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Read more from Fawn Chang’s Design and Feng Shui Newsletter!

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Neuro-architecture Feng Shui Gone Brainy

Light, science & decor to balance your hormones…Raise or Lower your Ceilings with Color can make all the difference.
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first
time.”  T.S. Eliot “Little Gidding”
As designers, architects, and DIYers, we [...]

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Black in Feng Shui

In Feng Shui, the color black is related to water: water represents everything that has a fluid or liquid form; it also symbolizes night and winter.  A powerful color, black represents money and enhances strength and authority; it is associated with the career aspect of our lives. As you may know, at the root of [...]

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The Color World According to Feng Shui

According to Feng Shui, colors are a great source of help in improving one’s own life as they are forms of energy whose vibrations can substantially modify one’s perception of space. Thus, painting a room in blue will make it appear colder, while painting the same room in yellow will create an illusion of warmth. [...]

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Color Over Clutter

Ok, so you have a lot of stuff even after you have pared down and purged–but you love it all, now what? If you love it, keep it! Clearing is a process and after a few rounds we feel lighter, more clear and free but we don’t all have to be minimalists right now. We [...]

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Feng Shui Bikini in a can (of paint, that is)

Summer is coming, I promise you that!  One way to help you get ready for shorts and swimsuit weather is to paint your house.  Really!
The colors of fall and winter that you might have around you are actually keeping that winter weight exactly where it is.  Earth colors will do that:  tans, beiges, yellows and [...]

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Change your life, change your paint!

Fawn Chang, PPG Porter Paints National Color and Design Consultant, presented to more than 450 Cache Valley residents & homeowners last week. She claims that “Gray is the new green when it comes to painting and decorating”. Want to read more about her theory? Click here!

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