Longing for a Real Home Longing for a real home weaves through many hearts and often lingers unfulfilled. My journey as a Feng Shui and building consultant also began with this eternal longing - with a feeling of disconnection, drifting and not really at home -...

The Right Use of Colour There are easy things that can be done with Feng Shui - often even small changes can make a room feel better. One of them is the right use of colour and patterns.  When you walk into a space you don’t just perceive the physical things but also...

Explosive - Fiery - Disruptive - Innovative For most of this year now, the #9 FIRE energy has been the new 20-year ruler. It’s a major energetic shift that affects people, the Feng Shui of buildings and the world at large.  6 months in, we can now take note of some of...

Symmetry is often high on my clients’ wish list, such as when: positioning a bed or sofa in the centre of the wall, arranging windows on their home’s facade in a symmetric pattern, or placing chairs evenly around a room.  On the other hand, there are people who prefer...

A harmonious, happy & healthy building with relatively small effort The 80/20 rule, also called the Pareto principle, states that in any endeavour roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. As little as 20% of our efforts create 80% of benefits.  That...

The First Thing to do with Clutter We know that clutter is a problem. It is stagnation of Qi that takes the life out of a place. We also know to remedy it we clean up and create order.  I’ve come across an interesting twist on to how to handle clutter though: The...

Ready for the ride? 

Not only are we at the beginning of a new 20-year Feng Shui period, Period 9. On February 10, with the Chinese New Year, we are moving into the Year of the Dragon! 

A Dragon is volatile and unpredictable. It can shake things up and rock foundations.

A huge change is about to occur with our buildings! The old wealth energy (#8) is going to retire, and the new ruling energy (#9) is going to take its place. This primarily affects life force and abundance. Wealth in Feng Shui is Yang. It’s the life force that comes...

The WATER Element Love & wisdom seem to be of rather short supply in this crazy fractured world of ours - at least on the big stage. We can however focus on nurturing these qualities in our personal lives and homes.  In Feng Shui and traditional Chinese medicine,...

Diary of a Feng Shui Consultant When conducting a Feng Shui consultation, I find that bedrooms are often where things go wrong for people.  In a good bedroom you sleep well and wake up refreshed and recharged, you stay healthy and communication and relationships can...

How to make Your Home Feel Like an Italian Villa I love the feel of an Italian Villa - or a traditional French or Moroccan…. building. They have a certain something that makes them feel good on a cellular level - on the level of touch and feel.    This is another...

… and why we love them

There are certain spaces we are drawn to – maybe a corner in a coffee shop, a garden seat or chair in our home.

What Feng Shui is really about Feng Shui means wind and water. It is about how environmental influences can bring life energy - Qi, into a building, how to catch it and make it available for you to use. There are three aspects to this: Bring positive Qi into the...

Plan now for the new Feng Shui period 2024

Only one more year in the current Period 8!
For the last 19 years the #8 has been a powerful ruler – aka the wealth energy. It fills places with radiant life force…

Creating Soulspaces Over the last rather quiet years, I’ve been brewing up the next phase of my work with buildings. I’ve been restless with the state of the world, including its buildings. My goal is to take my Feng Shui practice further and bring soul back into ...

Colours and shapes need to be in harmony with a rooms energies to make it feel good. Each colour and each shape belong to a particular Feng Shui element. For example, greens belong to the Wood element, triangles and red tones are Fire, brown timber furniture is Earth,...

Moving is a stressful time. Here are 5 Feng Shui tips to help you create a comfortable home in your new place.     1. Leave your old baggage behind If you are like most people, you have lots stuff. Life changes fast and in the process you collect books, clothes,...

Have you tried to work at a place where you felt drained or found it difficult to concentrate? In some spaces you can’t think straight or make too many mistakes, and others where money seems to go out faster than it comes in.

If there is negative Feng Shui, working successfully can be like pushing uphill all the way.

In Feng Shui we consider windows to be the eyes of the building. They should be designed to purpose and positioned to let in positive life energy.

Many of us work from home now. This comes with a new set of opportunities as well as a new a set of challenges, especially if your home was not designed for you to work there. Here are some Feng Shui tips to help you make working from home, work better for you.  ...

Three things that should be in for your house design to work  As above so below, as below so above!  Following design principles are universal. They apply to a building at large, a unit, and also scale down to a room, a corner or a workspace, and even scale up to the...