Interior Decorating

Our First Exercise

For our first exercise, let’s make a list… maybe even more than one. Take a look around your home. We are looking specifically for stuff that screams “poverty” and “lack.” Some of those items simply need to go into the trash bin. Some could be easily replaced with a trip to Walmart. Socks with holes in them, for example.

Other things might not be so easy. Maybe you need them, maybe it would be way too expensive to replace them. So, my thinking is… if you need it, and you can’t afford to replace it, then hey… decorate it and make it beautiful, or at the very least, oddly interesting.

In my house, those things include the following:

  • The front door
  • My couch
  • The living room carpet
  • My dining room chairs
  • The bathroom floor

So, throw some stuff away. Make a list of those things you might want to just replace, and then make a list of what might need to be decorated and beautified. If you share that list here in the comments, I will try to include as many of them as possible in our DIY projects as the project progresses.

If you have items that are broken and just need fixing, that could be an additional list. I do have some things that fall into this category, and if I can, I will share tutorials on how to fix them as well.

Hey… let’s get started right now!

Living As If …

Our next project is due to begin today.  The idea is to begin to live “as if” our lives were full of luxury, comfort, ease. We did find it to be true that What You Focus On Grows, so for the next 30 days, I thought it might be fun and interesting to focus on creating a home that feels, looks, and possibly even is luxurious, comfortable, beautiful, and rich.

So, for the next 30 days, we will be doing some home decorating centered around prosperity, wealth, luxury, comfort, and beauty.

Our project will be full of ideas for the following:

  • Teas, brews, and beverages said to bring prosperity and attract wealth.
  • Colors to surround yourself with.
  • Simple and inexpensive DIY projects that give a luxurious feeling.
  • Foods and recipes reputed to attract success and money.
  • Incense, potpourri, and aromatherapy for prosperity.
  • Ideas for banks, billfolds and purses.
  • Turning your thrift store stuff into something beautiful and fine.

Sound interesting?

It occurs to me that it is important to have a soft place to land at the end of a hard day, that if we are surrounded by evidence of poverty, we will very easily fall into that flow of lack and discomfort. And, if we are living a luxurious life, surrounded by beauty, it’s so much easier to want the best for ourselves.

That being said, it also has to be affordable and within the realm of capability. So, my plan is to find inexpensive and easy ideas. I’m going to try to keep the budget under $10 for any given project. We may have to rely heavily of thrift store finds, recycling, free-cycling, and barter.

If you are interested in exploring these ideas and this concept with me, let’s get started now!

 

Some Color Therapy

The color turquoise stimulates the higher Heart Chakra, increases intuition and sensitivity, enhances the ability to focus and concentrate, assisting with clear thinking and decision-making, and the development of good organizational skills.

Maybe it would be helpful to add this color to your work space, or any other area of your life where you want to be able to focus clearly and intuitively. With that in mind, here is a nice little collection of images featuring the color turquoise:

For more information about the healing qualities of the color turquoise, you can visit Color Therapy.

What Do You See?

Look around the room… What do you see?

When you walk into a room, and everything is clean and neatly ordered, the colors match, the pictures on the wall are straight, and nothing is out of place, it just feels nice. You might even look around and appreciate it. But take that exact same room, and hang a picture crookedly, or let a small pile of clutter accumulate, and what’s the first thing you see? I bet it’s not the 90% clean and cozy all around… I bet it’s the one or two little things that aren’t quite right….

If you’re like me, all you can see when you look around your home is the stuff that needs to be done, the stuff that isn’t quite right, all the things you’d like to change, move, upgrade, or throw away. In my experience, I don’t easily see what is right, what is beautiful, what is orderly, or what is wonderful in my home, because I’m so busy judging myself for all the other.

Yesterday, I tried this little exercise where I looked around the room and tried to mainly focus on everything that I liked about it, the things I love. And it was really really hard! So much easier to see all the other stuff. Maybe that’s because there is a lot of it. And maybe that’s because it really bothers me on some unconscious level. I don’t know. What I DO know is that I do the same thing when I look at myself in the mirror.

