Chic Living With Feng Shui: Stylish Designs For Harmonious Living

by Sharon Stasney

Using the ancient principles of feng shui, transform your home into an environment that’s both chic and life-enhancing.

Breathtaking full-color photos show how easy it is to establish retreats and secret spaces for renewing the spirit, to design shared areas that promote harmonious relationships, and to adapt ancient Chinese principles to modern tastes by using exercises for exploring the chi, or aura. Room-by-room guides display strategies for adjusting the shapes, colors, textures, and position of your furnishings to strengthen immune systems, eliminate clutter, encourage confidence, and reduce stress. Just moving a bed can increase passion, repositioning a desk will expand powers of concentration, and repainting surfaces can lead to a boost in energy levels. Your home will have the balance and harmony vital to success and happiness.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2004

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice example of the flow of chi. Concepts not very well covered.

[Beneth · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was the first book I looked at closely about feng shui and was probably not the best first one I could have picked up. It focuses elements and colors, and balancing the yin and yang of a room, with a description of chakras at the beginning. The bagua map description is burried in the middle. I like that the author is a psychologist and also puts in psychological and historical associations with different colors. It can give some nice decorating and design ideas that make sense. Some of it is just common sense, e.g., don't have a chair under something tall with a lot of fragile stuff on it because it will give the person a sense of unease. Stuff like that is useful to make the reader aware, but also provides great fodder for parodies of the whole concept.