exposed and am much more comfortable leaving my door open for airflow.
Also I just realized why movie theatres have the entrance at the front of the room where the movie screen is. I used to think that it would be better to have the entrance at the back of a theatre because it means that people who arrive late will be less noticeable but now that I understand Feng Shui better I realize that a back entrance would mean that everyone would be looking over their shoulder whenever someone arrives late and it would be way more distracting. Even if you don't turn around, there's still a subconscious feeling that you are exposed. Even in western culture I think Qi has always been an important consideration in stadiums and theatres. They just would've used a different word
My fengshui is disdurbed by the engery of the glass
Cool vids i rebuild a house atm , now i know.
All of these concepts are explained better by other means than Feng Shui. Let's make an analogy: one can be healthy by relying on their belief in yoga, but thorough study of exercise and human biology has way more explanatory power and predictability than yoga. Even when some mystic method works, it works only until a certain point and only by centuries of trial and error. Science works even when it's wrong, cause then scientists say "look! Room for improvement!" and change their approach and view. This doesn't take away from any possibility of deriving value from mystical stuff, you're free to do so inside the constraints of rationality, but please, stop trying to square this circle… Mysticism is not compatible with scientifical thinking.
Now you know???
What a load of garbage. Terrible explanation
i would place the armchair on the other side next to the sofa because the way it is placed now it is blocking the door to the terrace / balcony if there is one
very curious about bathroom feng shui, especially with your toilet and door 😅 if you could make a video about that sometime (or if you have one already?)~
Thank you for making this so accessible to understand, I love your content!