Gemstones Throughout the Home
Stones and crystals can strongly affect the way your home feels, and
the way others feel when inside. Following are a few suggestions to
placing gemstones around the home to make it more comfortable and
Inviting.
The Front Door and the Hall
A good way to start in your home is with the entrance. This is where
most things enter your home, be they friends, the family pet, flies
and spiders, and negative energy. Keeping a Dragon's Eye (like a red
Tiger's eye) near the front entrance acts as a powerful talismanic
guardian to your home. It might even keep away salesmen, or those
pesky Jehovah's Witnesses who don't quite get that you want to be
left alone (you'd be surprised how often they'll return to your
home).
If your front door opens into a room instead of a small front hall,
consider placing a set of floor-to-ceiling shelves near the door.
This not only provides an excellent place to display your stones,
but it lets the energy circulate through your home, rather than
shooting straight through. Also, keep a crystal mobile or wind chime
near the front door to further encourage circulation. Try to find
one in a spiral pattern.
Hallways are, in most houses, like dark tunnels. Try lightening
yours up with a shelf displaying your more precious gemstones.
Choose stones to warm and brighten the atmosphere. Bright colours
like sulphur or opal, or reflective stones like hematite, can add
interest to your hallway. You could try a narrow hall table instead,
hanging a mirror over it and keeping a dish of polished gemstones on
it.
Staircases are equally dark most of the day (unless you're fortunate
enough to have a skylight overhead). Hang a mirror in the stairwell,
and suspend a crystal mobile in front of it. This provides interest
without distraction.
Living Room, Den, Whatever You Call It...
If you're looking for a family member, this is usually the first
room to check. It's the room with the most comfortable couch and the
most worn carpet at the doorways. Keep a rock crystal (natural or
cut, preferrably) in a place where the sun can shine through it.
Even hanging a small one in a sunny window can add interest and
beauty. Try keeping a dish of egg-shaped stones in a glass dish to
encourage the circulation of energy. Use warm colours like amber and
Carnelian in a north-facing room, and cool colours like malachite
and black opal in a south-facing room. If your room faces east or
west, try white or clear stones, so the morning or afternoon sun can
shine through them.
Try creating a landscape centerpiece to add interest to your room.
Take a shallow dish and fill it with sand. Put a bowl of water to
one side and drop in some red stones, such as carnelian, ruby, or
dragon's' eye. At the opposite side, place a black stone, about the
size of the bowl. Now you have a mountain and a pond. Place a white
stone near the bowl and a blue stone opposite that, near the black
stone. Draw fine lines in the sand, or sprinkle with clear stones or
marbles across the surface. It certainly adds a conversation piece
to the room.
The Kitchen
Kitchen windowsills are one of the best places to display your
stones. Clear stones aren't really recommended for a kitchen, since
grease from cooking can muck them up pretty quick.
The best gem to have in the kitchen is salt. Keep a jar of sea salt
on display. It is a reminder of life, symbolizing purity,
cleanliness, and human worth. Green stones are also a nice sight in
the kitchen, and add a comforting atmosphere. Hang a piece of
watermelon tourmaline in the window to add colour when the sun
shines through. Other nice stones are moss agate and serpentine, as
well as pink stones such as rose quartz.
The Dining Room
Once again, the crystal mobile makes an appearance. Hanging one over
the dining table can help to circulate energy around the table.
Decorating with gemstones is dependent on the occasion. Rose red and
turquoise are good colours for a romantic setting, hematite and
serpentine are good for an informal lunch, tiger's eye and citrine
are excellent for a business lunch. Each combination of stones adds
to the atmosphere of the meal. Keep a dish of crystals in the centre
of the table. Non-porous stones in a dish of water is a nice touch.
My suggestion is to take a deep glass bowl, stick a bunch of
translucent and transparent crystals in the bottom, fill with water
and add some floating candles. For a more romantic setting, you
could also float rose or jasmine petals in the water. Opal is a
beautiful stone to display at the dining table. It is wonderful to
look at, and adds richness to the setting.
The Bedroom
Gemstones and crystals can create a wonderful atmosphere in a room,
no matter what mood you're looking for. You can opt for beautiful
colour and shape, or you can choose your stones based on
functionality. Keeping a display of gems on your bedside table that
promote sleep is one suggestion. These include such stones as
hematite, to aid in deep sleep, moss agate to ward off nightmares,
or amber to help you wake up in the morning.
To create an atmosphere of intimacy, keep darker purples, reds, and
blacks on display. Stones such as lapis lazuli, obsidian, sardonyx,
or amethyst. Spheres and egg shapes are ideal, since they symbolize
fertility and femininity.
Kids' Bedrooms
A lot of kids are fascinated by stones. My 1-year old cousin learned
how to say "stone" because of my collection. There's different
theories on buying stones for children. Some say you should buy
uncut, natural stones, so they learn to appreciate their natural
beauty. Unfortunately this doesn't let them touch the stones and
physically experience them. I say a healthy mix of polished and
natural is good. You can keep the natural ones on display on a high
shelf, and let them play with good, solid, polished stones, like
onyx or quartz - stones that will hold their shape when bumped
together, or thrown down the stairs. Anyway, we're talking about
decoration here, not childrens' aesthetic pleasure in stones.
Naturally, you'd want to use pink stones for girls' rooms and blue
stones for boys' rooms. Ever wondered why? In feng shui, yin is
feminine - cool, dark, submissive, and receptive, which is
represented by the colour blue. Yang is male - hot, bright,
dominant, and active, represented by red. We use pink to warm the
cool energies of girls, and blue to cool the hot energies of boys.
Of course, you can always substitute oranges or purples for pinks
and blues. Gems like rose quartz and ruby for the pinks and reds,
blue howlite and lapis lazuli for the blues, amethysts for the
purples and citrines for the oranges would be beautiful displayed on
a shelf. I also suggest keeping a dish of reachable polished stones
for children to play with and enjoy.
The Bathroom
This is a private place of calm relaxation and fun. Not only can
stones in the bathroom be for display, but they can be functional
too. Keeping a few pumice stones around not only adds texture, but
they're also healing, and they really take off those dead skin
cells. When decorating the bathroom, be sure to use stones that
won't be affected by the steam and water. Rock crystal is ideal, as
it won't be dulled by the heat and moisture. If you want more colour
and interest, you could display smaller gemstones in a water-tight
jar, perhaps mixed with some seashells. Another suggestion that also
adds atmosphere is to put waterproof stones in the bottom of a wide- mouthed jar or bowl, and put some floating candles on top. Even bath
salts in a jar could count as gemstones, in a way. A lovely display
in the bathroom would be a shelf of bath oils, salts, and large
stones like rock crystals, perhaps with a few brightly coloured
candles. Let your imagination run wild - after all, it's the most
relaxing room in the house next to the bedroom.
At any rate, let the world see your gemstone collection. Create a
mood in your house, and fill it with the energies of the gifts of
the earth. Even something as simple as the specks of rainbow from a
lead crystal prism adds its own simple beauty and comfort to a
room. Above all, don't be afraid to be creative and imaginative.
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