Tag: Feng Shui

A home is simply not complete without your own personal touch. Everyone wants the ability to add culture and style to their living space. With the growing popularity of Feng Shui, it is becoming essential to pay special attention to the feeling you get when moving from one room into another. Ornamentation for doorways and plants that guide you through entrances is a growing decorative feature that adds life to any living space. Bamboo beaded curtains are a great way of achieving your own personal desired affect when it comes to the transition from one room to another. Bamboo itself has a rich history of not only gracing the interiors of homes that have been built worldwide, it has even been the building material of the home itself!

Bamboo is a material that grows in abundance naturally in the wild and is a resilient, yet light-weight wood. Its first widespread use occurred in Asian countries centuries ago, however it popularity has now engulfed the entire globe. Using bamboo wood to create various types of beaded curtains is not a Western idea. Chinese and Japanese cultures have been using this decorative technique for centuries. Here in the west, the beaded curtain gained popularity mainly in the form of molded plastic that has proven not to be durable and lack the environmental sensations as well as the natural beauty that is inherent in bamboo beads. There are other advantages that come with using bamboo wood to make beaded curtains that plastic beading has failed to offer. Bamboo beaded curtains come in a variety of colors, styles, and wood grains that simply cannot be produced using conventional forms of plastic molding. Even those manufacturers that attempt to make such reproductions lack the physical sensation of walking through a curtain of naturally occurring beautiful wood that has such a rich and ancient history. While this is a major plus for bamboo beads, they do not possess limitations that you think they might have by being composed of a natural occurring wood. Their size and lengths can vary to accommodate any type of doorway and the beads themselves can be decorated with printing or symbols that meet match anyone’s design concepts.

Bamboo is a material that has been incorporated naturally into the Feng Shui designs that have been past down to us by various cultures. The balance that they bring to any space is achieved with virtually no effort on your part. If bamboo curtains do not sound appealing to you personally, then there are many other functional uses for this wonderful wood. Bamboo window treatments can be made to substitute for brittle old blinds and gently obscure the sunlight entering your house while still offering a gentle rustle if they happen to catch a breeze floating by. So no matter the style that you want your home to possess, bamboo bead curtains can bring in that natural element that no other product can.

We know that Feng Shui is one of the most popular and the most referred philosophies for living in harmony in any architectural structure. Although many people consider it to be difficult and hard to implement, it has been observed that Feng Shui is more on the basis of common sense.

The first tip is quiet simple. Keep your windows clean and tidy. Feng Shui states that windows represents opportunities. And dirty windows would obviously mean, blocking the opportunities, which we wouldn’t like to happen.

The next tip is even simpler. Search for those rooms in your home, including bath room, where the lights are broken and replace them right away. Feng Shui says its as good as lighting up the future, relationship and career. This is one of the major energy circle.

The third tip too is quite simple. Tighten up all the loose and hanging handles and knobs of doors and drawer. It often symbolizes and improves the way in which you can handle situations and circumstances.

The fourth suggestion is to keep the plants inside the home always watered and green, and not let them dry up. They represent wealth, vitality and enthusiasm, and it better be green all the time.

Fifth is to keep your toilet lids closed, this is emphasized in Feng Shui in order to protect our energy from being drained unnecessarily. Developing the habit of keeping the lid closed, according to Feng Shui, will bring in us the ability to retain the energy.

The sixth suggestion looks at Feng Shui in the Bedroom, and keeping the space under the bed clean and clutter-free. Usually people put in all unwanted stuff under the beds and often complain of lack of sleep. Feng Shui names them as evil forces which take off your sleep, thus get rid of the things under your bed and wipe the floor clean. This should get you a good night sleep.

The next tip is to keep the mirrors always clean so that we can always look at our self without any obstruction. It gives us the ability to analyze and correct our self and brings into a zone of self confidence.

The eighth tip suggests that one should have a properly marked entry way. By this one could be sure that people can easily find us, and so will the positive energies of life. This is what Feng Shui suggests.

The ninth tip is to repair all leakages at home, be it in the pipelines or in the tap. Make sure none of them are dripping. According to Feng Shui, dripping taps represents draining money, which is not a good sign. So better get it fixed before you lose your money big time.

The number ten tip is to make sure that no windows or doors are directly across from each other. This results into good and bad energy flowing in the home, and we don’t want any of them to enter the home. The bad energy is said to cause death and pain in the home.

Apply these and bring peace to your home and its dwellers.

—— By Jake Jarden

Learn more from Jake about Feng Shui, meditation, yoga, massage and much more at his website, Relax and Meditate.