Cocooning

With the creation of the Internet, home entertainment technology, and advances in communication technology, we are spending much more time at home.  In fact, we may not leave our home for days at a time.  This trend is known as cocooning.  Cocooning adds value in the form of convenience, and it makes your living environment more important than ever.  Your living environment is a means of survival and can offer you and your family strength, support, growth, energy, communication, movement, flow, success, and stability.  The key is designing and having a space that can offer this type of harmonious environment.

Many of my clients are cocooning by working at home.  Before contacting me, they were functioning in a space that was nothing more than just a cardboard box with fluorescent lights overhead.  This can lead to depression, irritability, and an inability to concentrate.  Their lives were filled with chaos.  They complain of fatigue, weight problems, procrastination and illness.

Sometimes the simplest of changes can have a large positive benefit.  In the photo below, we found an old table in the client’s backyard, and a linen table cloth that was not being used.   This transformed a cold kitchen corner into a warm, welcoming and inviting space.

Other clients have gone the opposite way–Cocooning with too much “stuff.”  De-cluttering this type of space is crucial to creating a home environment that is beneficial.  There’s no value if your stuff has a negative impact on you and your family if you look at it every day.  Loving your space on the other hand adds value at every glance and can lift your energy, improve concentration, encourage health and weight loss and more.

Be mindful to your own space, while cocooning, and be sure it is offering the benefits of human survival.

Cristina

Home staging…made to sell!

In today’s real estate market you have to stand out. To prospective buyers, your home needs to say “Welcome, please stay and make yourself at home.”

Using some principles of the ancient art of Feng Shui, I can transform a space that is cold, dreary and empty into a space that feels inviting and settled.

This entryway (left) felt cold and empty, leaving little reason to want to walk down the hallway. The entrance now welcomes you into the home (right). You feel invited, settled, and in a place to unwind and call your own.

Client Testimonial

“I first came to know Cristina through a private ‘Home Staging Consultation’ because our house was not getting any showing. Following our consultation with Cristina, we received an offer that first weekend. So when it came time to design my business retail space, Cristina was the first person I called.”

Which chair would you prefer to sit at?

Have you ever walked into a room and something doesn’t feel right? Do you ever wonder why? Feng Shui is often times the things we “feel” but never talk about. For example, how many times have you gone out to lunch with friends or a spouse and there is that one chair that you know you got to sit in. In fact, if you don’t sit in that particular chair or even close to it, the whole meal might even be ruined. That’s what we call your instincts working for you and that is what good Feng Shui all about. Making sure your living space,  whether commercial or residential, feels great all the time. Much like that chair you would feel the most comfortable in. If you’re a restaurant owner wouldn’t you also want to be sure that all your customers “feel good” in any chair they sit at?

In the picture provided most people would likely select to sit in the chair(s) to the far left of the table and further back against the wall.

So listen to your instincts and if you just can’t quite figure out what it is that isn’t right,  isn’t comfortable or isn’t bringing customers in, then call a Feng Shui Expert to learn why and how to change it?

Which chair would you prefer to sit at?