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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
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The Feng Shui Money Plant :
The Money Plant ( Crassula ovata ) is the plant we called it the Jade plant when I was gowing up in Indiana.
The money plant has been adopted as the Feng Shui plant.
The name helps, but the round succulent leaves are representative of Metal energy.
Its leaves resemble coins and Metal energy.
Use money plants in the west and north-west.
If used in the south-east (the wealth area) their metal energy will be in conflict with the wood energy of that direction.
I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you encourage more wealth and positive energy into your home and life!
- Madonna
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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
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Thought you might enjoy a sample of what can be done to enhance a front yard.
This is a yard where the extra driveway was just added.
The lady of the house wanted to have a flower bed in the front instead of grass.
So …
We removed the grass and cleaned out the area.
We planted easy to maintain plants.
Simple fix with a Big Impact!
What do You think?
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
In Part 11 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 bedrooms: 
1) The ideal position for the bed is diagonally as far as possible from the entrance to the room.
2) The foot of the bed should not directly face the door to the room.
3) Make sure that you can see anyone coming into the room without turning your head more than forty-five degrees. Use a mirror, if necessary, to enable you to easily see anyone coming in the doorway.
4) The bed should not be placed under a beam. If there is no alternative, it is better for the beam to run the length of the bed, rather than the width.
5) Place the bed against a solid wall, if possible, rather than under a window.
6) A round mirror in the bedroom will enhance your relationship.
7) Do not place a mirror directly in front of the foot of the bed. If you wake up during the night, you may startle yourself by seeing your reflection.
8 ) The bed should be accessible from both sides if you want to attract a partner into your life.
9) Allow sufficient room under the bed for the ch’i to flow. We want the ch’i to circulate above, below and on at least one side of the bed. If underneath the bed is used as a storage area, you are probably constricting the ch’I and not gaining the full benefit of the bed.
10) Do not place the dresser directly opposite the door, as this can lead to relationship problems. Dressers usually have mirrors which, in this position, reflect the beneficial ch’I in the bedroom, creating apathy and lack of passion for the people using the room.
11) A live plant can help stimulate the energy of a bedroom. However, do not have too many plants in this room as they can use up all the available ch’i
I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your bedrooms!
- Madonna
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
In Part 2 of Madonna’s Gardening and Landscaping Tips, Madonna shares some Gardening / Landscaping Tips regarding Fabulous and “Green” Fertilizers to help your plants and flowers grow quicker, healthier and “greener”:
Fabulous Fertilizers:
1) Crushed eggshells worked well into the soil make a wonderful fertilizer. Terrific for gardens and houseplants. They aerate the soil, too.
2) Bury some used coffee grounds in your garden to provide much needed acid to soil that has a high alkaline content. You’ll notice much greener greens!
3) Fish tank water is loaded with nutrients. Use it for gardens and houseplants.
4) Plants love starch, so save the water each time you boil noodles or other pasta. Make sure to let the water cool down before pouring it on your plants!
5) Dampened newspapers placed on the ground around plants will help keep the soil moist and hold weeds out. Wet the newspapers, the weight of the water to hold them down than sprinkle lightly with soil. The papers are biodegradable, so they will eventually dissolve.
I hope all of my Gardening and Landscaping Tips will help you!
- Madonna
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
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In Part 8 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 living rooms:
The living room should be close to the front door and on the same level.
If the living room is on a lower level to the front door and effective remedy is to hang a crystal in the center of the room to encourage the ch’i upwards. Potted plants can also be a attractive remedy.
Do not place couches or chairs under exposed beams. This can cause overhead shars and can be oppressive and create discord. Two bamboo flutes hung from the beam act as a remedy if there is no alternative but to place the furniture under the exposed beam.
A fireplace makes a focal point in the room and creates warmth and cheer. However it can also allow the ch’i to escape up the chimney. The remedy for this is to hang a mirror over the fireplace to reflect the ch’i back into the room.
In many homes all of the furniture is oriented towards the fireplace. Although tis may make good sense in winter, it is better feng shui if at least some of the chairs face each other to encourage conversation.
It is also common to have all the chairs facing the television . The television creates positive ch’i in the room, because it produces light and sound, but it can also kill conversation.
The furniture in the room should be a mixture of yin and yang. This means that the some items should have square corners and others round. Some authorities insist that everything have round corners, but this is not practical, and is likely to concentrate peoples thoughts on the money. It is better to create a harmonious mixture of furniture that you personally find attractive.
The living room should be well-lit, but make sure that the lights are not too strong and harsh. Balance the overhead lights with table or floor lamps to light up different parts of the room. Place a pa-kua over a floor plan of the room to determine the positions that you want to activate.
The wealth sector is particularly strong in the living room. Make sure this sector is well lit to reap the rewards that you deserve. It is also an excellent place for a prized possession, a potted plant, or the television.
