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How to Feng Shui Your Home this Christmas

Christmas is a time to welcome family and friends into your home. As we welcome our guests, we must consider the needs of everyone, especially those with impaired mobility. If you’ve never considered it before, you should evaluate the feng shui of your home. 

Improving your home’s feng shui can help create a more welcoming, accessible space for all. Let’s discuss how to feng shui your home this Christmas. 

What is Feng Shui?

Feng shui is an old Chinese art that involves arranging objects, furniture, and other elements within an environment to create a balanced space. This focus on balance and harmony brings several benefits to those who embrace the practice. 

Feng shui benefits include improved wellbeing, better sleep quality which can naturally boost energy levels and overall health, reduced stress levels and it can help you harmonise with your home’s energy. Alongside these benefits, feng shui will also help you create an environment that flows naturally and is easy to navigate, making it both an inviting and accessible home for all. 

How to Feng Shui Your Home

Anyone can improve the feng shui in their home, follow the simple steps below to achieve a more peaceful, harmonious environment. 

Declutter Your Home 

Removing any clutter from your home will create an airy, clean environment. Not only is this more aesthetically pleasing, but it’s safer for you and your guests, ensuring there are no tripping hazards that can cause serious harm to those with mobility issues. 

Feng shui also focuses on removing unwanted items, which decluttering will help with. Removing items you don’t use or need will help to improve your energy in the home, according to feng shui principles. 

Create a Flowing Layout

After decluttering, you can work on creating a neat layout within your home. A spacious, clear layout helps to improve the natural flow of energy throughout your space, and will also create an environment that is easy and safe to navigate for guests. For those with impaired mobility, getting through a tight, cluttered space can be difficult, so crafting a flowing layout will make for a more inviting home. 

Some tips for a feng shui-inspired layout are:

• Creating a welcoming entrance, a positive first impression is a great way of immediately giving your guests a sense of peace and happiness as they enter!
• Place your couch against a solid wall and make sure it isn’t directly facing a wall.
• Use softer colours in your kitchen design, as this environment already offers powerful energy.
• Place the heads of beds against walls too, ideally facing the room’s entrance.

Introduce Plants in the Home

If you’re wondering how to incorporate a biophilic design into your home, introducing houseplants is an easy way to do so. Adding plants to your home will bring nature’s energy into the space, and help improve the air quality. Houseplants look great and add some colour to your home, while also improving your connection to nature and the environment, something that feng shui encourages. 

Nature within the home will help to reduce stress levels, improve your mood, and can help to improve both mental and physical health, providing great benefits to all who visit. 

Incorporate Warm Lighting

Using warm lighting, such as warm LED bulbs or incandescent bulbs, throughout your home will help to maintain a harmonious environment. Harsh lighting can cause discomfort, potentially causing eye strain and headaches. Warm lighting will make your guests feel much more comfortable, allowing them to relax and enjoy themselves.

Taking advantage of natural light is another method of improving your lighting. If you’re blessed with windows that see the sun, let it shine to strengthen your connection to nature, helping to boost wellbeing and vitality! 

Improving the Accessibility of Your Home

Improving your home’s feng shui will bring great benefits, making all guests feel comfortable and at peace. However, with some extra effort, improving the accessibility of your home will make guests with impairments, such as arthritis or other mobility issues, feel even more welcome. 

Install Temporary Assistance

Temporary assistance, such as a ramp to the doorway, or safety rails and slipmats in the bathroom, will help those with mobility issues feel safer. Although you may not need them, installing them temporarily during the festive period can help those who visit feel much more at home, helping them get into the spirit. 

Mobility Furniture 

Mobility furniture, such as our riser recliner chairs and adjustable beds, is great for people of all mobility levels. Even for someone without any impairments, this supportive furniture helps to improve comfort, health and posture at home. For those with mobility issues, the improved support of these chairs and beds helps to improve independence and confidence, allowing them to sit or lie comfortably without the need for assistance from others. 

Get a Free Home Trial with Grosvenor Mobility 

If you don’t have any mobility furniture at home, Grosvenor Mobility offers free home trials! In a trial, you can try out a riser recliner chair or adjustable bed of your choosing. A specialist will come to your home with the furniture, answering any questions you may have. Get in touch with us today if you’re interested in reaping the benefits provided by these pieces of furniture.