Feng Shui Taboos for Placing Home Safes

2025-11-04

Home safes are primarily used to store valuables, and their placement is related to the family's wealth and fortune. Therefore, many people want to know how to properly place home safes and what taboos to be aware of. Let's take a look at the relevant feng shui taboos regarding the placement of home safes with the editor from Henan Huadu Times Furniture.

Feng Shui Taboos for Placing Home Safes

1. Home safes should not be placed facing the main door.

From a feng shui perspective, having a home safe facing the main door can easily lead to wealth flowing out, unless there is a screen between the safe and the main door, or a wealth-attracting object such as a Pixiu is placed inside the safe. This arrangement is also particularly suitable for wealth-attracting feng shui layouts, such as those used in shops.

2. Do not store non-valuable items in home safes.

Some people treat their safes like ordinary storage cabinets, putting pencils, earphones, and scrap paper all in them. Little do they know that doing so can significantly reduce their actual capabilities, making it a losing proposition.

3. Taboos regarding the placement of home safes

Most businesses and shops typically place their home safes in the northeast direction, which is considered a wealth-gathering direction in the Eight Trigrams system because it belongs to the Earth element, and Earth generates Metal. Placing the safe in this direction is believed to help stabilize the shop's finances and profits. Another theory suggests placing the safe in the White Tiger direction, based on the principle that "the Green Dragon should soar, the White Tiger should lie low." Placing it in the White Tiger direction aligns with this principle. Placing the safe in the "active" Green Dragon position can easily lead to instability in the shop's finances and income.

4. Setting a password for a home safe

The combination numbers for a shop's home safe can be determined by the shop owner's favorable elements according to their birth chart. This can increase the safe's ability to attract wealth. Generally speaking, those who favor fire should use the numbers 3 and 4, those who favor wood should use the numbers 1 and 2, those who favor metal should use the numbers 7 and 8, and those who favor water should use the numbers 0 and 9, etc.

5. Home safes should not be kept in dark places.

Some people put their home safes in dark interior rooms of shops, which is actually not good. In Feng Shui, the wealth vault should not be dark, as darkness means that the prospects for both regular and windfall income are not clear, unless the income is ill-gotten gains.

6. The size of a home safe should be proportionate to the room.

It shouldn't be too big or too small. If it's too small, it won't be able to accumulate wealth, and being too stingy is detrimental to finances. If it's too big, it will appear bloated and cold, and the feeling of never being filled will make people lose confidence. Therefore, the proportions must be moderate.

7. It is advisable to place items that attract wealth on top of the safe.

It's a good idea to place some auspicious items that bring good fortune on top of the safe, such as lucky cats, gold ingots, ancient coins, coin boxes, the God of Wealth, or golden pigs.

The above is an introduction to the feng shui taboos regarding the placement of home safes. It is hoped that everyone will follow these taboos and place the safe in the wealth position, and also place some decorations there to improve the family's fortune.