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Checking the home geomancy status
Ungood geomancy status in a home might create bad air, cause adverse effects to love and to marriage.

Geomancy for kitchen window
Window will make the kitchen airier, brighter due to wind and sun light – which makes the housework more comfortable

Creating harmony in the bedroom
Couples, especially just married ones, should have a research of bedroom arrangements so that it could create the harmony in their nuptial life.

Grey and Brown.
Gray is a neutral color, it sometimes plays a hot or cool depending on the background and adjacent colors. Some pairs of colors become very impressive with the appearance of the intermediate color such as: Red – Black – Grey or Red – white – Grey.

Best place for the bedroom of the elderly
Elderly people seldom move out, therefore the bedroom is where they will spend most of the time in a day. So you should examine carefully in defining the layout of their rooms.

Anti geomantic drawing-room
Drawing room is shared living space especially important in a house. It reflects the style and characteristics of each family.

Romantic space with pink
The hearth of the couple will be more romantic with the sweet pink color like the melody of love.

Speaking Colors
Colors not only bring aesthetic for the house but also express style of the owner by a special language

Horse Decoration by Geomancy
According to geomancy, emblem of lions, of turtles, or of dragons is to drive out evil spirits or to ease unlucky things, but it is also quite popular to use for horse emblems instead.

Geomancy for villa
The differences between villas and houses are the natural properties by nature. Villa has its own landscape and fresh air that makes people feel closer to nature.

Natural space for bathroom
Using tiled stone with various colors, fresh image as beaches, forests and fruits ... will make your bathroom larger and brighter than ever. Please refer to the products of the company Glassdecor from Spain.

Screen in interior architecture
In addition to shielding, neutralizing the bad air, screen is also a decorative item in interior architecture. Along with the flowerpots, bonsai, screen is stylized to create impression and outstanding for the house.

Ideas for green bathroom
Bringing as many green plants in the living spaces is definitely a new trend in architectural design. With the bathroom - this unique living space in every family - there is no exception.

Yang-Yin balance in doors
Where the door should be, how they are, wide or narrow, have been noted by geomancy in Yang – Yin elements to ensure of their looks, views and adaptation to daily live.

Relaxed with blues in house
The blue color always brings a sense of serenity and peace to the soul, therefore the application of this color in house decoration is very popular.

Feng Shui in the modern architecture
According to Feng Shui in architecture, the interior is the main goal to create the convenience for people and still to ensure the necessary harmony with the surrounding environment.

Overcoming the bad direction of the main gate.
Main gate plays an important role in the feng shui of the house, because this is the first place to receive good or bad air flow into the house.

Colors wake up spaces
If you use colors cleverly, you could “wake up” the whole colorful space in your house at your disposal as well as be sure of the harmonious lines in interior design.

Feng Shui Tips for houses.
According to Chinese philosophy, Feng Shui creates balance and harmony for living things.

Geomancy in light and business..
In the art of feng shui (or geomancy), lights and lamps are often used to treat basically, to rectify the imbalance of airflow power of light sources to a place affecting on the inner and the dynamic power of the host.

Dance of color
Selecting and combining the colors of the furniture to match with the room is always a exciting challenge for interior designers as well as the owner of the house.

Office furnishings in Feng Shui views
The large office furniture such as desks, chairs, computers, when selected and arranged, should be noted the aspect of feng shui so that the owner’s business should be more smoothly.

Charming with red bathroom.
Red color always brings passion and a certain charm to space. Red always evokes vitality and creates a new source of life for any space.

Bed position by Feng Shui.
In the bedroom, the bed is always a focal point, especially in the wedding bedroom of the young couple, where and how to locate the bed is extremely important in feng shui.

Red Sleep.
They’re not quiet dreams but they could also bring you the effects of life full of "red" during sleep. Red is a Estern traditional color to bring luck…

The magic of Violet.
Violet has a remarkable impact. In Feng Shui, violet is compatible with all directions, yet sometimes is hard to combine with other colors. If you’d like to have your house space looked different with color, do not hesitate to select the violet in the design.

