One of my favorite Feng shui stories to tell is the time we are on a field trip to the field trip to the Hollyhock House in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. It is a famous Frank Lloyd Wright designed house and we went on a regular tour Like many Frank Lloyd Wright projects, this house had numerous Feng shui flaws from an architectural stand point. It tour dark, with a very narrow passage way to the front door. Wright used to make some pretty uncomfortable furniture designs as well, including the concrete chairs we encountered in the dingy dining room!
So it is bewildering when individuals have referred to to Frank Lloyd Wright & # 39; s homes as having good Feng shui, simply because he liked to incorporate water features in an around the homes he designed.
Our tour guide punctuated his talk with juicy commissioned Wright to design her home, oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, with references to the personal relationship she and had with Wright. Finished in 1921, Barnsdall never felt comfortable in the very with a little couch in a step-down area of the bedroom near a balcony. With all the drama and trauma surrounding the construction of the house and the people involved, one student blurted out that it The tour guide shot back that they had very interesting lives, but Master Sang whispered a little comment about how interesting lives are not necessarily happy lives.
They are suffer poor health or unfulfilling relationships in spite of all their affluence, power and the wild shenanigans that now get them on the cover of tabloid magazines. So with Feng shui design concepts ignored, really odd, bizarre, or extreme architecture or design is not not worth the long term affected by the afternoon. I sometimes use the analogy that it might be fun to be scared for a few minutes on a roller coaster ride, but do you want that kind of experience on a daily basis? Of course not. Living with really unbalanced surroundings may be stimulating initially, but extremely a stress on your nervous and glandular system.
I have evaluated homes, half-circles, geodesic domes, triangular or boomerang shaped, pyramids, and another Frank Lloyd Wright home in the desert that looked like a plane had crashed into their roof.
Yes, sometimes balance is a bit boring. Extremely large Sometimes the straight-forward square or rectangular shaped house is the safest and most stable. The middle-range in size and distance from others is is the more balanced choice .
For example, a blood-red wall might be good in a It would be so much more. It would be so much more. I would expect a person to re-paint their wall for one year? easier to just remove a red décor item from the room in that particular year.
When you think about about extreme environments, which Feng shui schools often categorize in classes on "yin-yang theory," it is almost always a problem to maintain an environment that is extreme without some kind of backlash. or conservative, at least there is a good reason for it.