It occurs to me that this must be a survival mechanism, to notice that which is disruptive, uncomfortable, or ugly. This is really helpful, if you are noticing and then right away taking steps to remedy the situation. But it isn’t at all helpful when you are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff that needs your attention and help. Nor is it helpful when there isn’t anything you can do to make things better.

So, if it’s true that “what you focus on grows,” and if all I focus on in my home is what’s wrong with it, does it follow that more clutter, disarray, and chaos will follow? And if all I see when I look in the mirror are faults and flaws, does it mean that this is what I will continue to portray?

I wonder what would happen, and how different my experience would be if I focus only on what I love about my home, and ignore the rest, and how would I feel about myself if I took the time to look in the mirror every day and find something beautiful to see?

Something Nice

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I have been trying to think of what I could post that would be helpful and maybe a little bit different, and it occurred to me that it might be nice to have a violet light, or a real violet flame on when meditating, especially if you meditate in the evening, or in the early hours of the morning. It would be kind of like bathing in actual violet light.

So I went on a search for cool stuff that would fill a room with violet light.

The first thing I thought of was violet or purple colored light bulbs. There is a wide variety to choose from, and they aren’t very expensive. I saw some really cute night lights, twinkling purple Christmas lights, and ordinary purple light bulbs. Very simple and easy to do.

611tldwdcil-_sx522_Then I remembered that I have something that’s pretty cool. It’s a set of LED candles that have a color changing remote control. Before the project, I usually went for the red and the peach colors, but the violet is perfect for this project. I got mine at Dollar General, but they are available at amazon. Here’s a link to the brand in the picture: Honeyall Flameless. My set only has 3 candles. I think what I like most is the remote control.

There are real candles that burn with purple flames, but I didn’t find any for sale on Amazon. I did, however, find a website that sells Tea Light Candles that look like they burn with a nice violet light.  Here’s a link to the page:

Colorflame Tea Light Candles

Other ideas I had to create violet colored light are as follows:

  • Use purple paper sacks to make violet luminaries. More of an outside idea…
  • Spray paint a lamp shade purple. Of course you’d have to be careful that the paint can handle any heat from the light bulb.
  • Cover a window with violet or purple cellophane wrapping paper. Obviously, this would would be something temporary… Be fun to make violet shades for your windows that are made from cellophane, but that is probably an easier said than done sort of project.
  • Paint a mason jar with with glass-frosting spray paint. Drop in an LED tea light, screw the lid on and voila! These are actually pretty cool. Here’s a picture:

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Interestingly, according to the principles of Feng Shui, purple is the optimum color for the prosperity area of your home.

Feng Shui – Project Overview

This post provides links to pertinent aspects of the Feng Shui project, so that you won’t have to sift through the archives to find out what you want to know.

This project was combined with a project on Clearing Our Clutter. The two projects were intended to work in tandem with one another, for this reason, I included the decluttering links as well. If you are only interested in the Feng Shui information, you can click on the Feng Shui category link in the sidebar. The Clearing Our Clutter posts have a project overview of their own, here: Clearing Our Clutter – Project Overview.

Links to the preliminary information:

If you would like to try this project for yourself, you can start on Day One: Make a Feng Shui Journal, and come back daily to continue on thru to the last one: Your Car is Your Friend. Or, you can pick through the posts, finding what seems interesting and useful. The important thing is to commit to a daily practice.

As you work with the Feng Shui project, we encourage you to post your thoughts, ideas, results, joys and disappointments as you go. This is an active blog, and if you post, we will notice and reply, and give you the benefit of our own experience and support if it seems pertinent or appropriate.

The basic summary of our results is posted here: Wrapping things up.

