Feng Shui: 7 taboos in bathroom design

Feng Shui: 7 taboos in bathroom design

Based on Chinese Feng Shui practice and theory, water flow direction is very important factor in Feng Shui. Bathroom is where water gathers, so the location and position of your bathroom is important. There are 7 taboos in bathroom design that is not recommended by Feng Shui practitioners in China:

It is recommended not to build your bathroom in the direction of southwest of the direction of northeast. The reasons:

As I said, the bathroom is where water gathers, there coming water and going water, very heavy water influence area. As southwest and northeast are two directions with heavy earth influences, if you build your bathroom in these two direction it will generate a situation of earth restricts water and this situation will be a persistent and nonstop situation. This constant restriction by earth to water will cause the damage to your family members health.

It is not recommended to build your bathroom in the center of your house. The reasons:

I need to introduce an ancient Chinese Luo Book which is the origin of I Ching, the Bible of Feng Shui. According to Luo Book, the center is regulated as earth direction so if you build your bathroom in the center of your house would be considered unlucky, another example of situation generated by such design to restrict water by earth in a constant way. The center of a house is just like the heart of a person. It is an important location not only its directions, but also the command of the family. A bathroom built there will hinder the development and deployment of your energy of your family so nothing would achieve.

It is not recommended to build your bathroom in the south. The reason:

South has heavy fire influences and bathroom has heavy water influences so it is unlucky.

Bathroom should keep air flow freely.

To have fresh air in bathroom is important. It clears out the filthy air and allows fresh air flow in from outside world. Open bathroom doors if it doesn’t have a window. This way, you can inhaul better fresher air when you sit there alone and think.

It is recommended to have your bathroom in a hiding location. The reason:

Bathroom is an extreme pravite place so it shall not in a place of attraction. The door of your bathroom should not face the main gate of your house. It is not recommended in one straight line there is a coexistence of bathroom door and main gate.  It is not a good Feng Shui if you have such a deployment of your internal design, people believe it may cause cancer if your bathroom placed in a center attracting location or face directly to the main gate.

It is not recommended to renovate your bathroom to make it another bedroom. Reason:

In a mordern society, land is rare and expansive. Many family may choose to renovate one of the bathrooms to make it a bedroom so that they can house more people in that house. However, this is against Feng Shui theory. This is not only because bathroom has its path toward the drainage. The flow of wastewater can harm the family, especially people who live in that bedroom. In Feng Shui, bathroom is a place of impurity so it should be in a direction and placement of evil to restrict the evil spirit. If it is in a condo building, even you made the change but people above and under they are still keep that place as a bathroom so that will affect you.

It is recommended to keep it clean in your bathroom. Reason:

In Feng Shui, bathroom is a place where filth goes. It is so often makes it necessary to clean from time to time. Filth produces virus, virus spread disease, disease makes people sick and die.

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A few Feng Shui points when purchase a house

In modern society, most of the people, when finance allows, will choose to purchase a house to settle down. Without a house, there is no peace. Chinese saying goes like that: people has constant property, then they have constant determination. there are Feng Shui points to be noticed when you select your house. To follow the Tao, you can have a good family with luck, prosperity, fortunes, and adding of family members.

Here are some Feng Shui points to be noted:

A good house is a house with properous positioning.

When judging Feng Shui positioning of a house, we consider time, space, and people.the first house (condo), it is a upright and foursquare house.

However, the elevator is on the right side of the house gate, this commits a evil of white tiger mouth opening. The left side of the house gate is staircase, in front facing a gate of other house. There are too many evils attacking so there are too much to do to counter attack those evils.The house gate facing those evil spirits (especially the house gate facing northwest that is a evil direction when house general direction is sitting North facing South in this case is so as well). The right east direction is also evil direction too, the beds in both two bedrooms are on the east direction. This is hard to arrange couter attacking those evils. Plus the kitchen is in the centre point of the house, another unfavorable element of this layout.

