Feng Shui bedroom mirror question...?

BritLdy

In my bedroom, my bed partially faces a mirror. I have no other options as far as furniture placement goes in the room. A friend told me that I should purchase a small Feng Shui Bagua Mirror to hang over my bed. My questions are...is this the correct course of action? If the mirror is the correct course of action. what is the reason for the mirror?

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I do not want to cover the mirror, so other suggestions please!

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Mh... it would have really helped if you told me the location of your bedroom in the house. Mirrors represent water, so it's not a good idea to have them in the Fame/Reputation area. However, as a general rule, the Relationship area is extremely good for mirrors (round one, mind you), and it's good to have your bedroom here. If this is the case, try not to have it in front of the bed. If you can't change the mirror, then then a crystal ball hanging from the ceiling between the mirror and bed is a good cure. The reason is because it may startle you, and that's not good ever, and because of the angles it may be directing toward your bed.

How can I arrange my furniture?

skipper45c

My mom, (this is her account! sh! its a secret that I'm using this!). Anyways, my mom won't let me move my furniture around in MY room cause she thinks it will look messy. All I want to do is move my bed so its up against the wall (which all my friends do, so its not a big deal) so I have more room on my floor to hang out with friends. She won't let me cause she thinks it will be hard to make my twin size bed, and that it will look messy. Any advice on how i can convince her to let me do what I want?

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Knowing where to place bedroom furniture can be tricky, especially in smaller bedrooms. Follow these steps to arrange your bedroom for comfort and style.

Draw a layout of the room on paper, including measurements and placements of all doors, windows, radiators and other permanent features. If you're computer savvy and doing more than one room, invest in a design software service available for home decorators.

Step 2Measure your furniture. Decorators recommend scissoring little cutouts to scale and label each one with it's name and measurement. This way you can simply move them around your layout to get an idea of what fits where.

Step 3Arrange and rearrange the pieces until everything fits and creates a nice flow throughout the room. Check whether you will bump your leg on something when you walk through this layout, whether the space between any two pieces is too tight or whether the layout looks strange. Keep rearranging until you are happy with the design.

Step 4Get creative with your solutions. All the furniture does not have to be lined up against the walls. Try placing the bed out of a corner, diagonally into the room. If you have a big blank wall and no headboard, try hanging a curtain rod and some curtains behind the bed to create a focal point.

Step 5Apply basic principals of Feng Shui. Clear clutter from all corners for better energy flow. Keep electrical equipment and wires hidden in a unit with doors. Electrical equipment emits electromagnetic waves that can hinder a peaceful sleep. Hiding them also adds elegance to the room.

Step 6Place the real furniture according to your paper layout. If you've done your homework on the layout, you'll be ready to move right in and everything should fit just like you planned it.

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moving around furniture for a new look, need help?

Alicia Caf

want a new look in my bedroom by just moving furniture, any ideas?

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Hi Alicia,
Before you start moving the furniture in your room you might consider making a list of the necessary furniture in the room. On a separate piece of paper sketch out a diagram of potential ideas for placement. You can always angle furniture, group items, and look around for items of furniture from other rooms. Careful where you place your tv as it seems the windows can always be highly reflective during natural daylight hours obscuring the view of the tv. Keep heights of lamps/lighting in mind. 2 table Lamps and a floor lamp is a good thing! Think 'task areas'. If you have a media center in one area, desk for work in a separate area, your bed should be on a wall that is able to accommodate a night stand with lamp. Get rid of anything that is not functional and this will clean up your area visually. If you need additional space consider storage containers for under the bed.
Again spare your self some sore muscles and sketch on paper first to see if this is the way that you may want to consider arranging your furniture :o) Happy decorating!

How to arrange furniture in a long bedroom?

California

I'm trying to create my dream bedroom, which would have a beach/tropical theme. I have painted the walls a sandy brown color, and have the perfect comforter. What I'm stuck on now is how to arrange my furniture. My room is fairly big, but very long so it makes it hard to arrange furniture. My room is about 19 feet long and 9 feet wide. I have a bed, a corner desk (that I use as a vanity) a nightstand, a bookshelf, a dresser, and I'm going to add a small little love seat and a small tv. How could I arrange this so it flows and feels very elegant? Also, any other suggestions on how to add to the tropical theme? Thanks!
By the way, if it helps, I have my door at the very end of the long wall, and two windows on the opposite wall.
If possible, I would like to create a space for the love seat and TV for a little TV-viewing area. (:

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Hi Blondie
Great space and you are actually right on track with your thinking. What you are needing to do is to create within the same room two task areas. One for sleeping and as you said one for viewing. Visualize the room in thirds, two thirds of the area is where you are sleeping and dressing make up etc. The remaining area is the viewing area.
Bedroom area: Bed, Dresser, Vanity
Viewing reading area: Love seat, BookCase, Tv with Stand or small Media center.

