Is it bad feng shui to have a mirror facing the bed?
Yes. Feng shui puts a mirror facing the bed first among bedroom faults: it doubles the room and keeps it moving all night, when the bedroom should be the stillest place in the house. Move the mirror to a wall you cannot see from bed; if it cannot move, cover it with a plain cloth at night.
Is a mirror facing your bed?
Send one photograph that shows the bed and the mirror. LuckMove answers this question first, with the mirror’s line drawn on your photograph, then reads the rest of the room.
A second room in the glass
Of all the rooms in a home, feng shui wants the bedroom the stillest, the place where chi slows down and comes to rest around you while you sleep. A mirror facing the bed breaks that stillness. It opens a second room in the wall, with a second bed in it, and all night it hands back every passing light and every turn you make; wake in the dark, and something moves in the glass.
Feng shui has an old phrase for a bed in a mirror’s sight: the spirit does not keep to its house. Sleep is when a person gathers back into themselves, the way chi gathers in a sheltered place, and a mirror leaves a door open beside you all night. That is why, of everything feng shui looks for in a bedroom, the mirror comes first.
Take the bed out of the glass and the room falls quiet. Feng shui holds that a bedroom with no mirror facing the bed lets you sleep more soundly and wake less in the night, and it ties the change to an easier peace between the two people in a shared bed. Of all the bedroom faults, it is also among the simplest to put right.
What to look for in your room
A wardrobe mirror, a full-length mirror or a vanity mirror faces the bed, so you can see yourself lying down.
Is a mirror facing your bed?
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What it looks like in a real room
This bedroom was read by LuckMove from one everyday photograph. The first of its seven findings is exactly this: a full-length mirror on the wardrobe door, holding the whole bed in its glass.
AS IT IS5201 · MIRROR FACING THE BED
AFTER THE FIXES68CLOTH OVER THE MIRRORThe first fix was a plain linen cloth hung over the wardrobe mirror and lowered at least at night. With all the fixes made, the room drawn from the same photograph goes from 52 to 68. See the full reading of this room →
Mirrored closet doors to the bed01Mirror facing the bed
A bed asks for stillness; glass doubles whatever stirs.
Mirrored closet: mirrors face the mattress side → cover them with fabric panels or frosted removable film
How to fix it, in order
This is the real fix, and it costs nothing. Sit on the bed and look around: the mirror belongs anywhere you cannot see yourself in it, such as the headboard wall beside the bed or the inside of a wardrobe door. Keep it off the wall across from the bedroom door as well; feng shui wants a mirror beside a door, not facing it. Over-the-door hooks, or adhesive strips rated for the weight, hold most full-length mirrors without drilling.
Floor mirrors, vanity mirrors and mirrors on a stand can simply turn. Sit on the bed and look into the mirror: if any part of the bed shows, keep turning. Once the bed is out of the glass, feng shui has no quarrel with it.
When the mirror cannot move, as on a wardrobe door, cover it for the night. Plain cotton or linen in a calm, light color, hung from two adhesive hooks above the frame: lowered at bedtime, lifted in the morning.
Sliding mirrored closet doors are common in apartments, and they cannot move. A curtain on a tension rod or a ceiling track in front of them keeps the glass from facing the bed; a removable frosted film on the glass does the same.
Questions people ask
Feng shui reads it as a matter of stillness, not of fate: a mirror facing the bed keeps a second, moving room open beside you all night, where a bedroom wants only one. Move the mirror or cover it, and the room is still again.
It rests on stillness, not on fear. Feng shui wants chi to settle where you sleep, and a mirror keeps the room moving; all the rule asks is a mirror moved or covered, and many people find the bedroom calmer for it.
Anywhere the bed stays out of the glass: the headboard wall beside the bed, the inside of a wardrobe door, or a wall around a corner where the bed cannot see it. Avoid the wall facing the bedroom door as well, since feng shui hangs a mirror beside a door rather than across from it.
Mirrored sliding doors cannot move, so work on the glass instead: a curtain on a tension rod or ceiling track in front of the doors, or a removable frosted film. For a single wardrobe door, a plain cloth lowered over it at night is enough.
Yes, on the nights it is covered: the tradition counts a mirror under a cloth as no mirror at all. Moving it is still the lasting answer, because a cloth only works when someone remembers to lower it.
Feng shui calls a dark screen a hidden mirror, since it holds the bed in its glass all the same. The same answers apply: cover it at night, or move it out of the bedroom or to a side wall. The rule on a screen facing the bed →