According to Feng Shui the best shape for a house – or a flat – is a box or a not very oblong rectangle. In that case we can really have a rational arrangement of the space, but when a flat has an irregular shape we find several problems.
In this article we report two examples of a Feng Shui harmonization of an irregular shaped flat (Pic.1): the first in the bedroom, the second in the living-room.
Pic. 1 – The plan of an irregular shaped flat
BEDROOM
The first example concerns the bedroom, which has a south-west orientation. The color of the wardrobe and of the headboard is reddish purple and expresses a Fire energy (Pic. 2) while the color of the wall, the picture over the bed and the futon headboard (Pic.3 – furnishing bywww.cinius.com) have a predominance of Earth colors (yellow, dark brown, red brown): this allows us to create a harmonic binomial aligned with the south-west area (Direction Earth 2 of Ba Gua).
Pic. 2 – Headboard and wardrobe
Pic.3 – Headboard with futon and poster
In front of the bed there is another naturalistic poster with water flowing outward so that you can picture a movement along the wall – even though it is virtual – which allows to neutralize any possible disturbances from the room of the neighboring flat (Pic. 4).
Pic. 4 – In front of the bed
In order to reinforce this solution two orthogonal mirrors (Pic. 5) have been placed in a high corner of the room such as to send back any images beyond the two external walls (in red in pic.1) delimiting two ‘outer’ rooms – from the point of view of the actual map – but ‘inner’ in relation to an ideal rectangular shape (In green in pic.1)
Pic. 5 – Mirrors
This is a way to enlarge the view projecting the images coming from inner spaces towards two outer spaces which are responsible for a narrowing of the ideal rectangular shaped map.
LIVING-ROOM
The second example is about the south-west oriented living-room. Here the binomial is between Wood and Fire energy. In picture 6 you can see how the predominant Wood color is green – the sofa cover, the pillows and the plant – while Fire is represented by the lively chromatism of the Indian wall-hanging and the African style patchwork (design and build by reoattitude.com). The latter is endowed with a geometric effect which draws on the oblique cut of the staircase along the wall: the setting of a triangle overlapping a rectangle suggests a smaller trapezoidal space. The triangle’s tip has also the purpose of resolving the flattening of perspective due to this second external wall, pushing it upwards.
Pic. 6 – Trapezoidal space between the sofa and the staircase, redrawn by an ethnic-style picture.