When my parents built their house, the trend was to have wooden floors downstairs and wall to wall carpet upstairs. My parents chose light oak floors for the living areas, and a no pile carpet for the bedrooms and hallway on the top floor. My father despised what he called…
You can attract more chi, or positive live energy, to your front door by placing chi attractors near your front entrance. Chi attractors are the same things that small children, toddlers or pre-schoolers like. Things that Children Like Bright colors. Water. Movement. Sound Art. Shiny objects. Lights. Flowers. Watch the…
Choosing the right Feng Shui front door colors is a tricky subject. You want to make sure that the color of your door brings you good energy, but there’s a lot of contradictory advice out there. Because I have been practicing Feng Shui for over 20 years, I can tell…
The Feng Shui of the Front Door is an essential requirement for a home to have good energy. Positive chi (life force) needs to collect abundantly in front of the entrance so that when the door opens it comes into the home. When people first come to your home they…
The Feng Shui toilet is a subject of controversy. On the one hand, the toilet is believed to be the biggest drain for chi (life force) in the home. On the other, no one wants to go back to outhouses! We all love the comforts of indoor plumbing, but if…
Do you remember the mean girl in your high school? The mean girl in high school wanted to make sure no one reached their full potential – not even her friends. Because she was so bent on keeping others from soaring, she limited herself. Whether the mean girl in high…
A few years ago my youngest child was quite taken with a plush animal of a black cat, with lopsided eyes, at the store. I bought it for him, and he called it Blackie. From the beginning, he gave Blackie a personality, likes and dislikes. Blackie goes with us on…
In the digital age, there are many things that used to come through the mailbox, that now are delivered electronically. In Feng Shui, the mailbox is very important, because it still holds a very powerful symbolism associated with all that used to come through it. What’s in a Mailbox? Think…
Mirrors are magical, in that they double things, both the good and the bad. Controlling the Feng Shui of Mirrors enables you to reproduce only that which is worth reproducing. What’s in a Mirror? Mirrors hold your first memories of yourself. What is your first memory of looking at yourself…
What’s in a desk? Every item in your home has its own Feng Shui. Let’s explore the Feng Shui of Desks. Do you remember the desk in the home where you grew up? What was it made of? Wood, metal, press-board? A long time ago, the main function of desks…
