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HOME SELLING ADVICE: Using Feng Shui to Correctly Prepare Your Home for Sale

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Real Estate Agent with O'Brien Realty

Kate Case offers wonderful advice on preparing your home for sale using Feng Shui.  The goal of Feng Shui is to make sure chi or energy flows smoothly.  This is very important if you are trying to sell your home.  Read Kate's tips & advice and atrract buyers to your home.    

Original content by Kate Talarico Owner & Lead Designer

Using Feng Shui to attract more potential home buyers is a fantastic idea.  When you start to look at the Feng Shui recommendations, you will see that some of them are identical to what you may be doing already to prepare your client's homes for sale.  Feng Shui does recommend de-cluttering, depersonalizing, cleaning, repairing, and then implementing the 5 elements (water, wood, fire, earth, and metal).

Here is a Feng Shui 5 Element Cheat Sheet for preparing your homes for sale:

Elements

Colors

Objects to Use

Shape

Water

Blue

Black

Mirrors

Glass

Wavy lines

Wood

Green

Wood Furniture

Hard wood floors

Columns

Vertical growing plants

Fire

Red

Candles

Fireplace

Triangle

Earth

Yellow

Orange

Brown

Brick

Stone

Square

Metal

White

Gray

Silver

Gold

Lamps

Appliances

Circle

 

Each element needs to be represented in every room but not equally in every room.  In the United Stated, most rooms tend to be dominated by the wood element and are missing the fire element. An element should be brought into a room to increase balance.  The fire element can be brought into a room through the additional of a red pillow.

The goal of Feng Shui is to make sure chi or energy flows smoothly.  This is very important if you are trying to sell your home. By using Feng Shui we want to attract the potential buyer from the external curb and once they are inside the home we want them to feel so comfortable they want to stay. Feng Shui considers all five senses and wanting to create an emotional response to the home's environment from the potential buyer.  The walk from your car to the front door is also very important and needs to be maintained. During this timeframe we are aiming to capture the buyer's interest in the property and the front door (mouth of chi) should be a dramatic focal point.  Great colors to paint a front door are black or dark brown, this will definitely draw the buyer's eye in to the front door.  The welcome mat should be a semi-circle on the outside of the home. Once inside, the entry way is the most important room since a buyer will decide in under a minute on whether or not they will buy your home. The entry way is also the last part of the home the potential buyers will see.  It is always a good idea to have a mirror in the entry way (but pay close attention to what is being reflected, do not point it towards the door) and no sharp furniture pointing towards the front door.

Using a Baqua Map and aligning it with the home's front door will help you identify the various centers of your room.

Wealth/Prosperity

Fame

Marriage/Relationships

Family

Health

Creativity/Children

Wisdom

Career

Helpful People/Travel

Approximately 75-80% of the home's front door will enter through the Career center. The Helpful People room will be the room most buyer's go into after the front door.  The Wealth center definitely needs a tall green vertical plant. Your business cards should go into the Career center.  In the Marriage/Relationships center you need to show pairs, it could be pairs of decorative pillows or even pairs of lights on either side of the bed. According the Feng Shui there really is no good place for a bathroom, so please leave the toilet lids closed and the door to the bathroom closed. Remove all your personal items from view also. A mirror facing a bed is also not recommended in Feng Shui, it possible you should eliminate any mirrors in the master bedroom.

To sell your home quickly, you need to address the Wealth, Fame, Marriage, Career, and Relationship areas of your home.

- Kate

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign now sells semi-custom window coverings at discount prices. Our window coverings include roman shades, Levolor and Dynasty blinds, faux wood blinds, bamboo blinds, woven wood blinds, cornices, valances, sheers, and drapes. Our roman shades can be ordered in 100% pure silk, linen, cotton, or designer fabric. We also offer Benjamin Moore color consultations and test color boards, interior decorating, home staging, and redesign. Please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com for more info or call 845-538-3623. All window covering appointments include a free 30 minute design consultation for the same room. We serve Passaic County and Bergen County of New Jersey and Rockland County and Orange County of New York, basically the lower Hudson Valley. We are an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors, a member of RESA, ASHSR.

 

Comments (7)

Connie Winstead
Nancy Puder & Associates - Arroyo Grande, CA
San Luis Obispo County CA Real Estate Agent

Can we re-blog please?

Feb 27, 2010 03:19 PM
Rita Minion
O'Brien Realty - Solomons, MD

Hi Connie,

You can reblog by clicking on Kate's link in her post.  It's terrific information to pass on.  Have a great Sunday!

Rita

 

Feb 27, 2010 03:27 PM
Laura Cerrano
Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY
Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

Rita, Thank you for the re-blog.  I love Kate and her work but haven't been to check the group in a while.  Kate writes so you can understand Feng Shui and she's a phenominal contributor!

Feb 27, 2010 11:55 PM
Kristin Johnston - REALTOR®
RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI
Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

COnnie, I have some clients who know what this is and try to follow it, but most don't have a clue :-=)

Feb 28, 2010 01:00 AM
Brian & Val Mayer
The Mayer Group of eXp Realty - Huntingtown, MD
Listing Specialist | Realtor in Calvert County MD

Rita,

     That sounds like a lot of work and a headache to figure out. Then again I am a man and decorating isnt my thing. I would just call Kate

Feb 28, 2010 10:14 AM
Dawn A Fabiszak
Private Label Realty ( Denver metro area, Colorado - Aurora, CO
The Dawn of a New Real Estate Experience!

Wow, Rita,  That was terrific information.  I printed out your post so I could study it more in depth.

Feb 28, 2010 11:30 AM
Suzanne Strickler
Realty Mark Associates - Havertown, PA
School is never out for the Successful.

Rita - You're so right, staging and feng shui go hand in hand. I taught a staging class for MCE in PA and the agents using Feng shui would comment on why each staging principle was good chi. Thanks for the Cheat Sheet. Graphs make learning easier for me.  

Mar 03, 2010 12:59 AM