What your Ceiling says about your Home's Energy - The Feng Shui behind your Roof Shape
- honeylunehivery
- Apr 28
- 3 min read
Feng Shui is more than just moving furniture and adding decor. It's woven into your home's floor plan and architecture. Yep, beams, columns, fireplaces, and even ceiling shapes impact and influence your home's energy.
Ceilings are a feature that is often overlooked in design, but it strongly affects your energy. Understanding how these different ceiling shapes impact the energy of a space, you can make more empowered decisions for your next remodel or even figuring out which room is the best space for your dining room furniture.
Keep reading to learn about the popular ceiling shapes and features and just how each one is influencing your home's Feng Shui.
Vaulted Ceiling
A vaulted ceiling not only adds height to your space, it offers movement. Vaults connect to the fire element in Feng Shui and bring a dynamic and active energy to a space. Active spaces like living rooms, dining rooms, and even kitchens are ideal for this ceiling and its energy.
Low Ceiling Height
A low ceiling height (something under 8') can make a room feel more cozy and intimate. Often these are seen in basements. It's not suggested that you build a first or second level to under 8', as this does offer challenges for taller people to navigate these spaces.
Double-High Ceiling
Double-high ceilings are typically found in restaurants, lobbies, and other densely populated spaces, as it helps to feel more expansive and lifted. These ceilings help bring in more wood energy, which connects to growth and expansion. In homes, foyers are ideal for this ceiling, as they help to connect more to the outdoors and smooth the transition going out to in. Other good rooms include more active spaces like living rooms.
Domed Ceiling
Curved or rounded ceilings such as domes and barrels help to contain energy. Often seen in spiritual buildings like Roman Churches, Irish Monasteries, or Muslim Mosques, this type of architecture fosters concentration, focus, and connection (such as to the divine).
It's a good option for spaces you want to bring in more concentration and focus, such as an office or even a nook. While not a typical shape for residential homes, popular rooms for this type of ceiling include foyers, master bathrooms, and even dining rooms.
Ceiling with Beams
If you have beams or exposed rafters on your ceiling, not only does this create a striking architectural feature for your space, but it also helps to ground the energy. Beams connect to the earth element in Feng Shui. Their horizontal lines help to make a space feel wider, and the visual weight they provide acts to "lower" the feel of a room.
Beams are great in living rooms or dining rooms, as you might wish to feel more grounded, relaxed, and comforted in these spaces. However, beams aren't ideal for bedrooms because this can add too much heavy energy above you while you sleep.
Wallpaper Ceiling
Perhaps not a ceiling type but having a wallpapered ceiling still does impact the energy of your space. In interior design, adding wallpaper to a ceiling adds visual interest, boldness, and a dynamic WOW factor. All of these aspects connect to the fire element. A fun and funky wallpaper to act as a statement for your space and will make the energy more lively.
Unless you're building a home from the ground up or planning to do some serious demo and remodeling, you might not be changing your ceiling shape. You CAN however still take this information about the energies so you can access and figure out just what functions/activities will be best in each room.
Have a vaulted ceiling in your living room but want the space to feel more grounded and cozy? Adding faux beams will bring down that energy. Have a boring office that you need to add more pizazz and movement? Try adding that fun print wallpaper.
You have the power to enhance and work with your home's energy so you can get the benefits you're wanting and needing from your space.
Need more help? Reach out to work with me! A Feng Shui consultation or 1:1 Holistic Design work might be exactly what you need to transform your space into the home of your dreams.
Your Holistic Home Helper,
Marissa
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