3 Feng Shui Spring Tips to Perfect Your Home
Right now we’re exiting the quiet cold of winter and are entering a new season of warmth, growth, and renewal—spring!
This is the time to declutter and expand your possibilities in home design. After the preparatory spring cleaning is done, find ways to invite new Yang energy into your home.
Spring is such an exciting season because all your resolutions start to burst forth like a rainbow of flowers. Make your house the place to let forth the best you bloom this spring!
Spring Tip #1: New Season, New Color
In winter, Feng Shui recommends darker, richer colors to inspire a more interior-focused time. In spring, this changes completely to a palette that evokes Wood Energy: the power of creativity, expansion, and birth.
The softer energy and growth of spring recommends objects and walls that fill your home with soft blues and greens, even teals, to harness the sensation of growth.
These colors advocate new beginnings and new pathways—imagine all the new trips, goals, and projects you envision for the year ahead as the flowers around you are blooming.
Spring Tip #2: Welcome the World
For me, the moment spring hits, the most important point in my home is the front door. To replace all the old static energy of winter, I make it a rule to open my front door 9 times a day.
Before you run screaming for the hills, I can only insist you try it for yourself, and see the change in airflow, mood, and experience it brings you. After a long time hoarding heat and savoring the little light of winter, it’s time to give the season open arms!
Cracking open windows also helps achieve this affect, but nothing beats the full, dramatic embrace of letting the tides of spring roll in through the front door.
Spring Tip #3: Add Rectangular Shapes
Credit: Alvar Aalto House
To achieve the spring effect of Wood Energy, place rectangular shaped furniture and objects inside.
For example, a rectangular shaped coffee table will give a Wood effect of strength and solidity while also encouraging new growth. That’s because subconsciously rectangular shapes conjure the silhouettes of trees for us.
Any shape that bring forth that idea of trees with vertical lines or columns that resemble trunks all give that new sensation of spring in the home.
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