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Feng Shui Tips – Living Rooms – Part 2

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

In Part 2 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips for Living Rooms, Madonna shares seven (7) more Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your living rooms:

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1) The living room should be welcoming and reflect your personality and interests.

You should feel totally relaxed and comfortable in this room, and so should your guest.

2) Many of you only use the living room for special occasions. This is not a good thing in feng shui.

The living room is an important part of the house and if not being used properly, the result will be that other areas of your life will be constricted.

Make this room comfortable and pleasant and use it regularly. If you are not doing the already, you will notice a big difference in the quality of your life as soon as you do.

3) The ch’i should flow freely through the living room. This encourages the family to spend quality time together. The ch’i also makes your guests feel relaxed and comfortable.

4)  The placement of furniture should also be done to allow the ch’i to flow freely, creating feelings of warmth and companionship in the room.

People should be able to move around the furniture freely.

L-shaped arrangements of furniture are not good, unless they are in a corner of the room. This is because they create a shar when located in the middle of the room.

5) The furniture should be arranged with care in the room. If the furniture is placed largely on one side of the room, the room will appear unbalanced and lop-sided. This can lead to feelings of constriction. Anyone sitting in this room will feel vaguely uncomfortable, but not know why.

6) People also feel uncomfortable when they are setting with their backs to the door. Consequently, chairs and sofas should be arranged so that the people using them do not have their backs to the doors. If your rooms does not allow this, it is considered good manners to offer your guests chairs that face the door, and sit in one that has its back to the door yourself.

7) Ideally, the head of the house should sit in a chair that faces the main entrance to the room. The people doing the entertaining should not sit with their backs towards a window, as this indicates a lack of support. A solid wall behind them increases confidence and makes them naturally more outgoing and hospitable.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you encourage more positive energy into your home and life!

- Madonna


Please find more of Madonna’s Great Feng Shui tips at:

http://blog.madonnastaging.com/topics/feng-shui-tips/

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Do you need more help encouraging more positive energy / chi’i as possible into our home and/or making your home more attractive, more comfortable and more balanced?

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Feng Shui Tips – Part 12 – Family Rooms

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

In Part 12 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your family room:

A family room should be comfortable and informal.

The furniture should be casual and arranged in a way that encourages comfort and communication.

This room should also be uncluttered.

Family rooms often serve as storage rooms as well.  There is no problem with this as long as the items being stored are put away tidily out of sight.

The family room is a room that is always growing with the family.

Each area of this room relates to a different member of the family as shown by the pa-kua. Items belonging to the oldest son , for instance, should be kept in the east. Items belonging to the youngest daughter should be kept in the west, and so on. Clutter in different parts of the room will relate to complication in the life of the person affected by the direction.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your family rooms!

- Madonna


Please find more of Madonna’s Great Feng Shui tips at:

http://blog.madonnastaging.com/topics/feng-shui-tips/

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Feng Shui Tips – Part 10 – Dining Rooms

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

In Part 10 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your dining rooms:

1) The dining room should be either a separate room or a clearly defined part of another room.

2) The dining room should not be at a lower level than the living room.

3) The best shaped dining room table is round, oval or octagonal. Ensure that your square or oblong tables have slightly rounded corners

4)  Do not overcrowd the people sitting at the table with too much furniture. This constricts the valuable ch’i. Avoid clutter. The simpler this room is the better.

5) Even if you live alone, have at least three chairs around the dining room table. Make sure that you do not sit in the same chair for every meal. If all the chairs are used, you will encourage guests into your home.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!

- Madonna


Please find more of Madonna’s Great Feng Shui tips at:

http://blog.madonnastaging.com/topics/feng-shui-tips/

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Feng Shui Tips – Part 4 – Curb Appeal

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

In Part 4 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the “curb appeal” of your home and/or make your home more attractive, more comfortable and more balanced:

Here is a exercise that may be very revealing and make you see your home in a new light.

Take photos of the front of your home. (photos are very important you will see thing in photos that you do not normally see).

Start at the curb and take pictures as if you are a potential buyer.

We all view our homes with our emotions and it is hard to see it the same way a stranger would.

