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What is a Feng Shui Living Room?
Designing a Feng Shui Living Room
Top 7 Feng Shui Living Room Furniture Picks
Feng shui design draws on Chinese philosophy to create harmonious environments where you feel at peace. The goal is to balance the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. If you are looking to revamp your living room, consider incorporating a feng shui design to create a more inviting and positive atmosphere. When designing a feng shui living room, you can begin with a palette of earth tones and incorporate the other four elements as you layer in each furniture piece and accessory.
In this article, we will explain the hallmarks of a feng shui living room, how to design the space, and how to choose a feng shui color palette. Then, we’ll recommend our top seven living room furniture picks from Liddiard Home Furnishings and discuss how each contributes to balancing your living room's five elements.
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Feng shui design centers on balancing the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Overall, the goal is to create a balanced and harmonious space where you don’t have too much or too little of any one element, thus creating a positive flow of energy in the room.
Wood and metal are fairly straightforward, while fire, earth, and water may require more explanation. Fire can be incorporated in major ways, such as a fireplace, or more subtle ways, such as candles, electronics, or any shade of red, pink, or purple. Think about adding warmth, boldness, and liveliness to your space. You can incorporate earth by using a neutral palette of earth tones, choosing landscape art pieces, or incorporating square and rectangular shapes in your space. While you’re unlikely to install a water feature in your living room, you can incorporate the element of water by using black or other deep, dark tones. Reflective surfaces, mirrors, or wavy and asymmetrical shapes also mimic the appearance of water.
Designing a Feng Shui Living Room
When we turn our attention specifically to creating a feng shui living room, here are some feng shui tips for deciding on a feng shui living room layout and designing the space as a whole. From big-picture decisions like furniture placement to each small accessory, remember to balance all five elements and create a peaceful environment. Let’s look at a few feng shui living room rules of thumb that all focus on balance:
✔ Choose comfortable and beautiful furniture but don’t put too many pillows on the couch.
✔Do not overwhelm the room with too many decorative objects. Be strategic, choosing items based on the element they represent or incorporating them in thoughtful groupings.
✔Do not let your TV or electronics be the room's focal point. A successful feng shui furniture arrangement living room concept should aim to create an inviting and accessible space. It should promote conversation and connection by arranging furniture with sight lines centered on people and seating rather than electronics. Consider an entertainment center or frame that can hide your TV when not used.
Feng Shui Living Room Colors
In a living room, you likely want to create a place to rest and retreat, so a calming color palette is the best choice for most pieces in your space. The element to focus on here is earth. Earth tones like brown, green, and sand offer a calming, neutral color palette. These colors offer the backdrop and foundation for your room. Major pieces, like couch upholstery and wall color, should be drawn from this color family.
In terms of accent colors, you have more freedom. Because accent colors have less prominence in a room, you can incorporate more intense colors without overwhelming the space. It is crucial to choose accent colors based on the overall feeling you want to create. Pops of blue promote creativity and calm, while green promotes growth and internal change. If you want to create a bold, energy-charged living room, you could incorporate red. Conversely, yellow brings a sense of cheeriness and hope that could create an uplifting space. You might want to begin by thinking of what you want your living room to feel like and work backward to choose a color.
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Top 7 Feng Shui Living Room Furniture Picks
With all of these design principles in mind, let’s look at seven feng shui furniture options for your living room, paying special attention to what element and feeling each piece creates. Although earth tones are going to anchor the room, you can sprinkle in colors and metallic accents in smaller doses.
Benchcraft Mercado Pewter Sofa
Your sofa is likely the largest piece of furniture in your living room, so it is best to stick to a neutral earth tone like the pewter fabric of this Benchcraft Mercado Pewter Sofa. With this element of earth in place, you can balance out the other elements in smaller moments throughout the room. Place this plush gray upholstered couch designed with reversible seat and back cushions against the wall to evoke a sense of protection. And although this couch comes with its own decorative pillows, you can create a livelier living room by choosing throw pillows with pops of red, pink, or purple. If you want more wood, choose a cozy throw made of cotton or another natural fabric.
