A closet is a good piece of furniture to be placed in bedroom. But where exactly should a closet be placed with respect to bed is a most often asked question. Here’s the most preferred closet placement.
For a better feng shui the bed should be placed facing closet when the door of bedroom and the head of bed both are on same the wall.
let’s see how to place furniture in bedroom for optimizing fen shui.
Bedroom Feng shui (for gathering chi energy)
Feng shui is all bout harmonizing oneself with one’s surroundings.
When the bed is placed closed to the wall that also has a door, the chi entering in the room passes easily from the wall directly in front of bed. This chi flow should be gathered inside the bedroom. For this, a closet paced on the wall directly opposite to bed can help to retain chi that is flowing through the bedroom
When the door and bed are perpendicular to each other then the bed should not face closet. In such a bedroom the closet should be placed parallel to one side of bed for a good feng shui.
When the door and bed are directly opposite to each other then the bed should be moved to a different site such that door and bed don’t lie on a straight line.
Directional significance in furniture placement in bedroom for good feng shui
In Feng shui every direction represents a particular energy and is linked with particular elements. For example, the north is associated with water element, south is associated with earth element & fire etc.
In a bedroom the furniture should also be placed by considering what material is a particular piece of furniture is made of and which direction resonated best with that particular furniture.
A wooden closet should be placed on the north direction of the bedroom whereas metallic furniture should be placed on the west side of bedroom.
Therefore, the best position for a wooden closet is on the north inside the bedroom.
Window and furniture placement in bedroom for better feng shui.
It is said that bed should not be placed head first with a window. But this idea is not applicable to every bedroom. In some cases bed placement with window can actually be the best place for a bed.
Let’s understand the feng shui of bed placement in detail.
From a window where chi flows inside the bedroom. Closet and bed both should be placed such that window does not get blocked. This is the first thing.
The second thing to understand in bedroom feng shui is yin and yang.
Day, sun, brightness represents yang. In a bedroom yang energy should be minimal as it represents activeness whereas yin energy should be maximum as it represents rest, night, moon etc.
Since yang energy is flowing from window during the day, a bed should not be placed head first with the window. Now this applies for those who spend lot of time working from their bedroom.
However, during night, yin energy is coming from window which can actually promote rest.
Hence if bedroom is utilized only during night then the bed can be placed headfirst with window as it will receive good amount of yin energy during night.
Now coming to the placement of closet, the chi flow from widow can be collected in bedroom if the closet is placed directly on the wall opposite to the window
Bed & closet placement for efficiently utilizing the space.
So far we have discussed the arrangement of furniture in bedroom with respect to feng shui. If the bedroom is of sufficiently large size, changing the position of furniture is easy but in a small size bedroom, practicing feng shui is difficult. First priority is given to efficiently utilizing the bedroom space so that the bedroom does not feel like a tight enclosed space.
For saving space inside a small bedroom, the best placement for closet is near the wall facing towards the sides of the bed. This takes up so much less space compared to placing the closet in front of bed.
If however there is a window near the other side of bed and no enough space is there for a closet to be placed at other side of bed then closet alternative like under-bed storage options are best suited for efficiently utilizing the space.
Having under-bed storage does not affect the feng shui of bedroom.
Can closet face dresser
Yes, a closet can definitely face the dresser. From a feng shui point of view ther is no obstruction to chi flow when the closet and dresser are facing each other. It is just that both should be placed close to their respective walls.
There are mainly two placements in which dresser and closet can face each other.
- Both bed and closet are facing the closet.
In this placement the bed and closet both are paced closet to the same wall such that the closet does not faces the bed. You may ask how feng shui is affected with this arrangement.
In this arrangement for feng shui to be effective there has to be either a door or a window on the wall which both the bed and closet are facing.
- Only closet is facing the dresser.
In this arrangement, the closet faces both the dresser as well as the bed. Feng shui in this arrangement works best the window or a door is present on the wall perpendicular to closet.
Should bed face paintings?
A bed and definitely be placed in a way such that it faces painting on the wall. For feng shui the color of paintings must be selected properly.
Each direction in feng shui is associated with specific colors that tend ot resonsta more when placed in that particular direction.
For example. paintings that are placed on the north of bedroom should have colors like black, navy, blue etc. On the south of bedroom, the colors like yellow and brown are best suited. Whereas the paintings on the east wall of bedroom should have colors like green, light blue etc. On the west wall of bedroom, painting should have colors like white, silver, gray. etc
Apart from the positioning and color of painting, the actual content of artwork should also be selected such that it mixes with the theme of bedroom i.e calm and relaxing.