4 simple ways to balance your house according to Feng Shui.
The living environment expresses the living style. Feng Shui creates the balance for both. According to Feng Shui, everything has its own energy source known as vitality, and you can use this vitality to bring luck, wealth and opportunity for your house.

Renewing bathroom.
Each time each style. Bathroom, also going with the rise of home economics, becomes the object to be enriched, decorated with more utility, luxury.

10 world's most expensive resorts
Royal Villa at Grand Resort Lagonissi, Athens, Greece is at the top of the 10 most expensive resorts in the world, next is Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

Tradition in design.
The modern life requires certain changes while traditional values are still kept by each person’s way.

Macao day and night
Just with the area of only 28km2 wide, everything on this small island is arranged as well as a large country.

To have kitchen in good Feng Shui.
In feng shui, the kitchen is considered as a measurement tool of the owner’s health status. The cozier, airier, cleaner the kitchen is, the better your health will be. If you’d like to have more affectionate.

Cabo San Lucas
Bay of Cabo San Lucas, located at the southern top of Baja Mexico, which was once the haunt of the pirate fleet pirating Spain ships in their navigation carrying gold, silver and valuables.

Interiors for low ceiling tenement.
Low ceilings sometimes become the obstacle of living in a tenement. How can we buy the interior to keep the space balance?

Decoration with graphic papers.
Wallpaper using graphics technology will bring the breath of modern life - a particular feature, very unique and impressive - to your living space.

Feng Shui for Dinning room.
When decorating the dining room, the first thing you should think of is not what furnishings to be chosen, but the suitable color palette with harmonious colors that can help increase meal’s quality of the whole family.

Stone - Feng Shui standpoint.
Besides the Yang-Yin balance purpose, stones also reflect your aesthetic, your garden becomes more vivid, abundant...

Impressive Yellow.
Brilliant yellow of the sun and chrysanthemums will make your room shiny and the cold space warmer.

Interior Colors in Feng Shui.
Colors which are suitable with your hobbies and personality are also suitable with the principle of The Five Basic Elements. This Five Basic Elements in Geomancy are long-standing and could not be apart from our Eastern culture.

Stained glass - a new art genre (***)
Along time ago, stained glasses were used to decorate domes of palaces, churches, castles Nowadays, they are likely to be used widely in houses, restaurants and hotel… however, just few people know about them.

Feng Shui in Office Light.
Currently office buildings usually have blinds or shutters and the lights are turned on in the room. This is not entirely right because natural light is better than artificial one.

Cooling in the Binh Chau hot mineral spring
Being one of two areas of world sustainable ecotourism of Vietnam, selected by the world tourism organization (WTO), Binh Chau hot mineral spring is the ideal place for you to release the hot of this summer.

Wood selection for doors in interior construction.
Wood could be used for the main door, bedroom window ... wood leaf opened or folded to create open or close spaces.

10 plants good for feng shui.
In-house plants are a way of decoration, and also a means to remove the toxic gas and to supply oxygen, which is to bring essential energy to your home. Below are 10 plants suitable to feng shui for your house.

Splashed lamps in interior.
Using splashed lamps is the choice of designers to create the outstanding of interior spaces.

Feng Shui For Toilet.
According to feng shui, energy and opportunity for the owner will enter through the main entrance to the house. However if the toilet is set straight to the main door, your opportunity could be passed out. So close the toilet door and the toilet lid when not in use.

Plank from palm tree.
Natural wood floor has formerly been made santal, pomu, oak, ironwood ...Now there has appeared in the market a new type plank from palm wood. Palm wood floors not only retain the characteristics of natural wood but also the common outstanding characteristic of hardness, resistance to warping and watering...

Design personal home spa - spa at home.
What you should think about when designing a spa is the combination of bedroom and of bathroom with natural environment.

Scented house.
Your house may be mixed with various smells like cigarette, mold smell, food ... which make the space oppressive. Is there any means to remove the unpleasant smell and get back the fragrance for the house? It’s not so complex as you first thought, just note a few points below.

Sparkling glass brick.
Not merely to light, the glass bricks have become increasingly popular on the market as decorations for impressive interior space.

