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Feng Shui for Fun and Luck: Kosmo Tay Ho’s Good Energy Guide for Your Hanoi Apartment
Kosmo Tay Ho shares five feng shui tips to harmonise your home and attract positive energy into your surroundings…
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Originating in China around 3,000 years ago, feng shui is all about balancing the energy of a space to attract good fortune.
This space could be your home, garden, or office — really anywhere that you spend a significant amount of time. At its core, it’s about manifesting harmony, balance, and good luck.
Feng shui — which means wind and water — draws on five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, with each element represented by a colour. Practitioners use a compass and an energy map, or bagua, to ensure there is a connection between the design of your home and specific areas of your life, for example, love and marriage, creativity, career, spiritual growth, health, and money.
Whether you’re serious enough to pick up a compass or just intrigued by the concept, Kosmo Tay Ho has a few tips to get started with feng shui in your own home.
Phong thuy, as feng shui is known in Vietnam, is widely practiced across the country. Homes are passed down from generation to generation, seeing decades-worth of important life events, including births, marriages, and deaths. So, it’s important to design a space that attracts harmony and good fortune to the family home.
Phong thuy uses the homeowner’s astrological chart to guide the direction of the house, with south or southeast being popular results. Though, there is also a simpler logic to this orientation: a house that faces south avoids the cold winter winds that come from the north.
While Kosmo Tay Ho apartments have been influenced by western design principles, Kosmo’s lead architect, John Bilmon, says that feng shui was also considered during the design process.
“A lot of architectural principles naturally embody a feng shui mentality. For instance, we don’t locate bathrooms over bedrooms and beams are not located over the bedrooms,”
– says Bilmon.
“We have an unusual long, linear site here that fortunately doesn’t suffer other roads facing into it directly — we try to avoid that usually as it’s bad feng shui.”
Although Kosmo Tay Ho is already strongly influenced by good feng shui — down to its location near West Lake and facing away from the main road — residents can still benefit from incorporating balancing elements into their interiors to create a welcoming, harmonised space for family and friends.
The entrance to your home is crucial to good feng shui and the circulation of positive energy. If your main entrance is blocked, this affects the Chi (energy that surrounds us at all times) of your home as well as the energy of the people who live in it.
Another major feng shui faux pas is a bathroom over the main door or the front door opening outwards — this can be countered with a side table topped with vase of flowers, or a vibrant rug. Mirrors can also create bad feng shui, so remove any that face the door.
Water is an important element in feng shui because it represents wealth. A water fountain placed near the entrance of your home — either just inside or just outside — symbolises wealth flowing into the home. Similarly, water flowing out of the home — via the toilet, shower or sink — is related to wealth leaving the home. So, it’s important to minimise this effect as much as possible. In other words, keep the toilet seat down and close the bathroom door!
It is considered good feng shui to have zero space between the upper kitchen cabinets and the ceiling. This is because a gap here attracts dust or, in other words, the Chi in this area is stagnating. And if this energy is stuck, certain areas of your life may become stuck too, such as your career or relationships. Fret not though, it’s easy to adjust this negative energy, simply invest in plants or soft lights and place them in the empty space.
You can even use loved objects like photos in frames or items collected from your travels to transform the energy into positive Chi.
All kinds of experts tell us not to have TVs in the bedroom, and it turns out that feng shui experts are no different. According to the principles of feng shui principles, a TV has active energy and can disrupt the harmony needed for a good night’s sleep. There is an easy solution though: throwing a pretty scarf or nice piece of fabric over the screen will have a calming effect and minimise the negative Chi.
Minimalism is a modern trend that has its foundations in good feng shui; a cluttered home retains negative energy and blocks positive energy. It’s not just about getting rid of junk either, it’s about using the space well and making room for that good old Chi! Decluttering can improve your mind, body, and spirit, especially if you work on the areas that need attention — think garages, closets, spare rooms, and utility balconies.
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