Feng Shui for Apartment Living: How to Keep Energy Moving Freely Through Your Home

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of energy flow through space. This is done through the arranging and floor plan of a space, to encourage harmony and balance and discourage bad energy within a home. Usually Feng Shui is geared towards traditional houses with multi levels, however there is a lack of focus on modern day living, especially in apartment and high-rise living.

Apartments and flats come with their own set of unique challenges that are not usually discussed in Feng Shui. Features such as shared entrances, limited space and the lack of layout control can be difficult to deal with, with the usual rules of Feng Shui.

How do you implement Feng shui into your home in a modern day flat, so that you too can maintain harmony and improve energy flow throughout your flat. These tips and tricks for Feng Shui for apartment living, will help you to keep energy moving throughout your home.

Entryway Energy: The Mouth of Chi

The front door, even in a flat, is the most important point for feng shui and energy flow. This is because this is where energy enters your home, even if it opens into a hallway. It’s important to ensure that this entry way is not cluttered, dark or blocked, as this can weaken energy from entering your space.

Flats and apartments can have smaller and more cramped hallways, so this is even more significant to keep clear and lit. You can do this by adding a mirror in it to the space, to make it feel bigger and bring the water element into the space. It’s crucial to remember that this mirror should not face the door, as this allows bad spirits to enter the house. The addition of a bell or a chime on the front door, helps to further the flow of energies by symbolically awakening the space.

For those flats that have a lift as their front door, it’s important to cover it with a curtain to control energy flow from harsh energy and to cover distractions. It’s also important to keep on top of lift servicing, to ensure noise is kept to a minimum to avoid disturbance.

Maximize Internal Flow in Small Spaces

In small spaces such as flats and apartments, it’s important to maximize the internal flow of energy. This can be difficult to achieve, especially with the lack of floor area and storage common in flats, as well as keeping spaces multi-use. However, keeping that in mind, there are certain things that you should do or avoid to help to maintain harmony and the energy flow around your apartment.

• Avoid tight furniture arrangements and blocked walkways: This can feel impossible in small spaces, however the use of compact and movable furniture can help that space to feel clear.
• Use of rugs and soft lighting: The use of rugs and soft lighting can help to bring warmth to a space and guide the energy from room to room. Rugs can help to separate spaces, which is especially useful in open plan rooms, controlling the movement of energy.
• Mirrors, mirrors and more mirrors: These are useful in tight corners and can help to reflect light and stop energy disruptions in tight corners. Reminder, these should not be placed across from beds or doors!
• Keep clutter off the floor: Keeping clutter off the floor, stops the disruption of energy. By raising furniture and removing clutter, Chi can move fluidly across the space.

Managing Vertical Energy in a High-Rise Building

It’s hard to feel grounded in highrise living. However, it is possible to feel connected to the earth, when you are high above the ground, by thinking about Feng Shui from a new and more modern perspective. Highness, rather than be seen as disconnected, could be seen as a form of lightness. The height gives perspective and a distance, which can help you to think clearly and gain clarity. This can be seen as the yang part of the yin and yang mantra.

However if you do struggle to feel grounded there are some tips which can help you to stay balanced:

• Add natural and ground materials such as terracotta, wood and clay.
• Decorate with browns, greens and muted oranges to stabilise.
• Use indoor plants to bring the outside in and draw up the natural earth.

Adapt what you can

Apartment living can come with many limitations, however small changes can make a big difference to Feng shui. Even if you can’t do much at all, being aware of the energies around you can help you start to introduce balance into your life. So, if you feel like your space is off, or has weird energy, don’t hesitate to implement these changes and embrace Feng Shui.