Feng Shui practitioner Tisha Morris shows how to fix a room you hate by giving it a single clear purpose, then purging items that don't fit it. She walks through defining the space, removing clutter, rearranging furniture, adjusting light and color, and adding elements that reinforce what the room is for.
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Hi everyone, this is Tisha Morris and welcome to Feng Shui Tips by Tisha. This is my new format, and thank you for joining me. So I'm going to be providing you with Feng Shui tips, and I have a whole list of videos I wanted to do. But if at any point you have a question for me or a special request on something you have a question about in your home, feel free to email me or put in the comments, and I will be happy to see what I can do about doing a video for it. So today, or this week's video, I want to talk about what to do with your least favorite room of the house. So I really love, I love working with people's least favorite rooms because it is the room with the most— it's ripe for transformation. And whatever this room represents within yourself means that that aspect of yourself or your life will be transformed as you make these changes. So it's so much, so much more juicier, meatier to work with your least favorite area as opposed to an area you like okay. So first of all, be thinking about what is your least favorite room. For some of you, it may come immediate, you know, maybe to the point where you can keep the door closed. A lot of times it's guest bedrooms, garages, a closet. You know, if it's not a whole room, then maybe a drawer or a shelf, could be that catch-all drawer in the kitchen. And so So you may think, well, I love my whole house except for that one room. What's the big deal? Can I just have one room that I don't like? And you know, that's like saying, why do I need my left elbow? Okay, so every room or aspect of the house is an extension or expression of ourself. And so we want all of our pieces and parts and energy whole and functioning and that we really love and enjoy. So think about what your least favorite room is. And so what I found— have found is usually our least favorite room doesn't have an identity. It lacks an identity. And because of this, it ends up being a catch-all for clutter. So usually our least favorite room is equivalent to the most cluttered area of the house. So let's take a guest bedroom, for example. Maybe it's a guest bedroom and you don't really have guests that often, maybe once or twice a year, and so instead it becomes a catch-all room for furniture or objects that you don't really care for, but you're not really wanting to get rid of. Or it could be, you know, where you store or put unwanted gifts or items or there are gifts that are going to be wrapped soon, or, you know, that can be— can end up being such a catch-all. Maybe the old StairMaster that you don't use anymore. It could— these rooms, these least favorite rooms become just a hodgepodge, and it's really because they don't have a real specific identity. Even if it's the garage, it may have become something different than the garage, which is supposed to be, you know, where you park your car, and maybe it's become something completely different. Maybe you tried to make it a game room, maybe it then became, you know, the kids' room, but then they didn't use it, and so it just became a clutter, clutter, clutter dumping ground. So, so think about what the least favorite room is. Think about if it has a lack of identity, which it probably does. And so the first step is to redefining or clarifying what the identity for that room is. Is it going to be a guest bedroom? Yes or no? Is it going to be a home office instead? Is the garage going to be for parking cars, or is it going to be to store seasonal things? So get really specific on what the identity of that room is going to be, or what you want it to be. You know, and you can think about completely redefining what that function of the room— if you realize that it's been a guest bedroom and yet you don't really want guests, or you don't have them that often, you know, feel free to completely redefine the function. I've turned guest bedrooms into, you yoga rooms, meditation rooms, home offices. And so be very clear. And a lot of times we try to make rooms have multiple purposes. For example, guest bedroom and home office. It's really hard to pull off rooms with dual functions. You really have to clarify which one takes priority because That will depend on how the furniture is arranged appropriately in the room. So really, just try to specify it with one function if possible. So once you've got the identity squared away, then I really encourage you to remove anything that's no longer in alignment with that new identity. So if you're turning the guest bedroom into a home office, removing the bed, obviously the nightstands or whatever is no longer in alignment with that home office. Okay, if it's the garage and you're wanting to use it for parking cars as its identity, then begin to remove what needs to be removed so that you can park the cars. And so this very well may end up being a lot of purging of clutter. A lot of clutter clearing. And with clutter clearing comes also furniture. Furniture is very much clutter, or can be clutter, if it's no longer serving a useful function and just taking up useful space. Okay, so removing what's no longer in alignment with that new identity, and that's really the hardest part, absolutely. So once you're past that stage, then rearranging what's left. Okay? So moving things around as with what you have left over after removing so much stuff. In some cases you might clear out the entire room and completely start over. That can be really fun. And if you do that, go ahead and give it a coat of paint too. Painting a room can really give it a nice makeover. So removing and then rearranging whatever might be left, and then you can start to add what you need to really make that identity of the room come to life. So if it's a desk, artwork, whatever the case is. What I usually find in these least favorite areas is it has become a place where you put things that you really don't want, honestly, and there's a reason why you're having a hard time getting rid of them, out of guilt, or there could be a myriad of reasons of why that is. So be conscious of that, because that's usually why we don't like the rooms that we're not liking. Also be very intentional about the color of the room. Sometimes that can be a reason we don't like a particular room or area is the color of the wall. So it might need a good painting. Also check the lighting. Lighting can very much alter how we feel about a room. If it doesn't get much natural light, then adding artificial light, uplighting and downlighting, and I'll have to do a separate video on lighting. Those seem to be the biggies that I run across: the clutter dumping ground, the color is not appealing to your energy, and the lighting is off. Those are usually big factors of why we don't like particular rooms or spaces. I hope this helps, and let me know in the comments if you have identified your least favorite room and what you've done to transform it. And so yeah, as you transform these least favorite areas, you're going to see aspects in your life that have been your least favorite too transform. So thank you so much for joining me, and I will see you soon.
