A feng shui consultant explains why a salon's reception area feels chaotic: too many mirrors create excessive yang energy and water element. The fix is removing front mirrors, adding wood elements like reclaimed shelving to warm up the cold metal fixtures already in place.
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So the first thing that's like just hitting me across the face is all the mirrors. Yeah. And so this might be a longer-term budget thing, but I really, really encourage to minimize the amount of mirrors in the space. Now I know up in the salon area where they're doing the hair, obviously the mirrors are necessary. And so because that needs to be a mirror-heavy place, then this area, like minimizing the mirrors because they're not necessary, they're not needed. It's giving— it's a lot. It's very— mirrors are very, um, well, they obviously reflect, and so it like makes double of everything, and it's a very, very yang energy. And so it's making it very kind of feel a little chaotic in this, in this front area. I would, um drywall out this whole wall. This would be my first priority. You could probably get away with keeping that because of being that is kind of the focal point of this room is the reception area. You can— so this is when you walk in, this is the focal point for the store, and you've done a good job with this. It seems pretty be minimal. So yeah, I would take out that mirror and just drywall that. And you know, I would see what you have is a lot of— so mirrors are a water element, and you have a lot of the metal also in the fixtures.
Yeah, the fixtures were here when I got here, so we've had to work with them.
So I would, you know, down the road think about adding some more wood. The wood's gonna calm the space a lot more, maybe having like a built-in wood shelving, kind of like reclaimed wood, bringing in just— that's gonna really help warm and balance the space a lot. That's kind of what you're missing is you have a lot of water and metal, which can feel cold and harsh. Okay. So adding more wood as much as possible.
