#55: What is Feng Shui? And Are We Screwing It Up?

This week we talk about a lively new design assignment we have taken on (our first commercial space!) and we at last have some good news in the beach house department! We also get a crash course in Feng Shui by an expert, and learn the places in our home where we are intuitively following their guidelines… and the spots where we are not doing so hot: like the wrong message our bedroom decor might be sending, and how our office floor plan might be thwarting one person’s productivity. Plus we share how you can hang out with us this summer thanks to HGTV Magazine, and we both reveal an item of clothing that we are oddly particular about getting right.

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What is Not

• Above is a “before” of the loft office space we are working on for the ad agency I used to work for full-time. The canine model is the office dog, Atlas.
• And even though we were not able to make it out to Cape Charles last week to see progress in person, our contractor texted us this pic of drywall progress!!! That is standing near the back door and looking towards the curved wall in the foyer. SOOO EXCITING!!

Updates

• Above are some photos from last year’s HGTV Magazine Block Party, and we are excited to be going again this summer. It is August 21st in New York City and you can RSVP here (it is free!)
• We will be there, Joy Cho from Oh Joy will be there, Sam Ushiro from Aww.Sam will be there, Sara Peterson (editor in chief of HGTV Magazine) will be there, plus some other bloggers that have yet to be announced!
• You can hear more about last year (and our first in-person meeting with Emily Henderson) in Episode #15
• And here is that statement from Ikea clarifying that the products listed on Amazon are not officially from them.

• As mentioned, here is Escape to the Country on Netflix (the “British answer to House Hunters”) as well as We Picked up A Farm on HGTV, for more rural house hunting goodness.

Feng Shui

• That is Tenaya Kolar, the Feng Shui Expert and Design Consultant we spoke to on this episode
• Here is where you can sign up for her free 3-day email crash course in Feng Shui
• Below is a pic an (old) picture of our office, where you can see how Sherry’s is more “in command” of the space

• And in this more recent photo, you can see how we have brought in a mirror above my desk to reflect the area behind me (since we stole the painting that was there for the bedroom).

• And in this pic of our bedroom, you can see one of the “single ladies” hanging above the plant (from here).

• The other one (this one) is on the opposite side of the room.

We are Digging

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7

• As promised, here are simply some of the black one piece bathing suits Sherry tried on during her hunt. #1 and #6 are the ones she ended up keeping, and she shared a few notes for other small-headed short gals in the graphic above.
• And if that were not sufficient fashion advice for one episode, here is the plain, close-fitting baseball cap that I am sporting these days. I got it in navy (it does not look as “distressed” as it does in the sales pic) but will likely go snag either the black or the green one too.

Also, if you are looking for something we have dug in a past episode, but do not remember which show notes to click into, here is a master list of everything we have been digging from all of our past episodes.

And lastly, a big thank you to DAP for sponsoring this episode. Hit up DAP.com/YHL to learn more about DAP Products and you can find more pointers & tricks by following them on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest (they are @DAPproducts in all those places).

Thanks for listening, folks!

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