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As an employee, have you ever thought about how to place your office furniture? As a company owner, have you ever thought about how to best arrange your office furniture? Let me tell you how to arrange your office furniture according to Feng Shui, whether you're an employee or a boss!
Feng Shui of Office Furniture Placement
Feng Shui considerations for office furniture placement
1. Avoid sitting with your back to the door
If the desk is placed close to the door and people sit with their backs to the door, this is the first basic point to avoid when placing the desk.
The door is the essential entrance for anyone, serving as the office's air source and receiving source of both positive and negative energy. Sitting with your back to the door, with no support behind you, will be buffeted by the turbulent energy of the people coming and going. This long-term presence can lead to a subconscious state of tension, a feeling of being watched. This can lead to a chaotic mindset, poor decision-making, and an inability to focus on tasks. This can cause a feeling of restlessness and even lead to kidney problems, back pain, and potential workplace conflicts and setbacks. This situation is known in feng shui as "a cold wind blowing on your back."
One way to resolve this problem is to adjust the position of the desk so that you don’t sit with your back to the door. However, it is not easy for office clerks to adjust the position of the desk because many desks are placed according to work needs. Then we can choose a chair with a backrest to sit on, which not only provides support but also blocks the impact of miscellaneous air.
2. Avoid sitting by the window in the aisle
Windows are air intakes for a house, drawing in both positive and negative energy. However, windows overlooking pedestrian walkways not only draw in the incoming and outgoing air, but also the sound of footsteps, chatter, and other noises that can disrupt work. Placing a desk under a pedestrian walkway is like placing it under a negative energy. If you need to research company secrets, you'll naturally worry about prying eyes. Working at a desk this close to a window can be difficult.
The solution is to place the desk as far away from the window as possible, so that people walking by cannot clearly see the documents on the desk. Also, use curtains and frequently cover the windows to prevent people moving around outside from affecting the worker's thinking.
3. Avoid having a window behind your seat
Many high-end offices now have bright floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the buildings, giving a sense of superiority. Some people like to place their desks parallel to the windows, with their chairs between them, using the windows as a backrest. This is also the wrong placement of the desk.
Having a window behind you is just as unsuitable as having a door behind you. Windows are the entrance of light and air, and the theory is the same as not having your back against a door.
Solution: First, adjust the position of the desk; second, choose a chair with a high back.
4. It is better to have a backer behind you
From a feng shui perspective, the first principle of good feng shui is "surrounded by mountains and embraced by water." This means having mountains behind you brings prosperity, while having water in front brings wealth. Therefore, a seat must have a mountain behind it to benefit a worker's career. In an office, this "mountain" is typically a wall, and the seat should be placed as close to the wall as possible, with minimal space between the wall and the seat.
5. Choose a desk reasonably
Nowadays, wooden desks are generally the most popular choice. However, using a wooden desk can be detrimental for those whose numerology averses them. We can choose a desk that suits our numerology. If quality options are limited, we can remedy this by looking at color and style.
Fire colors: red, purple
Earth colors: yellow, coffee, tea, brown
Colors belonging to the metal element: white, gold, silver
Water colors: black, blue, gray
Wood colors: green, cyan, emerald
In other words, if your numerology favors fire, you can choose a maroon desk; if you favor water, you can choose a dark blue desk, and so on. Furthermore, if you're experiencing discomfort in your internal organs, color can also be used to compensate. For example, some people frequently socialize and drink alcohol for work. Over time, this can overwhelm the liver, causing frequent dull aches. A green wooden desk can be chosen to nourish the liver's five elements. For those with kidney problems, choose colors related to water to nourish the kidneys. For heart problems, choose colors related to fire; for gastrointestinal problems, choose colors related to earth; and for lung problems, choose colors related to gold. Not only do we have a comfortable desk at work, but we're also indirectly nourishing our bodies.
The current mainstream office desk design trend is still the sleek and simple rectangular shape. However, those with a bit of feng shui knowledge can choose a desk design that benefits them. One style features straight lines on three sides, while the outermost edge facing them is semicircular. Another style features an entirely curved design, like a belt wrapped around the body. Feng shui emphasizes the principles of "mountains surrounding water" and "a jade belt wrapped around the waist." This type of desk, which embraces the body, is not only beneficial for attracting auspicious energy but also, most importantly, dissipates negative energy. Therefore, it's best to avoid colleagues across from this type of desk, as it can bring bad luck to them.
