Like any other room decorated in the feng shui style, the living room should be about balance and order. Balancing yin and yang in the living room is about finding the right placement for things, especially furniture and accessories, so that the right element is represented in the right place. Representing all the elements in the living room for proper feng shui is not difficult, and many elements are represented with the furniture that you would choose anyway.
Feng shui decor does not need an expert in design, simply some basic tips. Here are some simple tips for making sure that all five elements are adequately represented in your living space, in no particular order:
Earth
The earth element is one of the easiest to represent, since you can easily use furniture to represent the earth. Coffee tables are commonly used, since the shape of most modern coffee tables, a long flat rectangle, is a perfect representation of this element. Adding a terra cotta vase adds to the earth element and completes this portion of your living room. To utilize color, greens, browns, and similar earthy tones are great, and grays add a representation of rock.
Water
Accessories make excellent representations for the water element in your living space, such as a great aquarium or artwork depicting flowing water. You can use a variety of methods for representing any element, but the living room`s water element can be a bit tricky if you do not want to choose artwork. Color is one of the simplest ways to add the water element, through blues and blacks and similar cool colors.
Fire
Unless you have a fireplace, fire is another somewhat difficult element to represent adequately, since you are limited to upward-facing objects such as triangles and sunbursts. This is another case where color can be your best bet, through vibrant reds and yellows and similar warm and hot shades such as pinks and oranges. You could choose a great bronze sun as a focal point in this space, especially if it features lots of warm colors.
Metal
Metals are very easy to add to your living room decor, since there are so many varieties to choose from and so many beautiful things that can be made from metal. There are dozens of metal objects that you can choose, from great pewter picture frames to furniture with metal legs. Color is also an option, with great grays and metallic shades like silver and gold. White is also among the metal element`s colors, so consider using this shade a lot throughout the room.
Wood
Last but not least, wood is commonly associated with earth when designing in the feng shui style, but doing this eliminates the fifth element and causes chaos and unbalance in the living room. Wood is an element of itself, and you can represent it very easily through hardwood flooring, furniture, bookshelves, end tables or coffee tables, and much more. Blue and green are most commonly associated with life and growing things, so use these colors along with browns to represent wood through color.
Veronica Smith, writes for AmericanArtisanArt.com and has many ideas for bringing the beauty of unique large wall art and contemporary aluminum wall art to your interiors.
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