The Living Room is where we tend to gather and relax or unwind from our day. In some cases, it’s also a crucial gathering place for the household.

However you use your living space depending on your lifestyle, consider how your awareness of your Human Design Environment Colour can help you play with your space’s energy.

Remember this is not an exhaustive list of every way you could set up your living room according to your Mountains Environment — but meant to be a fun starting point to get you thinking differently about your space.

If you need to locate your Environment Variable, check out this post.

Seek high ceilings

We love high ceilings for Mountains People. Or lofts. Or second stories. Even though this may not always be available to you, it’s great to consider for your communal spaces. Consider how you may be able to style the walls in a way that creates height. Mirrors? Colour? Shelving? Have fun with it.

Hang things from the ceiling

A cool pendant light fixture? String lights? An impressive crawling plant? An interesting window? Garland? Mobiles? Consider how you might hang something from your ceiling to draw the eye up and create visual interest in the air space above the ground in the room. Mountains are mutative like Kitchens Environments as they separate the lower and upper trigrams from one another; have a moment with a light fixture and make it a statement piece!

What would take this to the next level?

When looking at your living space, take in the whole room. If you can, take a step back and consider the space as a whole, and part of the home. When you’re looking at this room, what is a design element that would REALLY bring the space to another level? Is it dramatic like putting in a new window or skylight? Or is it simpler like rearranging the furniture in some way. Consider what would bring your space to the next level, and what that might mean for you.

View wide angles

Stand in each corner in your living space. Notice each different view of the space from that perspective. What do you notice from these different positions? Does the furniture or wall hanging not look good from this angle? Consider the view from numerous angles in the space, and play with the arrangement that pleases you from the most angles.

Bring in your Oasis

What’s your Oasis? What’s the thing in your life that you learned is restorative, exciting and calibrating to you at once? Do you practice yoga? Was a visit to Lake Louise’s blue waters spiritually cleansing? Is it your family cabin getaway? The gorgeous Calile Hotel in Australia? How might you bring in reminders of your Oasis into your living space, and spread it through your surroundings in some way?

Identify your Essentials

As both the base of their trigram, Caves and Mountains have similarities. Where Caves People have basics, Mountains people have essentials. What are these for you? Do you need candles in the space? Can you not handle too much noise and swear by loop earplugs? Even though the world may have made you feel bad or silly for needing something that they did not — remember: your space; your rules. What are your essentials and how might they be readily available to you in your living space?

Try turning your books around

Minimal works. Less is best. What is essential here? These core Mountains concepts can be applied in a variety of ways. For a cute change, try turning around all your books so the colourful spines are hidden, only the vanilla book pages in view. This creates a smooth streamlined view.

Play up the corners

While you were visiting each corner of the space to see the overall view, consider adding a vignette, cute set up or focal point in each corner of the overall space. Bring interest to these spaces so it’s as if there are a bunch of little “areas” within the space to go check in to.

Have pillows on the ready!

This is a super easy way to elevate yourself physically if you need a bolster, cushion or back support. Sometimes when you’re laying on the couch you need a pillow! You need to elevate your head! Have fun with the available pillows in your space.