Eight Mansions, Water & Mountain Dragons, Environmental Feng Shui Alla Kondrat Oct 5, 2009 San He or Three Combinations System of Feng Shui includes Eight Mansions or East/West, Water Dragons, Mountain Dragons, and Environmental Feng Shui teachings. The Three Combinations, also called San He, system is considered to be the oldest school of Feng Shui. Among the major practices used in San He Feng Shui is observing landforms and applying the qualities of the 4 celestial animals to the site being analyzed. One of the most important landforms is mountains: both real mountains and structures associated with mountains, such as high buildings. Another is bodies of water: actual rivers, lakes,...
Lucky Charms for Decorating the Center of the Bagua Alla Kondrat Sep 15, 2009 Feng Shui health area is located in the center of the Bagua map. Learn how to decorate it in order to be healthy, wealthy, lucky, and happy. The center of a house or a room is, probably, the most important Feng Shui area, since it is devoted to health. Therefore, this Feng Shui sector should be paid special attention to. The Chi flows from all the corners of the house gather in Feng Shui health area. So, the importance of the center of the house can be compared to that of the human heart – it provides all the other organs with life. Importance of Feng Shui Health Area Feng Shui health sector of the house...
Purpose and Types of Luo Pan, the Chinese Compass Alla Kondrat Aug 29, 2009 Luo Pan, Feng Shui compass, or Chinese compass, is a compass used by Feng Shui masters for analyzing space. San Yuan, San He, and Zong He are the major types of Luo Pan. When a Feng Shui consultant is analyzing the dwelling, one uses the qualities of physical forms that surround the site first of all. Then comes the turn of Luo Pan, or Chinese compass. The Purpose of Feng Shui Compass Feng Shui compass helps a practitioner to determine precise directions and get the needed information about the area. Such information, in its turn, is used for drawing a geomantic chart that shows auspicious and inauspicious areas...
By Esther Steinfeld, The Blinds Gal Your mother told you you’d be sick of those red couches within a few weeks, but did you listen? When do you ever listen? Believe it or not, colors, patterns, and textures go in and out of style, much like clothing does. It is probable that, if you purchased pricey yellow furniture at the beginning of 2009 when Pantone announced the color of the year would be Mimosa, you’re now ready to chuck it out the window. It is also possible that you inherited Grandma’s old couch with the floral pattern still covered in plastic. You hated it when you were 5, and you hate it now, but “free couch” sure sounded nice when you took it off Grandma’s...
Energy savings is a hot topic in today’s environmentally-conscious and uncertain economic times. Here are some ways to both save energy and save money on your energy bills. How To Save Energy In Your Home If you have a gas hot water heater, gas furnace, or a gas or electric over or stove, here are some tips that can produce real energy savings. * Clean the shiny burner reflectors to better reflect heat on your cooktop or range. * Clean gas burners occasionally. Food and grease can clog gas ports. The flame should be blue and even. * Resist opening the oven door to check on food. Each time you do you lose 25 percent of the heat in the oven. * Turn off electric burners a few minutes...
Lucky Charms for the Area of Helpful Friends and Travel Alla Kondrat Aug 14, 2009 Learn what lucky charms should be used for decorating Feng Shui area of travel, helpful people, and helpful friends. Feng Shui area of travel and helpful people corresponds to the north-west direction of the Bagua map. Activate and enhance this Feng Shui zone if you need help solving some important problem, or making a desire come true. The helpful friends area of the house is the best place to hold conversations or negotiation that aim at receiving financial help or investments into business. This Feng Shui zone is ideal for communicating with powerful people who can potentially help you either morally...
Who doesn’t want an easy to assemble storage shed that gives them almost three hundred square feet of storage space? The Rubbermaid Big Max Shed can give you just that. It can help you find the space that you used to have in your garage or spare room-you know, the space that was one of the deciding factors in your buying your house? The space that seemed to fill up and disappear before you blinked a few times?The Big Max Shed is affordable and easy to assemble. It is the perfect storage building for bicycles, tools, lawn equipment, your lawnmower, and pretty much anything else you can think of. Some families use them for gardening. Other families use them as miscellaneous “get this...
Wall IdeasIn 2006, my husband and I found ourselves in a strange situation where we had to move into an unfinished basement. We were left in a quandary on how to make the space into a comfortable home. I found techniques to make areas aesthetic with paint and pictures and such, but it left me with having to really use my creativity to come up with ways to make walls between each area. I wanted my little home to be nice to look at, so I didn’t want to just run sheets between each area like clothes hanging on a line to dry. I came up with a few ideas that have worked well for our home. These ideas have worked to create beauty in each room, or, at least, a nice conversation piece, and...
No matter how much closet storage you have, chances are you could probably always use more space. But while building new closets may not be a practical option, you may be able to use the space you have more efficiently. In this article you will find information about: Planning Closet Storage Building Closet Storage TOOL AND MATERIAL CHECKLIST Steel Tape Measure Carpenter’s Square Saw Blades Hammer 6d & 8d Finish Nails Chalk Line 1×2 Pine 1/4″ Hardboard Closet Rod Sockets Shelf Clips Level Circular Saw Router & Bits Screwdriver Wood Screws 3/4″ ACX Plywood 1/2″ Baltic Birch Plywood Closet Rod Shelf Standards Hollow Wall Anchors PLANNING...
Get the Most Out of Your Limited Space with These Simple TipsMoving containers, such as PODS and U-Pack ReloCubes have become popular means of moving your household a over a long distance. The advantages to these moving strategies are numerous. For instance, unlike driving a rental truck, you don’t have to drive yourself and spend money on gas or motels. The companies that move your container are fast and reliable, and the cost you’ll pay for moving your container will usually end up being less than the total costs of renting a truck, paying for gas, and sleeping on the way to your destination. Plus, they ultimately will require less effort.Many people, however, balk at the apparent...