Room arrangement in house.
In the art of Feng Shui, people not only pay attention to layout rules of the house, but also quite meticulous attention to each components of the house, kitchens, toilets and even the best places of brooms, cleaners.

Creating beauty views in house.
The narrow areas of modern houses create confined feeling while demands of relaxing increase gradually. Thus, creating beautiful corners where you can enjoy fine views, read a book, or have a tea will help you feel relaxed and balanced.

'Evolution' with wallpapers.
It’s no more strange in interior decoration, wallpaper has long been widely applied by architects all over the world to increase the decorating efficiency and it has very high artistic features.

Consulting villa construction.
Could this land build a family-style villa with slope roof garden and the first floor including living room, kitchen, garage or not? Could you, the architects, please set the layout surface of the house for me. Sincere thanks.

Lucky Stairs.
Many people do not pay attention to stairs when applying Feng Shui. In fact, stairs have important effect on the structure of a house as well as the meaning of in Feng Shui.

Tiles selection for bathroom.
Selecting tiles for bathroom is an important part. Standards set stone must be at the shiny, non-absorbent, easy-to-clean, and aesthetic, comfortable to owners.

Feng Shui for multipurpose space.
In case you have only one space for many functions, how could you be sure of the condition of a comfortable living and a good air field?

Discovery of the new beach Hải Hòa
Beach Hai Hoa, located in Tinh Gia district, about more than 40 Km or so far from the South of Thanh Hoa city, is becoming a new destination for tourists in the summer of this year.

Knowledge space.
We all like to own a bookshelf to keep our treasure of knowledge and arrange it by our own ways.

Salient points in the living room.
Sofa is the familiar item in the living room. For decoration, sofa is the important salient point such as its material, color and model show the owner’s favorite aesthetics. For function, sofa creates the comfortable and convenient for welcome space.

Avoiding conflict in building door.
Layout system of doors in house should be applied with many principles in which it is quite important to have the harmony of Yin and Yang and the avoidance of direct conflict. Door, if not cared, may affect the airflow in house, lack of light and of wind.

Arrangements for indoor free spaces.
There are usually two spaces in a house. The former is the one created within plan and the latter is the free space, not in the plan.

Materials in Feng Shui Standpoint.
Building materials (building materials) may affect humans through the senses. Color has visual impacts, surface material impacts on touch, smell ... thus affecting the welfare of the owner.

Feng Shui garden.
There are many invisible sources of energy around the garden. Some express themselves under physical conditions that we can observe daily.

Bathroom colors.
Many people are fond of bright colors because they are tender and lissome. The others like dark colors, as they are strong and powerful. Actually, we cannot use words to describe how the bathroom is when it is stylized with deep colors and bright enamel.

Multi-door house, Yes or No?
For many houses with large area, sometimes the owner wants to arrange many doors & windows to get ventilation…

Designing living room in Feng Shui standpoint.
If your living room has a fireplace (real or just for decoration), try to make it the most important outstanding…

House designing with pink.
Pink is the color of fashion tendency of this spring-summer. Pink, whether having modern or traditional colors, always brings bright and charming beauty to any rooms.

Mosaic Art in Interior.
Mosaic was originated in Greece with primitive meaning “ the art that is deserved the high-fluting imagination and endless patience”, belonging to the oldest kind of art of human being.

House structure in Feng Shui.
The best shape of a house is the square one. It is the balanced shape and also the symbol of the Earth, which has inductive and supportive features. Rectangular houses are also high valued.

Glass picture – New interior art.
The use of stained glass in the interior decoration has become quite popular in countries around the world, particularly Europe, the Americas. In Vietnam, this decorative art has only really been developed since the last 10 years.

The Five basic Elements of the indoor open air area.
Feng Shui in science, if the five basic elements are applied skillfully to the indoor open air area or the so called chair, there will bring harmony and balance on the air for the interior.

Tiles speak more.
Along with color flow of fashion, the trend of bricks & tiles in this year tend to the bright color, like gold, cobalt blue, pink, red. Just as fashion fabric has metallic color, so too in tiles & bricks, there appear many similar models. The classic pattern is still popular but with a new expression.

