Good Vibes

We passed our rough inspection! Now substantive progress will resume!

Signs of the coming progress were profound today. Cabinets for the kitchen and tack room made it on site. Wall board was being delivered as we arrived, with stacks in each room for easy installation. One item yet to resolve is around the air conditioner's location in the back due to sound/noise regulations.

Good Vibes were also the activity of the day. We coordinated this week's meeting to include a Feng Shui evaluation and rough landscape ideas. Laura brought in two experts from her network, Linda Lenore of Green Chi Designs, and Courtney Feinstein of Leaping Designs. Linda is a Feng Shui Master, and Courtney is a Landscape Designer.

We took our experts around the house, inside and out to get their perspectives. Our Builder, John Hammerschmidt was eager to listen in. While John and Linda had met independently through their network, this was a first meeting for Courtney and John. Now, John's original business was landscape design, so we could tell he wanted to find out about Courtney. When it came up that they were both graduates of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, they were instant buds.

In the Master bedroom, John had some questions for Linda about the door placement with respect to Feng Shui. In moving the door from the footboard facing wall to a side wall, we'd made a good decision with respect to Feng Shui principles. In the guest room, Linda made some suggestions for better EMF sheilding in what will be the headboard wall as the electrical and telephone service panels are there.

As we got outside, we traded ideas with Linda and Courtney on how to arrange and use the space. We discussed our intention to bring in a hot tub off the Master bedroom in the future. The east side yard will be a dog run and service yard. John had already thought out how to place a gate in the front so that the utility access was separated from the dogs. On the west side, Linda and Courtney brainstormed ideas to give the space a feel of a "secret garden" visible through the windows on that side.

All in all, the house has good alignment with basic Feng Shui principles. Between the landscape design and interior decorating, we will likely be making several mitigations to improve further. That evaluation from a Feng Shui Master reinforced our own sense of Good Vibes for the house.