Getting Your Dining Room Feng Shui In Sync

I thought it would be a good idea to review the importance of some aspects of dining room
feng shui as this is the room that represents the harmony and quality of relationships within the family.  It is especially important in 2020, the Year of the Metal Rat with the Betrayal & Blood Star 7 in the middle of the annual feng shui chart, affecting the entire family.  If you get this feng shui right, it will go a long way toward better family relationships between spouses and siblings and less jealousy and envy that can pull a family apart. Also, if your dining table is filled with abundance, the family will eat well and live well.

A Long Rectangular Table is highly favoured since it represents growth energy. If your family enjoys meals at this table, they can grow personally and in their careers with a comfortable lifestyle that improves over time.

An Oval Shaped or Round Dining Table gives a little more flexibility for family members to face their lucky personal (sheng chi) directions and it’s easy to converse with everyone at the table.  This table is also more suitable for sharing many dishes.  All family members should know their kua number and try to face one of their auspicious directions.

Chairs Around the Dining Table should be auspicious with solid armrests and back support.  A solid armrest and good back support suggest that as you sit down to eat you are secure and not falling off.  Some modern designs today give an unstable feeling of little support.  As you sit down to eat you should feel relaxed, yet secure - thus soft, cushy chairs are not ideal in the dining room.

Fancy Tablecloths and Chair Upholstery are not very practical in today’s lifestyle.  Food stains if they occur are bad feng shui.  Save your fancy linens for special occasions and be practical when choosing your chair upholstery.

Colour Choices:  When choosing colours for your dining room, keep things calm and don’t introduce too much yang energy.  For example, white walls with red upholstered chairs and curtains would be too yang and heated arguments could result between family members.  Tone things down and choose cooler colours like blues and pale greens.   If you have a chandelier over your dining table this adds more yang energy so make sure that it is not too large and overwhelming, and the size works with the rest of your furniture and room design. Balance is most important.

Mirrors are a MUST!  One of the best feng shui recommendations I can give you is to have a wall mirror on a side wall reflecting the food on the table and effectively doubling the amount of food.  If you can mirror one entire wall, even better as this ensures in the reflection that you don’t cut off the heads or feet of the guests.  A mirror will make your space feel much larger

Sharing Your Meals Together is most important but I realize that family members today have different schedules, soccer or other sport practice, commute problems and so on.  If you can’t manage a nightly meal together, try to dine together at least once a week to promote the energy of family harmony.

Don’t ignore dining room feng shui.  If you don’t have a proper dining room but instead have a breakfast nook or eating area connected to your living area or kitchen these same principles apply.  In smaller homes this maintains the feeling of space while enjoying the yang energy from adjoining areas

Good Luck!
Lillian