Feng Shui placement of sofas and considerations

Sofa is a family’s daily sitting and lying commonly used furniture, and can even be said to be the focus of the family. And the key to the arrangement of the living room is also the sofa arrangement. Therefore, regardless of the placement of the sofa orientation, layout form, or size must be reasonable settings.

I. Placement orientation
Sofa is generally placed in the living room, sitting southeast to northwest, south to north, north to south and east to west four kinds of sitting house. The sofa should be placed in the living room is east. Southeast. South and north of the four auspicious directions. For houses with northwest to southeast, west to east, northeast to southwest and southwest to northeast, the sofa should be placed in the southwest, west, northwest and northeast of the living room. Northwest and northeast of the four auspicious directions. Therefore, according to the I Ching after the eight hexagrams inferred, the choice of placing the sofa will be different.

II. Placement
Sofa at home to emphasize the principle of comfort and ease, and office furnishing methods and purposes are not the same, the placement of the living room sofa in general to do, not only can you look at each other when talking about the more uninteresting or do not want to mention the topic, you can easily avert your eyes, and will not look rude or even abrupt.
The following are several common ways of sofa arrangement.
1. a word type
This placement is more suitable for narrow living room space, but the distance between the two ends should not be too long, so as not to talk will be more strenuous.

2. “L” type
Suitable for placement in a small area of the living room. L-shaped arrangement can make full use of indoor space, but the corner of the continuous sofa is not suitable for sitting, because this position will make sitting people produce an uncomfortable feeling. Also lack of intimacy.

3. “U” type
U-shaped arrangement is the more ideal sitting arrangement in the living room. It can reflect the main seating position, but also to create a more intimate and warm atmosphere of communication, so that
People have a relaxed and comfortable feeling when negotiating. Choose a combination of sofa with less space and more functions is most appropriate. If necessary, can also be used as a bed.

5. Double-row
Double-row arrangement is easy to produce a natural and friendly chat atmosphere, but for the establishment of audio-visual cabinets in the living room space, and less appropriate. Because the audiovisual cabinet and the position of the video screen are generally on the side. Watching TV is not convenient, so the current popular practice is the sofa and TV cabinet relative to each other, rather than the sofa and sofa relative to each other.
5. Distance too long type
This placement is suitable for the more spacious living room. As the distance between the two ends is too long, in the middle part of the placement of some chairs can effectively close the distance between them.

Three. Placement taboo
Sofa is the living room is used for daily rest, gossip and meeting furniture, therefore, in residential feng shui, it occupies a very important position. In feng shui, the placement of the sofa has the following taboos
(1) behind the desirable leaning
The so-called leaning, that is, the leaning mountain, refers to the sofa behind a solid wall reliable. If the sofa is behind the window, door or channel. Also equal to no support behind. From the psychological point of view, the sofa behind the empty, lack of security.
If the sofa is indeed no solid wall behind the reliable, more effective method of improvement is to place a low cabinet or screen behind the sofa, which is called “artificial support, will also play a remedial role. But one thing must be noted that the sofa should not have water behind, so it is not appropriate to place the fish tank behind the sofa. Similarly, behind the sofa on the low cabinet placed on the fish tank and other decorative arrangements with water is also not suitable
(2) behind should not have a mirror
Behind the sofa should not have a large mirror. People sitting on the sofa, onlookers from the mirror can clearly see the back of the sitter’s head. It is not good. If the mirror is beside and not in the back, the back of the head will not be reflected from the mirror, it will not hurt.
(3) the number of sets is not a set of half
The number of sets of living room sofas is a matter of concern, from a feng shui point of view, the most jealous of a set and a half, or square and round two sofas put together with.
In addition. Sofa shape can be divided into single sofas, double sofas, long sofas and round sofas, etc.: in terms of materials, can also be divided into leather sofas, fabric sofas, rattan sofas and traditional acid chairs, etc.: in the color and shape is more fancy
(4) top avoid beams pressed against the top
Sleeping bed with a beam on the top, the victim is only one or two people sleeping in bed, but if the sofa has a beam on the top, it is affected by a family, the impact is very big, so try to avoid. If indeed can not be avoided, the sofa can be placed on the coffee table on both sides of the lucky bamboo to defuse the beam pressure top
(5) avoid and the door butt
If the sofa is a straight line with the door, feng shui is called “hedge disadvantages are quite large. Encounter this situation. It is best to move the sofa away, if nowhere to move. That will have to place a screen between the two, so that the flow of gas from the door into the house will not be directly to the sofa. And if the sofa to the door will not be a big problem, of course, there is no need to place a screen to resolve.
(6) top avoid direct light
Sometimes the sofa range of light is weak, many people will be placed on the top of the sofa lights. For example, hidden in the ceiling downlights, or exposed spotlights, etc.. Because it is too close to the sofa, the light is often shot straight down from the top of the head. From the environmental design, sofa overhead light directly, often makes the emotional tension, dizziness and restlessness. If the light is modified to shoot at the wall. Can be alleviated.
IV. Sofa size
Residential single-seat sofa is generally 760 mm × 760 mm, up to 810 mm × 810 mm has been sufficient. Three-seat sofa length is generally 1750-1980 mm. Many people like to import sofas, be aware that the size of this sofa is generally 900 mm × 900 mm, put them in the living room of small units, often make the living room looks small.
Many people like corner sofas . Corner seat should be a corner table, the same size is 760 mm × 760 mm. If the corner sofa, sitting will take up the position of the neighbor, while sitting uncomfortable, because his feet in a right-angle position. To corner seat comfortable, the corner sofa size should be 1020 mm × 1020 mm. Sitting position of the highest position is appropriate for 400 mm, and then tilted downward with a 6-degree tilt, sitting deep 530 mm or so (according to the principles of ergonomics, not too deep, too deep that is not sitting in the end).
The armrest of the sofa is generally 560-600 mm high. Therefore, if the sofa without armrests, but with the corner, side, then, the corner, the height of the side should also be 60 mm high. To facilitate the pillow hand. Call. Writing, put a lamp, etc.