✅Best for incorporating the earth element as a base for the rest of your feng shui living room design
Ashley Lyndeboro Wicker Oversized Ottoman
Simple pieces and clean lines help to create a feng shui living room, which makes this beige, square ottoman a perfect addition. The Ashley Lyndeboro Wicker Oversized Ottoman will help incorporate earth and wood into your space with slightly textured fabric, dark wood feet, and its simple shape. This ottoman is a softer, more inviting choice than a traditional coffee table if you make it a multifunction piece for seating and a table. Your feng shui living room will be a place to gather and connect when you incorporate inviting pieces like this ottoman.
✅Best for incorporating earth and wood and softening your room
Signature Design by Ashley Gloriann Pewter Accent Chair
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An accent chair allows you to make a bold fabric or color choice that would be overwhelming if applied to your sofa. The Signature Design by Ashley Gloriann Pewter Accent Chair is a luxurious, cozy chair that should have an easy view of the entrance for feng shui placement. Its pewter color and clear acrylic legs serve to infuse your room with metal and water elements with its pewter polyester and crushed velvet upholstery, along with its transparent tapered acrylic legs. Ensure not to incorporate too many other metal elements throughout the room to avoid creating a space that feels overly critical and chatty.
✅Best for incorporating a bold metal element, but beware of overpowering the space
Aspenhome Industrial Lighthouse Grey Chairside Table
The Aspenhome Industrial Lighthouse Grey Chairside Table perfectly balances wood and metal, inviting clarity, beauty, growth, and healing into the living. It is neutral enough to pair well with a number of colors, patterns, and textures elsewhere in your feng shui living room. If you combine it with a neutral sofa and loveseat, be sure to buy these tables in pairs to put them on either side of the couch to contain the protective energy. This industrial chairside table's unique design allows for plenty of storage where you can add a colorful stack of books or a textured lamp to balance out the energy of the living room.
✅Best for striking a beautiful balance between wood and metal
Coast2Coast Home Ancia Smoke Bookcase
The Coast2Coast Home Ancia Smoke Bookcase is heavy on metal with its frame and a slight balance of wood, thanks to the shelving and drawer. The key to incorporating this bookcase into your feng shui living room is how you choose to style it. Be strategic with the items you choose to display and avoid cluttering the shelving since clutter tends to increase stress. Organize your book collection on the open shelving in alphabetical order or by color, but make sure that the colors correlate with the elements and are meaningfully placed. Candles or warm colored books or vases would also help to balance out the metal with fire. If you are intentional with balancing out the other four elements in your living room, this bookcase is an excellent way to incorporate metal in your space.
✅Best for incorporating metal, but pay special attention to how you style the open shelving
Signature Design by Ashley Donata Natural Accent Mirror
This Signature Design by Ashley Donata Natural Accent Mirror is another example of striking a harmonious balance between two elements. Hang this mirror that balances water and wood beautifully from its D-ring bracket hanger opposite the seating to bring warmth and create the illusion of more space. Place it on the opposite wall of the artwork to add more depth and interest to the living room. It incorporates earth tones and would pair well with whatever color palette you choose, whether you want to create an energetic or calming space to gather with friends and family.
✅Best for creating a harmonious balance between water and wood
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Signature Design by Ashley Donier Blue/Gold Wall Art
If you need a metal and water element in your space, the Signature Design by Ashley Donier Blue/Gold Wall Art piece is an excellent option for a contemporary aesthetic to your living room. Both the gold metallic details and blue-gray colors of this hand-painted abstract painting add a sense of weight and coolness to your space. It would work well with wood furniture pieces and blend seamlessly into a feng shui living room with a palette of earth tones if you want to include a hint of artistic contemporary from the Donier collection.
✅Best for an elegant infusion of metal into your space
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When considering feng shui for living room design, the word to remember is balance. Take stock of the five elements–wood, fire, earth, metal, and water–and see what elements may be overpowering your space, underrepresented, or missing altogether. Liddiard Home Furnishings has furniture pieces in a number of fabrics, finishes, and styles that you can mix and match to create a peaceful and balanced feng shui living room. So, stop by our showroom today to browse our furniture selection to boost the flow of positive chi in your home.
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