Surround yourself with what you love, this is the most powerful action you can take. When you have to live with things you don’t love, it drains your vitality.

The goal in Feng Shui is to bring belongings that nourish, inspire you, to your home and remove the unloved items until you reach your goal. Consider safety and comfort as a priority when designing, furnishing your home. Give your home a safety and comfort test. Avoid sharp corners on your furniture that could injure body part, prefer rounded shape furniture like a round table. Consider the power position: the placement of furniture, like beds, seating, sofa, desk is important, always facing the door, your nervous system relaxes more deeply when you have visual command of a room. Sitting with a view of the door is the safest, most comfortable, and most powerful place in the room.

Simplify and organize your possessions, clear them out, give away a bag of clothes you don’t wear anymore. Clutter grows in garages, closets, basement, behind the closed doors. Feng Shui invites you to take a look and clean up the chaotic part of your home. As you do that, transformation will occur. Bring your creativity and imagination back to life.

When you want to clear out ask yourself: Do I love it? Do I need it? Does it support who I am now in my life? What positive or negative thoughts, memories do I associate with it? Does it need to be fixed and am able to do so? If it’s time to let it go, am I going to sell, or give it away, how and when?

By consciously positioning items of the number one through nine you can change the way you feel when you are in a room. Find a balance in your home by positioning odd and even number of objects.

Odd numbers are more yang, expanding energy, opening up possibilities and conversation. Meaning that stability is not as important as fun and creativity.

Even numbers are more yin, contracting energy and stabilizing it. Meaning you prefer things that are predictable, safe and structured.

The best is a room balanced with odd and even numbers placements to keep the energy flowing in an auspicious way.

1. Symbol of self-sufficiency: One item displayed in your home encourages alone time, meaning that belonging is separated of everything else in the universe. If you feel lonely, open up your space and place tow items together like two chairs or tow cushions, display art reflecting duality.
2. Symbol of partnerships: Two items displayed in your home draw your energy to your partnerships. Two is more intimate by nature. Two night stands with two same table lamps in your bedroom encourage harmony and good relationships.
3. Symbol of dynamic: Three items displayed in your home means the union of heaven, man and earth. Also it encourages the union of body, mind and spirit.
4. Symbol of stability: Four items displayed in your home encourage security, safety and stability. It symbolizes the energy pattern of the square, foundation of any building. Four chairs around your dining table will help people feel more grounded when they sit there. Increase the number four of items displayed when life starts to feel crazy or too fast.
5. Symbol of adventure: Five items displayed in your home encourage creative and social energy. It stimulates conversation and adventure, pushing out energy in all directions.
6. Symbol of nurturing support: Six items displayed in your home encourage people together as family. It represents grandfather, grand-mother, father, mother, oldest son, and oldest daughter. Arrangement of six chairs around a dining table will help to gather families together. Six is also drawn to beautiful things, to the creation of art and expression of the heart.
7. Symbol meditation: Seven items displayed in your home symbolizes a connection to universal energies. Notice that there are seven chakras in the body, seven days in a week. When you display seven items you’re placing yourself in a world of contemplation and awakening.
8. Seven candles or seven rocks in a bowl in your meditation area will encourage a stronger connection to intuition and meditation.
9. Symbol of prosperity: Height items displayed in your home encourage prosperity in the Chinese culture. The octagon symbolizes the perfect balance between yin and yang. Place eight stones in a fountain or eight fish in your aquarium to encourage abundance in your home.
10. Symbol of completion: Nine items displayed in your home represent the completion of one cycle and the initiation of a new cycle. Referring to the Lo Shu square, nine is the most auspicious of all numbers in Feng Shui.

The action of displaying nine items means you intent to welcome new energy patterns into your life.

Bright objects with reflective qualities like glass, mirrors, crystal, anything with a shiny metal surface activate energy, especially useful in dark corners.

Mirror above a fireplace create a powerful focal point in the room with the reflection of the mirror providing a cooling antidote to the heat of the fire. Make sure that the mirror reflects a beautiful view like a nice crystal chandelier. When you don’t use the fireplace, you can make it attractive by placing some candles in the foyer and even a plant in summer time Mirrors can be called the aspirine of Feng Shui, they are very powerful at expanding energy and making space look larger. Mirrors reflecting the natural outside world can be healing.

Glass shelve in a window lifts the energy. With addition of blue and green glass candle holders or glass bottles, they would be most appropriate for the wealth and prosperity corner.

Chandelier activates energy and promotes gathering between people

Facetted crystal spheres add light and color to any room, have a powerful capacity to activate positive energy. Hang a multi faceted crystal ball in a window, when it catches the sunlight, it has a dramatic effect, filling your home with rainbows. Placed in the wealth and prosperity corner, it can have a positif effect on your finances. Crystal are good enhancements in negative space of the bagua.

You can have everything, in your home you ever dreamed of, but if you don’t take the time to display the objects within it with care and consideration, it will never look right.