6. Avoid exposure to mirrors
Many offices have a large cosmetic mirror, and some beauty-conscious individuals also like to keep one on their desks. While the desire for beauty is human nature, if you're constantly exposed to a mirror, over time you'll notice frequent dizziness, poor decision-making, sleep problems, and other debilitating health issues. In feng shui, mirrors are called "light evil" and are used to ward off negative energy. The world reflected in the mirror is called an illusion, which can cause confusion and disorientation. Modern buildings often feature glass covering the entire building's walls, creating the most potent form of light evil. Those within the affected house will experience numerous misfortunes, and severe light evil can lead to bloody disasters, civil disputes, and financial losses. Therefore, if you're constantly exposed to a large mirror, stop being self-conscious and avoid it.
7. Avoid horizontal beams pressing down on the top
Some people in the office have a beam right above their heads, while others have a low ceiling above their heads. These things are called "beam pressing down on the top" in feng shui. In other words, if things go on like this for a long time, people will feel pressure at work, be criticized by their superiors, be slandered by villains, suffer from cervical pain, and have bad luck.
Solution: In Feng Shui, gourds can cure diseases and absorb evil spirits. Go to a craft store and buy a few decorative vines with gourds and wrap them around it. It is both beautiful and can absorb the evil spirits caused by the beam pressing down on the top.
8. How to properly promote peach blossoms
Many people often jokingly ask their friends, "Have you had any romantic luck lately?" In reality, those born under the sign of a "Peach Blossom" are typically beautiful, talented in literature or the arts, and easily attracted to the opposite sex due to their excellence. However, this "Peach Blossom" refers to the right kind of "Peach Blossom." Those with limited romantic luck can enhance their relationships with the opposite sex by placing a decorative arrangement in their "Peach Blossom" area. However, improper placement can bring about romantic disasters. Those hoping for a more auspicious "Peach Blossom" area can place a vase filled with water and fresh flowers in it. During the peach blossom season, it's best to place a branch of peach blossoms.
How to determine your peach blossom position?
The peach blossom position for those born in the Year of the Monkey, Rat, or Dragon is due west;
For those born in the Year of the Tiger, Horse, or Dog, the peach blossom position is due east.
For those born in the Year of the Pig, Rabbit, or Sheep, the peach blossom position is due north;
The peach blossom position for those whose zodiac signs are snake, chicken and ox is due south;
9. Effectively boost your wealth
Placing wealth-damaging items in your office's wealth zone can boost overall financial prosperity. This area requires professional feng shui analysis by a feng shui master to accurately determine the windfall, partial, or regular wealth zones. While some wealth-damaging items should be avoided, such as water dispensers, goldfish tanks, and air conditioners, some auspicious items that can be placed there are easy to find even by those unfamiliar with feng shui.
For example, the Pixiu (also known as a ward off evil spirit), the Qilin, the Dragon Turtle, and the Golden Toad are all Feng Shui items that can quickly attract wealth. However, there are differences in their placement. The first three should be placed with their heads facing a door or window, while the Golden Toad, on the other hand, should face inward. This is because the Pixiu, Qilin, and Dragon Turtle attract wealth from all directions, while the Golden Toad spits it out. Furthermore, these wealth-attracting items must be consecrated to be effective.
Basic knowledge of office furniture feng shui
(1) The Feng Shui of the office should be based on the person in charge or the highest supervisor to find an auspicious direction.
(2) The main door of the office must be larger than the door opposite, because if it is larger, it will win in momentum, while if it is smaller, it will lose.
(3) If the office ceiling or walls are leaking, seeping or cracking, it is a symbol of financial loss and should be remedied quickly.
(4) The office ceiling should be high for good luck. If it is too low, it will give a feeling of oppression and be inauspicious. It will also affect the promotion of business and the ventilation will be poor.
(5) The office door should not face electric poles, big trees, chimneys or roads.
(6) If there is a faucet next to the office supervisor or person in charge, it means financial loss. He must have a solid backer behind him.
(7) The staircase in the office should not face the main door, otherwise the intake and exhaust of air will conflict with each other, which is not good for wealth and health.
(8) The wealth position of the office is located diagonally opposite the entrance. This position should be bright and clean. Avoid leaving the door empty or placing fake flowers there.
(9) If the toilet is right next to the office door, it is very unlucky. This is because the toilet blocks the flow of positive energy, which is very unfavorable to wealth and business.
(10) An office without windows is very unlucky because the air cannot circulate and the office becomes lifeless.
(11) If your desk faces the toilet door, you will be exposed to the foul air from the toilet and your work will eventually fail.
(12) The desk should not be worn out or damaged, otherwise it will bring bad luck to your fortune.
(13) It is best to use wooden materials for your desk. Iron or steel will affect the magnetic field and is not a good choice.
(14) There should not be any beams or chandeliers above the desk, otherwise it will be detrimental to promotion and wealth.