House decoration with letters & numbers.
You are finding a new idea to decorate your living space. Why don’t you try with numbers and letters. Just put them on TV-shelf, walls, tables or some places in the kitchen. Followed are some guides for you.

6 Suggestions for kitchen in Feng Shui.
You have already had a kitchen for you hearth, but you still don’t know how to arrange daily utensils suitably with feng shui and easily to handle. Below are some tips for you...

All white a bedroom.
White makes the space bright and clean. It also brings active effect to your mind, making you feel quiet and peace. A white bedroom will make owners easy and calm. It’s the ideal place for relaxing and preparing for pure feelings to rise up.

Where walls could talk.
The restaurant StraitsKitchen in the five-star Grand Hyatt in Singapore can make any fellow dinner surprised. You can enjoy the specialties and the impressive interior space as well.

Stair direction according to geomancy.
My house was built in 2000 when I had no researches of the house geomancy. I know that according to the geomancy, the stair direction has to run anti-clock-wise and put on the left.

Bad places in house.
Pay attention to the structure of living spaces and try to make the bad influences invalid by defending with trees, screens or light.

Rainbow colors.
The bathrooms with bright colors such as the following rainbow colors will surprised many people. Green, bright red and black red…how is surprised! In front of the reckless tone values capability of the designer .

Vivifying space underneath stairs.
Arranging vertical steps, at first floor, staircases create space in slanted shapes. Each house owner takes advantage from this space in his own way, but if arranged and decorated cleverly this “death” corner would "live".

Bedroom good in Feng Shui views.
In average, one third of our life is for sleeping. Therefore, you shouldn’t hesitate to take time to make your bedroom perfect. If you don’t sleep well, or if you want to improve your health, you should better follow some tips.

Themes and colors in western living rooms.
Nowadays, lots of people apply the European style to their living rooms. As this style is not simple, architects have to research a lot, relating it with the whole space.

Coziness with wood decorations.
When life is better, wood can be used more popularly in each living space. wood makes your house warm, friendly, and luxurious.

Arrangement in multistory house.
After determining the axis and the main and the appendices of the house, the detailed arrangement of a multistory house usually complies with the order "doors - kitchen - owner" to cooperation among different elements as a whole.

Choosing wool carpet for interiors.
No matter where you live- in a cement concrete and glass Western house or in a simple Eastern one, you only need to put a suitable carpet in the middle of the floor, and the room will be warmer.

Vogue with wall paintings.
In Vietnam, painting cubic or landscape on wall is not preferable as everyone like screens, terracotta… In fact, it’s the unique creation.

Giorgio Armani super luxurious interiors.
From fashion to interior, the trademark Giorgio Armani always affirms its position in the market. Products of Giorgio Armani are all very luxurious, both in design and in material.

Bathroom widened to nature.
The tendency of designing bathroom widened to the nature has become more and more popular. Garden houses, resort areas, spas, large villas and even city houses can create own styles with this original design.

Choosing decoration style for wall.
Sometimes, wall decoration is controlled by architects on the drawings with focusing on where and how to decorate, to create a character for the house.

Decorating wall tile colors.
Wall tiles for kitchens, bathrooms and other areas should have an outstanding. With the knowledge of color combination and also with own style, characteristics, you can create unique space, without any leading style from others

Feng Shui for window.
Windows are the eyes and mouths of houses and working places (a window glass broken may cause eye problems). Window is an air opening therefore it must be opened either outward or inward not upward nor downward.

The wallpaper of art.
The interesting patterns and vignettes of the wallpaper will make your living space a surprised vividity.

Variety of housing carpet.
Carpet is very useful for every house, especially in cold winters. It not only makes the space beautiful but also brings warmth to the whole family.

Roofing with colored tiles.
Colored tile is one made of cement and sand with new pressing technology, rejecting empty spaces and limiting the soft level. Thus, it’s lighter and more beautiful. Tile is covered with a colored layer by directly mixing colored flour into the materials or ejecting paint on its surface.

All white.
After Funny House’s architects have completed their design, Thai Minh hai Designer- Au Co Funny House stat to design the house’s interior decoration. The Owner’s request is the living room is simple but modern.

