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Fire & Metal Home to Balance Elementally

From a WSFS Student: Terah, Would love your feedback. These are my suggestions for Elementally balancing this potential rental for a client of mine.

Feng Shui "angled" entrance

Feng Shui angled entrance

Feng Shui angled entry

Feng Shui angled entry

Fire and Metal Living Room

Yang Fire and Yang Metal need Yin Water

Here goes:
First of all, the front door is at an angle, so I would open the door, look at the flooring and layout to determine the best direction for the Bagua. Since it is situated closer to the left hand side of the house, I would most likely observe and recommend to turn right as you enter so the back of the house is the Fame area. This being said – it looks as if some of the Helpful People area is outside of the Bagua, and would have to be anchored.

There is much Yang in the house – Fire through the natural lighting in the large windows and all the triangular shapes in the ceiling, and Metal in the large expanses of white, and the arches in the windows. To start, I would recommend controlling both the Fire and Metal. Since Fire already “melts” Metal, I would bring in Yang Water to control the Fire. This could be done with black furniture, a large mirror over the fireplace, or window treatments with an asymmetrical design. Yang also needs to be balanced with a good amount of Yin; a few ideas are many pieces of dark furniture, with soft padded, rounded lines, and pillows, many pieces of art (water scenes to help bring in water), throw rugs, displays collections of books etc.

Yang above, Yang below

Fire and Metal-dominant design features

The high ceilings call for a line between “Heaven and Earth.” Since this is a rental, I’m not sure how much they can paint, but it can also be done by lining up the art around the room at the same height.

Every Yang room needs to be balanced

Yang features in every room.

The elements need to be balanced. Even though we want to control the Fire and Metal with Water, some representations of Wood can be found in the railings, flooring, large deck, view of trees. Earth is found in the rectangles of the cabinets, but can be enhanced further through art, ceramics, or items of yellow or beige used as accents.
From the looks of the back of the house, the Relationship, Fame and Wealth areas are all on the deck, and will have to be enhanced accordingly through furniture, flowers, fountains, flags, garden art, etc.
Am I on the right track?

Terah Says:
Wow……You are SPOT ON!!!!!
I’m IMPRESSED!!!!
Lovelovelove.