Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
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Clear began his feng shui practice began there in 1995, and blossomed when he moved to San Francisco in 1996. He's a natural at feng shui; as a Libra-Hare he's astrologically gifted for this work. To his work he brings systems and design skills in organizing, maintenance, and horticulture. He works residential, retail, office, and landscape.
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
3M ago
My feng videos have been on Youtube for years, but they have gotten a revamped look & presentation. I invite you to take a look at how nicely they are divided into categories. This is thanks to the technical & design help of my long-time go-to help person in those areas—Dawn Sakamoto Paiva. https://www.youtube.com/@clearengle1 She ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
7M ago
(Note: there’s a photo gallery at the bottom of this article.) In my last post, I wrote about fake books that get placed in a home to make the owner look well-read, until of course someone tries to pick up one of the books & realizes the falseness. In this article, I’ll present an anecdote ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
10M ago
I just came across an article about fake books ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/realestate/fake-books-decor.html?smid=em-share ) and there are two quotes that summarize the yin & yang of decorating with fake things. “I will never use fake books,” said Jeanie Engelbach, an interior designer and organizer in New York City. “It just registers as pretentious, and it creates the ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
1y ago
Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? by Valerie Padilla Carroll came out in December 2022 from the University of Nebraska Press. The subtitle is Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture, and I was interviewed for book. In 1981, I had written Helen & Scott Nearing (authors of Living the Good Life) asking if they ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
1y ago
Dim lighting is yin, except when it’s moving—then it becomes yang. Spinner lamps (or motion lamps) are a great way of using dim moving light to energize a stagnant area ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
1y ago
The first time I saw a “pot filler” in a client’s home, I was speechless. I knew I was looking at a feng shui nightmare, and I also knew that I would not be able to come up with a “cure.” So when an Oahu client recently told me that she was planning to have ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
1y ago
Real books are yang, and virtual books (ebooks and anything else read or watched on an electronic screen) are yin. That’s because real books have physical substance and virtual anything doesn’t—it’s ephemeral. The second chapter of Temple Grandin’s latest (fabulous) book, Visual Thinking, is titled “Screened Out.” In it she makes the point that when she ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
1y ago
Taped-together books are those that are inexpertly repaired, using materials that are not designed for book repair: regular transparent tape, packing tape, blue masking tape, duct tape, that sort of thing. The reason a book gets taped together by a non-professional is because they either love the book a lot or they find it extremely ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
1y ago
I’ve been going to more and more of my clients’ homes and seeing rugs that are obviously new but are designed to look old and faded. Furniture and furnishings that are new but has a “distressed” look has very bad feng shui ..read more
Clear Englebert's Feng Shui Blog
1y ago
Adding to a collection by happenstance is the yin way to do it and targeting specific acquisitions is the yang way—yang being specific and yin being less so. Do remember that a yin/yang symbol does not have a direct straight line bisecting it—it has a wavy, S-shaped line. That means that nothing is completely yin ..read more