Murals for dining room.
Murals for the in-door dining room: dining room could be stated is the coziest place in a house, that's where all family members could gather together after a hard working day. To make the room more adorable, you could add some nice highlights like the pictures that we introduce below.

Bamboo Painting.
Bamboo curtains for doors have been used for long. But now this kind of old curtain has been upgraded to the level of art called bamboo painting.

Salient point on the wall.
There are many wall tiles to create a salient point on the wall such as color plates, puzzle plates, engraved pictures or paintings.

Mosaic in Western Countries
Why don’t we try to use Mosaic titles into the bathroom for a romantic and attractive style? It is an ideal place for you to make your creativeness and finding your strange feelings.

Peaceful grey in interior.
Grey is considered as a deep color. It is the combination between the white and black. It is an intermediate color for the variation of colors. With a light grey color, it will bring a quite and relaxed feeling. Grey color will be also the background for any dark color which is to be lightened or overcome

Simple, yet pretty.
Not too sophisticated and costly, a bamboo blinds with wood or aluminum material will bring light and elegant beauty to your home.

In-wall Wardrobe.
The in-wall wardrobe is designed to solve the angular structure of the house due to construction left, and save the space area . Using the in wall wardrobe is convenient for both building and usage.

Color for the office at home.
The office at home requires to combine comfortable, convenient and effective work, it differs from the working environment in the company. Using colors is a notice in decoration.

Kitchen Arrangement.
Kitchen, dining room, besides their own inherent functions, are used as a place for gathering family members in a short time of each meal. The level investment for kitchen has increase more and more, yet it is unnecessary to use expensive items to have the kitchen wonderful.

The cement floor of art
When the floor is pressed brick or granite, has become boring, there will be another choice. That is the cement floor decorated by simple patterns but they are very artful and specially create new and strange impression.

Simple with black and white.
The apartment is still of modern style, yet through interior arrangement, owner have created their own stamps, expressing their hobbies, personalities harmoniously with architecture space.

Make your bedroom a Paradise.
No matter if you are married or single, your bedroom could bring you cozieness. Would you like your bedroom the place where you could become sexy in your bed dress or not a warehouse where all things are crammed?

Pure white
What are the colors of the paint you are choosing for your house. It is not easy to select among the colors. White color is a simple and easiest to get dirt

Bathrooms for… admiration.
It’s certain that those bathrooms are not designed in ordinary houses.

Discovery the color’s secret.
It isn’t easy to create a colorful topic for the room because there are plenty of paints or wallpaper. We need to mix, combine and try using the most suitable sample in the different time in day so that your room has the most impressive picture.

Gentlemen ... self spa.
You are a busy man, though you’d love to enjoy relaxed feeling of spa yet your income could not afford you to go spa salon frequently. So why couldn’t you bring the benefits of a spa into your own house?

Designing your own house with Sweet Home 3D.
How is your dream house designed? And how is the furniture arranged…Let Sweet Home 3D(SW3) free software help you to organize your house in the computer by yourself before organize in real.

Cupboard and shelf in the bathroom.
Nowadays, modern bathroom can considered is a mini-room with many convenient equipments. And shelf and cupboard also put in this room. They both guarantee aesthetic and complete their function.

Wallpapers creating emotion.
In the world of many kinds of wallpaper, you will find out these wallpapers which create vivid feeling when they are used in your living space. But, let remember one thing, never use many kinds of wallpaper, you should make a salient point at the specific area.

Hobby with the cubic on wall.
They could be called as wall cubic pictures, or considered as masterpieces of arrangement, or more simply, as normal decoration. But the wonderful thing is that you will be surprised whenever any of them is completed.

Decorating house to Asian Style.
Are you Asian? You like to live in the house with Asian style which is always respected family’s protection and emotion and the most priority is a family reunion life style full coziness and love.

Three ways to combine colors.
With the same living room space but by changing different materials and colors of furniture, you will create a lot of strange, new and different arrangements. You should try some color usages below:

DHC luxurious kitchen cupboard
DHC Interior products were established from researching about art, cultural and social factors to manufacture these which gave prominence to environment and human. Abundant material and decoration make impressive observation for interior space.

