ABC’s of Fine Design

Chi is something that can stay with a home or be brought into a home by neighbors or friends. There are many ways to remove bad chi from your home. An example of bad chi is the vibe coming from a neighbor who has loud parties or children that keep you awake at night. One way you can combat this kind of Chi is to place a urn of water on the side of your house that the noisy neighbor is on. The urn must have a wide mouth and small base. Place a fish, light or both in the urn to give it light. It is said that the urn will absorb the bad chi.

If you have just bought a home and want to remove the negative chi from it you may want to try using bells, cymbals or singing bowls to help clear the home of the bad chi. The bell is probably the best one to use and is also very easy. To use the bell ring it in a rhythmic way and walk around all of the rooms three times clockwise.

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As I watch the news I find myself still wondering how many of these homeowners or renters in the areas flooded had insurance.  I know for a fact that renters insurance is cheep and home insurance is not too bad either. I’m sure many did have insurance and the ones that did were probably forces to get flood insurance, but what about those that don’t have it. Really they are out of luck and may lose everything they have with no way to get any of it back and no money to replace it.

This is why I right now I’m looking at home owners insurance, before I buy a house. I want good coverage and a good price. I recommend you do the same. Protecting your home is just as important as making it look good.

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Right now as many of you know the economy stinks and it’s very hard to sell a home. Most people who are looking for a home are looking for something cheep and nice. Personally I’m looking for cheep and sturdy. I want something to fix up a little.

The following are a few tips I have to help you sell your home.

• Clean things up. Dirty homes do not sell. You want the buyer to believe that there is more space in a home then there is or at least not to think there is less because of all the clutter.

• Use promotional products to advertise your home. People love free stuff and even if they don’t buy your home, they may tell someone who does about the cool item they got from you.

• Use business cards. This does fall into the above category, but I wanted this one separate. You can leave business cards anywhere and they are very inexpensive to make. All you need to put on it is home for sale, price asked address and phone number of your Realtor.

• Throw a open house with food and entertainment. Invite your neighbors and have them meet your potential buyers. Some people may just decide to put in an offer if they like the people who live nearby.

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I am always looking for ways to save energy, so is my mom. I think that is why we always make my little brother vacuum the house. That way we have energy to do something else. Okay so I’m not actually talking about that kind of energy I’m talking about the energy you buy.

If your looking to save energy anyway you can you should check out Dirt Devil. They have the only energy star approved vacuum. This means that it will save you money when you use it. It uses 70% less energy then other vacuums and it look pretty cool too. It’s smaller then some vacuums so it will also be easier to store.

When you look for any new appliance or electronics type product, make sure it has an Energy Star rating. This will help you save a lot of money and usually the product will pay for itself within a few years or less. I’m going to be buying this new Dirt Devil when I move, unfortunately it doesn’t include a little brother.

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I will grantee you this post is not what you are thinking. This is not about dorm design but about a friend of mine and a contest they were involved in recently with some kids from a local state collage.

The contest involved designing the perfect collage guy home complete with huge couches, big screen TV’s and oh the ever popular beer pong tables yes more then one was required. I am shaking my head as I write this, but I will have to say that what they came up with actually looked good. The guys I know got advice from me and a few other people as to what they should do. Really the whole house is very well done and stylish, we all told them to put the beer pong tables in the basement along with any other weird drinking game stuff.

The point if this story is that you really never know what you may end up designing as an interior designer. Sometimes it will just be very strange.

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