(15) Avoid having an empty door behind your desk. This means there is a door or window behind your desk. This can make you feel insecure and have difficulty concentrating on your work.
(16) The desk of the person in charge or supervisor faces the toilet, which will affect the overall operation and business development.
(17) It is best to place one end of the desk against the wall for stability. It is best not to place the desk at an angle.
(18) The area behind your desk must be unmovable. It is most unacceptable to have a corridor or people walking behind you. This will make you feel insecure and uneasy.
(19) The desk must have a backrest. A backrest is a wall. Having a backrest makes things more stable and helps promote business. The desk of the person in charge or the accountant should be private.
(20) The office should be brightly lit, and natural sunlight is the best
Feng Shui for Office Desk Placement
1. The ideal position of the desk
There are two situations for the placement of desks in Feng Shui. One is that the office is located in the middle part of the office building, and the other is that the office is arranged in the basement of the business building. Such an office has no windows. When placing a desk in a windowless office, the Feng Shui layout of the office mainly considers two relationships:
One is the relationship between the desk and the door;
The second is the relationship between the person behind the desk and the objects behind him. In the coordination of these two relationships, there are two points to note: first, the desk should not face the door directly, and second, the person sitting behind the desk should have a wall or something to lean on, without any extra space.
It should also be noted that the desk should not be facing the door, mainly to prevent the leader from being disturbed by noise from outside the door and being peeped by others when working, and to avoid extra space behind the desk, mainly to enable businessmen sitting at the desk to handle business to reduce the emptiness and insecurity behind them and increase reliability.
When placing a desk, there should be a relatively wide space in front of it. According to Feng Shui, this is a vital area that can broaden one's mind.
At the same time, the desk is far away from the door, and the door is located at an angle in front of the left side of the desk, which can prevent others from peeping directly from the door and the noise from outside the door. There is a solid wall behind the desk, because the wall gives people a sense of solidity like a mountain range, and also provides support for the desk.
In the second case, the office is chosen in a house with windows. When choosing a house with windows as an office, you should first check the environment outside the window. When you look out the window, you should not see any ominous objects such as chimneys in front of the window.
If the door of the office is located in the upper left corner, the position of the desk can be adjusted accordingly. The effect will be just as good and will not be affected by the so-called auspicious direction of the zodiac sign.
2. Taboos for desk decoration
The taboos in desk arrangement mainly refer to inappropriate placement, which will make leaders or business people feel uncomfortable when working.
There are five main taboos in desk arrangement:
1) Avoid sitting with your back to the door
Placing the desk directly opposite the door and having people sit with their backs to the door is the first thing to avoid when arranging a desk.
2) Avoid sitting facing the door
Placing the desk on the right side of the door, with the desk and the door at an angle, is a taboo against sitting sideways facing the door. This will interfere with work, reduce work efficiency, and affect your health.
3) Avoid walking near windows
If you place your desk under a sidewalk window, it is equivalent to placing it under evil spirits, and it will often be peeped at by others passing by.
4) Avoid sitting with a window behind you
If the desk is placed parallel to the window, the seat is placed between the window and the desk, and the window is used as a screen. This placement of the desk should be avoided.
5. Avoid sitting with your back to the window
Sitting by the window is not good for businessmen. If the wind blows frequently, the back will feel uncomfortable all day long, which will disturb the spirit. If it is cold, it will easily make the body lose balance and make people feel nervous.
Light from outside the window shines in from behind, creating backlight, which impairs vision. Sitting with your back to the window provides no solid support. If the windowsill is too low, there's a risk of falling, so both should be avoided.
An office is a place where people work, so the office environment is very important. The office environment should be auspicious. In other words, the feng shui of the office is related to the rise and fall of business and the success or failure of career. Both men and women prioritize their careers. The success of a career depends on the right time, place, and people. The right time and people cannot be changed, but the right place can be changed. The desk is the solid support of the office, so the placement of the desk is also very particular. Therefore, the following points are summarized for the placement of the desk:
first,
The desk should not be placed directly facing the door. This is to allow business people to operate better. There should not be too much empty space behind the desk.
Secondly,
It is generally not advisable to place office desks near windows near the sidewalk. Firstly, it is a place of bad luck, and secondly, it may be spied on by others.
again,
The left side of the desk is where the dragon is located, so general office feng shui supplies must be placed on the left side of the desk, such as computers, must be placed on the left side, so that you can get an edge in your career.
In addition: There are different rules for men and women to place decorations in the office. Women should place a red ribbon or photo frame in the upper left corner of the office. This will enhance their popularity and gain the trust of their superiors. Men should place crystals, pig dolls, etc. in the upper right corner of the office. These small things can boost their careers.
