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Approach

A method, not a belief

A feng shui consultation with me means measuring, calculating and writing. This page says how I read a space and what stays in your hands when I am done.

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What feng shui is in my practice

Feng shui is an old way of reading a space: how it stands towards the sun, the wind and the ground, and how people move inside it. What I use from it can be measured: orientation, proportion, light through the day, the path through a room and the place every piece of furniture takes.

I do not work with symbols. There are no figurines, no coins and no rules in my reports that need believing in to work. If I recommend something, I can tell you why in a sentence that holds without feng shui.

I use the five elements as a language for describing a space, not as a horoscope. Wood, fire, earth, metal and water describe shape, material and position, so a room can be talked about precisely: what there is too much of, what is missing and what that means for the person living in it.

Along with the space I calculate the elements of the people who live or work in it, because the same room does not suit everyone equally. That is why the report is written for your space and for you, not as a list of general rules.

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The five elements

What an element looks like in a room

  • A dark wood shelf on travertine blocks, two glass candle holders, and sunlight falling at an angle across the wall.

    Wood

    Wood is growth and the vertical: a tall plant, a wooden top, a shelf that lifts the eye.

  • Two glass candle holders on a dark wood shelf, a strip of sunlight on the wall beside it.

    Fire

    Fire is light and the gaze: the lamp you switch on in the evening, a warm colour on one wall, the place where people sit facing each other.

  • A clay sphere on a block of stone beside a plaster wall, in warm and quiet light.

    Earth

    Earth is stability: a low, heavy piece, clay, stone, the spot where people sit for a long time.

  • A pedestal with a reflective surface and soft curved shadows on a pale floor, faint reflections of light.

    Metal

    Metal is clarity and edge: a frame, a handle, a round shape, a surface with nothing on it.

  • A glass vase with a single yellow flower and a glass sphere on a book, warm sun on a wooden table.

    Water

    Water is flow and quiet: glass, a dark surface, the place people pass through without stopping.

The steps of the analysis

  1. Floor plan and orientation

    I start with the floor plan and the compass: where the doors are, where the windows are and how the space stands towards the sun.

  2. Measuring on site

    I measure position, orientation and location, then check what a floor plan does not show: light, noise and height.

  3. The elements of the people

    I calculate the elements of everyone who lives or works in the space, because the same room does not suit everyone equally.

  4. Reading the space

    I read the space by feng shui principles and compare that with the way it is actually lived in.

  5. The list of interventions

    Everything I find becomes an intervention, ordered by how much it changes daily life.

What you get

  1. A written report: a description of the space, an analysis of its state and the reasoning behind every suggestion.

  2. A list of interventions ordered by priority, from the ones that take a day to the ones that wait for a renovation.

  3. A follow up call a few weeks later, to see what the changes did and to answer what came up along the way.

From the journal

All entries

How I look at a flat or a house, from the floor plan to the written report, is on the page about working with a home.Your home

When the space is not a home but an office, a practice or a restaurant, this is how I work with a business space.Business spaces

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If you would like me to look at your space first, let us start with a short conversation about how you live in it today.

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