Color Feng Shui: Benefits of Using Color Schemes To Your Home

Color is a very important aspect in one's home, this could either make or break the look of your home. It's very essential to work out the proper color schemes to make it an aesthetically appealing one but according to ELLEDecor there is another way in optimizing the look of one's home by using Color Feng Shui. The use of feng shui in choosing your home's color can take it up a notch.

Feng Shui Expert Rodika Tchi shares to ELLEDecor how Feng Shui color schemes can change one's home's atmosphere. According to Tchi, color is one of the keys in "creating balance, harmony and good energy." Apart from creating this, color can also bring in "chaos" and "low energy" in one's space. Know how feng shui can help you style your home better by some of Tchi's advice.

As explained, feng shui is about "creating good energy" and making use of colors to do that. Tchi said that color in feng shui is very important as these entails the "five elements" which are wood, earth, fire, water and metal. Colors also promote a "vibrant, healthy energy" that may bring abundance to one's home.

For starters, Tchi's advice is to use feng shui guidelines and to always take note that a north facing room has a different treatment that a south facing room.

Aside from the colors that bring in good energy, there are also some to be avoided and this can be based from one's birth year. As Tchi said, persons that has the element of fire must avoid water elements like "blue, black and mirrors."

Another tip given was that North facing rooms are usually of "water element" and must possess "tranquility" qualities. While for the North faced rooms, choose those that has shades of blue and black and to avoid "earth tones."

And an added tip was for South facing rooms, these rooms will be suitable for "fire and wood colors" and one can include "pink, orange, red purple and yellow."