Is Feng Shui Different if You Live Below the Equator? If you live in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, or anywhere below the equator, you may have been under the belief that somehow your feng shui is different than those who live above the equator. But this is a feng shui myth and one…
Modern Dining Room by Kamuela Interior Designers & Decorators/Photo from Houzz.com Go into almost any Chinese restaurant and you’ll see beautiful chandeliers. You might wonder if this is an effort to dress up the interior of the restaurant, and while it might be, chandeliers have a much more important symbolic place in restaurants, and indeed,…
One of the most difficult tasks in feng shui is to divide up your house into 9 equal squares in feng shui and to reliably assign the corners of the house according to the bagua. Instead, I suggest you use a lo shu square that resembles a tic tac toe grid. Many use the bagua,…
One of the biggest problems associated with clutter is how it roots you in a home that leaves you little or no room for growth. Of course, the growth I’m talking about is the growth in your life, your career, your relationships, and your wealth. We’re not so different than the beautiful plants you buy…
From the earliest fairy tales of genies and fairy godmothers, we all have wishes that we would love to see magically happen. Luckily in feng shui there is a wonderful technique for activating the energies associated with all of the usual aspirations that everyone wants: love, wealth, health, happiness, good fortune. It involves using gems…
A fireplace can really make the room. But in the wrong place, it can create sudden loss for the man of the house. An amazing part about feng shui is that it can frequently explain the unexplainable. Take for example, someone who’s reasonably intelligent, educated, ethical, and works hard….why doesn’t his or her life go…
Every house has its pluses and minuses. In fact, it’s very hard to find a feng shui perfect house. But are there houses that have exceptional feng shui? Absolutely. Some houses – and Realtors often know them – have features and qualities that make the house so attractive that it almost sells itself. Often it’s…
When space is at a premium, many remodeled homes frequently create a new space over the garage. Often this will be a family or master bedroom. Then, too, new construction is looking for ways to create more bedrooms and living space and will often build over the garage as well. Today it’s very common to find…
There are times when it seems like everything you touch goes wrong or breaks. Then there are those times that simply leave you reeling from losses – a job evaporates, a business goes bankrupt, a spouse dies, a house sale falls through, your car gets rear ended, or you get a diagnosis of a serious…
Chinese traditions abound around kitchens like making sure you always keep your rice urn full. The kitchen is a super-charged room. It’s the room everyone is always in every single day. It also stores your food, a source of both wealth and health. One such tradition is the story about Zao Jun, who is also…
One of the most wildly popular feng shui books is Karen Kingston’s Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. And one of the topics she covers in the book – that few others have dared to touch – is the subject of the elimination system and its tie to your personal feng shui. While it’s not a…
There’s a lot of debate and discussion about colors in feng shui. Is red the best color there is? Maybe it’s gold or ochre. On the other hand, black is the color of deep wealth. But then there’s purple….ah, the color confusion! Let’s look at the colors from a different perspective. Instead of concentrating on…