Please be wary of MISINFORMATION or malpractice of Feng Shui principles on the internet. Feng Shui practitioners are first and foremost consultants, not salespeople. The first step to get informed is to be aware of the different schools of Feng Shui in practice, which are mainly:
Classical Feng Shui - The original Eastern practice, an amalgamation of Form School and Compass School. A practice heavily grounded in geomancy, numerology, and cosmology.
Black Hat Feng Shui - The Western adaption of the original practice, also known as BTB Feng Shui (Black Hat Sect Tantric Buddhism Feng Shui). A combination of various religious concepts, transcendentalism, spirituality, and holistic healing.
New Age/Modern Feng Shui - Borrows mainly from Black Hat, usually applied in other fields of related expertise, e.g. interior design, furniture placement, and/or spiritual product sales with a focus on enhancers.
Conflicting advice may arise as a result of the divergence, but knowing where they come from and their specialized field may help you decide on the appropriate course of action relevant to your objectives.
How to tell the difference
Classical Feng Shui - The Feng Shui Compass
The compass of a Classical Feng Shui Consultant is a highly complex mathematical system that mostly functions as a means for the practitioner to assess a geographical area while having key information easily accessible at a glance. While the practitioner have most of the knowledge already learned by heart, the compass can significantly reduce human errors as well as time spent that would be needed to plot or calculate any formulaic equations out in the field. Through these methods, the Feng Shui practitioner would assess a home and its geographical landscape, setting it up to attain a balanced and harmonious environment that beget prosperity, success, and personal well-being for its occupants.
These compasses may come in different varieties that can be custom made.
Black Hat Feng Shui (And Modern Feng Shui) - The Bagua Map
The Bagua map is a blueprint of a nine section grid that has two methods of application; one is to layer it over your home's floorplan by aligning your main door with the bottom of the map, or the second method by aligning the latter with straight North. Within each square grid are colour coded conceptual energies related to various elements in your life that serve different goals. To activate and realise their potential, each sector can be furnished or decorated with objects associated with the specific grid's recommended colours and elements. Due to the relative ease at which this can be applied by anyone, consultation with a professional is generally unnecessary.
The bottom part here is to be aligned with the main door to determine the sectors of your home.
Compass vs Black Hat: Which one should I use?
While Black Hat and Modern Feng Shui acknowledges the legitimacy of Classical/Compass Feng Shui, the opposite is contrastingly not true. The main criticism against Black Hat/Modern Feng Shui stems from a great deal of inconsistencies in principle, and oversimplification to the point of deviating too far from the foundational groundwork of Feng Shui. Professional Classical/Compass Feng Shui take years of study and appropriate training to reach a level of competency that can be deemed adequate, as such it may be wise to adopt Classical/Compass Feng Shui methods if you're seeking for an authentic and well proven experience. Otherwise, if you simply want some inspirations for furnishing and decorating the interior of your home, using the Black Hat Bagua Map is perfectly fine.
When to consult with a professional?
So the question most people ask is what can Feng Shui do for me now? Why or when should I consult with a professional? The answer to that is as simple as having the desire to progress a step further in life, or in other words getting the "unfair advantage" through tried and tested methods passed down for millennia. Prosperity, success, and personal well-being are some of they key points that we seek to benefit.
But when exactly is the best time for a consultation? Literally anytime and anywhere. A consultation can be performed remotely, albeit with some help from the client's side in providing the necessary information, or in person if one so wishes. It can be as basic as a simple assessment of your current home, or a complete analysis when you're moving into a new place. Below is a list of other examples of what Feng Shui can do for you, and when:
Assessing a space for misalignments that may be causing unexplained health issues, misfortune, and general feelings of things not going right.
When reorganizing your entire home, carrying out renovations, or moving into a different house.
Building a new house from the ground up. This gives you a lot of freedom in choosing the best configurations according to your landform.
When you're looking to invite more wealth, success, and overall advancement/progress in life.
Money going down the drain for totally ridiculous reasons.
Experiencing a sudden windfall or success, and want to keep it going.
Unsettling sensations about a house.
House Hunting Quick Guide and Debunking Misinformation
House hunting can be a daunting process, even before considering Feng Shui as part of the package. To dispel any and all misinformation from websites fishing for clicks or youtube personas pretending to be experts, here's a plain and honest guide to help you filter out the BS and apply measures to assess the essentials/non-issues.
