The Open Spaces Feng Shui Blog


Feng Shui Color Tips: PURPLE

Over the course of my Feng Shui consulting career I’ve discovered that Purple is many people’s favorite color.
This makes sense because Purple combines the intensity of Blue with the rich warmth of Red, two colors that bring along with them an abunda… read more »

Three Ways To Boost Your Happiness & Success With The Feng Shui Bagua Map

You may already know the basics of using the Bagua Map, but did you know that each area also has an important impact on other Bagua sectors?
Use these relationships to your advantage to boost your chances of happiness and success in every part of your life. Here are a f… read more »

The Three Best Places For Your Feng Shui Fountain

Water features and fountains are one of the Nine Key Adjustments in Feng Shui. If you wish to enhance your space with the lovely sights and sounds of a fountain, you’ll have the most success when you  know exactly where to place it, and why.

Since fountains activa… read more »

Five Feng Shui Steps To Financial Fitness

Tax time can be super stressful.
From a money point of view the year culminates in mid-April when income taxes are due, so early spring means a financial house-cleaning for most folks I know.

If you’re concerned about money and looking for support in your financi… read more »

Beyond The Bedroom, Part 2 — Enhance Romance With A Sense Of Abundance and Adventure!

In Part 1 of this series, Enhancing Romance With Inner Knowledge, Illumination and Self-Respect, we started to look at how the Relationship area isn’t the only Bagua sector to enhance when you’re trying to light the spark of romance.
Let’s ta… read more »

Kitchen Feng Shui for Small Apartments

Reader Hillary asks how to create good Feng Shui in the small kitchen in her apartment.
Most apartment kitchens have very tight layouts, where the cook can stand in just one place and reach everything he or she needs.
I love to cook, so my kitchen gets a lot of use.
Here… read more »

Feng Shui Your Resolutions for 2012

Happy New Year!
Did you make any New Year’s resolutions for 2012?

Give them an extra boost — and get your year off to a powerful start — by activating your resolutions with Feng Shui.
Is this is the year for taking off some extra pounds? Turn your at… read more »

Three Ways To Compensate For A Missing Feng Shui Wealth Corner

If your home or office is missing its Wealth corner (the back left-hand corner of your space on Feng Shui’s Bagua Map), don’t despair!
Feng Shui offers several ways to compensate for the missing sector, activating your Wealth energy and anchoring yo… read more »

Travel & Helpful People: Feng Shui’s “Back Door” To Prosperity

The way most people use it, the Feng Shui Bagua Map operates in a straightforward way: enhance specific areas on the map, and leave it at that.
But what if the Bagua offered more than one way to enhance some of these important areas — like your Wealth/Prosperit… read more »

Spotting Feng Shui Challenges In Floor Plans, Part 3

In parts 1 & 2 of this series, we oriented this floorplan correctly, and then took a look at the Feng Shui of its unfortunate bathroom locations.
Now in our final look at this luxury apartment, let’s evaluate its Bagua layout and the placement of the Maste… read more »