House gate is the face of a family and also a separation between internal life and social life.

A house is normally stands on the ground. The air flow in from the gate so the gate is just like the mouth or nose of a person. It is where we take food and breathe the oxygen. Gate is also like that, the direction of your gate is the direction your family inhales so it is important if this direction is right. You need to analyze if it is lucky, unlucky, flourishing or declining.

It is all important to design your gate toward your house and the doors to each and every of your rooms. You need to select the right size according to the size of the house, the room, the person live there. It is not right if they are too big or too small. The size of your gate or your doors is important. If the house is big and the gate is small, it closes the air and generate diseases. If the house is small and the gate is big, the gate would emit air then your fortune may also emitted. Therefore, it is important to be properly proportional between the size of the house and the size of the gate so that you can live in harmony to enjoy the health and fortune.

Once the gate is established, there will be corridor following. In Feng Shui, there are also a few points to be noted when you consider the corridor:   

1. You should avoid too many corridors and also avoid corridor too long. Especially, you should not build your corridor throughout the whole house to cut is in halves. This is a situation that may lead to the collapse of the whole family. More practically speaking, it also wastes the space of your house.
2. Corridor design should be easy, smooth and mellifluous. You should not design your corridor to pass through one room to another, neither should you design it in round and round pattern. It is not a good corridor design if you design it in U shape, this is considered as going back that makes house unlucky.
3. By the end of your corridor, you should not design a bathroom to recept such ending with face upright toward your corridor. Bathroom is a place to wash out dirt and excrete waste so that is is considered a place of evil. The filthy gas coming out from the evil place and directly travel through your corridor to spread over your whole house will pollute the luck of your family.

The relations between doors

In Feng Shui, the main gate is the place for the house to breathe. Therefore, you need make the gate site clear. If there are things block the passage of a gate, the air circulation and energy circulation will be blocked as well.  In addition, the gate of a house has some relations with other doors within the house:

1. Your main gate of the house should not face upright to the door of your bathroom. It is believed that the main gate intakes clear air and clean energy and the bathroom is a place for the treatment of filthy excretions. Therefore, it would create a situation for the  clear air and clean energy intakes to meet directly with the filthy air and dirty energy. If it is a necessary for a practical design for the purpose of efficiency or space saving, you need to place something between those two such as a screen, or a cabinet
2. You should avoid to design your bedroom to face directly toward the main gate of the house. A bedroom is a place for rest and privacy so that it would create a situation that the outside energy field to directly attack the internal resting environment so makes people restless and anxious. It is unlucky in term of Feng Shui.
3. Your kitchen can set besides your main gate, but it is not recommended to set your kitchen door directly facing your main gate. In Feng Shui, kitchen is where fortune gathers. If your kitchen face directly toward the main gate, it may cause your fortune leakage outward. In such situation, your income would be affected as you may have many ways to lose it.
4. Your bedroom door should not face directly toward kitchen door. In Feng Shui, kitchen is where you prepare your daily meal so the place is full of heat, smoke, oily gas. Those are the filthy energy that affect people’s health both mental health and physical health. Plus, your kitchen cooking is in relation to fire. Fire makes people unrest. Direct facing kitchen door makes people restless, nightmare may come often that affect people’s luck during the night and next day.
5. Your storage door should be kept closed and you should avoid it face directly toward your bedroom door. In Feng Shui, the air and energy is static and stopped with  no circulation so it is harmful toward people. To live needs circulation, you take in and give out, it is a circulation. You don’t want your air and energy stored somewhere with no motion or movement. In Feng Shui, it is evil.
6. The kitchen door should not face bathroom door, this I have talked in my other articles.

What you should see when you open your gate?

1. It is lucky if you see red when you open your door. It doesn’t matter if you see red wall, red furniture, red ornament, or even red posters. Red stimulates people. You need stimulation when you open your door as you open your door to inhale and give out energetic things.
2. It is lucky if you see greens when you open your door. It can be a green plant, or a green paintings. Green represents life, growth, prosperity.
3. It is lucky if you see paintings. No matter if it is a painting of mountains and rivers, or still life paintings. They are all good. A picture is better than thousand of words. It gives you luck if your painting is about something that is positive.