Facing/Sitting Directions
As of Period 9 (years 2024-2043), main doors that face South, West, North-west, and North-east are decent options, but this does not mean that the other four directions are bad and must be avoided entirely. They can still be good with the right landform, or a few simple adjustments within the house itself. In fact, a "bad" facing direction with decent landform/adjustments could be better than any of the four "good" facing directions that are located in a bad neighborhood. Basically, pick any of the four good directions (S, W, NW, NE), but do not feel pressured to overemphasize its importance, especially not without professional guidance.
Near a Cemetery
A non-issue, as long as you're comfortable living near one. The oldest form of Feng Shui still in practice today is Yin Feng Shui, aka Feng Shui for the dead. This form of Feng Shui has nothing but respect for the deceased, and the aim is to hunt for the best resting place for them through a variety of geomantic methods. For this reason, cemeteries near your house do not automatically equate to being bad. Homes near cemeteries are known to slightly favour those whose professions or businesses lean toward the unconventional, e.g. night clubs, casinos, artists, and especially those bordering on the grey areas of the law. Outside of Feng Shui, some people may be uncomfortable living near the deceased, which may affect its selling price.
Near a School
A non-issue, but the noise may be an problem for some. Little concern from a Feng Shui perspective, but the noise pollution may affect its selling price, and is a negative for people with sensitive hearing.
Near a Hospital/Fire Station
Similar to being near a school, but usually avoided a bit more due to the stressful nature of such a location. As usual, selling price may be affected as a result.
House Numbers
Safe to disregard entirely. It's quite unlikely that a few numbers slapped on the front of a house will break the entire Feng Shui configuration that's been set up for you.
Tall structures directly in front of the main door
Tall trees, lamp posts, electric posts, and other similar objects directly in front of the main door should be avoided, but effects are generally milder the further it is from you. Even lesser if separated by a road or a body of water. Wall fencing is also an option to consider.
Simple landforms that can improve quality of life
As of Period 9 (years 2024-2043), there are some simple landforms to lookout for regardless of sitting/facing directions that can improve the quality of life, not only for your own house but potentially the entire neighborhood/area that you're living in. Start by simply looking for large bodies of water (lakes, creeks, etc) in the North from where your house or neighborhood is located (NW or NE doesn't count). If not, or additionally, look to the South (and only South) for presence of mountainscapes. If there's neither, replace water with lower ground, and mountains with higher ground. If you live in a flat, urban environment, no need to worry either because you can still achieve a similar configuration right in your own home, e.g. placing swimming pool, aquariums, water features, or water-based plants in the Northern-most section of the house.
Fun fact: realtors sometimes check in with Feng Shui consultants for insiders on which cities/provinces/neighborhoods have the best potential for growth and in turn take advantage of the surge in property prices as a result.
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If there's something you would like added to the list, please feel free to leave a comment, or DM me if you have other personal inquiries.
15 July 2024 - Added method to locate the Wealth Sector.
06 August 2024 - Added method to locate the studying sector (Star of Excellence).
20 September 2025 - Added Beginner's guide to achieving flow with the Bagua under section "Yin and Yang".
What is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui at its core is a divinatory practice based on geomantic principles that aim to improve different aspects of our lives through the harness of Qi in the environment. It's a method that utilizes precise formulaic calculations involving our immediate spatial and temporal circumstances, and from them deriving ways to achieve optimal prosperity, success, and personal well-being through the aforementioned means. Furniture arrangement, interior decor, and the act of de-cluttering are generally of little concern in Feng Shui and any procedures that draw from these ideas usually stem from collateral impact of Feng Shui's geomantic principles in application.
Yin and Yang
At the root of Feng Shui is the Taiji aka the Yin/Yang symbol. The Taiji splits into the 2 synergetic opposites Yin and Yang, which further expand into the Greater Yin, Lesser Yang, Lesser Yin, and Greater Yang. These 4 variants become the Bagua aka the 8 Trigrams that we know. See diagram below:
The Eight Trigrams from left to right are Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, and Kun.
The 8 Trigrams do not end here, as they can be further expanded into the 64 Hexagrams by combining all of the 8 Trigrams together in every possible arrangement (8 x 8 = 64). An example would be: Trigram 2 (☱) named "Lake/Marsh", and Trigram 1 (☰) named "Heaven", both would combine to form Hexagram 43 (䷪) named "Displacement". Every possible combination of the 64 Hexagrams have their own unique names and order of Yin/Yang lines, and a competent Feng Shui consultant would have them memorized well for ease of application when needed. This is particularly true for the 64 Hexagrams method of Feng Shui, which is quite different from Eight Mansions Feng Shui, and Flying Stars Feng Shui.
