Bedroom Colours You Should Avoid for Feng Shui 2026
We often focus on pillows, mattresses, and bedding materials to improve sleep, but one important factor is easily overlooked — the colour of your bedroom. Colours influence our emotions, energy levels, and quality of sleep. In Feng Shui, each colour carries a specific energy, and choosing the wrong one can disrupt harmony and rest.
As we enter 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse, the overall energy is fast, fiery, active and bold. This makes it even more important to balance your bedroom with calming, stable colours — and avoid those that overstimulate.
Below are the colours Feng Shui experts recommend avoiding in the bedroom to maintain restful, peaceful energy throughout this high-Fire year.
Colours to Avoid in the Bedroom (Feng Shui 2026 – Fire Horse Edition)
1. Dark Purple
Purple symbolizes creativity, luxury and spiritual intensity. But dark or saturated purple becomes too stimulating, especially in a Fire Horse year where energies are already active. It may trigger overthinking, vivid dreams or restless sleep.
If you love purple, use light lavender or soft lilac instead of dark tones.
2. Red
Red represents passion, celebration and high Fire energy — but Fire + Fire = excessive heat. In the bedroom, red can cause:
- irritability
- emotional overactivation
- difficulty winding down
- restless or shallow sleep
Because 2026 already carries strong Fire energy, avoid using red as a main wall colour. Keep it to small accents only.
3. Dark Brown
Earth colours can be grounding, but dark brown is too heavy and oppressive for a bedroom. It may create:
- stagnant Qi
- feelings of dullness
- emotional heaviness
Research (e.g., Travelodge studies) also links dark brown bedrooms with shorter sleep duration. Opt for softer neutral Earth tones like beige, cream or taupe instead.
4. Black
Black represents deep Water energy. While often stylish, too much black drains Qi and makes the room feel cold or isolating. In a Fire Horse year, black also clashes strongly with Fire, creating imbalance.
You may still use black sparingly — e.g., decor, frames or furniture accents — but avoid black wall paint or an all-black theme.
5. Orange
Orange is uplifting, warm and energetic — a mix of red (Fire) and yellow (Earth). But in Feng Shui for 2026:
- it amplifies Fire energy, making the room feel too active
- it increases feelings of heat, especially in tropical climates
- it awakens the mind instead of calming it
Light peach or muted apricot can work in small amounts, but avoid orange as a dominant bedroom colour.
Customising Your Bedroom for Feng Shui 2026
Planning to repaint or redesign your bedroom in time for the Fire Horse Year?
Affairs Living offers customisable headboard and bed frame colours to help you harmonise your space according to Feng Shui principles — calming, grounding and perfectly matched to your preferred palette.
Explore our range of customised bed frame designs on our website to create a balanced, restful bedroom for 2026.
