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Interior Design and Feng Shui ... a winning combination!
Make even the smallest apartment feel like a castle!
If you live in a small apartment there have probably been times when it felt like the walls were closing in on you. It is not always easy to find small apartment decorating ideas that are easy, inexpensive and beautiful and that give your home a larger feel since most decorating books and magazines are geared toward homes, lofts and apartments with lots of space, and for owners or renters with a lot of cash.
Brigitte StarrIf your apartment is small sometimes, the hardest part of decorating is getting started because the use of color, furniture and floor coverings can have either a positive or negative effect on the feel of your living space.
Although, living in a studio or smaller apartment, where you’re combining multiple uses and activities in one room can make following the "rules" of good Feng Shui difficult.
A few tips on small spaces, Feng Shui and clutter.
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The key thing to keep in mind when applying Feng Shui to a multi-purpose room is to make the best possible use of the space to ensure harmony in your home.
You want to want to go home, because you feel comfortable and relaxed there and because although your home is small it is harmonious efficient, inviting and beautiful …
My message is that those who start small will go far. In any case, do what's right for you - not what everyone else is doing.”
Celebrate your small, cool apartment!
You want to want to go home, because you feel comfortable and relaxed there and because although your home is small it is harmonious efficient, inviting and beautiful …
My message is that those who start small will go far. In any case, do what's right for you - not what everyone else is doing.”
Celebrate your small, cool apartment!
Balance and Harmony in Your Home
Recognize your home as yourself. Bring spiritual energy and transformation into your life. Fill your home with radiant harmony! Feng Shui can shift the Ch’i (energy) to support your personal growth and create positive change in your life. As we become aware of the direct connection between the condition and quality of our environment and the quality of our lives, we see that by applying the principles of Feng Shui we can improve the quality of our health, wealth and happiness. Interior Design and Architecture can benefit from the use of Feng Shui. Make conscious and intelligent choices for furniture, textiles, art, and materials for building, to create harmony and balance in your surroundings, using Feng Shui.
A clutter free environment promotes the flow of Chi
Make your changes more effective with personalized empowerments and discover Feng Shui as a path to self-discovery and personal growth.
Feng Shui for Small Spaces and Small Gardens
City dwellers, despite their relatively small garden space, can also introduce Feng Shui to their apartments. The presence of plants on a patio, terrace, or doorway attracts vitalizing chi.Potted plants, hanging baskets, and window boxes are excellent; located at the threshold of your home; they draw the energy of the garden inside.
If you have a sunny space, plant bright flowers, such as geraniums, begonias, marigolds and petunias; their colorful vitality will balance the dark interior of an apartment.
In even a small space, create an arrangement of pebbles, wood, and plants to balance yin and yang energies.
A miniature fountain surrounded by ferns and other greenery soothes the eye and the ear. Sculpture, wind chimes, and empty ornamental vases or bowls also encourage auspicious chi to visit and settle.
The perfect place for a dragonfly to stop for a drink.
Whether you have a green thumb or are just beginning to garden, the principles of Feng Shui can add to the success of your garden. More importantly, a Feng Shui garden can add immeasurably to the quality of your life. When we cultivate our Feng Shui garden, we cultivate our soul and experience the harmony of the universe.
The ultimate in calm are serene gardens. They are places to meditate and contemplate. The making of dry landscape gardens in Japan goes back to the 6th century, but around the eleventh century, Zen priests adopted the "dry landscape" style and began building gardens to serve a different purpose. They were to be used as an aid to create a deeper understanding of the Zen concepts.
By the late 1200's, the basic principles had been established and up to the present day, they have been refined and extended. The garden created by the Zen priest is called "kansho-niwa" or contemplation garden and termed by many today as " Zen gardens ".
Whether you are creating a fully-fledged Zen garden, or just adding a quiet Zen corner to your existing garden, the successful dry landscape garden is one of the most appealing landscapes to contemplate. The dry landscape style garden may be adapted to any area and offers the ideal solution to evoke the feeling of water or to actually provide drainage for garden runoff.
Each element in the garden has a symbolic purpose and can evoke a quiet or explosive emotional response. Rocks are one of the most important elements and, depending on shape, color and texture, can symbolize many different elements. For example, a flat rock would be a symbol of the element Earth, a tall, vertical one, and a symbol of the element Sky. If a garden is meant to portray a specific place, the rocks can also symbolize plants, mountains, and people. Anything you choose to put there.
The other main element of the Zen garden is the "sand", which is used to create a calming atmosphere for meditation. Swirled around with great care to emulate rushing water, or raked into orderly lines for a calm, quiet atmosphere.
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