Your bedroom style

Getting the right mix of features and materials in your bedroom is important. In deciding how to arrange any room, how to decorate it, and what to put in it, the main purpose of the room is the most important consideration.

The overall style of your bedroom, therefore, needs to reflect the importance of this area as one in which your whole being (body and mind) comes for repose. This is an indispensable aspect of the perpetual process of Yin and Yang, and if you do not respect it, an essential aspect of the balance of your life will go out of kilter.

Tombstone headboard

It doesn't take much imagination to see that the headboard of bed resembles a tombstone. Such similarities would immediately strike the eye of the Feng Shui expert and you would be advised to select a different style.

Plants in the bedroom

During the day, plants take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. So plants and flowers around a sickbed make sense in the daytime. But at night the pattern of gas exchange is reversed and they compete with us for oxygen. Don't fill your bedroom with plants and, if you're ill, remove the gifts of greenery overnight.

Uppredictable energy

From the Feng Shui point of view, bed frames shoule be made of warm materials, not metal which is cold and has unpredictable energetic qualities. Nor is the bedroom a religious sanctuary, so according to Feng Shui principles it should not be used as a place of worship. If you have nowhere else to put items of religious significance, the best arrangement is to keep them in a little cabinet that you can keep closed.