Set up the mood for all your gathering this season.

Light up your holidays. Shopping online for your Christmas decoration is easier with a large selection of websites displaying many different choices of Christmas items.

Get your home into the holiday spirit, there’s nothing like getting your family and friend together around a fresh cut or artificial tree. Now you can decorate your tree with taste by color. Just simply arrange the Christmas garlands and Christmas ornaments by choosing the color that fits your home décor.

Christmas entrance

Hang a Christmas wreath to your front door for the welcoming holiday season and gesture of friendship. The original American tradition of the outdoor Christmas light is a pleasant delight throughout the holiday season.

Christmas diningGet your dining room ready for Christmas. Buy Christmas candles to ornate the table. To give a holiday feel to your dining area just buy Christmas china or just Christmas chair covers, Christmas tablecloth or runner.

Bring colors of Christmas into your interior to warm up the winter season and celebrate with taste.

Even if your space is tight, you don’t want to sacrifice style for utility. How can spaces be multi-functional and beautiful?

• Colors: use lighter hues like icy blues, pale green, white and cream, butter yellow, pale lilac, the color palette is huge. Everyone has his own favorite color. What’s your favorite? If you love color, introduce this with accessories.
• Use monochromatic paint technique, fabrics, and patterns, tone on tone will make the space bigger.
• Bring in more light, adding more light fixtures like rope lights, bookself light, floor lamps, wall sconces. It won’t take any room in your space.
• Use mirror opposite a light source such as a window to maximize the natural daylight and enlarge the space and make sure that mirrors reflect nice view.
• Use plain upholstery when you cover sofas, chairs.
• Use window treatment that let in as much light as possible and keep treatment clear.
• Avoid blocking view to windows and doors.
• Choice clever furniture : low-rise furniture in which you can store and display belongings , freestanding shelves. Translucent saucer chairs that seem to take hardly any space at all.
• Maximize unused spaces with attractive storage and shelving. Are there any spares corners where new shelves can be added?
• Do you have “dead alcoves”, niches, corridors, corners, which can be brought efficiently into play?
• Provide plenty of storage and organize the interior of your closets for the most efficient way.
• Open up the space, it offers very effective use of space and shared light.
• Draw boundaries for each area by using floor finishes like a rug, installing screens or sliding doors, or carefully position the furniture.

Yellow is the happiest color of the spectrum. On the color wheel, the opposite of yellow is violet, and mixing yellow with purple or blue works well .

Orange is an exhibitionist, the hottest color in the spectrum, it can be an intense and challenging color to work with, but the results can bring a carnival. Mixing bright orange with vivid reds and yellows, or rich burgundy and plum works well. Orange and purple are a vivacious team.

Bright pink is a positive, happy color, is a saturated hue with purple and red in its color makeup. It’s fun and frivolous.
Blue is the ultimate cool color. Sky blue , shades of dove gray and fawn, and pure white create a peaceful retreat to soothe the soul, sending a message of calm and serenity
Azure blue can be bright and vibrant as well as creating a feeling of calm.

Pale shades of blue against white, brown and quiet gray are gentle colors to work with in bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms. Their quiet subtlety quite simply enables you to relax.

Lilac: it works best placed against white rather than dark wood. Look for heavy pottery, solids rather than patterns, especially floral .

Lavender: tones of shell pin are especially pleasing in bedrooms and bathrooms if you want to create a clean, calm atmosphere. All shades of lavender and mauve look wonderfully elegant partnered with silver groups and gray-greens

Green, deeply relaxing, is a central color in decorating, connected with nature and the sea, it may be one of the reasons people find it so easy to live with. Bathing room in plain green, using shade of apple, pea, and euphorbia, strong and subtle at the same time, always warms the walls and lifts the spirits. Relaxing and eating will seem the most natural thing to do surrounded by such a reassuring range of colors. Works with plain wooden or painted furniture rather than elaborately upholstered or decorated pieces.

White: combinations of white on white are always clean and refreshing( gray-white, bone-white, dirty white). White is always pure and appealing, a good way of neutralizing crowded thoughts and busy decoration .

Cream means white with a hint of yellow. It is a soothing and result on the eye, but also elegant. Shades described as ivory, oyster, magnolia, shell, and vanilla all sit within the color band..

Red is active more than passive, stimulating rather relaxing. Color of flame and passion, color of energy, spirit, power, vigor, love sexuality, and danger. It suggests both love and hate.

Rich red is opulent and substantial, imposing and seductive. Use it with confidence on a grand scale or as obvious highlight for glamour and gloss.

Red for drama, purple for passion, rose for emotion

Rust symbolizes the glorious display of fall colors when shades of rust prevail. Mixing rust with burgundy, brown, plum, and deep reds, while paler shades mix with light yellow.

