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    Feng Shui Tips: Kitchen Renovations
    Feng Shui Tips: Kitchen Renovations
    Feng Shui Tips: Kitchen Renovations
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    Feng Shui Tips: Kitchen Renovations

    By S. Lee Wright

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    Feng Shui Tips: Kitchen Renovations offers a fresh perspective of the most important space in our homes – the kitchen. Lee explores the history of the heart of the home from ancient times to the modern kitchen and beyond. This book provides you with insights, ideas and real how-to tools for your own kitchen design and renovation project.

    Lee shares how you too can bring more abundance into every area of your life by creating the heart of your home in a mindful manner. She does this by demonstrating how to use Feng Shui principles and balance your materials in an elemental manner that will exude happiness for all those that cook, eat and live in your kitchen.

    Since it is the most expensive area in your home to renovate, it is essential to get your kitchen renovation project right the first time. Lee guides you with her signature style of DIWYTM (Design-It-With-YouTM) and follows her passion to help you design your kitchen with intention for a better life. Expertise comes from experience. With Lee’s vast array of completed kitchen renovations and award-winning designs, Lee invites you to learn insider designer tips for how to create a kitchen that is exactly what you have dreamed of.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherS. Lee Wright
    Release dateJul 28, 2016
    ISBN9781944926038
    Feng Shui Tips: Kitchen Renovations
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    S. Lee Wright

    S. Lee Wright believes that the world will transform into a healthier and happier place once people are realigned with the interconnection between our interior environments and our exterior ones.As a licensed Interior Designer, Feng Shui expert, and LEED AP, Lee combines the best of technical design skills along with a series of Eastern Holistic modalities to co-create sustainable design projects that help her clients live better, healthier, happier lives.With a global client list that continues to grow, Lee has created award-winning designs in both the USA and Europe over the last 25+ years in the corporate, residential, hospitality, and institutional sectors. Lee's focus is now on teaching & sharing how spaces can be transformed to better serve those that live & work in them. She does this through online workshops, live events (when possible!) plus through design coaching packages.Lee is currently located in San Sebastian, Spain, writing a new book on Living Sustainably as she lives her passion and she continues to work with her clients globally.Her overall vision is to help as many people as possible to understand the power of space to enhance and enrich their lives. Her Mission is to teach them how to do this for themselves.

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      Feng Shui Tips - S. Lee Wright

      "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

      ~Mahatma Gandhi

      WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK

      WAYS OF THINKING

      With a minor in psychology, I am aware that there are two ways the majority of people process information: linearly or logic-based thinkers and nonlinearly or creative thinkers. Linear thinkers are people who consistently process information in a step-by-step manner, love task lists, and are typically very organized people. Nonlinear people or creatives, on the other hand, are people who think in all sorts of unusual ways, processing information in an erratic manner, and are typically very artistic people who exhibit outside-of-the-box thinking. Neither manner of thinking is good or bad; they are just different. Typically people are either predominantly one or the other. Early on in my career, I was often asked to be the liaison between our clients’ CEOs and our design team. This indicated to me that I was unusual and had a knack to see the world from both perspectives.

      HOLISTIC DESIGN

      When I was working on corporate projects, the conversations with my clients would invariably always turn to a discussion of their residences. I often found that many of them had past experiences with renovations, especially in their kitchens and bathrooms. When designing spaces, I always referenced my clients’ other spaces and experiences to help discover what their deepest desires included. This combination of thinking, both linearly as well as creatively, was what helped me to start to see the pattern in designing kitchens and to manipulate my own methodology to help my clients get the most from their designs. The pattern first presented itself to me as I witnessed the transformation of my clients during the design process of their kitchens. My holistic approach, which emphasized the creative thinking before the linear one, allowed my clients to express their inner desires of how they wanted to act in the perfect kitchen. Since I could allow them to focus on this, we were able to create a transformative process that resulted in some amazing lifestyle changes following the renovations of their kitchens.

      PATTERNS

      After about a dozen kitchen renovation projects, and the resulting transformations of my clients as well as their kitchens, I confirmed that these patterns existed in each renovation project.

      All renovations have a certain series of steps that need to happen. You must complete step A before you can proceed to step B, and so forth. It is a very linear process, which is perfect for me since this is one of my greatest skills. It is inherent in the project management required for Interior Design and Architectural renovation projects. However, I noticed that kitchens are so much more important in our lives than simply a place to provide food. Early on, it became very apparent to me that the design and renovation of a kitchen was a special challenge to be considered wisely. There was a different sort of pattern emerging than in other types of home renovations.

      TRANSFORMATIONS

      One client became the center of their community after we designed their kitchen with this intention. It started with opening up the space and creating a central island for a gathering spot. Within a year, they were hosting the neighborhood’s annual party in their home, around this very island. Another client, a recent widow, called to share with me that her children had started to hang out in the kitchen we designed every day after its renovation and that it had become the new center for their family gatherings. It had literally become the new heart of their home, linking them together as a family again after their tragic loss, despite it being a tiny, railroad-style kitchen. This had been her intention when we started the kitchen renovation: to rebuild her family.

      Understanding the fact that the kitchen is the heart of your home gives you the chance to define what this means to you and your family in your own unique way before anything is set in stone. From my experience with dozens of kitchen design jobs, this is the most often skipped first step, but it is the most important one for a truly successful Kitchen Renovation project. This knowledge, that our kitchens hold a sacred and important place in our spaces, was emphasized for me when I began to seriously study the art and science of Feng Shui.

