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Feng Shui When You Live Over A Parking Garage

Filed Under: Feng Shui for Your Home Tagged With: Garage Feng Shui, Reader Questions, Yin & Yang

Here’s a good question from reader Roseanne:

“Dear Ann, I just discovered that my apartment is located over the parking garage for my building.

“I’ve never read anything positive about living over a garage – what is the Feng Shui of this situation? Help!”

Roseanne is right — living over a garage is not ideal Feng Shui.

apartment-over-garagesGarages and other large empty spaces are considered overly Yin in Feng Shui: dark and cold, dormant and quiet.

This negative energy can affect you on a day-to-day basis as you are conscious of the almost complete lack of human activity nearby.

If you live over a garage, what can you do to improve your Feng Shui?

The key is to symbolically balance Yin with elements of Yang.

  • If the garage is part of your home, bring the space to life with lively colors and artwork, and be sure to enhance whichever part of the Bagua it occupies.
  • If the garage is not under your control, as is the case with Roseanne, create a symbolic “Yang barrier” between yourself and the space below: a carpet with lively patterns or colors, for instance.

Also check out my Feng Shui SOS article for specific bedroom tips to help you correct course when you live over a garage.

(Photo by David Schott on Creative Commons)

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  1. Yasmin Dass says

    July 21, 2011 at 7:15 am

    Was browsing through the net for some useful information on Feng Shui and found your blog. Want to say really good one.

    yasmin

    • Ann says

      July 22, 2011 at 8:47 pm

      Thanks for stopping by, Yasmin 🙂 Sending good Chi your way.

  2. Erika says

    June 17, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    My apartment is on the first floor. And below it is the garage. How concern should I be? I read some articles advising to place a colorful carpet or earthy color carpet. But the apartment itself is already carpeted (brown). Any advice?

    • Ann says

      June 30, 2016 at 9:51 am

      Hello Erika,
      It is good that you have the carpeting already as that is an effective way to counteract the “empty” Yin energy coming up from the garage. Your brown carpet is an earthy color, but adding a small square yellow or gold rug on top of it would be even better.

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