Using Feng Shui Colors to Create Your Perfect Home Design

Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice that governs the spatial location and design of objects and living spaces to optimize the flow of energy through a space.

This practice is implemented by people all over the world in order to create homes that feel balanced and allow for energy to flow throughout the home. This includes:

• Furniture placement
• Room location
• Household items
• Feng shui colors

What are feng shui colors? Well, simply put, they are colors that align with each of the principles and elements of feng shui.

Keep reading to learn how to implement them into each of the rooms in your home.

What Are Feng Shui Colors?

One of the foundational guidelines and principles of feng shui is that everything is represented by five elements. These elements are wood, fire, metal, earth, and water.

Each of the elements are represented by color counterparts. The following are the elements with their corresponding colors:

• Wood: Greens and dark browns
• Fire: Reds, Deep/dark yellows, purples, pinks, and oranges
• Metal: Whites and greys
• Earth: Light yellows, tans, sand/beiges, and light browns
• Water: Blues and blacks

Balancing these five elements throughout the home is essential to achieve balance, harmony, and proper energy flow. Not only must these colors be balanced, but they also must align with the proper rooms/areas of the home.

Feng Shui Colors: Kitchen

The kitchen is the heart of a home’s energy. It’s considered one of the most active areas of the house and one of the central areas where productive energy flows.

It’s also known for nurturing energy and for a feeling of community. It’s a space where you gather with your family, cook meals for each other, and prepare nourishment.

Because of this, kitchens do well with whites and earth colors like beige and light browns. These provide the space with purity and cleanliness, which is essential in feng shui for an area that’s meant to prep nourishment and food. This also gives you a great blank canvas to add other accent colors with decor, plants, and more.

Light yellows and greens are other options that feng shui color experts believe brings happy and positive energy to a space where family often gathers. This could be with paint, dishtowels, plates, and even plant colors. In fact, plants are encouraged in the feng shui tradition.

In kitchens, you want to avoid fire element colors since cooking areas already represent fire in that space. Adding more fire via colors would make the space unbalanced, leading to an overabundance of fire energy that can lead to negativity, anger, and aggression.

The same rule goes for black, which is believed to bring negativity to a space that should be positive and communal. If you’re going to use these types of colors and follow feng shui traditions, do so in small amounts or as accents.

Feng Shui Bathroom Colors

The themes for a perfect feng shui bathroom are renewal, cleanliness, and freshness.

Because of this, water and wood colors are common. Whites and light blues are perfect because they represent purification and washing away any dirt or negativity.

Adding wood colors like green and brown balance out the water to create harmony and represent renewal and regrowth.

Live plants are encouraged for this space as well because they supply the wood colors of green and brown while also representing growth and renewal that the bathroom also represents.

In terms of what feng shui urges you to avoid in the bathroom, fire colors are usually off limits here as well. This would clash with the clean and calm atmosphere a feng shui bathroom should have.

If you want to add decor besides plants, focus on images and colors that match either wood or water. Blues, browns, and greens for towels, rugs, shower curtains, paint, and more. You can also add art of rivers, forests, the sea, and other similar representations of wood and water.

Feng Shui Bedroom Colors

There are three general ways that feng shui color specialists recommend you decide on bedroom colors.

Location

This idea actually applies to all rooms in the house. Whether the room faces east, west, north, or south is essential for room planning and energy flow.

For example, experts recommend that East area bedrooms do best with wood, earth, and water elemental colors because this is where it’s believed these three elements converge. South area rooms are linked directly with the fire element, which means that reds, oranges, and pinks are excellent color choices for these rooms.

Check out this helpful guide on room location for feng shui colors along with my app, Color911, to find color palettes that can help you out.

Skin Tone Colors

The ability to rest and relax in a space is crucial in feng shui. In that vein, this feng shui expert says that skin tone colors ranging from white to beige to dark brown are all great baseline options for bedrooms. She describes skin tone colors as comforting like “an embrace.” A perfect feeling for a bedroom.

Feng Shui Birth Element

Another important feng shui concept is birth elements. Because bedrooms are where many people spend their time, aligning the colors with your birth element will help the energy in the room match your own. For example, if your birth element is water, blues would be a great choice for you. Fire colors, on the other hand, would clash with your birth element creating discomfort and bad energy in the room.

You can find your birth element here.

Need More Help?

The importance of color in interior design is hard to understate. Now that you know what feng shui colors are, you can add this to one of the many factors to consider when choosing colors in your favorite spaces. Also keep in mind, this is where a paint color expert can help. I have years of experience working with clients to produce the home they’ve always wanted. Contact me to get started!