We've posted about Feng Shui before on Apartment Therapy, sharing how the principles can be applied in the bedroom, bathroom and even the front door. We've come across a local Austin real estate agent using Feng Shui to transform homes for sale into fresh and inspiring spaces, and who has a website full of inspiring before and after photos...
Feng Shui in Real Estate
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Elizabeth Golembiewski of Balanced Living Properties has had an appreciation for aesthetics and design since she was a child, so it came as a natural choice to combine her real estate profession with that of Feng Shui principles. Helping homeowners create balanced and inviting spaces, she claims they sell on average 39 days faster than other home listings in Austin. A certified Feng Shui consultant, Golembiewski has trained in some of the best Feng Shui programs in the United States and Canada.
Her new website not only features a gallery of all the homes currently for sale, but also a gallery of how she's used Feng Shui principles to transform spaces. Featuring simple ideas, you can really see a positive difference in the before and after photos. Focusing on helping visitors to her website, Golembiewski has added a feature on her site that shares the top 10 Feng Shui principles you can use in your own home. We liked how Golembiewski describes that she works toward helping homeowners find the right home for the buyer and the right buyer for the home.
What's your take on Feng Shui in the home? Do you think the principles are useful in design or for selling houses? Do you think that each home has a "right" buyer for it? Let us know!
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I don't subscribe to all the feng shui principles, but these rooms look much better after.
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Obviously, feng shui offers some sound design guidelines and a better-staged home might have an advantage (though I'd like to give people some credit and assume they can look beyond surface and decoration when it comes to buying something as major as a house). But beyond that, it's mere superstition. I mean, would you bury a statue of St. Joseph in your yard too?
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Thanks so much for these comments about my photos...you both echo a lot of people's ideas about Feng Shui as being a superstition based on windchimes, statues, mirrors, fountains and the color red. This "stuff" actually has nothing to do with traditional Feng Shui principles...the principles are at work whether you believe in Feng Shui or not...like gravity is at work even though you can't see it. For example, would it feel weird to you to sleep with your bed pulled away from the wall - and placed in the center of the bedroom? Do you feel more comfortable in certain rooms of your home than others? Does having a front door face front rather than sideways feel more comfortable to you? Would having more windows than walls in your home feel uncomfortable to you? If your answer to any of these is yes, then you are actually experiencing the effects of some of the basic principals of Feng Shui. If you're interested, check out 10 Common Misconceptions about Feng Shui on my blog at www.balancedliving.wordpress.com.
And thanks so much for posting my site and photos.
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