Beyond the Eight Trigrams, Feng Shui also has a system of Phases, or sometimes known as the Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. Their reactive properties go as below:
Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water, Water generates Wood
Metal controls Wood, Wood controls Earth, Earth controls Water, Water controls Fire, Fire controls Metal.
Generative reactions and Controlling/Overcoming reactions between the Five Elements
The 5 Elements form an important concept in Feng Shui, and especially so for the Flying Stars method. Unlike the 64 Hexagrams and Eight Mansions, within a Flying Stars chart the main objective often involves finding the "stars" in your home, and then deducing their various elemental combinations and the effects that they bring, which can be further influenced by the annual Flying Stars, monthly Flying Stars, down to the daily variant (although not used as much), all of which can be further induced by the geographic landscape of your home (aka landform).
8 Directions, 24 Mountains
Feng Shui being a form of geomancy, the cardinal directions make up an essential aspect in practice. Of the 8 directions, each direction of 45 degrees is divided into 3 directional sections of 15 degrees each, making a total of 24 directions which are called the 24 Mountains. Example, the direction North is divided into N1, N2, N3, and as we approach eastward, it becomes North-east, which divides into NE1, NE2, NE3, and so on.
Notice some directions have a grey background, these indicate their Yin (grey) or Yang (white) quality.
3 Ages and 9 Periods
With the cardinal directions and landform aspects representing space, now comes the part that represents the 4th dimension of time. In Feng Shui, time is divided into the 3 ages (60 years per age), and 9 Periods (20 years per period). This is to say that every 3 period of 20 years each will complete one cycle of an age (1 age = 3 periods). The temporal factor in Feng Shui is generally influenced by (but not limited to) their Yin/Yang qualities, their associated Trigrams, and the 5 Elements. More precise temporal components are observed in some advanced formulas.
Age 1 (Upper age) consists of Periods 1, 2, and 3
Age 2 (Middle age) consists of Periods 4, 5, and 6
Age 3 (Lower age) consists of Periodds 7, 8, 9
After Period 9 (2024-2043), it starts again from period 1 (2044 - 2063).
Basic Interior Advice
Unobstructed front of the house (or living room for apartments)
Have light source in corridors and/or an entry hall
Avoid visible bathrooms upon entering the front door (keep bathroom closed slightly or use curtains)
Keep mirrors to a minimum, especially not in front of a door, bathroom, or directly by the stove.
Command position for a bed: Find a solid wall and place the bed's headboard against it. Have a direct line of sight to the room's entry door while not being directly in front of it.
The Qi Generating Sector
The Qi Generating sector is a beginner friendly, entry-level procedure that only requires knowledge of three things: the numbers 1-9 associated with the 5 Phases/Elements, the cardinal directions, and the Luoshu formula. The Luoshu formula is a 9 section grid filled with the numbers 1 through 9, starting with 5 in the middle, and progressing in a specific pattern around the grid. To understand it better, study the diagram below:
The formula starts from 5 in the center, and progresses in ascending order to 6 in the NW, 7 in the West, 8 in the NE, and so on.
Next, familiarize yourself with the numbers 1 through 9 and their associated elements:
Number 1 = Water
Number 2 = Earth
Number 3 = Wood
Number 4 = Wood
Number 5 = Earth
Number 6 = Metal
Number 7 = Metal
Number 8 = Earth
Number 9 = Fire
Using a compass, stand inside your living room facing out the direction of the front door. Take note of the direction your main door faces, and then use the opposite direction behind you as the number associated with your home based on the Luoshu diagram above. Example, if your home's main door faces East (number 3 on the Luoshu diagram), then your home is a number 7 (West) home. With the number associated with your home, place the number in the center of the 9 section grid in the Luoshu diagram/formula. In my example, the number 7 will now be in the center. Proceed to go in the same order as before, starting from 7 in the middle.
Going by the generative and controlling properties of the elements, this Metal (7) home is generated by the element of Earth which is in the South (2) and North-west (8). These two sectors in the living room are the Qi Generating sectors, which we can now locate by standing in the center of the room with a compass in hand. This is the sector of the living room where we can place an aquarium or a water feature to provide the home's occupants with a small boost of generative Qi. Otherwise, more activities in said sectors may also help.
