Once the positioning of the bedroom and the bed has been verified, we proceed with the analysis of the elements of style and structure present in the room, which will create the atmosphere and mood that will be mapped and processed again by the brain to have safety on the environment in which to let go.

Once again the Feng Shui analysis, by applying the basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Yin / Yang Theories and Theory of the 5 elements) in the house plan, allows a level of reading of the environment able to provide the tools, style choices and corrective interventions to make the maximum comfort of living well-being to improve the quality of sleep and therefore make the space an ally to fortify the immune system.

Stylistic design

Color fan over an architectural drawing

The style elements that make the room the right atmosphere both to rest deeply and to stimulate intimacy cannot be standardized, there are many factors that intervene and there are no predefined recipes, let’s see them:

  1. The Cardinal Orientation. A South-oriented bedroom will have a different style project from one oriented to the NW or EAST, for this reason the internal analysis with Feng Shui is always indispensable, because the precise reading of the orientation is performed by supporting the Lopan, an instrument of Feng shui work, in a particular point of a house wall.
  2. The External Context to which the room overlooks. The interior design of a bedroom must always be related to the external analysis, so that even two bedrooms with the same orientation will have different projects because they will certainly look out and receive different stimuli from the outside.
    Think of a W-shaped bedroom overlooking a park and the same W-oriented bedroom overlooking an abandoned construction site, same direction but very different external stimuli and therefore a different interior design
  3. The Needs of the User. Furthermore, it is necessary to take into account the person who will use the room, his practical and emotional needs. The bedroom of a single, a couple, a child 0-12, a kid, elderly people. These are all aspects to consider in the design of a bedroom and which influence the choice of analog elements.
  4. Elements Present. It is necessary to take into account elements that are present and that cannot be modified for reasons of budget, choice or other.

It is clear that there are many aspects to evaluate, which is why planning is not done over the phone, online or on the spot.

Positive elements

Woman sleeping on white sheets

To recreate maximum environmental comfort to promote rest (and satisfying intimacy), it is essential to carefully evaluate the following elements which, if well studied at the design level, become positive factors:

  • Type of bed (with a headboard that gives perception of support, stability and hospitality)
  • Direction of Door Opening
  • Images (choose those with a great evocative emotional impact, not opening images on the wall of the headboard, such as meadows, seas, gardens, roads, bridges, etc.)
  • Appropriate décor ideas
  • Materials for finishes, coatings and furnishings (warm finishes that evoke the warmth of a nest)
  • Colours for walls, accessories, fabrics and furniture (pastels, soft nuances to remind you of the warmth of a safe and protected place)
  • Shapes for furniture, accessories, objects (regular and soft shapes, no edges towards those who sleep)
  • Motifs in the decorations (e.g. avoid all those with a disorienting optical effect)
  • Fabrics
  • Feelings

Negative elements

Here is a list of elements to avoid in any case in the bedroom, regardless of orientation, etc., as they are carriers of disturbances and interference to the nervous-perceptive system that make rest superficial.

  • Avoid electromagnetic pollution (PC, TV, wifi, mobile phones, etc.)
  • Avoid Noise Pollution
  • Avoid having Elevator Shafts and Water Drainage Systems in the wall on which the head of the bed rests
  • Avoid having too many openings or too large openings in the room (such as large sliding French doors or many glazed areas or velux / skylights above the bed in case of attics)
  • Avoid having the bed positioned in line between French doors (which is instead done by many interior designers to take advantage of the safest wall to place the wardrobe. It is more important to sleep well than not to accumulate)
  • Avoid having too low ceiling beams which, in a longitudinal or orthogonal direction to the extended position, risk causing pressure to be perceived precisely in correspondence with certain parts of the body
  • Avoid having too many Green Plants (At night, when there is no light, the plants breathe like us, that is, they absorb oxygen and throw out carbon dioxide)
  • Avoid clutter and clutter
  • Avoid any decorative elements or furniture that may loom
  • Avoid too cold and too hot temperatures
  • Avoid decorative elements or furnishings that have sharp edges against the person who sleeps
  • Avoid the Mirrors

Sleep disturbances in children and teenagers

Bedroom

Let’s look at the Feng Shui perspective on this point to reflect on the design of children’s and children’s bedrooms.

The indications described in this article apply to both adult rooms and children’s bedrooms, which often have disturbed, agitated or intermittent sleep or for those children who often ask to go to the bed, who do not like to stay too long in the early years. in their room alone etc.

Here are some important considerations related to children’s bedrooms in addition to those mentioned above:

  • Children’s bedrooms are a microworld inside the house, because they represent the refuge of the child who will later become a boy. For this it is necessary to design the room so that it is literally “at the height of the child” to facilitate his autonomy and that it grows with him. The bedroom must leave room for games and the discovery of life first and for the study and friends afterwards.
  • Another fundamental thing, always referring to an Analogy with Nature, is this: mammalian animals, by innate instinct, never place the place where they raise their puppies, near the mouth of the den, neither before nor far from the hollow in which parents rest. This concept carried over in today’s homes means that the bedrooms should be located near or after the master bedroom. Avoid placing a child’s bedroom away from that of the parents (cases seen in consultancy e.g. bedroom on the ground floor and double bedroom on the first floor, or bedroom near the entrance and double bedroom instead more distant)
  • For Feng Shui the house becomes a map that represents, among other things, also the members of the family, so it is possible to check if the bedrooms are in correspondence with the reflex point of the children and if so, it is possible assign each child the room that corresponds to their role.
  • The placement of the bed inside the bedroom is different depending on whether it is a child 3-6, 6-10, 10 and up. The smaller they are, the more the bed must be placed in a safe and sheltered corner, in the most protected part of the room, from the moment the door is opened. Growing up, the bed must be positioned in such a way as to have both sides free so that the use of the space follows the inner growth and development and desire for expansion.

Conclusions

The holistic view of human health offered by Chinese Medicine helps us to return to the true essence of well-being given by the balance of the 4 fundamental aspects of the human biological system: body-mind-space-emotions.

Body and space are the tangible and custodian aspects of the intangible, energetic part made up of mental schemes and emotional states, each pillar must be treated with appropriate techniques and practices to ensure dynamic balance for the whole system, between the ups and downs of life.

The house is the largest body. For Feng Shui the house is an organism, the projection of the inner aspects of the person in a limited space, it is your second skin. Never separate body care from the space in which it moves.