External curb appeal and your entry way are the two items that create a buyer's all important first impression of your home.  A potential home buyer will make up their mind about your home in under one minute.

What first impression would your home leave a buyer?

The goal of using Feng Shui to stage your home is to balance all five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) in and around your property. (We are only going to look at external curb appeal and your entry way in this post.)

For a Feng Shui Cheat Sheet on the Five Elements, please take a look here: http://activerain.com/blogsview/1314589/using-feng-shui-to-correctly-prepare-your-home-for-sale

The external curb appeal of your property is very important when selling your home. The way your home looks from the street is representative of your home's chi or energy.  Abundant green landscapes, that are well manicured, are chi reservours.  To keep positive chi flowing on your property, please remove any dead trees or plantings from your front yard. Please keep your front yard free from debris and well maintained. The importance of a first impression can not be underestimated.

Please keep your driveway well lit and free from debris also; please fix any broken or cracked driveways immediately. If your driveway descends sharply towards the street, please install bright lights on both sides of the driveway.

Feng Shui considers the front door and entry to be the most important places in your home.  The front door (or Mouth of Chi), determines the amount and quality of chi or energy that will flow through your home. A grand, open entry way will support the flow of chi.

By clearing out items that are behind your front door (such as bikes, old magazines, shoes, toys), chi will be better able to enter you home.  The goal here is to let chi flow unobstructed right into your home. 

Your home's front door should be upright and well-hinged; it should be very easy to open and close.  If your front door creaks when it is opened, it is disturbing the harmony of your home and needs to be fixed.

The front door of your home needs to be the correct size and in correct proportion to the size of your home.  A door that is too large can cause financial problems, whereas a door that is to small can lead to family disagreements. Minor flaws at your front door can affect you negatively.  The reverse is also true, by making minor improvements at your front door entry you can significantly impact your life in a positive way.

Good chi can be further attracted into your home by proper lighting attached to the outside wall of your home. 

Your front door should open into a bright space that has room for chi to breathe. 

To maximize the movement of chi and to prevent stagnant chi, please open your windows and let the fresh air filter in.

By paying close attention to the placement of Feng Shui objects on and around your property, the amount of positive chi will be increased which will result in more potential home buyer activity.

-Kate

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home. We also sell a full line of semi-custom window coverings.