Dear Kartar Diamond: How to place a bed in a commanding position if the spot diagonally from the door is unavailable due to a built-in closet?
Answer: You asked what to do in regards to a be placement and what is called the Command Position. There is a notion that sleeping opposite a bedroom’s door is the best vantage point, but statistically that is not necessarily true or even possible.
Firstly, for many rooms that puts a bed at an angle instead of flush with a room’s wall. The only time I recommend a bed be angled is if other criteria suggest that, and that can include factoring in the occupant’s birth date. Everyone has a best sleeping direction based on year of birth. However, even that is a challenge to achieve when people share a bed with someone who has different best directions.
The most important aspects to placing a bed, according to Feng Shui theory, is to sleep out of direct alignment with the room’s door if possible and flat against a solid wall instead of a low window. Other features to be on the look-out for include ceiling height, angle, exposed beams, mirrors in a bedroom and proximity to certain things on the other side of a headboard wall, like electronics or a stove.
You can be less concerned about achieving the “command position” and focus more on the items I have listed here in this response. As a full-time feng shui consultant for 32 years, I understand and concur that the bedroom is the most important room in the house. But there are also unseen energies which are equally important to address, above and beyond the position of the bed in the room. These other energies are determined based on when the house or apartment was built and its compass alignment.
Kartar Diamond of Feng Shui Solutions® has a full-scale consultancy, including assistance with property searches, design phase and existing homes and businesses. She is the author of three books, 6 ebooks, 36 Cast Study Lessons and more to come. See the books she’s authored or browse through her online Traditional Feng Shui school.