Bad Feng Shui - What Not to Have in Your Bedroom

Photo: © Sonja Mildner

I was watching recently a good designer show that left me feeling very upset. That particular sequence was on re-designing a bedroom, which had a big and quite emotional painting of a lonely woman almost drowning in water. The painting had the energy of sorrow and a desperate need to be alone.

Although it was a beautiful piece of art, it definitely did not belong in a couple's bedroom! It felt sad seeing the designer re-creating the whole room around this painting, instead of taking a moment and sensing that this is a very inappropriate image (energy-wise) to have in a couple's bedroom.

One other design element (from the same segment) that should never be in the bedroom - a mirror facing the bed directly. Although, again, the mirror was very beautiful, big, with an elegant gold leafing frame, it was overwhelmingly close to one side of the bed, very inappropriate energy-wise and, regretfully, "working very hard" against that particular couple's harmony and sexual healing.

I am not disclosing the designer's name, not do I know the name of the client, so it is safe to say that, from a feng shui perspective, the couple who sleeps in that bedroom, either is, or soon will be, going through considerable emotional difficulties in their relationship. How do I know it? Well, just the energy speaking itself in ways that we should all learn to listen.