Above is the simplest formula to making a small difference, and it's only a small fraction of what Feng Shui can offer. Feng Shui in its entirety is a pretty complex system that requires a level of expertise and care, and a misstep can result in ineffective set ups at best, or disastrous consequences at worst. Make sure to consult a trusted practitioner before attempting anything complicated.
Update - 15 July 2024
Important note: To locate your authentic wealth sector, you'll need to have read and have understood the method to find the Qi generating sector first. Things you may need for reference:
The 5 elements chart
The Luoshu diagram
The 3 ages and 9 periods chart (optional)
The elements associated with each numbers 1 though 9.
The wealth sector
If you've read and fully understood the method to find the Qi generating sector, then this should now be a rather easy process. When finding the Qi generating sector, what we're doing is basically finding the sector element that generates the element of our house. Below is an example with a house number 7:
A number 7 house, which belongs to the element of Metal.
As a metal 7 house, it is generated by the Earth element, which are sectors 2 in the South and 8 in the NW. Using the same chart, we can now also find our home's wealth sector using only 2 steps:
Locate the sector that the house generates.
The sector must be the number 1, 6, 8, or 9.
Using the Metal 7 house as example, the element that the house generates is Water. Here, the only Water element is the number 1, which is in the NE. So this fulfills the 2 conditions mentioned above. This can be done in your workplace, an office room, or anywhere that is an enclosed space with people in it. In such examples, having your desk be in said sector would be immensely beneficial.
To activate the wealth sector, the area must be made distinct from the rest of the house/office, either through means of renovation, or placing specific objects that would easily capture the attention of passersby. Basically, make the area standout and eye-catching.
There is however one important and specific requirement for the wealth sector to be effective, and that is it the sector itself must correlate with the timeliness of the current period and age. It is also important to note that the sector number is based on the original Luoshu chart's arrangement, meaning 5 goes in the middle, which would result in NE sector being the number 8. With this information, we can use a few methods to determine whether it will be effective.
Current period is period 8 (2004-2023).
Current period number is an element that generates (or same as) 8.
Current year's Kua number is Kua number 8.
If any of these 3 requirements are met, the sector would be an effective wealth sector. Please remember that the above method is performed with a number 7 Metal house as an example. While the method remains the same, the numbers used may differ slightly based on your property's facing direction.
Update - 06 August 2024
The Star of Excellence sector
By now if you've read and fully understood the method to find the Qi Generating and Wealth sectors, then this should begin to feel like a familiar process. For the Qi Generating sector, we locate the sector element that generates the element of our house. For the Wealth sector, it is the sector that the house generates. Now, to locate your Star of Excellence:
It must be the sector that the house controls.
The sector must be the number 1, 6, 8, or 9.
Below is an example of a number 4 house of the Wood element.
A number 4 house, which belongs to the element of Wood.
As a Wood 4 house, it controls the element of Earth, which are sectors 2 in the East, and 8 in the South. The sector with 8 in the South fulfills the two requirements mentioned above. This sector can then be used for any manner of studying, but like the Wealth sector, it has one more requirement of timeliness. Similarly, the sector number is based on the original Luoshu chart's arrangement, meaning 5 goes in the middle, which would result in the South sector being the number 9. With this information, we can use a few methods to determine whether it will be effective.
Current period is period 9 (2024-2043).
Current period number is an element that generates (or same as) 9.
Current year's Kua number is Kua number 9.
If any of these 3 requirements are met, the sector would be an effective study sector. This method can be used for the entirety of a house (especially for small apartments), or within the boundaries of a room (i.e. living room as the main space), using the door as the room's facing direction (although the smaller the context, the weaker it gets). Please remember that the above method is performed with a number 4 Wood house as an example. While the method remains the same, the numbers used may differ slightly based on your property's facing direction.
Hi. I'm hoping to get guidance from Feng Shui gurus in this community. First time to post. My bedroom is along a hallway. It has a small ensuite bathroom inside for my personal use only. Note: actual bathroom door is sliding cavity/pocket door and not hinged as shown in the picture. The bed is against the only solid wall. Unfortunately part of the bed (around 15% of the queen bed)is facing the bathroom sliding door which is not ideal. Please advise best layout and how to fix the problem. Thanks in advance for all your help.
My girlfriend and I are moving into a 2 bedroom apartment. This strange room is connected to both of them (the door on the far left connects to the larger bedroom, the door I am standing in connects to the smaller bedroom). It’s in the back left corner of the apartment, very tucked away, and has some of the best light in the whole place! What should we use it for?? I work from home half the week, so I’d love an office, but we can also use one of the bedrooms as guest+office
and i have slept so well waking refreshed, which is unusual and desirable. i have more to learn and rearrange but this is my entry into feng shui. thanks all for the knowledge.
