ARTICLE: Sell Your Home Quickly With Feng Shui
Date Added: 2007-06-07
What the heck is Feng Shui Originating in China almost 6,000 years ago, Feng Shui literally means wind Feng and water Shui. Feng Shui is also referred to as Geo-mancy or Earth Wisdom. It is an ancient method of constructing and optimizing residences to bring about happiness, abundance and harmony. It includes architecture, urban planning, interior design, garden design, and placement of objects in our environment. It also involves the layout, framework, materials and colors of building structures. |
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There are different types or "Schools" of Feng Shui. This accounts for a great deal of the confusion that exists. The two oldest forms are the Form School, which addresses external and internal environments and their effect on the occupants and the Compass School, which uses a compass to determine the orientation of a home and therefore its prosperity.
At Feng Shui Style, we use the Form School and Compass School, because we have found them to be the most effective methods.Why is staging with Feng Shui important? When people walk into a home for sale, they decide within 15 seconds whether they want to buy it. They spend the next few minutes either trying to figure out how to nicely back out of the tour, or mentally whipping out their checkbooks, and trying to make an offer.
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| What if your home could attract not only buyers, but money, success or even love? Feng Shui practitioners believe that arranging your environment can enhance your life in all of those areas. Now that Feng Shui is becoming a household word, people are starting to embrace it for use in staging their homes for sale in the cooling real estate market.
The Form School has more of a freestyle approach than the Compass School. There is really no "right" way in the Form School - it's largely intuitive. People tend to fixate on things they have heard, such as "Purple is wealth". While purple is definitely a prosperous color, if the client doesn't like it, we can offer a variety of other options, depending on their personal taste, and what's best in the environment.
Feng Shui can appear to be similar to interior design or home staging, where experts are hired to make your home more "saleable". The Form School differs from interior design or home staging by using the five elements to balance a room or dwelling: fire, water, wood, earth and metal.
For example, if a client's home had a study that was done completely in wood paneling, we would say it had "too much Wood". We would balance out the wood by adding metal and fire, to "bring the wood down" a bit. Metal and Fire could be literal, or figurative. A metal table would qualify as "Metal", but so would a large gray rug, since gray is the color of metal.
Adding Fire might mean adding red candles all along the mantelpiece of the fireplace, or figuratively, painting some of the walls red, which is the color of Fire.
Oftentimes home stagers place a bowl of fruit out in the kitchen. A Feng Shui practicioner might place that bowl of fruit in the SouthEast corner of the kitchen, or the "Wealth Corner", since fruit is a symbol of wealth, to pump up the wealth of the occupants while they are selling the house.
Another huge area to target is clutter. Clutter can negatively impact a client's ability to attain wealth, and it certainly won't sell your home. Being a Feng Shui consultant is very much like being a detective. You can walk into a client's home and "read" what's going on, just by looking around.
One of the most important elements in selling your home is your garden, or landscaping. If your home is a palace, but no one wants to come in because of your yard, you're losing out on multiple offers. We routinely work with landscapers to maximize the curb appeal of your home.
Balance is what Feng Shui strives to attain and, whether it's your business or your home, having the right energy flowing through it is crucial. Oftentimes, after we Feng Shui a client's home for selling, they are so pleased with the results, that they decide to take it off the market and stay!
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