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Feng Shui Interior Decorating and Design

The importance of Feng Shui and Interior Design.

As one of our Cyber Feng Shui Club Members, you are about to embark on possibly the most worthwhile, satisfying and thoroughly enjoyable of all sections of the website, the APPLICATION of Interior Design with Feng Shui.

You have probably been asked, "Why Interior Design? What is it and how does it differ from simple decorating?" These questions are easiest answered by looking around you. Examine your room, the windows, your curtains. Do your curtains make the best of the windows? Are they the correct length? Would they perhaps have been better positioned to make the window look larger? Or a large window look smaller? Do your curtains blend with your wallpaper? Does your wallpaper suit the room? Wouldn't you have liked the room to appear a little larger? Or even a large room appear smaller? Wouldn't you have liked to be able to alter the size without resorting to structural changes? It can be done, and very easily at that, but do YOU know how?

And what about the overall appearance? Is yours a carefully balanced scheme adopting, say, the elegance of the Georgians or the rustic charm of a country cottage? Or is it merely a mishmash of both, a pot pourri of certain eras, different styles and several themes?

Before you answer these questions, pick up a magazine and glance through it. Look for a feature or advertisement showing a photograph of a room. Admittedly some won't be real rooms, these are photographers' sets designed purely for a purpose. It might be a bathroom, a kitchen or a bedroom - its function isn't really important.

What is important, however, is the way in which that room appears. Notice the curtains or blinds and the way they 'flatter' the windows. Observe closely the colour scheme used, and particularly how everything blends, co-ordinates or matches. Look for those strategically placed objects, the little things, that go to give that finishing touch. But most important of all, look for the one particular attribute that sets that room apart from those we use in our homes. That certain something that makes it look 'designed' rather than decorated. That certain something is balance. The one effect we all try to achieve when redecorating and yet it is probably the hardest of all aspects to get entirely right. If, that is, you don't know how. Feng shui is all about BALANCE, so you can see how working the systems together, you will create a desirable home, the envy of your friends, unless you recommend this course to them!

Balance isn't just about creating a showpiece - like a photographer's set... nice to look at but totally impractical to live in. We all have our own needs within a house, and certain ways of living that can largely dictate the way in which we decorate. Finding the balance means taking account of all the requirements, allowing for children, pets, the needs of elderly relatives, everything in fact that makes a house a home, and THEN when we've examined the requirements, we design a scheme accordingly. A scheme that is both practical and stylish, and above all, a scheme that is balanced.

In the forthcoming weeks and months, you will discover that it is possible to create a stylish home around your requirements. You'll be dreaming up schemes that accommodate all your hobbies and pastimes, whilst still ensuring that your finished design is a masterpiece. Perfectly co-ordinated and beautifully balanced. And YOU are the one who is going to achieve all of this - not on your own (well, not at first). Cyber Feng shui can be with you every step of the way, arming you with the correct knowledge so you understand the functions of the materials you work with; why certain colours are used in preference to others and why it is so important to plan before you do anything.

This is not an Interior Design course as such, but one worth following for life long input

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Our First discussion will be the colour wheel and the Feng Shui Bagua.

We will over the weeks look at individual home directions, and individual Kua numbers for best locations of rooms, colours, and how to compliment your individual styles and budgets. Message me with particular problems, or if not a member go to Ask a Question.