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Feng Shui for the Home

Bob visits Emma and Jacob Josselyn in their Cape Cod-style home to see the new Vermont Castings Addison cast-iron electric stove that will warm the corner of their dining room. They also discuss ideas for design with feng shui expert Katherine Kaess of Soulspaces International. Kaess explains that feng shui is the ancient study of working with space to enhance how we live and feel in our homes. She explains that the goal of feng shui is to welcome the chi, or life force energy, and allow it to flow freely throughout the home. Soft edges, open space, smooth and rounded surfaces all encourage the flow of chi. Kaess also shows Bob the bagua or layout of the nine domains of the home that pertain to the nine areas of our lives, such as prosperity, children, career, and travel. Placing objects that relate to each of these areas in their designated zones increases well-being and encourages success in each life aspect. Kaess visits the kitchen and comments on how well balanced it is. Elements like fire and water, the stove, sink, and refrigerator, are separated. There is a nice balance between wood, metal, light, and water, and the layout is open and light-filled. Kaess also tells Bob the trick of placing a mirror behind the stove to visually double the space and increase prosperity within the home.

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Feng Shui for the Home

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" Friends at Vermont castings have. Made a gift for Emma and Jacob the owners of this particular house and this is called the Addison it's a cast and so but it's electric. And you just plug it in and it's going to really warm the spirits of the family. Even though it's not going to put out enormous amounts of BTU thanks fellas it's it to beautiful -- and a -- Heidi like your new house it looks great. That's wonderful the finishes are pretty cool aren't they yes yet. Well I know that you've spent a little bit of time lately talking with Katherine intestines also with us today -- Alliance -- and and Katherine is our specialist in. Punctuating. -- and yet and you guys have furniture and -- things and has some ideas about how you're going to live in this house but you've been talking with Katherine about. Where to put stuff and how to operate in here right."

" So where does the couch go where does the living room there's more to Fung Shui than that but yet there's a lot and I actually -- people might not know about functioning. It's the ancient art and study of arrangement of your environment to enhance your well being and this is a perfect time to talk about country when you're moving into the new house because you can go through things -- it happened. I start thinking about what you're acquiring and and really pay attention to in the way all of your items are going to be. Oriented and aligned in space to make you feel good so this is all about chi isn't it. It's life force energy this is that country is all about. So chi is about the life force coming into the house exactly all right and you want you want to block it exactly you want to. He wanted to float throughout the house and and it enhances your well being when it does so. This is a great house it has nice high ceiling you like you sweep right in there's this is the dining area. Using and nice. A nice round table would be perfect here because we have so many angles going on."

" Do you have a round table -- square."

" We have a big rectangular dining room table that we just got cut well let's get their lots of things you can do any in add cushions to chairs -- can plans. There are lots of things."

" With whatever you have dust and so are you want to avoid these hard -- edges and corners and kind of the other forces that come --"

" This is what's called -- this is the diagram that is laid over the floor."

" Plants -- here we've got the entry in the staircase and we're in the dining area."

" is based on the principle that every area of our home is related to an area Bartlett and so you can enhance different areas when your working hand in his life -- for prosperity -- Career success how does that apply to the kitchen for example. Well the kitchen this kitchen is a great kitchen it's -- they went very well balanced. Thing I was look for in kitchens and if it's not just went try to get people to reorganize it to separate the stove. From the refrigerator. And also from the sinks so that you separate elements the other thing functioning is concerned with is. Elements. Fire water metal and this is separating fire from water and so it's great and also we have a nice balance of woods. Metal water. You run a south side of nice light coming I -- I really solidly -- guys at kenmore never knew that we were gonna be applying."

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