Plum is a sophisticated color. As a close relation to black, plum is a receding color that absorbs light. To make plum look grand in a formal Victorian manner, mix it with grey. By contrast acid lime-green makes plum look fresh and modern. Plum by itself is quite moody- even a touch of melancholic .

Burgundy is a rich and sophisticated color.

Silver has been a key color on the fashion and design circuits since the year 2000

“Color belongs to our being: maybe each one of us has his own”. Le Corbusier

Color is a universal language, it stimulates the emotions, shapes, cultures and forms the background of our world. Everybody’s life is enriched by color, which both energizes and lifts the spirit. Color can be a tremendous enhancement when you love it, or cause a real depletion in energy if you don’t.

The rights colors are silent music; the wrong colors irritate and disturb. Louis Cheskin

Explore the impact color has on our living spaces and how we respond to its presence. Consider how color and texture in the natural world can act as your guide. Color can be vibrant and arresting, or calm and soothing, we are all born with our personal response to color. If a color bugs you, get rid of it. Color is powerful and personal, each one has its own unique color palette.

The way we see color can be very different from the next person, and what one person may consider to be bright and colorful, another may consider garish.

Each basic color includes a wide spectrum of tones and hues.

Stay within the palette you are attracted to, and your color choices will create an atmosphere you will enjoy every day.

Color can nurture your soul as food nourishes your body. Determine what colors are your favorites. You don’t have to soak the walls in lurid planes of saturated shades to achieve a sense of color. Choose items in your colors, such as fabrics, vases, dishes, throws, lamps, and flowers, and place them where they can feed you with glance. Small details will punctuate the space with a sure touch.

Be guided by what you love, and enjoy the result. Be acutely aware of color, intoxicated by the colors in nature and the impact they had on the environment.

Choosing colors for your home can be an exciting journey of discovery.

Color creates mood

Color has a powerful psychological impact and can influence our state of mind. Some colors are regarded as healing, making us feel happy and well, while others have a negative impact, inducing melancholy.

Many of these emotional responses to color have become expressions in everyday speech. We refer to black moods, to feeling ÓblueÓ and “seeing red.

For instance, the use of flowers in the home illustrates the mood-enhancing powers of color. Yellow flowers will create a bright and happy ambience, while white or green arrangements create a feeling of calm and serenity.

Simplicity means less is more. Keep clutter to a minimum. Don’t go over the top. A few objects on a tabletop are fine, but too many are distracting.

Suitability means considering how appropriate things are for their use. If you are upholstering a sofa, use a fabric that is strong enough for the job, not a delicate fabric better suited for sheer curtains. Suitability also applies to the stylistic or historic context. It wouldn’t be suitable to put a modern chrome and glass coffee table into a Victorian-style living room, for example.

Proportions are all about scale. Furniture and objects should be proportional to the room they are in and to each other. You don’t want to fill a small room with large armoires and oversized chairs, nor do you want to put a small crown molding into a large room with high ceilings. Save the upholstery fabric with the big, bold print for the big piece of furniture.

Orange is a very hot and volatile color, which evokes vastly different responses around the world. In the Netherlands. Orange summons a national pride; in Asia it is a holy color used only for Buddhist monks robes; and in the US our immediate reaction is Halloween! Only recently has this brighter, more spectral aspect of the Orange family been more openly received in America. Previously only Spice tones of Cinnabar, Allspice, Paprika and Terracotta were marketable consumer colors.

Fortunately, the influx of bright acidic tones of lime green and lemon yellow in apparel, recreational gear, autos and electronics naturally brought along Tangerine; and Orange then was accepted more readily. Variations of Orange have become hot colors! It is the feature color for advertising, when the statement being made is “New”. It is used in communications and graphics for manufacturer wanting to convey “hip and cool” products. Orange perfectly targeted Gen Xers and even younger, who had never seen the color on products before. It was a color they could adopt as their own. Orange arrived!

However, in home furnishings, the use of the Orange family as accents is widely favored; yet the richer more sophisticated reddened oranges of Cinnabar or the yellowed oranges like Allspice or Terracotta are much more livable and are used more frequently. These more muted tones work well with traditional country, ethnic and hearth-based designs. Deep, yet clear tones work with the more exotic design colorations and the influences of the Orient. This deepened range of color has been widely accepted. Orange tones are warm, comfortable, cozy, active, expansive and jovial. Orange is a vibrant color linked to health and vitality. It has developed from the fire of red towards a more earthy tone. Also associated with enthusiasm and optimism, it is a good welcoming color for hallways, but because it is rather flamboyant, you do have to feel that it suits you or it can be rather overwhelming. Ideal for north-facing rooms which need warming up, It is also a great choice for places where conversation needs to be stimulated. In softer colorations of Cora, Salmon, Clay and Peach, it can be quite soothing and sociable.

As demographics have evolved in the US and the greater visibility of other cultures has emerged. Americans find themselves more open to some of the Orange hues that are readily accepted in other part of the world. You need to know the cultural affects on the colors you use , before you use them.