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 Shores 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.

Try facing couches

An ideal arrangement is to have two couches sitting across from one another with a coffee table separating the two. This is an ideal placement because you can immediately change views by changing couches, while staying in the same world. If your space doesn’t accommodate this setup, consider how you can have more than one seating area available and ideally position it to somewhat face the other seating area.

Have a view to the outside

For a Shores Person, the windows in every room need to be considered. Letting natural light come into the space is essential for a Shores body. An ideal setup is to have grand windows or interesting windows that display the outside world in a dynamic way. The more of the other world you can view, the better. Having a great background view of the world outside your world lets your body see and take in two places at once.

Collect Worldly Treasures

This is a great room to display some of the treasures you’ve collected along your life path. The Shoreline plays with time, and having past treasures in view around you in your living space will send you off into memories of worlds of the past.

Have a “feature”

Consider how you can have a feature to the room. Your living space may have a standout fireplace, an amazing sky light, a huge mural, a spectacular light fixture or incredibly ornate chair. Consider how the room itself may have a larger feature about it that brings you into the space to contemplate it in some way.

Consider your Living Room direction

Depending on the direction of your home and the available windows in your living space, the sky becomes a changing piece of artwork visible from inside your home. The warm yellow and orange morning glows may flood the living space, only to display lavender and pink swirls in the evening sunset. Consider how your windows are art canvases to your home, and how the changing light offers different energies and colours in your home. Depending on the direction of your home (especially should you be building) may really offer a dynamic art display.

Float the furniture

Try to bring as much of the furniture into the room as possible. Try not to press each piece of furniture against the walls of the space, but float the furniture in the room to encourage flow and easy movement of chi within the space. It’s great if you can move on either side of your furniture pieces to experience them from more than one angle.

Try a Sectional

A sectional is a great furniture selection for a Shores person because the piece itself allows you to sit on two sides. This is another ideal option, especially if a space can not accommodate two facing couches or sitting areas.

Try a Chaise

Is it is a bed? Is it a couch? Is it a chair? It’s all the things! Depending how you feel, the chaise can transform into a different piece of furniture — and all the Shores kids can have a little moment with how fun this is depending on the vibe of the day.

Consider a multipurpose space

Consider if it makes sense for your living space to double as another space. Maybe during certain times of the year you bring different furniture in and that changes the energy of the space. Maybe your lifestyle requires you to use the space in a dynamic way. Consider how you may be able to transform the space into another kind of space if that makes sense for you.