Using Color Tips

We know that changing certain colors or using the proper color in feng shui can not only correct a multitude of problems, but also that colors can release energy more quickly than many other cures. Each of the five elements we’ve become familiar with (fire, earth, metal, water, and wood) speaks to achieving harmony through the use of color.

Appropriate colors for use in with the fire element would be yellows that are bright, happy and uplifting. Use oranges to free and release emotions and bring joy to your home. Reds are used to revitalize and bring abundance. Purple can help balance your mind and remove fears while it stimulates and inspires. Use purple if creative inspiration is what you seek or if you need to call forth a renewed spirituality.  Using these colors as paint choices, accents, and art objects will raise the energy of fire in the northeast and the southwestern areas of your home.

The feng shui element of earth covers the areas of the Northeast and the Southwest as well as the center of your home.  Primary colors to enhance these earth areas are yellows, browns, beiges, and natural nut colors. These colors bring comfort, enhance stability, and bring the peace to these areas of your home. Brown brings an atmosphere of support and stability and arrives in time to minimize insecurities.

Metal element colors of gold, silver, grays, and whites will bring clarity and light to the west and northwest areas of your home. White is associated with purity and is a great color choice to use for protection. Using white can add the feelings of peace and comfort to your home. Silvers can help calm fragile emotions and soothe those that are sensitive to life’s more difficult moments.

Water, the element we find in the north also brings its harmony to the east and southeast. Primary colors for use here are the deep blues and blacks.  They wash in a wealth of abundance, bringing with it a manner of refreshment and calmness. Blue is a cool, calming color that can inspire us or relax us. Too much blue, however, may be perceived as being cold or unfriendly, but its use on a front door that is facing north will call abundance and wealth right to your door.

You will find Wood element colors of brown and green at home for use in the East, Southeast, and the south. Brown conveys a friendly warm feeling, however too much brown brings an element of drabness or sadness with it.  Be careful not to overdo it. The Southeast, which governs wealth and prosperity, calls out for use of the color green. The greens you find in nature will lessen stress, provide the path to empathy, and beckon prosperity to wind its way to you.

Remember the colors that we find all about us are the very energies that influence the paths to our destiny. They raise or lower our energy, they call us to peacefulness or raise us to anger, effective use of color choice can be one of the most important weapons in our feng shui arsenal.