Here is the complete listing of the daily posts for the Feng Shui project:

 

Feng Shui for your Car

Here are a few hints, tips, and cures, to help create good feng shui for your car:

Car seats should be taller at the back and have a supportive influence on either side. Cars which slope away to the back, and those which open at the back can leave us feeling insecure. Cars with reclining seats, such as expensive sports models, suggest vulnerability behind.

The rear lights act as our “Tortoise” warning those behind to brake. It is therefore essential to ensure they are clean and in working order, and that spent bulbs are replaced immediately.

Stickers on the rear window can strengthen the “Tortoise” or rear position, particularly those which say “Please Keep Your Distance” or “Baby on Board” and other polite, warning signs. Jokes and stickers which are difficult to read have the opposite effect in that they encourage the car behind to come closer. Stickers should not obstruct the window.

Any ornaments that act as a distraction behind should be avoided. Moving objects, like hanging ornaments can create instability and affect concentration. Do not allow loose items to collect in the back of the car.

Talismans for the car can include a St Christopher symbol or icon as he is the patron saint of travellers. Other cultures have their own protection symbols. License plates containing the number 88 are considered especially auspicious and means “double happiness”.

Fresh air is necessary in cars, in order to link the occupants with the world outside and to cleanse the air within the confined space. If the air is not fresh, the driver can become tired and lose concentration. To freshen the air we can introduce natural oils, which also affect our moods. Rosemary, neroli, and lemon oils are helpful for calming anger and promoting clear thinking.

Vision is important in the car and a clean screen and headlights enable us to see and be seen clearly on a foggy day and at night.

If we regard the car engine in the same way that we do our bodies, then we can appreciate that for the car to be healthy and function well, it’s tubes have to be unblocked and its components well maintained. Regular servicing is therefore important.

from The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui
by Gill Hale

 

The Feng Shui Cover Your Butt Cure

You can bring balance to your home in any gua by using each of the elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

For example, a wrought iron (metal) table with a glass (water) top, holding a plant (earth), a wooden (wood) picture frame, and a candle (fire).

You can use this cure in any section of your house, especially if you have a feng shui situation that you can’t figure out. Each of the five elements is equally represented as a cure in this way.

Note:

If you are unsure of where the different areas are, see these posts:

 

A quick summary of each area

Prosperity:
Colors: Purple, green, gold and red
Associated with the Hip
Associated with number 8

Fame/Reputation:
Color: Red
Triangular, pointy objects
Associated with the Eye
Associated with number 1
The element is Fire

Relationships/Love:
Colors: Pink, red and white
Associated with all major organs of the body
Associated with number 2

Creativity/Children:
Color: White
Round objects
Associated with the Mouth
Associated with number 3
The element is Metal

Helpful People/Travel:
Colors: Gray, black and white
Associated with the Head
Associated with number 5

Career/Life Path:
Color: Black
Undulating, free-form shapes
Associated with the Ear
Associated with number 6
The element is Water

Skills/Knowledge/Wisdom:
Colors: Blue, black and green
Associated with the Hand
Associated with number 7

Family:
Color: Green
Rectangular, columnar, vertical objects
Associated with the Foot
Associated with number 4
The element is Wood

Health/General:
Colors: Yellow and earth tones
Square, horizontal and flat objects
Associated with all other body parts not mentioned above
Associated with number 9
The element is Earth

 

Note:

If you are unsure of where these areas are, see these posts:

Remove Hazardous Elements from Health Area

General Health area:

Wood will uproot the earth in this area, so get rid of anything symbolizing wood here. This means green items too! Small plants are the exception and can stay.

Tall rectangular objects and columnar objects don’t belong here.

Spiral staircases are a doozy – the chi keeps falling through, and with the spiraling pattern the chi gets dizzy and disoriented. You can counteract this effect by painting the underside of the stairs with the color of the area you are in, or place mirrors under the stairs to reflect the chi back up.

From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

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If you are unsure of where the health area is, see these posts:

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