Living room embellishment
The living –room is not only the place used for many purposes- resting, getting together with family’s members but also is the entertainment room: watching TV or listening music

Connection between living-room and kitchen.
Have neither partition between living room and dinning room, nor use them in the same space. Create an uncertain division and a connection instead. This is the best way to guarantee the highest usage, especial in kitchen.

Spa in hot and dry weather.
The cold and dry weather in autumn and winter makes skin dry and dull, less fresh and aging rapidly. The spa with skin care formulations from herbs, mud, is not only to relax but also to help skin to resurrect.

Spa for wife.
Evening on, both couple are totally tired. Minh was sleeping. Around 23h40, the wife turned and said: "Honey, spa for me!". Spa? Yes!

Open Bathroom.
The bathrooms introduced here were taken from the houses of some young people. They are in a position to express their personal preferences and their needs to relax, to enjoy.

Building a Spa at home
What impress you most when coming to a Spa? a quite space and a relaxed feeling. Therefore, with a dream to build a spa at home is reasonable plan.

Lavabo Cabinet.
If lavabo in bathroom was before fastened to the wall directly with drill and bolt, by now, designers will encourage the owner to use lavabo with cabinet(closed or open). The place underneath the lavabo could be used to store bathroom stuff.

Simple bookshelf.
If you are fond the minimalist school, and do not like sophisticated details, those below bookshelves are suitable for you. These products can be fastened on wall or placed directly on the floor, in accessible places, and considered as interesting decorations.

Mobile entertainment room.
Creating a room for entertaining needs at home is an opportunity to help you from dependence on crowded cinemas or karaoke rooms. It will be more wonderful if the new idea is a flexible space, furniture mobility.

Regulation for a common fence.
The boundary between my house and the adjacent house is a fence. I’m going to re-build my house, so I have worked with the neighbor for both cutting down a small part land area to build a common fence, but it was unaccepted.

House with time language.
In an old house in Thao Dien, the back of the house looks to Saigon river, Valerie Gregori McKenzie, a designer, spent 3 months to rebuild for this old house.

The private palace of fashion owner.
The owner of the famous fashion brand over the world, Tommy Hilfiger, used to own a palace at East Hampton, New York. The palace has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms advertised to buy with USD 24,500,000.

Pretty little hearth.
With 89 m2, how to organize to get a hearth not only fashionable, but also confortable with all functional spaces needed for a young family? An apartment in the Sky Garden area (Phu My Hung) is a referable sample.

Rough and Natural in interior decoration.
Nowadays, many people prefer to use rough and natural wood for interior furniture. Wood is kept original color and even some defects on its surface without any disguise.

The First Six Stars Hotel in Vietnam.
Located in the combined projects Vinpearl Land resort with a total area over 80,000 m2, a six -star hotel. Vinpearl Land will include two President villas equipped with special modern amenities and become the most world-class ; three luxury hotels, 125 suits as six-star international level, a swimming pool with 3.200 m2 two tennis courts and green system covering the entire campus.

Nam hai – A beautiful Designed Resort.
The Travel – Leisure times (USA) granted Nam Hai Resort a prize for a beautiful tourism construction design of 2008 at Hoi An. This decision made by seven experts in industrial designs.

Furama a beautiful Resort in Southeast Asia.
A 5 stars Furama Resort in Da Nang has been voted online by the Travel Service of Singapore – Agoda, as one of the most beautiful resorts in the Southeast Asia.

Geomancy for Bathroom.
Bathroom is indispensable in every house. Its layout should be arranged skillfully so that it won’t loose its closeness, sensitiveness, yet it will still follow Feng Shui regulations.

Geomancy for materials.
Like other principle in geomancy, using material in the house is an cumulative process by times and rules to follow. There are many criteria need to be concentration at :”5 rules”

Geomancy for kitchen.
Kitchen has been considered as one of the important factors to the prosperity of the whole family. There has been the worship to Kitchen God of the so-called “Tao Quan” for the whole year happiness of the family.

The Ho Tram Complex Resort.
On May 23, the ceremony of granting license and starting the project took place in HCMC. With investment capital 4.2 billion dollars, this is the biggest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Vietnam till now.