You may like to organize your furniture to make the wealth sector the focal point of the room. Other good areas to highlight in this way are the marriage and family sectors. Alternative is if the room is not large you may place comfortable chairs in all of these sectors, arranged in such a way as to encourage conversation.
Negative ch’i is created in the living room when two doors directly face each other at opposite ends of the room. If possible, use a screen to hide one of the doors. Alternative is to place a wind-chimes or hang a crystal by one of the doors this acts as a remedy. A door and a window opposing each other also create negative ch’i as do two windows. The remedy is to keep the blinds pulled over one of the windows.
If the opposing doors form a passage that is used all the time, try and arrange the furniture so that entertaining in this room is not affected by people walking through the room. If the doors are near a wall a mirror will remove the shar-like effects of the straight line through the room.
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/
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?
Do you need more help encouraging more positive chi’i as possible into our home and/or making your home more attractive, more comfortable and more balanced?
Please see Madonna’Staging Interior Redesign Services at:
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
In Part 7 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the balance of your bathrooms: 
The toilet and bathroom are extremely important rooms in the house as they are places where water (money) drains away.
The ch’s should be allowed to flow smoothly into and out of these rooms without impediment.
Consequently, overly ornate bathrooms are not good from a feng shui point of view as they tend to hold the ch’i inside the room.
In fact, the Chinese prefer relatively simple, functional bathrooms with little in the way of ornaments or other decorations.
All the same, you should make this room a pleasant one with delicate colors and one or two objects that you find attractive.
A potted plant can also help encourage ch’i into this room
Green and blue colored towels help you relax, while at the same time, encourage the water to flow freely down the pipes. Blue is also a good feng shui color for the bathroom and toilet as it relates to the water element.
If the bathroom is located in the middle of the house in the good luck area, it will send negative ch’I through out the house. It will also send all your good luck down the down the toilet. If the toilet is located here, it is known as a “dead” toilet. The remedy for this is to place mirrors on all four walls inside the bathroom, which symbolically make the room disappear. It is also a good idea to place a mirror on the outside of the door to a dead toilet.
The other unfavorable locations for the toilet and bathroom are in the southwest, northeast, south, and beside or facing the front door. It is believed that if the toilet and bathroom are placed in the southwest and northeast the occupants will squabble and not get along with each other. If if is placed beside or in front of the front door. It is believed that the occupants will get a bad reputation
The bathroom also should not be located at the end of a long hallway, as this creates a shar heading directly toward it. This means that the beneficial ch;i that has come in through the front door ends up in the toilet! The remedy for this is to keep the lid down on the toilet and to keep the toilet door closed. It would also be beneficial to place a mirror on the outside of this door to make the room symbolically disappear.
These are traditional interpretations, and there is a remedy for each of these locations. A mirror on the outside of the door reflects the ch’i away from the toilet and bathroom.
Mirrors are necessary inside the bathroom, of course. Avoid mirror tiles though, as they create a netting effect that constricts the flow of money.
Light colors are better than dark ones in the toilet and bathroom. Different shades of blue to represent the water, element make a good choice. However, any color works well here. Except for red ( as water and fire oppose each other)
The one exception to a simple, purely functional bathroom is when it is located in the marriage sector of your home. If it is located here, make the bathroom as beautiful and as attractive as possible. Display favorite ornaments and hang a crystal from the ceiling to encourage the ch’i.
Ideally, the bathroom should have a window to allow light and ch;i to enter. This is because the bathroom is considered a negative location in feng shui. We do not want all the love and romance to be symbolically flushed down the toilet.
Enhance and beautify this room by encouraging ch’i in and effectively remedying what is normally a negative situation.
I hope 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/
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?
Do you need more help encouraging more positive chi’i as possible into our home and/or making your home more attractive, more comfortable and more balanced?
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
We were asked by a friend to help her with the landscaping for her yard.
Madonna is also trained as a Master Gardener, so …
As a favor to her we agreed to provide a landscape design for the front of the property and part of the back.
We decided to do it pro-bono to decide if we want to and should also offer landscaping services to our other clients.
She wanted a yard that was very low on care (water, weeding, and etc.).
So …
We used mostly native plants and eliminated most of the grass.
The landscape was designed as a “zero landscape,” meaning that all plants were to be native to South Florida with no watering system.
The plants that were picked are drought resistant and need little water once the roots are established and are therefore very low maintenance.
Here is one of the Before Picture of the front yard prior to any of our landscaping work there:
Here is one of the After Picture of the results of our landscaping of this same front yard:
What do You think of the Results of this Landscaping Project?
Pretty Dramatic difference!, isn’t it?
and doesn’t this home have a lot more “curb appeal” than it did before?
We had several helpers in the execution of this now beautiful ‘yard.’
Paris and his helper hauled and placed the materials for us.
I don’t know if we could have completed it in the 11 days without you Paris!
Please Post Your Comments Here and let us know what you think of the results of this landscaping project and to help us decide if we should also offer landscaping services to our other clients, ok?
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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.
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
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