How To Use Feng Shui To Avoid Clutter In Your Home

Guest Post by House Tipster

Do you find yourself overwhelmed in an incredibly cluttered home? Clutter creates stress, decreases efficiency, and can sometimes lead to depression. By harnessing the teachings of Feng Shui to avoid clutter, your home will have a better flow and energy for a healthy living space.

Feng Shui is a Chinese practice that focuses on how your living space affects your energy and life. Everything you place in a room has a specific energy, and its placement in your home can work for or against you. Let’s get to the heart of decluttering with Feng Shui.

How To Use Feng Shui To Avoid Clutter & Declutter

You may wonder what an object’s energy has to do with removing clutter from your home. Clutter is considered negative in Feng Shui because it clogs the natural energy flow throughout a room. Whether the issue is awkward furniture placement or having too many energy conflicts on a coffee table, Feng Shui’s practice can help you remove clutter from each room of your house.

Removing the Obvious Clutter First

If you are like most American consumers, you likely have objects throughout your home that are unnecessary or that you can live without. So, before you implement the teachings of Feng Shui, you should remove any unnecessary clutter.

Go through each room of your house and do a decluttering exercise as you inventory what you have there:

• Do you use it, or is it a decoration? Is it necessary for the décor of the room?
• How often do you spend dusting and cleaning around the objects in your room – or have you completely avoided cleaning them because of the knick-knacks taking up space?
• Can you donate or sell any unnecessary items from your living spaces?
• Is there a sentimental reason you are holding onto a particular item in that room? If so, you may want to keep those.

Clean Each Room of Your House Thoroughly

One part of decluttering with Feng Shui that people ignore is cleanliness- a mess is considered clutter. Whether that means you have stains on furniture, dirty handprints from kids on the walls, or dust accumulating on top of a bookshelf, it all needs to be cleaned up.

You cannot correctly implement Feng Shui in a dirty space. You can learn more about this aspect of Feng Shui right here. Even if that means removing everything to steam clean carpets or wax floors, you will want to start with a clean workspace and items.

Decluttering With Feng Shui Principles Room By Room

Now that you have eliminated unnecessary items and cleaned, you are ready to go through and remove clutter utilizing the principles of Feng Shui in each room.

Declutter your kitchen

The kitchen is the gathering place in your home. You cook and serve meals, entertain friends and family, and you might even help your children with their homework there.

Feng Shui views your kitchen as the primary resource of health – especially liver health. Decluttering your kitchen with Feng Shui can include:

• Removing everything from the refrigerator, tossing expired items, cleaning drawers and wiping down shelving, and organizing each shelf and indoor bin by categories so things are easier to find.
• Cleaning your stove and oven thoroughly, and even giving pots and pans a good degreasing.
• Removing harsh chemical cleansers from your cleaning routine and using natural, eco-safe cleaners.
• Clean out all drawers in your kitchen, removing broken items and those you do not use.
• Scrub walls, light fixtures, and surfaces where grease and dust have built up over time. Don’t forget the top of your refrigerator and kitchen surfaces while you’re there.

The bedroom

Your bedroom is a place of peace, rejuvenation, and safety. You want to remove anything here that does not create a soothing environment where you can rest after a long day.

Some ways to declutter include:

• Remove anything that makes clutter in your bedroom and doesn’t facilitate relaxation, such as exercise equipment, televisions, and anything work-related.
• Remove clutter from closets and under the bed – see what you can donate, sell, or just get rid of.

The entryway and mudroom

Entrances to your home that are full of clutter create chaotic energy. Your home’s front door is known as the Chi of your home, and you want that to set the tone for the rest of your home. Creating a positive entrance doesn’t just apply to your front door – but to your mudroom.

• Use principles of Feng Shui when decorating your entrance, and make your front entryway a statement.
• Remove non-seasonal items to storage.
• Have a place for easily cluttered items like mail, keys, and purses.
• Remove anything you do not need on the porch or right inside your home, such as old potted plants that you do not take care of, views of your trash bins off the side of the house, or clutter on the porch itself.

The Purpose Of Feng Shui

Remember that the purpose of Feng Shui is to improve physical and emotional well-being. You want your energy levels to spike at home, and clutter drains energy. Feng Shui should be a guide for how you can reduce negative energy in every room of your home and make life more efficient overall.

When you think about it if your home is perfectly organized, you’ll spend less time searching for things, have an easier time keeping your house clean, and feel a sense of relief.

These Principles Apply To Every Room In Your Home

Your garage, outdoor storage, and children’s playrooms can benefit from decluttering with Feng Shui. Once you have decluttered, you can begin to redecorate using those principles and make energy-centric sections of each room that further promote your health.

Your garage, outdoor storage, and children’s playrooms can benefit from decluttering with Feng Shui. Once you have decluttered, you can begin to redecorate using those principles and make energy-centric sections of each room.