The other day, I was having a meeting with a member of the Dream Home Lab when she accidentally knocked over her cup of coffee. It fell right over her favorite rug in the whole house. It was lucky that we were on a Zoom call when it happened. My…
Sometimes my home asks for things that I don’t fully agree with. Right now, for example, my home wants teal floors in the kitchen. I know they will look great with my light oak cabinets and white mother-of-pearl backsplash. But I’m not quite sure how they’re going to work with…
Walk into almost any home decor store or scroll through social media, and you’ll see it everywhere: oversized mirrors casually leaning against the wall and artwork resting on the floor instead of being hung. It certainly photographs well. But just because something looks stylish doesn’t mean it’s a good idea…
I studied architecture, graphic design, and art. By the time I graduated, I knew how to draw buildings, create beautiful compositions, and understand color and proportion. Then it was time to decorate my first home. To my surprise, I had no idea what I was doing. I made mistake after…
Color drenched modern living room, in Prussian blue. You may not know this about me, but my paternal grandmother was a psychic. She practiced in Ecuador during a time when psychics were considered fraudulent. Their work was illegal, and many were prosecuted. Because of that, she couldn’t establish a permanent…
Is your primary bedroom helping or hurting your relationship? We spend nearly one-third of our lives sleeping, yet many people decorate their primary bedroom based on trends instead of function. From a Feng Shui perspective, every room in your home has a purpose. When a room supports the activities it…
There was a time when my home looked like it had been turned upside down — because, in many ways, it had. Several years ago, just three days before we were supposed to leave for a beach vacation, we woke up to a flooded kitchen. The flood wasn’t catastrophic, but…
We spend a lot of time looking at the inside of a home. We check for square footage, natural light, and the condition of the roof. But in Feng Shui, the external environment is actually as important as the interior floor plan. The land itself carries energy (chi). If the environment is hostile, no…
The home you complain about might be someone else’s idea of a dream home! No home is perfect. Every home has a problem, or another problem. Maybe it is the layout. The kitchen is at the front and you would rather have it at the back. Or the bedroom is…
Luck is not random. It is not something reserved for a chosen few. In Feng Shui, luck is the natural result of being in the right place at the right time. But think about that for a moment. How can you be in the right place if you are disconnected…