Furniture Placement: Place the bed closets to the door. Place bed against a long wall foot area facing into room. Picture a rectangular shape the bed is midway with foot board facing into room not facing the door. Side bed table with Lighting. Dresser should be on a smaller wall. Vanity to the available corner wall.

Tropical Theme-Ideas: www.houzz.com great website tons of additional ideas!

Viewing Area be certain to place the couch facing your bed. This creates a feeling of warmth and welcome. As if to visually say come in and sit down. The placement here is important for the visual impact of your room. Thisis key to making both the spaces work together. You will also need additional lighting in this area.

Colors: Wall color choice is awesome :o) good job. Now time to add a light turquoise blue, some elements of green ( think Palm Trees ) and other greenery at the beach. Add some off white as well. Toss Pillows, Art Work, Natural rattan Baskets and you are adding to the overall look and theme of the room.

Hope this helps and happy decorating! www.houzz.com

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How to make my room appear smaller?

Decorating a room with sports memorabilia?

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shellzwhip

We have a spare room that we've ran out of ideas on how to decorate it. My husband and I are both avid sports fans and we have sports memorabilia that we were thinking of having a room where we can have our things displayed. Does anyone know of any website that could help us decorate our entire room, from paint down to placement of furniture.

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some good decorating ideas that you can use in an adults sports room too
http://boysthemebedrooms.com/sports/all-sports-kids-bedroom-decorating-ideas.html

How can I make my room look bigger?

Q. My bedroom walls are a sky blue, I have a full sized futon in there, a "hand" chair two small square tables right next to each other holding the tv, a round table behind my bed ((cuz right now the bed is up against the wall like a day bed)) I can rearrange the furniture anything!! ((but paint my walls lol))

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Here are a few tips, excerpted from a larger list (see source below for the complete list):

1. Use a soft even light and eliminate shadows which tend to slice a room up into smaller spaces. If you have low or average-height ceilings, avoid overhead lighting - as this will visually lower your ceiling. However, if you have high ceilings, a sparkling chandelier or ceiling fan draws the eye up to the vertical volume of a room.

Try to focus the lighting around the perimeter of the room, as this will effectively push the walls back, providing an illusion of more space.

Also remember that a floor lamp can eliminate the need for a side table. And consider track lighting to reduce the number of lampshades, which interrupt the view of a room.

2. Use at least one tall element in a room to draw the eye upward, towards the ceiling. Not only does this maximize the vertical space in the room, but it also draws the eye up to the less crowded ceiling space above.

3. Don't let loud or bold patterns take over the room. Bold patterns and prints can still be used as focal points or accents within the room, but keep them to a minimum.

4. Use just one or two colors per room for visual simplicity that expands a space. Also keep in mind that white, neutral or pale colors best reflect light, visually "pushing back" walls. This is not a hard and fast rule, as many designers prefer richer colors in smaller spaces.

5. What you have to watch for when using rich colors in a small space is to reduce the contrast in the horizontal and vertical planes. For example, a light carpet, dark wall and white ceiling will often cause the walls to feel like they are "closing in" on you. If you do decide to use a dark color, reduce the contrasts with the floor and ceiling. For example, continue the wall color onto the ceiling (or use a shade that's only two or three shades lighter than the walls on the ceiling) to keep the contrast levels.

6. Think of storage as much as possible when decorating a small space. Two great ideas are to use skirts on beds or tables to create hidden storage areas. Also, ottomans that will slide under a coffee table or end tables can add much-needed seating without taking up floor space all the time.

Hide small clutter such as mail, pens, etc. inside vases, pitchers or decorative boxes and baskets.


7. A vertical stripe motif to your walls, which can be painted on in neutral tones, such as creams and beiges, will help to draw the eye up to the ceiling... maximizing the sense of vertical space.

Again, this treatments is excellent for small spaces with tall ceilings, as it brings the focus to the overall size of the room, not just the floor space.

8. Mirrors are probably the single-best way to expand visual space in a small space. By using mirrors to reflecting other parts of the room or other areas outside of the room (e.g. angling a mirror to provide a reflection of another room or the outside window), they create visual space like nothing else. Mirrors are also excellent at bouncing light around, adding to the feeling of space.

And there's no need to limit mirror placement solely to the walls. Mirrors can be used in a variety of ways to increase the feeling of space.

9. Use fabrics with texture as opposed to pattern to add interest without adding visual clutter.

Simple-patterned tapestry wall hangings are a great example of using texture to create visual impact.

10. If you don't have a lot of windows in the small space, create an artificial view using a painting or tapestry which shows a landscape or some other open space, giving the visual sense of space outside of the room.

However, the view should be clean, spacious and open. A busy landscape will effectively "pull back" into the room, which may not be the effect you are looking for.

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