In a house, the living room represents the outer face of the family, and acts as the entertainment zone. The living room affects the family’s fame and reputation. The way you maintain relationships with people outside the family and essentially with influential ones, are all affected by the Feng Shui of the living room. The best place to energise career, fame success luck is the living room.

One should first check the flying stars of the living room, whether they are auspicious or if they are positioned in a way that will cause problems.

Now let us discuss some basic guidelines on Good Living-Room Feng Shui:

• A regular shaped living room is preferable- either square or rectangular.
  
• Living room should preferable located in the outer half of the home and it shouldn’t be neither smallest nor the largest room in home. It shouldn’t be higher than the family dining room.
  
• Symbolically represent the importance of the family in their dealings with the people outside the family by hanging a large family portrait in the living room.
  
• Keep the living room well lit to ensure lots of Yang energy.
  
• Energise the room with symbols of good fortune luck for the family.
  
• Full-length wall mirrors are preferred that reflects the tallest people in the house. Avoid small mirror tiles used to make a large mirrored area.
  

• Mirrors used should be sufficiently thick and of good quality.
  
• Display tall plants at the junction of protruding corners in the living room. The entrance door reflecting in the wall mirror is bad situation as this can cause the father of the household to fall sick and generally brings in bad luck to the family.
  
  

  Symbolically ‘cleanse’ the antique furniture of left-over energies from previous owners with incense and sounds from a special ‘singing bowl’ made of seven types of metals.
  
• The lounge furniture should be either in square/ rectangular arrangement, or a Pa Kua shaped arrangement, which is most harmonious. In Pa Kua arrangement, the main seating area is arranged around a circular centre table forming the 8-sides of Pa Kua. The side tables occupy the diagonal edges. If four of them cannot be placed, at least put two of them, occupying the diagonal sides of the square
  
  

  

• The ratio of windows to doors should not exceed 3:1. Use curtains and blinds. Preferably windows should be at 90 degrees to the entrance door in order to avoid Chi from moving out of the room.

Feng Shui Advice

From activating for success, wealth and fame to improving relationships and bringing powerful people into the embrace of the family well-being, there is no better place to work Feng Shui magic than the living room.

Happy Feng Shui!

Meenakshe Jain is a master-practitioner in Feng Shui and can be contacted at
+91-9810469879.
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