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Feng Shui SOS: My Bedroom Is On Top Of My Garage!

Filed Under: Bedroom Feng Shui Tagged With: Earth Element, Feng Shui & Sleep, Garage Feng Shui, Yin & Yang

Was your house designed so your bedroom sits on top of your garage?

bedroom-over-garage

This common room arrangement means you’re sleeping above a large and mostly lifeless space, whether you park your car there or use the space mostly for storage (which is an entirely different Feng Shui story).

Because the garage has a surfeit of Yin energy you may have the sense that you’re floating, unsure whether you’re connected to the “real world” or not as you try to get to sleep.

Sleeping above a garage often leads to insomnia or worse: moody behavior, social isolation, and an inner sense that your life is not moving forward in a positive, desirable way.

Banish your sleepless nights and cranky mood with a few smart Feng Shui adjustments that create a cozy and warm atmosphere where you can get a good night’s sleep.

Create good bedroom Feng Shui by introducing the Earth element to give yourself the support you need during the night.

  • A square or rectangular-shaped carpet underneath your bed adds stability and balance.
  • Use yellow and gold tones in bedroom accessories; earth-tones like tan and brown are also a positive adjustment.
  • Instead of Water-y or Metallic art, hang pictures of beautiful landscapes and soothing distant views.
  • Be sure to use a headboard on your bed to back yourself up and add the solid energy of the Mountain to the room.

The second essential thing to do when your bedroom is over a garage is to create good Feng Shui inside the garage itself.

An attached garage is always part of the Feng Shui of your home and must be included as part of the Bagua Map. You need to care for it just as much as you care for any other part of your home.

Please take a look at my related article on good Feng Shui for your garage to get started on transforming your garage from lifeless and neglected into a supportive, vital part of your home’s energy.

(photo credit: andypiper on Flickr)

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Comments

  1. Sonja Hegman says

    September 25, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    Now I know why I couldn’t sleep while staying with family when we first moved back to MN. I barely slept during the two months we stayed there.
    Crazy.

    • Ann says

      October 3, 2013 at 3:15 pm

      Sounds as though your body and subconscious absolutely knew about the empty space you were “floating” above, Sonja. I’m glad you’ve moved into a place with solid ground underneath you now.

  2. Tina says

    October 28, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    Thank you for the nice article, but what if I can’t change the base? I’m thinking to move temporary for 3 months to this place but the room is above the entrance of the complex. And I already feel my life is going nowhere. Should I not sign the contract? But other than that it is a really good place.. Thank you!! see:https://www.google.be/maps/@51.0543437,3.7279283,3a,75y,110.05h,107.02t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sgJMaHH-bAYp_QRNGRfpJJQ!2e0?hl=en

    • Ann says

      October 29, 2014 at 2:06 pm

      Thank you for this good question, Tina. If you like the place and it’s really going to be a short-term situation, apply the Feng Shui adjustments I mention in this article and keep your intention focussed on moving to a more stable location as soon as possible.

  3. Nymfa Barrete Ungab says

    November 5, 2016 at 9:06 am

    My bedroom is beside the garage and my headboard is a wondow sharing the wall side of my garrage but i close the window and not used anymore it is good or not what will i do in order to jave a good fenshui

    • Ann says

      November 20, 2016 at 10:07 am

      Hello Nymfa,
      I need to see your floorplan in order to help you with this situation. Please send it to me via my Ask Ann page and I will be happy to help.

  4. Carmen says

    December 26, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    My bedroom is right on top of the garage and in deed I don’t sleep and my life is going anywhere, but if I look at the bagua map colors are blue, green black is the knowledge-spirituality-personal grow area, the left bottom part but you are saying to put earth tones colors? It says I have to hang pictures of accomplished and wise people, but you are saying pictures of beautiful landscaping. Should I do both colors, both pictures?

    • Ann says

      January 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm

      Hello Carmen,
      For your bedroom, use colors and shapes for the Knowledge area which is associated with the Mountain/Earth element. Likewise, support yourself by decorating the garage in a Feng Shui manner, with all five elements to create the complete harmony of nature underneath your room

  5. Brenda says

    February 10, 2017 at 9:24 pm

    We sleep above the garage I am taking meds for congestive heart condition. Our bedroom is in Sw corner how should. Decorate please? What can I do for under our bed?

    • Ann says

      March 6, 2017 at 2:53 pm

      Hello Brenda,
      I would need more information in order to answer this question. Please contact me via my Ask Ann page so that you can attach a floor plan and I can get a better understanding of the situation.

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