Hi Master,

I have 3 kids now and they sleep in the same room. Currently, there is one single bed in the room. Initially, one of my daughters slept on the bed. However, I realise that the fengshui is not good because the bedhead is against the wall below the window. As such, the bed is now left empty. I wish to change the position of the bed but I am unsure where i should shift the bed to. I understand that the bedhead should be against a solid wall with no window. If I place the bed this way, the bed will face the window. Is this ok?

Thanks in advance for your help!

1. The scientic method is to use the Eight House (Ba Cai) or Eight Mansions to determine the best bed-head directions for your children.

2. What you had mentioned, has more to do with "commonsense" Feng Shui or commonly known as "Commonsense approach to Feng Shui".

3. Here, commonsense prevails. For example, often the Chinese don't want to place a bed-head or a bed close to a window for one or more of the following reasons:-

3.1 "Safety concerns"

Imagine, living a ground floor unit or the bedroom is along a common housing board corridor. And if the window(s) are open, and if there is an inconsiderate or cruel passerby, they may even throw in a lighted cigarette butt into the room. And it may just fall onto the "cotton mattress cover etc..."

Even if it is not purposely done, just imagine an upper floor chain smoker, who throws his cigarette butt and it may accidently fall into our child's window and onto his/her bed.

3.2 "Windy conditions"

Many Chinese are concerned with the "wind". And try to avoid placing their children's bed towards the windows. As if it is windy, it is said to be no good to the child's respiratory tract system.

3.3 "Raining..."

If the window does not have a proper "awning" or roof, it just takes 5 to 10 minutes for heavy rain and wind to "wet" the entire bed that is next to the window.

3.4 Another safety reason

Assuming that there is no grille on the window or if the grille can easily be opened, a child may just see a "superman show" and climb out of the window via the bed next to the window.. just imagine the consequence, here.

3.5. Especially in Singapore, with high density living, many adults avoid placing their beds against a bay window or an open window. As they "feel very uncomfortable" especially if there is a peeping tom looking into their bedroom, even if they had drawn down the curtains etc... It is this 'feel not so good factor'.

4. As one can see, many of the origins of Feng Shui has more to do with "commonsense" than Feng Shui!