By doing this exercise you will be able to make the improvement that are needed. Not only for the sale of your home if you are wanting to do so …

But also for feng shui, it is very important to keep the front of your home clean and in good repair.

The placement of the front door is of extreme importance in feng shui.

The positions of the front door and the stove are the most important aspects in feng shui.

The size of your front door should be in keeping with the size of your house.

If the front door is overly large compared with the size of the house your fortunes will suffer.

If it is too small, ch’i is constricted and there will be disagreements in the family.

REMEDY Any shars that may be afflicting your front door.

This is the most important single aspect of feng shui.

Look for angled roof lings of neighboring houses, straight lines, streetlight poles, a single tall tree, and anything sharp, angled, pointed  or straight.

For instance, if your home is facing a T-junction you will need to make the road that heads towards your front door “disappear.”

A pa-kua mirror above the front door will do this.

Fences and trees can also create an effective remedy.

For those of you out there that are starting to get your home more attractive, more comfortable and more balanced, I hope my Feng Shui tips will help!

- Madonna


Please find more of Madonna’s Great Feng Shui tips at:

http://blog.madonnastaging.com/topics/feng-shui-tips/

and …


Please Reply Here with Your Comments regarding any other Great Feng Shui Tips you may have?

and/or …

Please also Post any your questions you may have regarding how you may encourage as much positive chi’i as possible into our home, ok?


Need more help improving the “curb appeal” of your home and/or making your home more attractive, more comfortable and more balanced?

Please see Madonna’Staging Interior Real Estate Staging Services at:

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and/or …

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Staging, Cleaning & Landscaping for a client in South Florida

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

We (Madonna’Staging) were contacted by the homeowners and were asked to Stage, Clean and Landscape their “new home” in phases for a future move-in date.

Scope of Project:

Phase I (completed)

  1. Window treatments for the entire house/home
  2. Rooms cleaned (construction clean) & staged:
    Kitchen, Dining Room, Den and Formal Living Room.

Completed in 2-1/2 days or 20 hours

**See pictures below for Phase I

Please note:  Plants (greenery) was not added in the home at the time of Phase I completion.  Pictures will be updated upon completion of all phases.


Phase II (in process)

  1. Rooms to be cleaned (construction clean) & staged:
    Family room, Office, 2 bedrooms and 2 full baths.
  2. Front yard landscaped with plants native to South Florida

Phase III (will start when Phase II is complete)

  1. Back yard & pool landscaped with plants native to South Florida

The homeowners requested that their favorite antique pieces needed to be incorporated into the interior design of their new home.

Wow, there were many antiques to choose from and we did it!

It was a wonderful experience working with these homeowners!!  They are such a joy to work for & with!!

We are looking forward to Phase II.  **More Pictures coming soon!


Please Contact Madonna / Madonna’Staging Now if you would also like to have your home Staged, Redesigned, Cleaned and/or Landscaped and see results like this for your home today!

and …

Please come back Here to see our further progress on and more before and after pictures from this Staging, Interior Redesign, Cleaning and Landscaping Project for this client in South Florida.


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Feng Shui Tips – Part 2 – Basic Feng Shui Rules

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

In Part 2 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some basic Feng Shui rules:

1) The bedroom should be kept clutter free, so the ch’i can flow freely.

2) If a doorway and the head of the bed share the same wall, it can make you restless and disturb your sleep and if there is a door to the bathroom on the same wall it should be kept closed.

Front Door:

Your front door represents you and your approach to life. We just come in and out of our doors without noticing anything. It can be an interesting exercise to enter your home and try to see all the things that a stranger would notice when he or she visits. Ideally you want your front path and front door to be cheerful and welcoming. But does it? Is your paint on the front door in good shape? Is all the front clean? Does your door bell work? If not this is all bad feng shui!!! If your front is welcoming, plenty of light, flowering plants and an uncluttered entrance all this creates good feng shui!

3) Your front door is of supreme importance in feng shui as it is the main location where ch’i enters the house.  In feng sui we want the front door to be slightly larger than the back door.  We do not want the beneficial ch’i to come in the front and go immediately out the back door.

