Blending Feng Shui with Interior Decoration

by Mohan Deep | 09/05/2008 | in

Interior Decoration

Blending Feng Shui with Décor

I was visiting the house of Ann, a single parent who had a court case (against her husband) dragging for quite sometime. She had someone else in her life but was unable to marry him till the divorce formalities were over.
She opened the door and the first thing I noticed was the wall immediately behind her. This wall, to me, symbolized the block in the relationship among the family members. I wanted to know more about her life before proceeding with the Feng Shui of her house and my analysis turned out to be right. Their marriage broke off when they moved in this house. The relationship between her and Jane, her only daughter, a bright girl of 12 years, too was strained. Jane had become stubborn and argumentative. The mother and daughter would quarrel almost everyday. Jane didn' t like the idea of her mother' s remarriage, either. She hated the sight of her `new daddy`.
“Even my relationship with Michael has been deteriorating. There was magic between us when I used to meet him when we were having an affair.

After my husband left the home he started visiting and occasionally stayed during weekends. I realized that now I was fighting with Michael.” Ann said.

Another problem she was facing was with her lawyer. She had to change her lawyer twice. This was her third lawyer. I looked around and noticed the decorative red brick wall in Northwest. Even the curtain on the window of this wall had an amount of red in it. Demolishing the wall opposite the door would be a good solution but it would be expensive. The house had been renovated a year ago and Ann wasn' t in position to spend money and time. I suggested another, inexpensive, Feng Shui cure: mirror. And I analyzed `red`, which represents Fire, as responsible for damaging the Helpful Friends corner. Helpful Friends & Backing corner is ruled by Metal and Fire damages it. Red had to go. It had to be replaced with yellow. Earth, represented by yellow, supports the element of Helpful Friends corner, metal.

This turned out to be a major success story. In less than a month, her husband consented for a divorce by mutual consent. Inexplicably, the relationship between her daughter and Michael improved. In fact, we could trace the turning point to Michael' s offer to teach her mathematics.

Michael moved in again and they live in harmony at the moment.
“I wish we had consulted you before the renovation,” Ann tells me.
In fact, blending Feng Shui with interior decoration greatly enhances the impact of Feng Shui. What I' m aiming for is p-e-r-f-e-c-t Feng Shui. In Feng Shui, besides the placement of various Feng Shui cures (crystals, wind chimes, dragons and toads) is the role of various elements. The truth is that more than these cures, the harmony of the elements makes for a perfect Feng Shui.

To give you an example, if we get a vacant apartment for Feng Shui décor, we' d ensure a perfectly enhanced Wealth & Good Fortune corner (popular as the Money corner) by using wood and water as the part of décor. Wood rules this area and the Water nurtures it. Metal is a mortal enemy as it damages Wood. While the more popular methods are to place a fish tank or water fountain in this sector, we go several steps further. The colours should represent wood or water or both. So should the shapes and the material to be used. Certain shapes always represent certain elements. A triangular shape symbolizes the Fire element and an oval form represents metal. Water, earth and wood too are represented by various forms and shapes.
As with the elements (represented by colours, shapes and reality) the directions and the placement of various pieces of furniture are very important. Locating the Money corner is not as simple as the popular Lillian Too School has taught their
students. That the Money corner is in the Southeast even a salesman sitting in a Feng Shui shop – or someone offering `free` consultation – will tell you. But it is not entirely right. It is not the complete truth.

The Black Hat Sect of Feng Shui uses the Ba Gua Feng Shui method and treats the door as the mouth from where energy flows in. The Ba Gua (or Pa Kua) method indicates another corner as the Money corner! The southeast, they believe, applies only to China, as their sailors sailed southeast to the Philippines and the Indonesian archipelago and returned with wealth, South Sea pearls, delicious red lichees and spices for the royal families. It is not applicable to other countries. The biggest of them all, Prof. Lin Yun who has made Feng Shui a household name in the USA, believes in the Black Hat Sect.
Besides, there are the big Money corner and sub-Money corners. Also, every Money sector is divided into yin and yang. It is a little too complex to leave it to amateurs.

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