Feng Shui for Mountain Homes

· In isolated areas, place bird feeders and wind chimes on the property to attract more life.
· Warm, toasty interior colors— browns, oranges and reds— can counteract isolation and stark outside terrain.
· Keep beds out of the pathway of sliding-glass or French doors. Too much energy running through a sleeping area can cause illness.
· Energy cannot [...]

Fashionable New Year

New Year Color Updates:
Carole Shashona Designs for better Health, Wealth and Glamour.
Fashion tips for this Holiday Season from Carole Shashona:
What color to wear, how to be in style, how to nurture yourself, what to do to stimulate new beginnings & prosperity, tips for your home to jump start new opportunities, how  invite [...]

Retreat Chic – Alternative Design: Trompe L’oeil Fashion & Home Color Tips

Sparkle in Silver, Bright in Bronze or Glitter in Gold – accessorize your wardrobe with metallic this season.
Add flair of color with a red pillow to the Northeast zone of your home signaling passion to the world!
Add a bowl of fruit to your kitchen counter. This will keep you healthy and fit.
The Sky’s the Limit [...]

Retreat Chic Color “U” Energy Chart

The Carole Shashona Color ‘U’ Energy Chart is designed to help you nurture yourself with energy.
Your Color ‘U’ Energy Chart will help you to choose colors for your home palettes and is specially designed to uplift your spirit to restore, relax, and replenish your inner sanctuary – – your heart and home.

Carole Shashona Fashion Color “U” Energy Wheel

Change your colors…Change your life
Why is the Color ‘U’ Energy Wheel different?

The CSMD Color ‘U’ Energy Wheel is designed to help you nurture yourself with energy. The world is a kaleidoscope of colors, all of which penetrate, and go within us in various ways. Energy with color can align, expand, compress, and enhance you! Your Color ‘U’ Energy wheel will help you to choose colors for your home and fashion palettes and is specially designed to uplift your spirit to restore, relax, and replenish your inner sanctuary – - your heart and home.
Urban Color-Energetics – The language of Colors

Carole Shashona Tips for Holiday Season Celebrations

The Winter season is the season for partying! Make your entertaining loads of fun for yourself and those around you with just a few of my Feng Shui Chic Tips.
* Unclutter your home to jumpstart your holiday season.
* Greet your guests with a new doormat. Use green to welcome growth and expansion.
* Ring in the cheer of the [...]

For Balance And Harmony: Applying The Principles of Feng Shui to The Kitchen

Putting the principles of feng shui to work in a kitchen can be tricky.
Because a kitchen contains both elements of water and fire, achieving the appropriate balance is difficult — the sink can’t be too close to the stove, because fire puts out water. You want to balance that fire element . . . fire [...]

Is Your Interior Space In Harmony With Your Chinese Zodiac?

FENG SHUI DECORATING AND THE CHINESE ZODIAC
The Chinese are great believers in the forces of nature over man and in the beliefs of those customs which have been passed down from one generation to another for many hundreds of years. Their unique zodiac in an example of this, and does not correspond to the [...]

Hue, What, Where…

Red: Happiness, warmth, strength, fame, attraction.
Warning: red is a fire energy, meaning too much of it can “flare up” arguments. A water color is useful to “cool it down.”
Green: Career, health, encourages wealth, creates a path of energy for growth and possibility
Purple: Spiritual power and guidance
Orange: “Earth” power to enable accomplishments or completion of projects.
Yellow: [...]

HOME SHUI HOME. Rearranging a city apartment according to ancient Chinese principles.

As a feng shui master and interior designer, I believe the more you are at home in your home, the more you are at home in the “universe”.
Feng shui, which means wind and water, is an ancient Chinese system of organizing objects in a natural pattern, using symbolic colors to harmonize and balance the energy [...]

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