Your landscape designer creates a wonderful looking hardscape for your front or back yard. Your interior designer suggests a certain tile for your bathroom or kitchen remodel. What are the considerations: color, texture, style, price? There are both esthetic and cost-conscious decisions to make.
From an entirely different […]
Each direction represents different energies that can affect us physically, financially, and emotionally. The actual direction of West (248-292 degrees) is associated with the element Metal. This does NOT mean that you should automatically put metal in the west section of your house, but the West […]
Even though I am the first to admit that looks can be deceiving, sometimes they are dead-on accurate. When you stand in front of a house and observe the entire façade, the “face” of a house can often tell a story about the occupants inside.
The very shape […]
The term “good feng shui” implies good energy or an environment that is conducive to health and well-being. Much of the information regarding what constitutes good feng shui involves what we can actually see with our eyes.
But all the senses are involved and the sounds which […]
There are many areas of Feng Shui consulting, such as design phase, house hunting, evaluating existing residential and commercial properties. One area of consulting involves advising clients on the best and worst times to do remodels or non-emergency repairs. The concern with doing repairs and remodels in bad timing (for the location) […]
Feng Shui principles about how energy moves, and how we’re influenced, can baffle people who are not familiar with this metaphysical predictive art. And as a fan of architecture and design, I can appreciate how annoying it might be to a homeowner, designer or builder when […]
Each person is born under a certain Chinese Zodiac sign based on year of birth. The twelve Chinese zodiac signs form into four trilogies of compatibility, much like Western Astrology.
Based on what zodiac sign you are, there is a cardinal direction associated with it. If you […]
Philosopher Plato is credited with the saying: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” And this can apply to the historical practice of living in caves. In a way, it is an almost instant dwelling and over time, the space carved out of the earth (or naturally occurring) […]
Usually, I write an article on a Feng Shui topic and afterwards I search for a free stock photo that either literally demonstrates the concept or more figuratively nods to the topic. An example of this might be writing an article about Feng Shui Romance […]
In Dan Ariely’s best-seller book, Predictably Irrational he sited a number of experiments that have been done in the medical field to observe the power of placebos, even comparing the recovery of patients who had fake surgeries against those who had real surgeries for their illness or […]
