Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living |
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| Title: | Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living |
| Author: | Sharon Stasney |
| Publisher: | Sterling/Chapelle |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | December, 2000 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0806960817 / 9780806960814 |
| List Price: | $19.95 |
| You Save: | $18.07 |
| Amazon Price: | $1.88 (via Amazon marketplace seller) |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
Thousands of years old—and today’s hottest interior design trend. “Gives suggestions for balance and harmony.”—Publisher’s Weekly. “Learn how to use color, texture and shape to boost your energy, calm your spirit and simply create a stunning home that will feel as good as it looks.” —Timber Homes Illustrated.
Amazon.com Review
God knows--uh, sorry--Buddha knows that this book was released during the feng shui design-fad glut. But in a workbook-handy softcover and at a price that won't throw off your chi, it's a fun, interesting, and erudite hands-on guide to designing your living space along the principles of "fung shway"--that ages-old Chinese practice of directing invisible energy, or "chi" through your home for maximum physical, mental, and spiritual health and balance. Whether this do-it-yourselfer is a pure distillation of feng shui theory and practice or a conveniently Westernized version of them, most of its advice seems to accord with both general good design instinct and common sense. No pretty-but-vague viewbook, Feng Shui Chic breaks it all down with a wealth of nice color shots of home interiors and exteriors robustly explained in captions and call-outs, plus lots of floorplan charts, boxed sections, and checklists for everything from adjusting each room's yin and yang to bringing just the right balance of earth, fire, wood, and water energy into a space. A lot of the interiors lean toward suburban baroque, but you'll still want to live in half of them, especially if, like this reviewer, you live in an apartment so small that all the chi in the world won't make it chi-chi. --Timothy Murphy
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Customer Reviews:
• Good Book But Needs More Detail
23 October, 2005
Feng Shui is about room decor that makes you feel good and the more detailed the book the better you'll arrange each room in you home. This book could use more detail and I do recommend that if you like it you get a Lo Pan and this other book to go with your Feng Shui collection, The Western Guide to Feng Shui: Room by Room (Feng Shui) (Paperback)
by Terah Kathryn Collins.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Excellent, Usable Feng Shui Resource -- One Of The Very Best!
19 December, 2008
I have owned Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living for years and have given it as a gift more times than I can count. It is by far one of the best, most practical, useful, understandable resources on the market. The pictures, illustrations, and text help a beginner or experienced decorator who is intergrating feng shui into design or home improvement projects. I bought a lot of other books before I found this one and none have ever compared. Buy it! Also a great gift. Every person to whom I have given this book has raved about it, too!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Good Combination Of Feng Shui And Interior Design
09 February, 2006
I liked the this book's integration of feng shui and interior design. Set up more like a decorating book with lots of pictures, it gives you many interesting, specific ideas on what you can do to improve your interior spaces as it relates to feng shui. I didn't agree with all of the ideas, like naming your plants after your relatives, which I found a bit odd, but at least they were creative ideas. This book would be a good addition to anyone's feng shui library as it explores the subject from a different angle than most of the books on the market.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Cream Of The Crop
10 September, 2003
I attended a lecture from the author a few years ago. Ms. Stasney was engaging and informative- her book is equally so. It is the best book I've ever read on decorating with Feng Shui; it clearly states the fundamentals, uses easy to read diagrams, and features many stylish, modern concepts to fulfill the ancient principals. The pictures are gorgeous and not intimidating, and Ms. Stasney makes it practical to incorporate a little bit of Eastern wisdom into your home, or a full Feng Shui makeover. Buy this book first if you are starting out!
- Amazon Customer Review
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