Office Feng Shui

Feng Shui is about arranging your stuff and furniture in a way that that helps you to avoid bad energy and to boost your wealth & well being. First you must find out your Kua number and establish your personal trigram – this depends on your birth year and on your gender. This will determine your best and worst directions and whether you’re an East or West person. Then you should work out your house or office’s trigram – this depends on the year the house was built and the direction it faces. You can find many websites and/ or books to help you with this - but it’s very important to establish before you start moving things around. When you’ve done the above you are ready to maximise chi..

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Office Decoration

Working from home

More and more of us work from home these days. Yet when it comes to situating on our home office we normally allocate the least used or the smallest space in our home. Many of use the bedroom or the dining room as the office. This is not the ideal solution..

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I keep going on about not using carpets in a home. Why? Because unless you’re a single, obsessively tidy individual, carpets are impractical, unhygienic and require hard maintenance, as they get dirty/spoiled/ burned and wear out easily. So what is the alternative? The best material to use on floors is wood. In the following articles I’ll write about different type of wooden floors. But firstly, I briefly summarise the qualities and properties of wood and why it’s so suitable under our feet..

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Home Decorating – Paint

There is a wide range of choice when decorating with paint. It’s fun to go through the colour charts and brochures but when it comes to choosing the right paint we are baffled. What is the difference between eggshell and satin finish? When shall we use acrylic paint? What’s the difference between primer and undercoat? What is limewash and so on..

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