How to Incorporate the Five Elements of Feng Shui in Your Gathering Spaces
At MOTIV Interiors, we love incorporating feng shui into our designs to promote flow, balance, and harmony within your home.
Each element of feng shui (fire, water, earth, metal, and wood) promotes a certain energy, and these energies can be harnessed in your gathering spaces when thoughtfully combined.
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Fire Element
The Fire element is connected to fame, inspiration, and our visibility. Promoting visibility in your gathering spaces can help all guests feel welcome and seen.
There are many ways to channel the fire element - the element of initiative energy. We suggest adding the color red to to your spaces and (safely) incorporating candles or a fireplace.
Animal prints, triangles and arrows also embody the fire element.
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Water Element
The Water Element represents wisdom, your career, and your social life. Whether hosting colleagues from work or friends from your various social circles, the water element is vital to your gathering spaces.
In dining settings, beautiful glassware and sinuous shapes in deep blues and blacks serve as a practical way to invoke the water element.
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Earth Element
The Earth element represents grounding and a sense of security. It is associated with nurturing and a foundation for relationships, making it the perfect element to include in all of your gathering spaces.
Stoneware and ceramics are an easy and beautiful way to introduce the Earth element into your gathering spaces. Square shapes, earth tones and stone/pottery are other physical expressions of earth element.
Treat yourself to a new piece of art and try a mountain landscape for a more artistic interpretation!
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Metal Element
The Metal element promotes energy, beauty, joy, and efficiency. When creating gathering spaces, aim to incorporate what feels beautiful to you - and a mood that matches your unique energy.
Adding metal may sound daunting, but there are many creative ways to include it in your spaces. For dining spaces, provide unique serving bowls or an eye-catching decorative light fixture.
We also love to include the metal element in the final stages of styling to brighten up a room - whether amongst your bookshelves or on surfaces.
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Wood Element
The Wood element promotes growth, vitality, and far-reaching vision. As you, your family, and your loved ones grow, your gathering spaces can remain a stable place to commune.
Fresh flowers, live plants, and linens are all wonderful ways to incorporate this element and ensure your space is harnessing the energy of the Wood element.
Looking for ways to harness the five elements of feng shui in your gathering spaces, but unsure where to being? Reach out for a free 30-minute Connection Call today!