Also, it is taboo to place the desk on the right side of the door, with the door at an angle. This will lead to low work efficiency and affect one's health.
It is taboo to have a window behind the desk, and it is also a taboo for the business operator to sit next to the window, as it will disturb people's spirit in the long run.
Tips:
In order to bring in wealth, you can place some green broad-leaved plants next to your desk, but avoid thorny plants because thorns can easily hurt people.
We cannot pin our future on a table. We must know that a person's success is due to many factors. External adjustments are important, but a person's hard work and persistence are more important.
The office should be located in the gathering area of the office building for easy negotiation;
The office should be located away from entertainment venues.
The decoration of the office should not be too luxurious, and the interior color of the office should be creamy white or ivory.
The office copier should not be placed in the White Tiger direction. The office's cash cabinet should not face the door, as money will come and go. The office's cash cabinet should not face the water flow, as money will be lost continuously. The office's cash cabinet should not be placed in a conspicuous place.
The mirror in the office should not face the door directly - it will lead to many disputes.
The mirror in the office should be placed in a dark place, the movement line in the office should be smooth, and the color of the office desk should be bright and light as much as possible;
The interior and exterior doors of the office should be placed in the Dragon direction as much as possible, not in the White Tiger direction. The fish box in the office should not be placed in the White Tiger direction, but in the Dragon direction.
The aquarium in the office should not be placed in the White Tiger direction of the desk, and the owner's desk should not be close to the White Tiger direction to meet guests.
The master desk should not face the bathroom door on the left or right, should not face the wall of the suite or the public bathroom, should not be backed by the bathroom, or should not be in front of or behind the bathroom door - the master will feel uneasy sitting.
The master's desk or seat should not be placed under a beam, should not face cabinet corners, should not face other people's room corners, and should have as much space as possible in front of the desk - the hall should be wide.
The host's desk should not be too cluttered, the ceiling of the host's desk should be clean and comfortable, there should be no screen in front of the host's desk, there should be no wine cabinet in front of the host's desk, and the Silver Shield medal should be placed in the cabinet;
The owner should not hang a mirror in front of his desk to reflect himself - it will make him uneasy;
Do not place a mirror at the entrance of the master's desk to look at the door - it will cause troubles.
Try not to put a flag on the right side of the owner's desk;
The flag of the host's office should be placed on the left side of the back or on both sides.
The owner's office or desk should not be located under the toilet or kitchen stove;
The owner's office or desk should not be above the toilet or kitchen stove;
The master's office or desk should not be above or below the machine room; there should be no alleys or roads in front of, behind, or on the left or right of the master's office or desk;
The owner's office or desk cannot be located next to a garbage incinerator;
The owner's office or desk cannot be next to a public toilet;
The host's office should not be in front of his subordinates-there is no distinction between host and guest;
There should be no vibrating machines or motors in the White Tiger direction of the owner's office;
There should not be a pool on the top of the master's office;
Do not place an aquarium on the right side of the master's desk; do not place a photocopier on the right side of the master's desk;
Do not place vine bonsai in the owner's office; do not install air conditioners or exhaust fans on the right side of the owner's desk;
The owner's office should not be cluttered by hanging too many patterns;
The sofa table in front of the host's desk should not be directly facing the seating area; the window in front of the host's desk should not be facing a flagpole or electric pole;
No one should walk back and forth behind the owner's desk.
Office desk articles:
The quality of your office desk doesn't have to be expensive or luxurious, as that will lead to greed and impracticality.
The ideal height of a desk is 100cm (..table feet). The color of the desk should match the indoor lighting, and the shades should be harmonious.
The desk should not be placed under a beam, nor should the desk be placed under a beam. The desk should not face the water flow of a ditch outside - this will lead to loss of wealth.
It is best to sit with your desk facing the water;
The office desk should not face the toilet door sideways; the office desk should not be placed against the toilet door or against the toilet.
Toilet;
The desk should not face the door directly, and the right side of the desk should not be against the wall to make it difficult to distinguish between host and guest;
It is beneficial to have the left side of the desk against the wall - the host and the guest are clearly distinguished; the desk chair should not be too oppressive, but should be moderate and comfortable;
Do not put white paper on the desk surface - it means you are restless;
No one should be allowed to walk behind the desk, as it will make the work feel unstable. No cabinet or wall corners should be in front of the desk, which will hit the chest.
The desk should not be placed under the altar;
Salesmen and foreign affairs staff are not allowed to have people moving behind their desks, while accounting and finance staff are not allowed to have people moving behind their desks.
The Qinglong side of the office desk should be high, and the Baihu side should be low and quiet. The phone and lamps on the desk should be placed on the dragon side for good luck.