Type your room's size, show the door, the windows and the bed, and hang your mirror on a wall. You see whether it faces the bed or the front door, and the three best walls for it, drawn in your room with the reason in plain words.
Your mirror
Hang the wall mirror on the wall with the door.Where it hangs now: a mirror faces your bed — worth changing.
Quick answer: in feng shui a mirror should not face your bed and should not hang straight across from the front door. Beside the bed, past its edge, on the wall with the door, or on a wall beside the front door are the usual places. Type your room above and the checker draws it, shows what your mirror faces and the three best walls for it, in plain words.
How to use the feng shui mirror placement checker
- Type the room’s width and length in feet (12 ft 6 in works) or, with the m button, in meters. The drawing is the room seen from above: the top wall is the one at the top of the drawing.
- Show the door: which wall it is in, near which end, which way it opens, and whether it is your front door. Left and right are as you stand inside the room, facing the door.
- Add the windows (up to two) and the bed, with the wall its headboard is against. For a hall or an entry, pick No bed and mark the front door.
- Pick your mirror and hang it: a wall mirror (30 in wide), a full-length mirror (22 in) or a mirror wall (6 ft), on a wall and near one end or in the middle.
- The answer says whether the mirror faces the bed or the front door and, if it does, the best wall the checker found. The shaded band on the drawing is what the mirror faces; the numbered marks are the three best walls, and Hang it here moves the mirror onto one. Drag the mirror to any wall, or use Next wall and the arrows to slide it along. Copy link to this room keeps it all.
What the checker looks at
The mirror’s check gives one of three words, always beside its icon: Good, Tip (a small thing, often fine as it is) or Worth changing.
| Where the mirror hangs | The check says |
|---|---|
| Its width, carried straight across the room, reaches the bed: across from it, beside it on a side wall, or above the headboard | Worth changing: a mirror faces your bed |
| Straight across from the front door, with the door within 10 ft (3 m) | Tip: a mirror faces the front door |
| Neither | Good: your mirror is well placed |
It is judged only when there is something to face: a bed in the room, or a door you marked as the front door. A room’s own door, a window or a wall are never a problem for it. The check is measured, not guessed: the mirror’s width is drawn to scale and carried straight across the room, the shaded band on the drawing, and the checker tries the mirror along every wall before it picks the three best.
The page also runs the rest of the room’s checks for the bed and the door, in the same three words: Sees the door, Out of the door’s path, Feet not toward the door, Across from the door, Something solid behind, Door and window, Sharp corners, The door opens freely and Room to walk. They are the bed’s and the door’s, there so the whole room is in view.
Four rooms, checked
A 12 × 12 ft bedroom, the door at the right end of the bottom wall, a queen bed against the top wall, a wall mirror in the middle of the bottom wall. It is the mirror most dressers end up under, straight across from the foot of the bed, and the checker marks it worth changing: a mirror faces your bed. Slid to the left end of the same wall, its 30 inches clear the bed’s 60, and it passes; so does the right wall near the door, or the left wall’s bottom end. The rest of the room passes all 10 checks.
The same bedroom, the mirror centred above the headboard. It faces the bed too: its width runs straight down across it. Slid along the top wall until it clears the bed’s edge, beside the headboard instead of over it, it passes.
An 8 × 10 ft entry hall, the front door in the middle of the bottom wall, a wall mirror on the far wall straight across from it. That is a tip: a mirror faces the front door. On the wall to your right as you come in, near the far end, it is good. In a 6 × 12 ft hall the same mirror on the far wall passes: the door is 12 ft away, past the 10 ft the check counts.
A mirror wall, 6 ft of mirror, in the 12 × 12 ft bedroom. No wall keeps it clear of the queen bed, and the checker says so instead of inventing a spot: cover it at night, or hang a smaller mirror (a wall mirror passes at the left end of the wall with the door).
Mirror facing the bed, the door or the window?
- Facing the bed is the one worth changing: you see yourself move in it at night, which many people find unsettling. Move it to a wall whose width does not run across the bed, or cover it at night.
- Facing the front door, straight across and within about 10 ft, feng shui traditionally avoids, and the checker gives it a tip. Hang it on a wall beside the door instead, where you still see yourself on the way out.
- Facing a window is not a check. A mirror across from a window bounces daylight into the room, which is why decorators so often hang one there.
Common mistakes
- Thinking a mirror on a side wall is safe. A mirror beside the bed, on the wall next to it, still faces the bed if its width reaches across it. The checker carries its width across the room and shows the band.
- Forgetting the mirrored closet doors. Sliding mirror doors across from the bed count like any mirror there; a curtain on a ceiling track covers them at night.
- Measuring to the baseboard instead of the wall. The checker leaves room for the wall itself; type the room’s size wall to wall.
- Treating every tip as a problem. Feng shui is a set of layout habits, not rules you can fail. A tip you can’t fix in your room is fine to live with.
Feng shui mirror placement: questions people ask
Is a mirror facing the bed bad feng shui?
It is the one the checker marks worth changing. Many people find seeing themselves move in it at night unsettling, so move it to a wall that does not face the bed, or cover it at night.
Where should a mirror go in a bedroom?
On a wall whose width does not run across the bed: beside the headboard past the bed’s edge, on the wall with the door, or inside a wardrobe door. The checker draws the three best walls in your own room.
Can a mirror hang above the bed?
The checker counts a mirror above the headboard as facing the bed, since its width runs straight across it. Slid along that wall until it clears the bed’s edge, it passes.
Should a mirror face the front door?
Feng shui traditionally avoids a mirror straight across from the front door, and the checker gives it a tip when the door is within 10 ft. A wall beside the door is the usual place.
What about mirrored closet doors facing the bed?
They count like any mirror there. A curtain on a ceiling track, or doors you can leave open into the closet at night, cover them.
Can a mirror face a window?
The checker does not judge windows. A mirror across from one bounces daylight into the room, which is why it is such a common spot.
Does it check the rest of the room?
It checks the mirror against the bed and the front door, and runs the room’s other checks for the bed and the door. For the bed’s own best wall, use the bed placement checker; to draw the whole room, the free 2D room planner.
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Ready for the rest of the room? Draw your whole room in the free 2D planner: walls, doors, windows and every piece of furniture to scale. For the bed, the feng shui bed placement checker; for the stove and the sink, the feng shui kitchen checker; for the whole home’s areas, the bagua map.
About these checks: they are layout suggestions from a centuries-old design tradition, written in our own words and the same checks our room-planner app uses. They are not predictions, and nothing on this page promises an outcome. A comfortable, safe room comes first: hang a heavy mirror on studs or proper anchors, and keep a clear way to the door.