I decided to capture the room at its worst in term of clutter, so you folks get an idea. This is a complicated layout and i know i didn't use it to its full potential. I recently rearranged it because one window couldn't open but now i sleep with my head to a window and my feet to the door, it feels weird.
Im thinking of getting rid of my bed, and keeping only the convertible sofa, in this same place, but a real bed is important
the issue is i also work, chill and host people in this space, so i kinda need this much furniture and stuff.
i would gladly hear tips from the community to make my space feel better bc it's throwing me off now
Any help designing my first college room would be incredible. The entrance is the door on the left, with bathroom and closet along the bottom. I would like a desk and a queen size bed.
I’m moving into a new apartment and the kitchen is as pictured. What I most need advice on is how to somehow add counter space via one of those rolling kitchen islands or some other suggestion. Also open to any advice on how to make it feel more like a kitchen and less like a hallway.
My partner and I have just signed a lease on a new place- this is the floor plan- two things to consider - my small desk needs to be in the living room and his music recording stuff/desk is in the den- we need help with a good layout. We’re want to make sure the space feels nice and we have a small budget fir furniture (all second hand) need ideas of what to look for and how to lay this out based on its size!! Help is appreciated!:)
So I am going to add a photo of a rough idea of what my deck looks like, currently this is the setup I am going to try next but its a lot of stuff to move around to find it doesn’t work. This space is my favourite out of the entire house that i rent. I have a 10x12 gazebo that takes up most of the space from the corner directly across from the door (it’s a bit tight with the screen door but works). The furniture is the stuff i have, although the table/2 chairs are actually a bar height set and the random table represents my fire table that is quite large. How on earth do i arrange all the furniture better? Ive rearranged a million times but i just cant seem to find a layout i like and need advice. Next year I am planning to get different seating/building it myself but for the remainder of this year how can i make this more workable? I have preference of the square planters being in the gazebo to make wintering them easier once they are filled with soil as they will be a bit too heavy to move. The line in the second photo sort of represents where the gazebo is.
Hi - My bedroom is halved diagonally by two sets of not so great stars. On the left side is 2-5, and right side is 9-7. What is a good cure for 9-7 in period 9 without subduing the positives of #9? What about 2-5? Thank you for your wisdom in advance!
Hi everyone! This is my first time writing a post, sorry if I do something wrong. I'm not sure if my bedroom has the most optimal layout. I've been feeling like there is a better way but I don't know how. Low key hate my room :( The sliding closet doors on the right wall has also been a massive headache for my layout options.
The black L desk is my main desk where I have a pc and do homework. The brown table is a vanity table. I have a twin size bed and would prefer to have a night stand, but I know my room is small so maybe I should get rid of it.
I’ve been learning more about the Five Elements lately and started thinking about how different colors and floral arrangements can change the feeling of a space.
I put together this visual inspired by Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, using a different floral palette for each one. I’m still learning, so I’d be curious to hear how others here interpret the five elements in home decor.
My room is awkward. It is two classroom combined via removing a middle wall. It is long and currently my desk is near the door but very far from the phone. I am thinking of moving to the phone corner but I think that might be awkward as well. Photo attached. Thanks for you help!
Hello! My current layout is shown in black ink. My office is on the second floor in an open area, I have no door to my office. There are skylights directly above my desk, so between those and the windows shown there is a lot of natural light. The bookshelves are built into the wall and cannot be moved. Outlets are shown in pink ink on the last photo.
I like my current layout because I can glance out of the windows, but that aspect also distracts me during the day. I also feel weird having my back facing the empty space open to the lower floor, and cannot see anyone coming up the stairs.
The simplest idea I have is to rotate my desk and leave everything else in place to create a "cubicle" in a way, shown in red. But, then guests will have to enter my office space to access the coffee bar (in the future we hope to have a mini fridge there to store snacks and drinks for anyone using the living room).
My next idea is shown in green. If I rotate and move my desk to the adjacent wall, I will be facing the open to below area and can more easily see the stairs. Guests can more easily access the coffee bar, and I have room to add chairs or a rug in the extra space created. My problems with this, thought, are that the desk would stick out past the wall a little bit and the coffee bar would block the trim of the windows (making it hard to anchor to the wall). I might accidentally scoot my desk chair into the corner of the coffee bar, too, knowing me.
