The Open Spaces Feng Shui Blog


Feng Shui Color Tips: GOLD

Gold: the rich, lustrous color of money -  of sunshine – and of heaven.
In Feng Shui, Gold is associated with two elements, Metal and Earth. It’s most strongly connected with the Travel & Helpful People and Children sectors of the Bagua Energy Ma… read more »

Feng Shui Color Tips: YELLOW

In Feng Shui Yellow represents the Earth element.
Located at the Center of the Bagua Map, soft yet brilliant Yellow brings balance and stability to your environment.

Yellow is the color of nourishment and the earth’s warm embrace, symbolizing stability,… read more »

Use A Feng Shui Color Scheme To Paint Your Home

Are you thinking about repainting some of the rooms in your home?
Think about using a Feng Shui color scheme to do your next round of decorating.
Feng Shui recommends that you paint your rooms in a very particular way, with your floors the darkest color, walls a bit li… read more »

Improve Your Chi On Earth Day!

What are you doing to celebrate Earth Day?
This coming Sunday, April 22, is Earth Day’s 42nd birthday.  Feng Shui-wise it’s a perfect opportunity to treat Mother Earth with the care and respect she deserves.
Here’s a site where you can locate… read more »

The Feng Shui Of Domed Homes: Were The Hobbits Onto Something?

In Feng Shui, regular shapes are always best.  Squares and rectangles create balance and harmony in a space, holistic qualities that affect you directly. Regular shapes make it easy to do things like place art and furniture correctly and create the kind of energ… read more »

It’s Spring! Enhance Your Life With Feng Shui In Your Garden

Feng Shui gives you a multitude of ways to maximize your garden’s life-enhancing pleasures, whether you have a few plants on your windowsill or a full-fledged plot.
With Feng Shui’s Five Elements you can enhance specific energies depending on what you are se… read more »

Special Announcement: Fabulous Feng Shui Photography

I’ve recently become a big fan of the work of a wonderful young photographer, Carey Kirkella, whose limited-edition photographic prints bring a contemporary sensibility to the ancient symbolism of Feng Shui.
Beautiful works of art, Carey’s Feng… read more »

Does An Office Have To Be White? Top-5 Feng Shui Office-Decorating Tips

All around the world, the dominant paint color for corporate offices is white or off-white.
But is white an auspicious office color from a Feng Shui point of view?

The answer is a resounding YES, showing the collective wisdom of office managers worldwide, who may h… read more »

Bad & Good Feng Shui for Children: Bedroom Colors

Here’s a very disturbing page from a catalog that recently arrived in my mailbox:

The vibrant primary colors here are too Yang for any bedroom, especially a child’s.
These types of colors make better sense for a playroom where activity is encouraged… read more »

The Feng Shui Bagua Map: Centering To Enhance Your Health

The Center of Feng Shui’s Bagua Map is concerned with all aspects of your health: emotional, spiritual, physical.
The Center is symbolized by the Tai-Chi, also known as the symbol for Yin & Yang, representing the polarities that exist in everything:… read more »