Can beds be placed on platforms?

[myfs_137206]

I would like to check if it's ok for beds to be placed on platforms that allow storage below. I am intending to get a Japanese home look but I am concerned that it may be bad feng shui. If bad feng shui, would not storing anything below help it?

Many thanks in advance for your guidance!

[Cecil Lee]

1. This area should be considered as under "Commonsense Approach to Feng Shui".

2. These are some of the major considerations:-

2.1. Often it is no harm sleeping on a multi-purpose surface. For example, the Japanese flat area (don't really want to call it a platform). Here, at night the Japanese would roll out a tatami mat and sleep on it. In the morning, they will often roll-it up.

2.2. Many Japanese have been sleeping on such a flat area for so long and there are usually no health effects related to the above.

2.3. Some Feng Shui practitioners or even books will "scare" us to believe that we must always sleep on an elevated bed. According to some practitioners qi MUST be allowed to circulate below a person when sleeping - and not to place items or boxes below the bed.

2.4. In fact, there is some truth in the above Para 2.3. but not exactly what was mentioned, that qi must necessarily circulate below one's bed!

2.5. Frankly, it has more to do with Commonsense! Here, nowadays we read that a bedroom would always contain dust mites! And a raised bed is perfectly a good choice! This is because, if we do make an effort to clean the surrounding especially the floor below our bed: this has more to do with hygiene than the "rubbish talk about qi not circulating... here, there...".

2.6. Nowadays, Singapore has in recent years seen deadly virus like SARS epidemic... and even more so that we can always be sure that we can clean our bedroom 100 percent of the time!

2.7. Imagine, if you have a platform above your bed etc... ! Many of these platforms cannot be removed! And often, our dead skins and other materials would fall down into the floor of the platform. We are unable to clean these area!

2.8. Other factors include some people rear dogs ... and there are situations where the dogs bite the corners off the platforms etc..

2.9. Sometimes babies spill their urine, or milk or vomit etc.. and one cannot so easily just clean the floor or pour dettol solution etc....

3. Thus overall, Commonsense is about hygiene, first!

3.1. If some of the platforms are not well built, they will creak and creak all over.. Furthermore, some homes are near canals and subjected to white ants.. and even cockroaches would love such "hiding" places.... Frankly, I can go on and on.....

[Cecil Lee]

Further to what I had mentioned, you can view some of the caricatures that I have recently produced on this topic:-

SLIDE ONE:

http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=29&mid=24992&new=

SLIDE TWO & THREE:

http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=29&mid=24993&new=