Are you planning on renovating your house? Today, I would like to write about how to incorporate Feng Shui into the renovation of your home, by showing you how I did it with mine.
We have been working on our house in Mobile, AL on and off for two years now and wanted to walk you through my process. Feng Shui adds an extra layer of demands when it comes to renovating. You have to take into account colors, elements, shapes, and orientations. But it’s doable… and the result is that you have an incredibly peaceful feeling when you come into your house. Your life also takes a turn for the better, with areas of your life that weren’t previously great becoming suddenly magically blessed.
(We will be moving again at the end of May… but that’s for another blog post! So, as I am writing this, my house is about to be sold to a new family).
Let me preface this by also telling you: I did not use a contractor. I hired workers separately and hoped that my first trial as a contractor would work out. The timeline has been like this. First, we spent a month repurposing rooms, redoing floors, removing popcorn from the ceiling (that very questionable texture that was trendy in the 70s), repainting the inside, redoing bathrooms, redoing the kitchen with all new appliances and cabinetry…. using all the Feng Shui tools at my disposal, as you can imagine.
Then, we moved in… and absolutely loved living in our newly renovated home. But there was still work to do, namely removing the carpet on the stairs, taking out a million staples from them (we did it by hand), repainting them, making new kitchen cabinet doors because the old ones were falling apart, installing shelves and furnishing the whole place.
As this work progressed, we abruptly learned that we would be moving again because of my husband’s job being relocated to another city. We decided to follow the job, a hard decision after spending so much time working on our house!
Please see below pictures of my renovation Part 1 through a series of Before and After photos.
We started by removing all the popcorn from the ceiling, a texture that looks like cottage cheese. If (thankfully) you are not familiar with popcorn, zoom in on the ceiling in the photo below.
