40-Day Challenge: Energizing Stagnant Areas

It is Week 2 of my 40-Day Challenge to Sell My Home using feng shui techniques to improve then energy in my home. Over the weekend, I decided to tackle one particular corner of my home that has always, well, bothered me. This brings me to a good point… Most all of the techniques that you would use to sell your home are things that we should do anyway to improve the energy in our home and thus in our lives.

For me, I have been wanting to get a floor lamp for this particular corner since moving in.  Because this space has no real function, it tends to get ignored (aside from the dogs using it).  But as I mention in 27 Things to Feng Shui Your Home, turn your least favorite room or area into your favorite.  In other words, make lemonade out of lemons.

You can see from the picture below that it is an extra deep corner that gets very little, if any, light thereby creating a bit of an energy vacuum.

Corners are usually fine so long as they are clear of clutter and periodically space cleared of any stagnant energy. It is rare that I would advise adding something to a corner, but this space needs some energy! Did I mention that it’s part of my Wealth corner?

So I’ve added a floor lamp to bring in light into the corner as well as a plant and some simple decorative items. Not only do I have an aesthetically pleasing new area, but all Five Elements are represented to harmonize the energy. The entire living room feels so much better even though this was only a corner of it.  The uplighting from the floor lamp lends to a yin yang balance of the entire room. You can see how much cozier the space is as the light provides a depth to the space, unlike the one dimensional feel in the before photo.

This is definitely a change I should have made a long time ago, especially with only spending $59.99.   And for purposes of selling the house, the better I feel about the house, the better potential buyers will feel about the house as I project my energy in the space.