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 Valleys 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.

Get on the ground

The Valleys Person is often encouraged to keep their ear to the ground, or seek out grounding rituals to help them discharge excess energy they experience through their connections. In your living space, keep the floor clean and welcoming, inviting you to literally sprawl out on the ground when you need to. Make the floor as comfy, welcoming, and inviting as possible. How can you play with carpets, bolsters, or the material your floor is constructed with? Imagine a cute pillow fort in the middle of the floor with a projection movie playing on the wall? Cute.

Try low, lounge-y furniture

While not everyone may like low furniture, from a Valleys perspective, furniture that is oriented lower to the ground, such as low cozy sitting chairs, low media units or coffee tables, all encourage inhabitants to sit down and connect. Imagine yourself reading tarot or an oracle deck while sitting cross-legged in your living space, bum on the floor or as close to the floor as you are able. If low furniture is not accessible to you due to mobility issues, consider the position you feel most comfortable in, and prioritize furniture pieces that prioritize that comfort.

Bottom-heavy furniture

Consider having furniture that sits flat against the floor, rather than on raised legs. Having some bottom-heavy pieces around you will in-still that type of grounded energy into the space. Chi isn’t flowing beneath furniture like on the Mountain, but around furniture because we are flat to the ground on base level — plugged in and rooted. Nothing can get “under” us in the Valley. Consider how you can encourage this through furniture selections.

Create good flow

With our furniture pressed against the ground, energy flows in streams around us, creating brilliant information highways in our very space. Ensure you have a spacious layout that encourages this movement through your living room. Consider how you can have open areas that create little aisles or hallways around your furniture so everything is able to move and breathe in the space. You don’t want your furniture clumped together and creating stagnant chi that people trip up on.

Use connected decor

Where have you been in your life? What are your experiences and sources of information you like to plug into based on your travels, relationships and lifestyle? Consider bringing in meaning-making items you have accumulated through time, ensuring they give you a sense of connection to something both larger than yourself, and deep within yourself.

Keep sources within reach

Think of the items you like to have in your living room; maybe that’s a cozy throw blanket. Maybe it’s a scented candle. Coffee table books. Baskets. Maybe you have a fun way of displaying your book collection because you are always grabbing and referencing something in it. Build that in as decor to plug into in your space. Keep your sources around you. This can be done through artwork, music, books, magazines, etc.

Bring in plants

Having a watering rhythm for your plants can be a great way to tend to your space. Having vibrant healthy plants in your living space if your lighting allows it keeps the space feeling fresh and like things are growing and flowing. This helps keep the flow of chi healthy and alive in your space. But when/if things start to wilt or die, you’ll need to tend to it otherwise it will really affect the overall energy of your space (Landscape Environments like Mountains, Valleys and Shores are sensitive to the energy around a space).

Dedicate the space to something

Depending on the kind of Valley you resonate with, you’ll want your space to relax you, or call out your natural level of activity, activating you into some kind of energy. Do you want to plug in to your space to feel charged up, or do you want to unplug in your space and unwind? Since the living space in the home is an essential area where a lot of energy has the potential to gather, considering the way you want to dedicate your primary living space will really help you when planning living arrangements with others. If you’re plugging in here, what do you need around? If you’re unplugging here, what don’t you want around?