What happens if you are one of the increasing number of people who undertake freelance work at home? If you have the space, you may be able to convert one of your rooms into a small office, in which case you can adapt the information in this part of the book to meet your circumstances.
But supposing you don't have all that much extra space and you need to accommodate some work space in another room, say a spare bedroom? You will find yourself having to make choices and compromises. The part of the room which has the bed will be for a Yin purpose and the area where you set up your office will for a Yang purpose each has different requirements. In order to determine how best to arrange the room you need to determine the main use of the room: is it primarily a bedroom that is used from time to time for office work, or is it the other way around? Taking the primary use into account is the best rule of thumb for deciding some of the basic questions.
For example, here are the floor plans of a small bedroom, arranged according to two primary uses. In Plan, the bed is in the best possible location in relation to door and window, but there are drawbacks in the way the desk has been arranged. This would be appropriate if the main use of the room was as a bedroom. If the main use was as an office, you could switch the bed and desk so that the bed was on the same side as the door (less suitable) and position the desk more toward the center of the room, allowin you space to sit behind it with your back to the wall. The screen helps protect the sleeping space.
In all such considerations, don't burden yourself with trying to come up with the absolutely perfect solution. There is no such concept in Feng Shui. You must take as many aspects into account as possible, try to decide which are the most important, and see what you can do to accommodate them harmoniously.
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