Interior Design

There are many things you can do to improve ch’i in the garden,which also in turn will improve the ch’i flow into your home.

Avoid planting large shrubs or trees close to the house, as this can deflect good ch’i away from the house rather then drawing it in.A good example of this is to avoid planting tall trees close to the house and not allowing branches to touch or overhang the roof.Doing this improves the ch’i flow and allows the natural daylight to enter your home without any obstructions or deflections.It also means that the roots cannot damage the foundations and leaves cannot clog up the guttering cutting down on costlymaintenance problems.

The concept that you are hoping to achieve within a Feng-Shui garden,is that ,of curving lines that draw your eye down the garden,without revealing all of it within the first glance.Your garden should steer away from being flat and rectangular.An easy way to rectify this, is to introduce curved pathways disappearing around various screens of plants.A water feature also is one of the essentials within a garden, but this would benefit from a pumped water system,as stagnant water creates stagnant C h’i.

Enhancing Feng-Shui in the garden is all about introducing elements of Yin and Yang.The reason behind this is to encourage Ch’i to flow through the garden in a lazy,meandering way.The main way of achieving this is with the presence of soft (Yin) foliage and counterbalancing these with the Yang of polished gravel ,stones or rocks.

There are 5 elements associated to feng shui,these are Fire,Earth,Metal,Water and Wood.Choosing colours that represent these elements into your home can in turn determine what energy you would generate within any space.

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The basic Chinese interpretation of colour is symbolic. Each colour that is used attributes to one of the 5 elements the strongest colours being red,gold and green.

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• FIRE…… The colour that represents this element is red .This brings happiness and festivity to an area.

• WOOD…. The colour green represents this element and symbolises peace and eternity,posterity and harmony.

• METAL… There are 3 colours that are associated with metal, but all bring different energys to an area.

white symbolises peace,purity,and sometimes even mourning.

gold symbolises royalty,strength and wealth

silver represents metal.

• EARTH…..yellow symbolises gaiety.

• WATER….. There are two colours that represent water ,but these also symbolise two different energys entirely

black symbolises calamity.

blue symbolises heaven where as a dark blue represents water in general

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In chinese feng means wind and shui means water.If you look up to heaven and then down to the surface of the earth,what you are likely to see inbetween are clouds:these clouds consist of wind and water.The ancient chinese saw wind and water as the intermediaries between heaven and earth.They thought that heaven directly affected their progress through life in a much more fundamental way than by simply providing changeable weather.

Feng-shui (pronounced ‘foong-shway’) is the ancient Chinese art of harnassing the heavens and earth to bring health,wealth and good fortune,by tuning into the environment,seasonal changes,tides and vibrations of nature.

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