Basic Rules of Feng Shui

Choosing the House

- It's advisable that the house's floor level will be the same as the street's floor level.
- It's advisable to keep the house clean, tidy, bright and with fresh air.
- Avoid irregular forms in the plan of the house.
- Avoid high houses (applied to houses, not flats) or low houses sorrounded by high houses.
- Avoid edges, roofs or corners of other houses pointing to your house.
- Avoid streets or roads pointing directly to your house

Entrance

- Avoid edges, roofs or corners of other houses pointing to the entrance door.
- Avoid streets or roads pointing directly to the entrance door.
- Avoid columns, trees, stairs, mirrors and the bathroom's door just in front of the entrance door.
- Avoid to use black colour in this space. Better use a light colour.
- It's advisable to keep the door well cared, tidy and well-painted.

Garden

- It's advisable to keep it clean and tidy.
- If you have a fountains or ponds, keep the water clean and crystal clear.
- Avoid to use stones with irregular form, better use round shaped stones.
- Avoid small gardens crowded of huge and high trees. It must be enough space.

Sitting Room

- It's advisable that this room has the bigger space in the whole house and that it'll be full of light.
- It's advisable that this room will be close to the entrance of the house.
- Avoid dark colours or red colour in the walls, floor or ceiling.
- Avoid to use so many mirrors in that room, you should be very careful where do you put them.

Kitchen

- Avoid to situate it on a drane or septic tank.
- Avoid to locate it just in the middle of the house.

Bathroom

- Avoid to locate it in the middle of the house.
- Avoid that the bathroom's door will be in front of the entrance door, bedroom's door or in front of a desk or bed.
- Avoid to locate the bathroom on the other side of a wall that connects with the stoves of the kitchen, the headborad or side of a bed, a desk, the chair of the desk, etc.

Bedroom

- Avoid the bedroom will be located on or under a bathroom.
- Avoid the bedroom will be located on a stove.
- Avoid the bedroom will be located in front of streets or roads pointing directly to it.
- Avoid mirrors in front of the bedroom's entrance door.
- Avoid dark, strong or red colours, paintings or animal/wild nature drawings or pictures.

Bed

- Avoid that the bed will be in front of the entrance door, mirrors, bathroom's door, furniture edges and corners.
- Avoid that the bed will be under a beam or shelves.
- Avoid to have the wall in the right side of the bed.
- It's advisable to have the bed located in a way you can see the entrance from the bed.
- Avoid to have a mkirror that could reflect the bed (on the side, on the top).

Colours

- Avoid to use dark, strong colours as black or dark blue, and red colours as red, pink, strong orange.
- The rule is not only for the walls, also for the ceiling and floor.

Decoration

- Avoid terror images, wild animals, disfigured images or very abstract paintings, etc.

I. The Origins Of The Feng Shui 风水

Although it is one of the oldest known disciplines, Feng Shui (Feng Shui literally translates as "wind-water") is relevant today, reflecting a sense of design and ecology that lends fluency to business environments and contemporary, personal lifestyles. Feng Shui is a guiding philosophy to bring harmony by looking at our environments and how the balance of energies created can effect every part of life.

Feng Shui is the art of placement - a guiding philosophy to bring harmony by looking at our environments and how the balance of energies can affect every part of life. All we are and do is connected to the environment, Mother Earth and Chi, the natural Order or Energy which permeates the universe. Feng Shui is a science incorporating astronomy, geography, the environment, the magnetic fields and physics. Feng Shui is not a religion or superstition - modern science has proven it to be a complex mathematical system.

But to talk about Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway) origins, first we must talk about I Ching. I Ching it's an ancient book which was the origin of the mathematics, astronomy, medicine, science and even the Kon Fu in the ancient China. The book not only contains the essence of the Chinese culture, but also it's been appreciated since the old times as an example to applicate scientific knowledgments, medicinal theories, astronomical studies, politic strategies, architecture, psicological analysis and, that's what interest us, home designs.

So the theory of the Feng Shui become from the I Ching. At the beginning, only the rich people -imperial and noble houses- could have access to this knowledgment called "Knowledgment of Kings and Emperors", because it was a secret knowledgment, just knew it by the most powerful and rich people of the Empire, to improve their power, fortune and health. It wasn't since 2.000 years ago that one emperor wanted to share this knowledgment with the people.

The first book written about Feng Shui was Zan Shu (by the master Kuo Po), written 1700 years ago. Another famous masters of these times were Yian Chou Kan , (the one who showed the use of the compass in the Feng Shui), Yang Yun Sung , author of Qing Lang Au Yu, Jiang Da Hong , author of Di Li Bian Zheng , Shui Long, Jin Wu Juan , Bao Zhao, Han Long or I Long.