Feng shui bedroom layout generator
Describe the room and we will rank the places the bed can go. Every position lists what it gets right and what it gives up, so you can disagree with the order and still use the findings.
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Findings for this position
Best option on each wall
| Headboard wall | Head points | Verdict | Main issue |
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Traditional practice names the directions; the ranking between positions is ours. How we decide, and what we assume.
The rules being checked
Direction is only half of it. Eight Mansions sources agree on a short list of placement rules for a bed, and the tool checks each one:
- A solid wall behind the headboard. Not a window, not a doorway.
- Not in line with the door. A bed facing straight down the doorway is the one placement nearly every source objects to.
- The door in view. You should be able to see who comes in without being in the doorway's path.
- No bathroom behind the headboard, and no beam crossing over it.
- Room on both sides. A bed shoved into a corner fails on practical grounds before anything else.
- Head toward one of your four directions. This is the part that depends on your birth year.
Small rooms cannot satisfy all six. When that happens the tool says which rule it had to break rather than quietly picking one.
Why your best direction may be unavailable
A bed with its headboard flat against a wall can only point at four directions — the ones those four walls face. If your room sits square to the compass, that is North, East, South and West, and the four diagonal directions are simply out of reach. For roughly half of all Kua numbers the strongest direction is a diagonal one, so the honest answer is often "not in this room."
The tool says so rather than promoting whatever is left into first place. Practitioners handle this by angling the bed away from the wall, which trades a solid headboard wall for the direction. That is a real trade and we do not pretend one side of it wins.
This lands unevenly on the two groups. East group directions are North, South, East and Southeast, so a room square to the compass reaches three of the four. West group directions are Southwest, West, Northwest and Northeast — only West is a cardinal direction, so a West group sleeper in a square room has exactly one good direction available. If that is you and West is blocked by a window or a doorway, there is no position that satisfies both direction and headboard, and no tool can conjure one.
Two people, one bed
If you share the room and one of you is East group while the other is West group, no head direction suits you both — their good directions are your bad ones. There is no arithmetic that resolves this, and any tool claiming to average it is inventing something. Run it twice and decide between yourselves whose direction the bed follows.