While enhancing the interior of your home, using Feng Shui principles, remember that the exterior is also considered part of your home, and needs a harmonious Feng Shui set up that will continue to enhance your home’s aesthetic and energy flow.
Covered decks and patios become
part of the Bagua and take on the attributes of that area. An uncovered patio
just becomes an extension of the adjacent Bagua area.
In Feng Shui, the flow of Ch’i,
or life force energy, is most important, therefore decks and patios can serve
as pivotal points for positive energy when arranged correctly.
Begin by identifying the Bagua
area which the patio or deck is located, then treating it as a room in your home,
and enhancing it in ways that will nourish your energy. Choose the appropriate
colors, fabrics that reflect the area, be mindful of placement, create a sense
of enclosure, incorporate natural elements, maintain clutter-free spaces, and
enhance with symbolic imagery. Examples are listed below:
Career Area
- Ensure that your front walk is clutter free and that there are no dead or dying plants.
- Use black, or very dark colors, and grey or white.
- Activate the Water element by installing a water feature, such as a fountain with water flowing toward the house, to keep the energy flowing inward, or install a 360-degree bubbling fountain close by. A fountain with the water flowing away from the house symbolizes the Ch’i flowing out. This is also a good place for a small pond if it is kept clean and circulating.
- Use wind chimes to invite the Ch’i to enter, plant colorful healthy flowers along the path (curved if possible) to your door.
- Showcase lush plants and trees.
- Create a seating area with wooden or wicker furniture and green or blue cushions for quiet reflection. This is a great place to accentuate with a fountain containing water that flows toward the house.
- Display statues of spiritual guides and blue or green gazing balls.
- Create a peaceful, serene entrance that will invite in the Ch’i.
- Make sure the area is clutter free and that there are no dead or dying plants.
- Enhance with lush, healthy flowering plants.
- Accent with wood seating and planters and blue and green tones.
.Wealth and Prosperity Area
- Continue enhancing with the colors purple, red, and blue in flowers, pots, cushions, umbrellas.
- Add a water feature flowing toward the home or business. (Waterfalls or 360-degree bubbling fountains work well here in letting prosperity flow.)
- Call in the Ch’i by adding flags, whirligigs, mobiles, or wind chimes.
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- Continue enhancing with the red color spectrum in flowers, pots, cushions, umbrellas. Decorate with representations of suns, stars.
- Add up lighting and twinkle lights.
- Install a fire pit and/or barbecue grill.
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- Continue with the red, pink, and white color spectrum in flowers, pots, cushions, umbrellas.
- Display garden art in pairs.
- If you have room, add a bistro table with two chairs.
- Continue with the pastel and white color spectrum in flowers, pots, cushions, umbrellas.
- Display metal or whimsical garden art.
- Install a children’s play structure, swings, sandbox, or a children’s garden.
- Enhance with a metal seating arrangement, bringing in circular and arched shapes.
- Decorate with natural stones.
.Helpful People and Travel Area
- Add items and flowers in the color white and round or curved shapes.
- Enhance with garden art representing spiritual guides (angels, saints, Buddhas, etc.).
- Decorate with rocks and stones in grey and white.
- This is a perfect spot for an interior courtyard, or atrium.
- Use items, flowers, plants in the yellow, earth tone spectrum.
- Ceramic garden art such as tiles, statuary, fountains, pots, and benches
- Use square or rectangular shapes
