Does your bathroom look cluttered because of its small size? Do you want to create the illusion of more space? Having a small bathroom is not a reason to worry. By altering the lighting technique and setting of your bathtub and by making the right choice of colors, you can open up the [...]
Feng Shui Solutions for Your Bed & Bedroom Challenges
The truth you need to know is that very few bedrooms have perfect feng shui. Unless you had the luck of designing and building your house with feng shui in mind, you will, most probably, have to face some challenges while creating [...]
Position Your Bed with Feng Shui
Bedrooms are very important in Feng Shui for obvious reasons. Your bed and your bedroom have to have good feng shui to support your
personal energy. Your bed also has to maintain the feng shui energy of love and healing. That’s a lot of feng shui responsibility [...]
Feng Shui Guidelines for Your Bed
Your bed is the most important Feng Shui piece of furniture in your entire life. Strong feng shui statement, isn’t it? Strong, but true. Your bed is the only piece of furniture that has the most intimate (and intricate!) connection to your personal energy.
The role of the feng shui [...]
Professional organizers and helpful-hint sources often recommend storage solutions such as shelves above doors and in corners, hooks on the backs of doors, and peg-board for tools and small appliances. They are masters at maximizing every square inch of a closet with bins, baskets, shelf dividers, and multiple hanging rods. What they [...]
To have a family that is loving and supportive at all times is a blessing. To have a healthy, beautiful and happy environment in which to live with your family is to be blessed twice.
To bring more harmony into your family life, consider implementing some basic feng shui cures that are [...]
Successful interior design takes into account the entire human-home experience. It’s about taking design principles a step further and melding them with the science of Human Factors to engage the five senses of sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing to create a home environment that soothes and nurtures our souls. It’s the difference between a [...]
1.Multiples. Do you have multiple items of the same color, shape or style around your house? This is one big “tell” I look for as I look through clients’ homes. A kilim rug in the front hall, a kilim rug in the bedroom, another one in the living room? That means that you [...]
I remember watching a good TV show on home design that left me feeling very upset. That particular segment was on re-designing a bedroom which had a big and quite emotional painting of a lonely woman drowning in a large pool of water. The painting had a strong energy of sorrow and a [...]
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese practice of achieving harmony with the specific placement of certain objects in your home or office, which affects the flow of energy in your surroundings, the Chi (Qi), and this can be positive or negative. Obtaining luck, health and prosperity is usually the main focus of using Feng Shui. [...]
Can decorating save an apartment so tattered and worn out without ripping off half of your savings? The answer is, YES. Any place, no matter how scruffy, is redeemable with the simplest decorating ideas. It’s all about colors, accents and resourcefulness.
First, you have to settle for a color and/or a theme. Once [...]
You’ll hear a lot about the concept of yin-yang in feng shui circles. Yin is the feminine principle: curves, round or oval shapes, softness. Yang is its masculine counterpart: angular lines, square/rectangle/triangle shapes, hard corners. To create a feng shui flow, it’s wise to incorporate both yin and yang throughout a room or home. Be [...]
What do you think of when you hear the term “junk in the trunk”? The phrase became popular with hip hoppers and rappers appreciatively referring to women with ample butts. Our butts are behind us. Makes it somewhat hard to see what’s going on back there. What’s all this [...]
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese technique used to improve a person’s life by using the positive energy created by the heaven and the earth. It’s believed that the type of furnishing you have in your home and their location can have a positive or a negative effect on the quality of [...]
If you are dealing with a room with angled ceilings (like the one shown here) I always suggest painting the entire room the same color. Angles can disrupt energy flow and cause an imbalance in the space. Painting the ceilings and the walls the same color (in this case) assist in creating balance and [...]
Traditionally, in Feng Shui, the door is painted red. Since the house in feng shui is sometimes seen as the body, the door is considered the tongue and when it sticks out, it’s like the red carpet at the Oscars; hot and fiery and where a lot of positive energy can find you. However, [...]
French native Marie Burgos founded her interior design firm in 2007 with an emphasis on residential spaces which rapidly expanded to commercial design. Marie’s ultimate talent is understanding her clients needs and creating home, office and commercial interiors that are balanced, sophisticated, and highly functional.