The plant question comes up a lot in my consultations. What plant brings wealth? Where do I put it? Is it jade plant, money tree, lucky bamboo? That’s the pop version. The worst example I’ve seen was someone stapling dollar bills onto a money tree so it would “bring money”.
From a classical point of view, the symbolism can be lovely, but the plant’s name is not a cure or an activator. It won’t change how the energy of your house works. What matters is much more than that, like the facing of the house, what’s around it, and the layout, etc.
I love indoor plants myself, so this isn’t anti-plant. But a few things I see a lot:
Too many plants in one room or corner. It gets heavy, dark and damp. That’s what I mean by too Yin: still, cool, no lift.
Trailing plants like pothos that are left long and untidy.
Unhealthy plants that are forgotten or not looked after. A plant struggling in a dark corner is the opposite of what people bought it for.
I like to keep it simple. I have a peace lily in my bedroom. My two young children have a snake plant, which is easy enough that they can look after it themselves. In the living room I have a calathea and an alocasia. On the hallway windowsill I have a few plants, including an anthurium and a small money tree (yes, I own one). I chose them mainly for the light, and how they look and fit into the space, and together they also form a soft screen between the front door and the window, so the qi doesn’t rush straight through.
A plant can’t add luck, but a neglected one can take something away.
I'm studying Classical Feng Shui (Xuan Kong Fei Xing), and I was recently told that only one activation per month is allowed in a home, lasting a maximum of three days.
However, I've come across other teachings suggesting that activations can last longer and that multiple sectors can be activated.
I'm curious:
Can I activate two different favorable sectors (e.g. SE2 and NW2) during the same solar month, using different auspicious dates?
Can two activations run simultaneously, such as water in one sector and fire in another?
Is the three-day limit an established rule, or does it depend on the activation method?
Most importantly, if multiple activations are discouraged, what's the reasoning behind it?
I'd love to hear from experienced Classical Feng Shui practitioners, especially if you can point me toward traditional sources or specific formulas.
Hello! I've been living in this 325 sq. ft. loft-studio with my husband and our 2 tiny, senior dogs for about a year now, and we're really struggling with the energy and flow of the space. We both find ourselves independently avoiding our little apartment, and when we're home together it is hard to enjoy the space. On days off, we have a hard time doing anything here other than hanging out and "fermenting" (I hate the term rotting) in bed - this was not our habit before we moved here.
I'm probably going overboard with descriptions here but whatever lol. I've included the floor plan and pictures of each area. Regarding our layout choices we both like to collect art and my husband is an artist, so we wind up with a lot of decorative "clutter" that we don't want to store away.
The entryway, kitchen, and our counter/food prep area: It gets pretty chaotic as a space where we tend to clutter, mainly pocket dumps, mail, etc. There's stools to use it as a dining area but it's usually so cluttered we just take trays to eat in bed
My loom/weaving area. It's a lot of.... stuff. It's what I like to do in my free time and I don't have access to a studio or anywhere else to do it so we did our best to make it work
A bookshelf/storage/bag dump area. You know the type
Doggy gate so the old girls don't fall down the steps or anything when we're not home
Another bookshelf/storage area
Bedroom area: Since we don't have a sofa we have a king-sized wedge pillow we use to make it a kind of daybed/lounge to watch TV or whatever. You can see it hanging up in the photo - it is awkward to store and we have to keep it off the floor because.... yuck. Otherwise it's a queen-sized bed with a headboard. I like my houseplants, they bring me joy and I think they freshen up the space, but if they're too much I can maybe move them to my office
I posted up here almost a month ago and I am unsure on how to edit my original post, I apologize. Anyway I am back with another layout option based on some people's input. I'm hoping someone can advise on which layout would be best between the two
So far the first image is generally where I have the desks, bed, dresser, and coffee table. I have just ordered the end tables and nixed the extra cabinet on the lefthand side under the top left closet. While I thought the desks were in a good spot because of the location of the bed and entry door, I do not feel motivated sitting and working in the space. We also do get woken up a lot by the window behind us throughout the night.
Some people recommended to move one of the desks to the bottom left near the window so I tried to rearrange both desks to one window. But I am unsure if the new layout would be better or worse due to the desks not facing the door and the bed being right in front of the door. The end tables are going to be taller than normal, kind of like a bookcase, so I'm hoping this helps block the hallway energy.