      FENG SHUI

      Feng Shui is an ancient practice that creates the mindful arrangement of an individual’s space. The balance and harmony between our internal and external environments is an underlying principle of Feng Shui. It is a combination of ancient Chinese Taoist culture, Buddhism, and modern science/design used to work with our natural world to maximize our individual potential. My formal training was under the care of Grand Master Professor Thomas Lin Yun’s teachings in the Black Sect, which transforms the fundamental principles of ancient Feng Shui philosophy into a method that is applicable to the modern world. It emphasized for me the importance of the Kitchen space in our homes because it represents the core of our survival and our ability to thrive.

      SERIES

      I wrote the first book, Feng Shui Tips: Home Renovations, as an overview of the entire Home Renovation process. During my 25 years in the business, I have witnessed the emotional curve that all my clients experience during the journey of a home renovation. I decided I wanted to make this process more conscious and to have the journey, the experience, be as transformative for my clients on the inside as the design we were installing was for their exterior environment.

      I decided that I needed to provide a series with separate books focusing on Kitchens and Bathrooms respectively because of my massive amount of experience in these two areas of the home. I never set out to be a kitchen or bathroom designer. I feel a good designer can really design anything. I love a challenge so I never wanted to limit myself. However, these two rooms are the most complex and expensive rooms in the house, which you will hear more about later in this book; therefore, my expertise was sought time and time again for the designs of both kitchens and bathrooms. I have also won awards with these designs. One of my specialties is in small spaces, having lived and worked in cities where space is at a premium.

      The series, therefore, includes these other books, and perhaps more, as my clients share their desire to use Feng Shui Tips in each area of their home and office spaces.

      POSITIVE LASTING RESULTS

      My intention with this book is to share with you the secrets of how to allow your Kitchen Renovation to be a transformative process for you and your family in a manner that you can understand and follow, so as to provide the greatest benefit. The objective is to forge a true combination of both the linear and creative aspects, thereby leveraging the best of both worlds, for an out of this world kitchen.

      WHY YOU SHOULD GET THIS BOOK

      THE MOST IMPORTANT ROOM IN THE HOUSE

      The Heart of the Home is important for everyone. It is a source of life and a place for nourishment and connection. From a Feng Shui perspective, this is the most essential thing in your space to bring you happiness, health and abundance. If you get this space right, the rest of your life will fall into place.

      Kitchens are the Heart of the Home for everyone, whether people believe it or not. Historically, they were the hearths and the place from which all of life was sustained. Today it is less obvious; however, it is still the source for all nourishment, which is what ultimately sustains our existence. Kitchens are the soul of a household because it is where everyone must come during the day to survive. We are inherently drawn to warmth and to places where we break bread.

      Despite being born into the culture that has literally created the fast food industry, I am a supporter of slow cooking, and slow eating. Do not get me wrong: I am still a New Yorker in many ways and can

      appreciate the reasoning behind the need to eat fast. However, it is my firsthand experience that cultures that focus on sharing food as a foundational part of their lives tend to be less stressed, have closer family relationships, and have more important connections with their communities in general. It is these things in the end that I believe make for a happier and more fulfilling life.

      SAVE MONEY

      Kitchens are the most technical spaces in our modern homes because they have electrical appliances and the need for water and plumbing, plus cabinetry or millwork. Along with the bathroom, the Kitchen is one of the two rooms in which the design includes/requires all of the trades. Today, the Kitchen is often combined with the dining room so it is even more expansive and includes a lot of different things in it to work properly. A lot of these additional things in the modern Kitchen are also quite expensive in relative terms. Appliances, for example, are large pieces of equipment specifically designed to either store, cook, or transform our food in some manner to make our lives easier and more delicious. The sheer range of the different kinds of appliances available indicates our overall cultural obsession with all things to do with cooking. Along with the celebrity chef, we are learning that we can get an appliance to bake, cook, steam, clean, and practically do everything else you desire in the kitchen.

      Getting the wrong product, installing it incorrectly, or not even being able to deliver it can be a very expensive mistake. A large refrigerator a client had fallen in love with and purchased spontaneously because it was on sale turned out to be too large to fit into the building entrance. The apartment was on the eighth floor of an apartment building in downtown Brooklyn, New York, so the cost to boom the appliance into the apartment removed any savings the client had gained from the purchase made at the sale price. Luckily, due to my connections in the industry, I was able to swap it out for a smaller sized refrigerator that did fit into the stairwell. Sometimes these mistakes can cost literally thousands and thousands of dollars to fix.

      Renovations are not the same as decoration because in a renovation, especially the Kitchen, other elements are often required for the successful completion of the design. These can include demolition, structural elements, electrical and plumbing. These items are critical and must be done right for our basic health and safety. Electrical and plumbing can cause fires, floods and harm, not to mention cost money, if done incorrectly. This is not the room in the home I would ever recommend skimping on. Do it right. Dangers are everywhere in the Kitchen. You want to make sure you have the right team on board to do the right job the first time.

      Leverage the knowledge of others during your Kitchen Renovation so you can avoid losing your shirt in the process of it. The horror stories you see on all the TV home renovation

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