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By Ben Weissman

Platform beds are those that lack a traditional box spring. They have clean lines and are very inviting. A mattress sits on top of a wooden or other type of frame, allowing for an open area under the platform or adding to the storage of the space. However, when you consider feng shui, you might be happy to learn that these platform beds make one of the best additions to your bedroom. Avoid the bulky, hard lines of a traditional mattress and instead consider the benefits that a platform bed mattress and bedroom set can offer to your space.

Why Platform Beds Matter

Platform beds fit several ways well within the scope of feng shui. They provide you with gentle curves and simpler lines. However, the bed is only one element to this space to take into consideration. When you incorporate feng shui in any type of space, you need to know how the pieces create the whole picture. In other words, the color, bedroom furniture and virtually every other item in your bedroom will play a role in the feng shui of the space.

When you incorporate good feng shui in your bedroom, you are able to promote sensual energy that is nourishing to the soul. When properly incorporated, the bedroom will be inviting, alluring and calming, while still being an exciting place to be. Here are some tips to help you to incorporate this into the space.

• Remove all electronics, exercise equipment and other non-bedroom related items from the space. Another option for this is to hide your television within your bedroom furniture such as in a armoire.

• Allow your bed to be easily accessed from both sides. You also want to create a complete look. Choose a master bedroom furniture set that includes two nightstands, one on either side of the bed.

• Choose a solid headboard and a good quality mattress. Having the best mattress for your platform bed will add to the calming and rejuvenation of the space.

In choosing the right furniture, remember that modern platform beds are a good option, but if you want to add more feng shui to the space, focus your attention on oriental platform beds instead. These beds have more of the calming effect on the space. You will find numerous options on the market to select from, giving you plenty of choices in the color of the furniture, the design elements and even the curves and movements of the texture of the wood.

Keep in mind that the master bedroom furniture you select for this space should balance with the rest of the room. Choose those wood platform beds that incorporate skin colors in them, ranging from pale colors through rich chocolate colors, for an added feng shui benefit. You also want to incorporate quality sheets and bedding in the design since this too adds to the look and feel of the space. When you pull of these characteristics together, you will have a welcoming space ideal for restorative healing and good energy flow.

About the Author: Ben Weissman writes about decorating Bedrooms with Platform Beds and Prepac Furniture for Balance and Affordability. Make your Home a Personal Retreat

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Originally posted here: Platform Beds and Feng Shui

By Patricia Taylor

One often overlooked aspect of Feng Shui is how intangible, invisible, energy can effect a home’s environment and the occupant’s emotional state and health.

While the whole concept of this may appear to be ‘hog wash’ or ‘superstitious mumbo-jumbo’, then you need to read this article and learn how to use an ancient art to improve the look and feel of your home, without breaking your budget.

Energy can take invisible forms. It works with the invisible energy in a home and can vary depending on the season. In the outdoors, energy flows freely, taking the road of least resistance. A building captures energy and traps it.

This energy resides in different parts of the home, effecting the feel and mood of the rooms. The principles of the spatial and temporal dimensions of a building have created a method called the Flying Stars System. This lets Feng Shui masters identify and evaluate the invisible energy in the home.

The flying star system breaks a home into a tic tac toe grid. This grid determines the rooms that have the strongest positive energy and those that have the negative energy.

Home decorators who take time to learn this type of decorating will find some startling facts. Despite the fact that the system uses ancient techniques, many of today’s homes are built on a similar scale.

Most new homes have the master bedroom at the front corner of the home – as apposed to a room in the middle of the home, where negative energy is strongest. The center square is the living room. In many of today’s home designs, the house is built around a center entrance way that leads into a living room.

Our kitchens are also placed in a back corner of the home. This may imply that while Americans are unconscious of the fact, they are instinctively following the energy patterns of their home.

How can this benefit the average person? Many people are suffering from diseases that have no origin. Even if moving from one bedroom to another will not heal a person, it may reduce stress and a negative impact.

Whether the flying star system tracks loose ions in the home, or energy that escapes from our many electrical appliances, is not understood. What is understood is that many people are finding relief from stress and pain by moving from one room to another in the home.

If a homeowner can get over the ancient Chinese classifications like ‘flow of prosperity’, ‘promoting wealth’, and references to the year that a building was constructed, it is possible to glean some practical benefits from the study of the flow of energy in a home.

In many cases, feng shui will help home owners create a home that balances with the surrounding landscape.

One thing we do understand, art has a dramatic impact on people’s emotions and well-being. To view feng-shui as the science of turning a home and the surrounding environment into a ‘work of art’ than you’ll be able to reap the full benefits of managing the home’s energy and its affect on the homes occupants.

About the Author:
Patricia Taylor advises on home furnishings and decor from her web site at http://www.fireplacescreenshere.com She invites you to get her FREE home decorating guide here http://www.exteriorshuttershere.com

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