by Nana Nadal

(Article published in the August issue of Metro Home & Entertaining magazine)

“There is no specific color assigned to a particular room,” clarifies international feng shui consultant Marites Allen. Instead, auspicious colors are determined by identifying the compass directions of the home. Each of these so-called sectors corresponds to a life aspiration and has its own pre-set luck enhancers.

“Everything that is covered by the roof comprises the whole home. Ideally, the house should be square. There are missing sectors when a house is L- or U-shaped, and sometimes you can really see that something is out of place in the lives of the residents. That’s why when I do consultation, it’s always better for me to start from scratch,” she points out.

Career and wealth

The north side of the house is for career. The element that is linked with it is water. “Permissible colors here could be black, blue, and gray,” Marites states. If you go down south, that’s for fame and recognition. Because it’s a fire element sector, recommended colors are red, pink, and purple.

“You have so many choices, so the shade doesn’t matter as long as it belongs to the same color family,” assures Marites. For health and longevity, pay attention to the east side of the home with the wood element. “The recommended colors here are green and brown,” Marites says.

On the west side sits the descendants’ luck. “This is for your children or if you are looking for children, you can activate this,” Marites advises. “This is metal so you can apply white, gold, and silver.”

Love and marriage

For the secondary directions, the southeast sector, which corresponds to wealth, is also a wood element, so, just like the east side, green and brown are suited for it, too. The southwest portion represents the mother of the house and is also for love and marriage.

“This should ideally be a dining room or living room or a bedroom. For a woman who resides in a house where the southwest sector is missing, the chances of marriage is very low or very challenged,” she warns. “This is where you can put neutral colors such as cream, beige, and off-white, because it’s an earth element. The northeast is another earth element sector so the same colors are best to attract travel and education luck.

“In our home, I activated this for my kids,” she reveals. The father’s corner can be found at the northwest. It’s a metal element so some of the best colors for this area are white, gold, silver, yellow and yellow gold.

“You can use these basics for your interiors without consulting a feng shui master,” Marites advises. “if a person works with this formula, it’s going to be beautiful. There’s so much you can do, there’s a lot of variety available. You can be creative and make do with simple things. You don’t have to make the house like a World of Feng Shui shop, she says, referring to the retail franchise that she heads.
“If you don’t do anything at all, then you are not activating the good energy. That’s a shame because you’re throwing away one-third of the luck that you have. There’s nothing to lose but everything to gain.”

For professional consultation, contact Marites Allen at (0920) 9509390 or www.marites.allen.com.