If your relationships are tired and money flies through your hands your house might just

be the wrong color. Maybe life is a constant struggle and you can’t put your finger on
the one small thing blocking your success. The answer could be as simple as the color
on your house. Feng shui dictates that the paint color on your house can affect your
wealth and abundance.
For instance, if your house is painted the wrong color for the direction it faces, you might
be losing money. A good example of this is an east- or southeast-facing house that is
painted white. This is a great example of houses that lose money or whose residents
suffer from ill health or poor family relationships.
White is the color of metal and east and southeast are wood-facing directions. Because
metal cuts wood (think of an ax or a chainsaw), the success of the house is affected.
Color can be confusing — but it doesn’t have to be
When it comes to choosing house colors, it can be very confusing and difficult to make
a decision. Most are not sure what will look good or what’s the best choice is for their
house.
Feng shui provides several starting points for color selection because each color has a
different meaning and direction associated with it.
However, if you can paint your house a color that is harmonious with the direction it
faces, you will help create a beneficial environment in the home, and help harmonize it
with the environment, thereby making life go smoother and easier.
Use good design sense when choosing good feng shui colors
For example, color in feng shui means different things. Black is the color of money, but
a black house won’t necessarily make you rich. However, a house that faces north and
is painted white with black trim on the shutters and front door, and has brass trimmings,
is a perfect example of a house that is harmonized with its environment. That’s because
white is a metal color and metal makes water — making white a “productive color” for a
house.
This also means the color and direction are harmonious. Feng shui is often referred to
as a method for creating harmony. Harmony – in feng shui – means that colors,
elements, shapes, and numbers are all supportive and beneficial for one another.
A Feng Shui Guide to Choosing House Color
Use feng shui to harmonize house color with the direction that it faces.
White (creativity/children): Good for west, northwest and north-facing houses as it
reflects light well and stimulates these directions.
Green/Purple (growth/good health/wealth): Good for east and south-facing houses.
Blue/Purple (career/wealth/opportunities): Good for north, east, and southeast facing
houses.
Yellow/Beiges/Gold (ochre) (relationships/stability): Good for northeast, west,
southwest, and northwest facing house. Yellow is a color of wisdom and study.
Reds/Pinks (social status, recognition, relationships): South, southwest, and NE
facing houses benefit from these colors.
Browns (health, happy family relationships): Good for growth and longevity and
excellent for east-facing houses and good for the south (fire) direction.
Taupe (relationships, stability, grounding): This color is excellent for the northeast
and southwest because these are “earth” directions and taupes are earthy or stone-type
colors. It also helps stabilize relationships and promote family harmony – particularly for
the woman of the household.
What about trim colors?
White is always a good option, as is a lighter shade of the predominant color. Choose a
dark door color from the list of corresponding colors. Or choose a darker shade for
siding and lighter shade for the door and trim.
Why not paint a “stone location” with a “wood” color?
You always want to paint your house a color that is harmonious for the direction it faces.
If your house faces SW (an earth direction), and you paint it a wood color, such as
green or brown, this will create difficulty with the relationships in the house.
Likewise, if you paint a south-facing house white, the residents might struggle with
gaining recognition at work or have a problem with neighbors. The Five Element
Theory explains more about how to select colors.
Use the Red Lotus Letter Color Calculator to help you select house colors that support
the house — and make life better for you.

There are five elements at the foundation of feng shui, and understanding them is key in
feng shui. This knowledge helps you control the feng shui in your home and office.
Understanding the five elements is an essential part of building the good energy in your
home and controlling the negative energy — so learning about the five elements,
or Five Element Theory, is an important investment of your feng shui time.
Five element theory begins with the elements. These elements include metal, wood,
water, earth, and fire. They’re collectively called Wu Xing. Each element is related to an
energy present in the earth and to a season of the year. For instance, fire is related to
the summer months. Each element represents a different type of chi, such as growing
chi, ripening chi, or spreading chi.
The way these elements interact with one another can either create harmony or
disharmony. That’s because the elements correspond to one another differently. There
are three ways in which the elements respond to one another: 1) Generating or
productive, 2) exhaustive or reducing, and, 3) destructive. In a generating cycle, the
elements enhance one another. For instance, water makes plants grow. Therefore, the
water element enhances the wood element.
What does all this mean for you? Well, if you have an east sector that you want to
enhance, you would improve it by adding water. The same is true for southeast,
because it’s also a wood sector. If your home faces south (the fire direction), then what
do you throw on a fire to make it grow? That’s right, wood. So, by painting your home
brown, if it faces south, or adding plants in this area, you will be “enhancing” or
producing more of your south/fire element.
Likewise, when you have a problem area, you’ll want to exhaust or destroy the energy.
A good example of this is the bathroom located in the center, northeast, or southwest
sectors of the house. These are all earth sectors. Plants, whose roots dive deep into the
soil for nourishment, destroy the earth by using it up. Likewise, metal is also taken out of
the earth, exhausting it.
So, in the earth sectors you can either destroy or exhaust the negative energy of the
toilets by either adding more metal elements or wood elements. In this case, you could
choose to paint your bathroom white, or simply add a plant in the bathroom. Either way,
you’ll help to hold down the negative toilet energy.
Let’s go through the elements one by one…
1. Water: Water is the direction of the north. It’s color is black, blue, or deep purple. It’s
enhanced by metal and destroyed by earth (dams contain water) and exhausted by
wood (plants drink water). This makes having metal in a water location a benefit, and
wood or earth a detriment. It’s associated with the number 1.
2. Earth: Earth is associated with the northeast, center, and southwest sectors. It’s
enhanced by fire and destroyed by wood and exhausted by metal. It’s color is beige or
yellow. It’s associated with the numbers 2, 5, and 8.
3. Wood: Wood is associated with the direction of east (big wood) and southeast (small
wood). It’s enhanced by water, destroyed by metal (think of an ax against a tree) and
exhausted by fire. It’s color is brown or green. It’s associated with the number 3 (east)
and 4 (southeast).
4. Metal: Metal is associated with the west (small metal) and the northwest (big metal).
It’s produced by earth and destroyed by fire and exhausted by water. It’s associated
with the numbers 6 (northwest) and 7 (west) and the colors of white, gray, and gold
(metallic gold, not ochre).
5. Fire: Fire is associated with the south. It’s enhanced by wood, exhausted by earth
(think of throwing dirt on a fire), and destroyed by water. It’s associated with the number
9 and red is its color.
This diagram shows graphically how the elements work together
Now that you know how the elements work, you can begin making beneficial changes to
the feng shui in your home.