2011 – Happy Feng Shui New Year’s Motto:  Be Calm and Carry On  Feb 3 Year of Rabbit, Feb 4 Nine Star Ki New Year 7 Metal Welcome to a year of home, family, kitchen and joy.  This year will be about style and compassion, creativity and organization, beauty and core values, all simultaneously.    It’s the year to place …

Because I travel North America talking about Hotel Design Trends, when I came across this article while reading a trade web, I was intrigued.  I don’t know if I agree with their choices, would you? Here is  www.askmen.com ‘s ranking of the Top 10 Hotel Openings for 2011.  Take a look at the design see if you notice any interesting design …

Get ready for a grown up attitude and one large dose of color, fantasy, organization, real beauty and innovation.   Color trends reflect who we are as a collective and where we are going; they reflect what’s going on inside of us as well as in our world.  Some of us may not see ourselves at all in the new color and …

Pantone,  industry source for color matching and famous for their Pantone Matching System used worldwide for everything from graphics to signs to fashion, named their Color of Year for 2011:  “Honeysuckle, TCX 18-2120…a courageous color for a courageous new world.”   With the new “girl effect” highly influencing design and trends from architecture to automobiles to art to business, we could see …

File this under Cool Stuff.  I haven’t yet seen this myself, but I will be looking for it.  In our modern world, we aren’t often vigilant about what’s around us, and these cars have a 360 degree programming that could save up to 1.2 million lives per year.  According to a recent post by Sebastian Thrun, Distinguished Software Engineer from Google, …

Selling a home? The idea is to make it feel fresh and it’s also important that the home you are selling no longer looks like it belongs to you.   It needs to look like a place where the new buyers can imagine seeing themselves and their favorite furnishings.  Think neutral, think beige.  You may be saying beige-smeige and yes it …

Colors:  Very Fun and Very Important Stuff Color is light refelcted back to us. That light is actually medicine to us.  More than mere Color Psychology, color and design influence and drive behaviour.  Red   The energy of Red is exuberant, advancing and activating.  In Feng Shui Red is associated with fire, outward expansion,  networking, clarifying, and brilliant.  It is the color of Life …

  Your Bedroom is the one room in your life that most affects your ability to be powerful, healthy, happy, and wealthy.   If this room is not perfectly lovely, restful and delicious, you are missing a great opportunity to live a joyous, juicy and rich life.  This one room is where you spend most of your time, where your body needs to renew …

The Power of Place   The Quality of Energy Impacts Our Lives     “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” Frank Herbert Before Benjamin Franklin performed his lightning experiment, the concept of electricity was unknown. Before Edison and the telephone or Marconi and the radio, or Marie Curie and the X-ray, no one understood …

How to Stop Terrorism Do you remember where you were on 911?  Or remember how you felt when you heard of the recent attack in Mumbai on the Taj Hotel tourists?  Why do I ask? Because I have a secret for you.  A secret that is so painfully simple a solution to terrorism in our world that it could actually stop …

RE:  The Miracle of Mercury Retrograde Ready to review and renew?   Re-connect, re-establish, re-view:  “RE-“ is the key for this month.  How good are you at ‘going with the flow’?  Watch these next few weeks and decide for yourself.   Mercury Retrograde is an astrological occurrence that I have followed for the last 20 years that is probably one of the …

Hate your work?  Too tired to sleep?   What if, with a few simple changes in your work environment, you could guarantee that you are more productive, more joyful, living your life’s purpose, healthier and wealthier?  Would you care? Would it be okay with you if things were easy and good things came to you? There are two places that …