Home Staging
Home is where we rest our heads. Home is where the heart is. At Awaken Designs, we believe in this wholeheartedly and create spaces that tug at those heartstrings of buyers. Our intention is to awaken and warm up the instinctual desire in the buyer, one of feeling rather than thinking. Buyers step into our staged homes and immediately say, “Yes!”
Using the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui in our home staging, we enhance areas of the property with simple design and furniture, adding color and decorative items that allow your home to shine. When energy flows well, it will increase your home’s selling potential.
At Awaken Designs we are dedicated to creating partnerships with home sellers and realtors. Buying and selling a home can be a stressful and emotional transition. We want to make it easy. We work hard to ensure that you feel comfortable with the home staging process by welcoming your input and feedback. When it comes to selling your home, we guarantee you will feel confident in our home staging design.
With a warehouse full of beautiful individually selected furnishings, we transform any property magically into a place where every buyer would want to call home.
Feng Shui Design
With Feng Shui Design, we look at what is not working in your life right now and the connection between your life and your living and work space. Do you want more clarity and purpose for your life? Are you wanting to increase your income? Are you having trouble attracting your life partner?
These are questions that can be answered with Feng Shui Design, using the Feng Shui map, called the Bagua, where we look for areas in your home or your business where energy may be stagnating or blocked completely.
Feng Shui focuses on chi or the life force that flows throughout. This could also be called your personal energy force. It needs to be nurtured, enhanced and encouraged to flow freely in order to bring health and well-being to you through your surroundings.
Consultations begin with a questionnaire to discover what is currently going on in your life, home and business, how you’ve related to past homes, and your hopes for yourself and your space. Organizational planning, de-cluttering and optimal furniture placement are included in a Feng Shui Design Consultation, as well as space clearing and intention-setting to create a deeper connection between you and your surroundings. We then apply traditional design principles, color and the Feng Shui elements of water, earth, fire, and air. The goal is to pull together something harmonious that is unique to you, but guided by ancient spiritual principles. The result is freedom, peace and ease in those areas of your life that are important to you.
What is Feng Shui?
(Pronounced “Fung-Shway”)
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of object placement in relationship to the flow of energy that connects all things.
How does Feng Shui work?
Encouraging Flow
Flow is encouraged in a number of simple ways. First, we must remove obstacles or distractions that prevent chi from flowing freely. There should be multiple pathways into a house as one enters, not just a stairway running up and away from the central living spaces of the home. Placing mirrors to reflect and draw energy into other parts of the home is one solution. Chi also likes smooth, rounded surfaces. Soft treatments, rounded table edges, softened corners in our rooms all help the flow of energy throughout the home. Chi is personal; it travels with us and is unique to each one of us.
Finding Balance
Finding balance for each of us in our living space brings a sense of balance and well-being to our lives. In today’s homes we must balance the personal and the technological, the acting and the resting self, the community and the individual, the outgoing and the reflective.
Thoughtful Placement
Balance includes maintaining the natural in our lives, so Feng Shui Design often minimizes the glaring presence of technology, softening its role by enclosing it in cabinets, draping it in colorful fabrics, or behind screens. As an antidote to the depersonalization of our culture, Feng Shui Design encourages conversational groupings where chairs face one another and create conversation spots. Couches face each other with a table in between. Seating does not face toward the television, but at an angle to it.Natural materials are also favored, including natural fabrics, stone, wood, and metal. In most Feng Shui Design, there is an attempt to steer away from chemically treated, unnatural products to the greatest extent possible. We also must choose pieces that we love, that reflect who we are today, as we are intrinsically connected to every object in our space. Each piece will “speak” to us and we must make sure we are attracting the right message.
Our spaces should feel good to us. They should enhance our sense of well-being; they should sustain, and rejuvenate us.
Take a moment and notice:
“Do your surroundings reflect who you are today or do they anchor old ways of being into your present?”
Use Feng Shui Design and you will attract and manifest the life you have always wanted, the love, prosperity and wellness you deserve now.