What you should not see when you open your gate?

1. You should not see bathroom when you open your gate (we’ve talked about it before)
2. You should not see mirrors when you open your door as your fortune air and energy would relected out. Mirrors used to attach front evil are excepted.
3. You should not see your kitchen when you open your gate as when you open to see the kitchen where the fortune gathers, the fortune may easily consumed.
4. It is unlucky if you see main beams. The beams give you pressure, when you open your gate every day, you got pressed. This will hinder your progress in your career or your business development.

NOIR PRODUCTS, FENG SHUI, STONE / TILE INSTALLATION

Noir Products got a launch event happening weekend of Aug 10-12 and looking to do a series of cross-promotions with professional in the industry. The guest list will be expected to be 1000 people from professionals in our industry, homeowners, and business. Love to chat with you about collaborating.

I will be one of the guest speakers. My topic is “What makes a good Feng Shui House?” please refer to the link:

https://truerealtoronto.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-makes-good-feng-shui-house.html

Love to get your feedback and input on the topic. I can be contacted at my cell 647-468-0166 or email realtorontario@outlook.com.

Here is a summary of info on the event.

What is Noir Products?

Noir Products is a newly formed division of our parent design & build company. They are essentially the manufacturer of construction related furnishing products establishing a brand initially here in Toronto.

Purpose?

In creating our official opening event, they thought about making the event more engaging as a whole for all its participants. Participants which they would like to include professionals such as contractors, designers, realtors etc.. Also homeowners & local businesses.

Their goal essentially is to build relationships within the community and in doing so they plan to run a series of cross-promotions with local businesses/charities for the event.

Where?

The location will be in their showroom (85 Royal Crest Ct #9, Markham) and was looking into getting a tent to utilize the parking space outside as well. Food trucks to cater for the event & a liquor license as well.

Ideas?

An idea and they are open to more is that they will be running a raffle for the event. That could be used as a form of fundraising and business prospecting for our collaborators. A panel of guest speakers across a wide variety of subjects that would add value in different areas to their participants.

What makes a good Feng Shui House?

What makes a good Feng Shui House?

Oliver Hua, writer, poet, realtor, feng shui practitioner, June 19, 2018, Toronto

Facing south, a house back to north

Facing south with its back to north

That is the best direction of a house

The infinite succession of light and dark matters

Allows an even rotation of sun and moon

It keeps warmth during the winter

And cools down the temperature in summer

Air gets its circulations

People can live inside with peace

House has right direction

Facing south with its back to north

Facing northwith its back to south

Facing east with its back to west

Facing west with its back to east

Facing east south with its back to west north

Facing west north with its back to east south

Facing west south with its back to east north

Facing east north with its back to west south

Those are the right direction

A home reside in a right direction

A life grows in a right direction

It generates power, wealth, and luck

House with splendid front yard

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Oliver Hua, June 19, 2018, Toronto

House with splendid front yard

Gives a good vision

A good vision leads to a good future

House with splendid front yard

Gives people the space need to plan

A plan with splendid space

Aspires people to work with great courses

A court in south

A court in south

A home with peace

Wealth and power come in companion

A place to spread heirs

To live straight and square

House is like a person

A good looking person attract luck

House needs to be straight and square in foundation

Neat and strange in structure

Straight and square gives stability to a house

Strange shapes give pressure to the growth of a family

West shall be higher

West shall be higher

A house is higher in the west than the east

It means a place to home a family of smooth career

They may not be famous and powerful

They are consent with what they have with no worries and sufficient food and clothes

