Sofa Placement

The living room is the one room whose whole business is people: the household gathered, guests received. In the yang zhai (阳宅, “dwelling of the living”) tradition — the branch of feng shui that reads the living house, laid out in What Is Feng Shui — each room is judged by its job. The bedroom keeps rest; the home office keeps work; the living room keeps gathering. Its classical name is the bright hall (明堂, ming tang) — and its rules read less like decoration advice than like a seating chart for a meeting.