4) The front door should be in proportion to the size of the house. If it is too large it will allow valuable ch’i to escape.  This will cause financial problems.

5) We do not want the door too small either.  If it is too small the amount of ch’i able to come in is restricted. This will cause finacial problems also. And also make your guests nervous and apathetic.

6) In feng shui your front door is the door most frequently used. So if you always come in and out of your home through a door other than the actual front door that becomes your front door in feng shui.

7) Your front door should be on the left side of the house. That means if you are standing inside your home the front door should be on the left side of the front of the home.  I know you have no control over this if you are already living in your home., but for the ones buying a new home it is something to kept in mine.

The story behind this is that the dragon looks over the left-hand side of the house, and his energy and bountiful ch’i enters the more easily when the front door is located on this side.

A door in center is better than having the door on the right.

8) Front doors are also good to have facing east or south.  That means that you will be warmed by the morning sun when you leave for work.  This will put you in a better mood.

9) You do not want any shars to affect the front door. This is the single most important aspect of feng shui. The front entrance must be protected. The most serious shar of all occurs when the house is sited on a T-junction, with a street heading directly towards the front door. This is made worse if the street heads downhill towards you front door.

10) The path leading towards the front door can also create a shar if it consists of a straight line leading from the road to your front door.
There are remedies for all of this. Your can plant a hedge or put up a fence, so that the street is not longer visible. The path can be changed to a gentle curve or put something to make the path to a angle just before the front door. If you can’t do any of these things. You can put a pa-kua mirror above the door which will serve to eliminate the potential harm coming from these shars. A pa-kua mirror symbolically captures the shar and reflects it back where it came from.

For those of you out there that are starting to get your home in balance, I hope my Feng Shui tips will help!

- Madonna


Please Reply Here with Your Comments regarding any other Great Feng Shui Tips you may have?

and/or …

Please also Post any your questions you may have regarding how you may encourage as much positive chi’i as possible into our home, ok?


Need more help encouraging as much positive chi’i as possible into our home?

Please see Madonna’Staging Interior Redesign Services at:

http://blog.madonnastaging.com/services/redesign/


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Testimonial – Real Estate Staging

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Real Estate Owned (REO)

The Testimonial for Real Estate Staging on the sale of the home in Palm Bay.

For those of you that do not know this …

I just sold my own home! :)

This is a great story because it is a perfect example that Staging works.

My home that sold was a villa.

It was not in foreclosure and it was not a short sale.

We just wanted to move closer to my husbands work.

Being a villia it had two other one on the same street for sale that was just like it.

and …

The other two were well under my asking price.

The Realtor had wanted us to lower the price, but we said no!

So I asked my husband if he really wanted to move. Now I mean REALLY !!!!!!!!.

He looked at me and like I was crazy and said “Yes”.

So …

I told him them I was going to get serious about selling it.

So …

I started Staging it.

I walked through it with the eyes I use if I were at work on a clients home.

I staged the home and I made a Real Estate Marketing Flyer (that you can also get from me for your home).

And …

In just three weeks the house was sold! :)

My realtor and the buyers realtor could not believe it!

But both now see Staging in a new light! ;)

By the way I did not lower my price!

Info: My Realtor
Mary C. Shewman
321.733.7120
Mary@SellFloridaHomes.com
SELLFLORIDAHOMES.COM

She is a great lady, and was fun to work with!

- Madonna


Please find more information about How Real Estate Staging can Help You Sell all of Your Properties Faster and for More Money, and contact Madonna McDowell / Madonna’Staging to get all of Your Properties Professionally Staged Today! , at:

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Welcome to MadonnaStaging.com’s Blog

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Welcome to the MadonnaStaging.com Blog

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Madonna’Staging is owned and operated by Madonna McDowell.

Madonna’Staging offers Real Estate Staging, De-Cluttering, Home Re-Design, and Cleaning services in Central Florida, and in the Treasure Coast and Gold Coast of Florida and via Virtual Consulting worldwide.

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Madonna McDowell is a Certified Real Estate Staging & Redesign Professional.

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