If you’re looking for ways of enhancing the aesthetics of your home, improving ventilation, and flooding it with natural light, skylights are the perfect addition to any home makeover.
Regardless of your current décor style, due to their popularity, you can almost certainly find a skylight that appeals to you and matches the current décor and design of your home.
Skylights are basically windows installed on the roof of a property, usually on pitched roofs, though flat-roof skylights are also becoming more common. Skylights help to allow more natural light into your home, they give great views up into the sky and outside via the roof, plus many of them are designed to be opened so as to improve ventilation.
When it comes to any form of home makeover however, if you practice feng shui you may be wondering whether or not skylights are beneficial for feng shui, or whether they’re a hindrance?
So, are skylights good feng shui, and what can you do to improve the feng shui of a stunning new skylight fitted in your home? Let’s find out.
What is Feng Shui?
We’ll address skylights and what you can do to improve their feng shui in your home in just a few moments. Before we do, however, we’re first going to take a look at the basic principles behind feng shui, and indeed, what it is in general.
Feng shui originated in China, and literally means ‘wind-water’. It is what is known as a form of geomancy that is designed to utilize energy forces to help harmonize people with their everyday surroundings, I.E their homes, offices, and places of work.
Feng shui, or ‘the way of wind and water’ has roots dating back to ancient Taoism. It was created as a way of arranging buildings, space, and objects in an enclosed environment in a way to achieve balance and harmony. The idea is that, by placing household objects and pieces of furniture in certain positions, you can harness the energy, or Qi (pronounced chi, or chee) that is flowing through your home/office to create balance and harmony that carries over into everyday life.
But are skylights good feng shui, and are there things you can do to improve this?
Ways to Improve the Feng Shui of New Skylights
Okay, so assuming you’ve decided to install new skylights in your home, if you do practice feng shui you’re likely looking for ways of improving the natural flow and balance of energy in your home.
Here are a few simple methods designed to enhance the feng shui of new skylights in your home or property.
Keep Skylights Clean and Well Maintained
First and foremost, are skylights good feng shui? Well, yes they are, assuming you keep them clean and well maintained. Skylights, according to the principles of feng shui, are essentially windows and should be treated as such.
Windows allow fresh air and natural light into the home. As feng shui is all about harnessing the earth’s elements and energy, you can see why windows play such a key role in this ancient artform.
You see, skylights let yang energy into the home, as well as yin energy. Yin energy is calming and peaceful, whereas yang energy is energizing, bright, and positive. You want to allow as much yang light energy into your home as you can, which is why you should keep your skylights clean and well maintained.
As well as boosting the feng shui energy in your home, it will also help prolong the longevity of your skylights and ensure they work properly and let plenty of light into your home, with unobstructed views of the world outside.
Consider the Location
Another important consideration when it comes to skylights and feng shui is the location.
A lot of people who focus on feng shui tend to install skylights into the roofs of their welcome porches or front doors. This is because chi energy first enters the home through the front door. As a result, you want this space to be as warming and welcoming as possible.
The front door is also a symbol of wealth in Chinese culture, so installing s skylight in close proximity to your front door, I.E the front porch, is a way of allowing more positive energy into your home, thereby increasing your chances of enjoying wealth and good fortune.
Boost Productivity and Creativity with Skylights
For those looking to enhance their creativity and/or productivity through feng shui, skylights could prove very useful indeed.
Skylights allow positive energy into the home, in the form of yin and yang energy. Because of this, people looking to enjoy more motivation, more drive, more creativity, and more productivity can benefit from the energy these skylights let in. For these reasons, skylights are particularly effective in home offices, workspaces, playrooms, home gyms, hobby rooms, gaming rooms, and even kitchens.
Don’t Block Your Energy Flow
Of course, you are free to install skylights in the home wherever you like, so don’t worry if you just want to fit one in the living room where you can watch TV and relax after a long day at work.
A great way to harness the Qi that skylights let into the home is to ensure that the energy is unobstructed and isn’t blocked by large pieces of furniture or other accessories.
Simply arrange your furniture in a way that lets the energy flow freely around the room and you should benefit from the positive and calming energy the skylights let into your home.
Try Not to Fit a Skylight Directly Over a Cooking Space
One of the most important principles of feng shui states that you should never have a window, and therefore a skylight, directly over your cooker or an area where you cook food.
This is because windows not only let energy in the home, but also out of the home. The idea here is that a window or skylight over a cooking station will result in a loss of Chi energy from your meals. This will result in bland-tasting meals lacking nutrition and goodness.
If you can, install your skylight away from your cooking station and place it in close proximity to where you enjoy your meals instead.
Let the Air Flow
When choosing skylights, if your budget will allow for it, always go for skylights which can be opened and closed for ventilation, just like a normal window.
Light and air are two fundamentals of feng shui, as they let positive yin and yang chi into the home and allow it to circulate freely. Therefore, a skylight with an opening vent is the perfect way to achive exactly that.