Clear air clears

Clear air clears

It clears with breeze

Slowly it blows

It blows slowly with no rush

It blows away foul air

But keeps wealth concentration

It stores property avoids stormy weather

Rosefinch, dragon, tortoise, and tiger

A stream on the left flow the dragon

A pond in front stay the rosefinch

The tortoise craws on the back

Tiger walks on the long lane on the right

House setting the luck

Hexagrams and trigrams should be right

A house shall have a good position to absorb the clear air

Clear air bring luck so it backed up with lucky mountains with gold

Gold is by the north facing south if the house locates so

You need environment to nurture your spirit

Live with sunshine

Live with sunshine

It suffices your energy

It stimulates air

It brightens your life

A height can be balanced

You need a height to be balanced

A house’s height is relative to its foundation

Too high will be attacked by winds

Too low will not be in charge

It is like people

Too much fame may attract disaster and calamity

Only humble people can have real fame

A house is like so too

A house of height stay balanced

A lucky house is a simple house

House is like people

Think too much makes people depressed

Too detailed thinking leads no decision

A house design should be concise, welcome, and modest

A house should perform its basic functions

Excessive functionality makes complication

Complicate life is a hard life

A home houses four seasons

Live with rules can rule the world

A world has four seasons

So a home need to house four seasons

A design of house with four seasons

It is a rule that rules the world

So it rules the house

A house connects four seasons

It makes the residents to follow the nature

Only by nature, you grow in prosperity and happiness

To live with knowledge

Pen is a symbol of knowledge

A straight tall object means a knowledgeable pen is writing

The pen should be in the direction of southeast

To have a tall object in your southeast will benefit your study inside your house

