Is it bad feng shui to sleep under a window?
Yes, by feng shui’s reading. A window at the head leaves nothing solid behind you, and chi that comes in on the wind cannot settle where you sleep. Turn the bed so the headboard meets a solid wall; if it has to stay, a tall solid headboard and heavy curtains drawn at night rebuild most of that wall.
Is your headboard under a window?
Send one photograph from the foot of the bed that shows the headboard and the window. LuckMove answers this question first, with the window and the headboard marked on your photograph, then reads the rest of the room.
Behind your head, a mountain or the wind
Feng shui wants the place where you sleep sheltered from behind. A solid wall at the head of the bed is your mountain, the Black Tortoise at your back, keeping watch through the hours you are least on guard. A window turns that wall into an opening. Light, drafts, the street and the whole outside come in there, and with the headboard beneath it, all of it arrives right behind your head.
Feng shui takes its name from wind and water, and the two do opposite things to chi: it rides the wind and scatters, and it meets water and gathers. So feng shui prizes shelter from the wind above almost everything, and a headboard fears nothing more than standing in it. Under a window, the one spot in the room that should hold chi close becomes the spot where the wind comes in.
Give the head of the bed a wall again and the room closes around you like cupped hands. Feng shui holds that a sleeper with a mountain behind rests deeper and meets the day with more backing. With a window there, people often find their rest lighter than it should be, and the support they look for by day a little harder to find.
What to look for in your room
The head of your bed is pushed against a window, or a window opens right above the headboard.
Is your headboard under a window?
Send one photograph from the foot of the bed that shows the headboard and the window. LuckMove answers this question first, with the window and the headboard marked on your photograph, then reads the rest of the room.
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What it looks like in a real room
LuckMove read this bedroom from a single ordinary photograph. Of its seven findings, the second is this very layout: an open iron bed frame with its head pushed under the window, and nothing solid behind the pillows.
AS IT IS5202 · HEADBOARD UNDER THE WINDOW
AFTER THE FIXES68CURTAINS DRAWNThe first fix here was heavy lined curtains on the rail already in place, so the window stands in for a wall at night. With every fix of the reading made, the room drawn from the same photograph reads 68, up from 52. See the full reading of this room →
01Bed under a window
A bed seeks the stillness of a mountain; an exterior window belongs to movement.
Bed: headboard backs onto the window → hang heavy linen drapery across the entire window wall
How to fix it, in order
This is the fix that goes to the root, and often it costs nothing. Before you move anything, measure: the bed needs a clear path on both sides and should not end up facing the door head on.
If the bed has to stay, let the window become a wall after dark. Choose lined, full-length curtains in a solid, calm color and close them every night. A tension rod or the existing rail means no drilling.
Wood or a padded, upholstered board, taller than your pillows. Open metal frames and slatted headboards let the window show through; a solid one gives your head something to rest against. Freestanding headboards need no screws in the wall.
Questions people ask
Feng shui minds a window at the foot far less than one at the head, since your back still has its wall. It asks only that the window be dressed at night: a bedroom wants to be tucked away, and bare glass lets light and the street fall straight onto the bed. The rule on a bare window →
A tall, solid headboard does most of the work, because it gives your head a wall to rest against again. Pair it with heavy curtains drawn at night, and the opening behind you is closed twice over, by wood and by cloth.
In plenty of bedrooms the bed fits only one way. Then treat the window instead of moving the bed: a solid headboard, heavy lined curtains closed every night, and a clear path on both sides, so the bed keeps its shelter even where it cannot have its wall.
Start with what surrounds the bed: a solid wall behind it, and no straight line from the door. A compass direction can come after that, worked from your birth date, which gives you four good directions to choose from. The best direction to sleep →