The best should be green trees

Tree has all kinds of green colors

Green trees are soft as soft as pen

A soft pen can write hard words

The hard words is knowledge that are needed to save society

To live with colors

A colorful life is desired

Colors all interrelated

Like people, like matters

To live with colors needs balance

To support and to constrain

That is not a contradictory

To help is to be helped

So to paint the color is to be painted

That is colorful life in a house

High mountains in the northeast

That mountain in the northeast

Covers the fields towards down south side

So their children in purple and pearls

Every year is a harvest with rich in food

The shape of a mountain can shape the height of wealth

A range extended that extend your heirs

They will be rich and powerful

No house is gross

No house is gross

So you don’t live in a gross house

A house has to be in right dimension

Not only in right dimension

But also in right size

A right sized house with right dimension is lucky

You can realize your dream inside

Gold mountain due north

Due north is not only a compass point

The gold mountains work due north where water flows

Gold nurtures water and water nurtures gold

This grows wealth

The mountain has gold shape

It is long and oval

It locates in the due north

A bright house has lights

House is like people

It has health

It can be sick

A warm color can give house with peace

It excretes lights from the concrete outer walls

That is a house with life

A living person not only live

A living person live with hope

So does the house

Hill on northwest

Hills on northwest reflect high ranking

This further implies high ranking people support

As it back you house from northwest

Northwest is a direction of metal

Hills are earth where the metal produced

In such house, it is so frequently reflected

As people can step out and become public figures

This translates into good career, reputation, and money

West hill north woods

It is so auspicious if you have such a house

It located in such a position

With hills to the west, woods the north

This is such a situation people can get both fame and wealth

Eastward the water flows

Live in a house with water flows on the east side

While the road is running through on the west

It has its vigorous momentum endlessly as water flows eastward

The road on the west then carry information through from south to north

Water flows as white tiger and road runs as black dragon

Plant trees

Plant trees can block evil spirit

It can act a function of fence

You block evil air from acute object angels

It can be a shield to protect home from sharp attack

Plant trees means plant growth

As trees can grow turn out to be a wood

Hills coil as dragon

A house surrounds by hills coil as dragon

High and round hill is mansion hill

Sharp and slim hill you call it drum trophy hill

This is a house we call coiling dragon place

If your house on a plate surrounded by hills in all directions

Or you have hills in three direction with one flat land facing

You call this flat land gathering place

In such a house luck gathers, a prosperous future expected

Stream flows on both sides

Stream flows as life multiplication

So much stream flows around your house

Both left and right sides there is water flow

Water carries luck and prosperity

Crops grow with sufficient water supply

Environment become calm and peaceful

It makes the place suitable for family grow

The longer stream flows

The longer the family carries onward

Water flows on the left

Live in a house with water flows on the left

While the road is running through on the right

It has its vigorous momentum endlessly as water flows on the left

The road on the right then carry information through

It has complete flows and traffic

People in this house can gain from fame and profitable business

Four waters return

Remember river south people

They like those in the north

Four apartments on each direction

They enclose a courtyard in the center

In the center there will be well

A well gathers water from four directions

On each directions there are buildings

Rain water flows in from the roof eaves

This pattern utilize efficiently the land it occupies

The courtyard gathers

It gathers not only water

It gathers all flowing matters and spirits

Water crooks, city establishes

Water crooks, a house become a city

A city built with dragon curving embrace

It is a heavenly world

Water flow in curves in front at back on both sides

It is an auspicious location

Only lucky people can reside

A flowery pond in the shape of moon

It is a lucky house with a pond full of flower in the shape of moon

A pond of wealth slivery brightens this place

Flowers are the symbol of fertilization and multiplication

So multiplies the lucky family in this house

As this house can give birth of children with great future

A house takes ease

When shoot the arrow, you need take ease with the bow

A full bow is like a circle

Stay inside you have the potential

When release, you have the strength

It is a strength that penetrates

Stay inside with full potential

Shoot when opportunity cometh

A pond in the left

It is located by the left side of your front gate

This is gate open with water vapors evaporate

The left position is a honorable position

Water smooth the way for the fortunes

Fortunes come in boat, it is a full boat

A full boat with luck carry peace, health and harmony

These reside in the house

They are the luckiest residents in the neighborhood

A neighborhood created surrounds this house

Zebra on the left

A crossing on the left

That allows black dragon passes

A zebra crossing generates Feng Shui

An influence of potential

A house with curves

It is auspicious to have your curve road in front

A curve represents the way fortune travels

It travels up and downs

It is good sign if the curve extrudes

The opposite is not that good

A house with curve road in front

A family with business flourishes

Your neighbor house

A proper distance is required between houses

The distance should comfort people

It connect people too

Depend on the latitude, terrain, height and length

It should be proper

A distance not separate

A distance allows you a space to talk

Minaret in your vision

It is auspicious to have minarets in your southeast direction

It is a tower stores God of literature

The literature star highly twinkles

It is good for students to live in such house

It assists their study of the new things

To understand the world and be prepared

House can be near the market

It is convenient to have a market near

A busy market brings fortune and wealth

A prosperous market also brings prosperity to the house nearby

Near elm and locust

The trees to the neighborhood are just like the cloth to people

Too thin may not defend coldness

Too thick may cause bitter heat

It is also a relation between Yin and Yang

Elm is a tree to be planted at back

So that all the devils dare not come near

While locust in the front yard

You can expect prosperity to come generation by generations

Bamboo grove where scholar lives

Live with bamboo

Live with scholars

It is an auspicious plant

It gives peace of mind

In summer, bamboo grove gives shelter to escape from heat

In winter, bamboo grove can resist cold wind

It absorbs noises when it grows together with other bamboos

Bamboo needs to grow with other bamboos

Together they bring luck to families

Eyes with vision

House needs to have wide, clear vision both in front and at back

Listen and watch then you hear and find

It is ideal if you can have beautiful environment and deep visions

Then you have sharp and acute thought

This thinking can lead into good decision

Decision can help to do business and administer public affairs

It is good for scholars’ study and farmers’ crop

Objects to protect us from evil

It is better to plant

Good botany practices are good habit to keep

It generates and preserves bio field

A field that exists between human and flora can talk

These matters have their own emotion and spirit

It is no strange at all for them to speak

To protect is to communicate, to exchange ideas

You need living things that talk in silence to protect you