Feng Shui Before and After: Practical Room-by-Room Makeovers for Your House [Paperback]

Stephen Skinner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2001

Feng Shui Before and After uses the ancient art of feng shui to help you improve the energetic quality and visual appeal of your home or office. The book tells you how to find your most and least fortunate directions, your element and star number, and how to use the ômagic squareö to discover which sectors of your house relate to specific areas of your life.

This book will show you how to transform your home or office, restoring harmony and maximizing the flow of good energy or ôchÆiö in your life by doing things as simple as rearranging furniture, redecorating using the right colors, or adding a mirror, plant, or wind-chime. With beautiful ôbefore and afterö color photographs and informative text, this title contains everything you need to improve any areaÆs feng shui.

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About the Author

Stephen Skinner is the founder and publisher of Feng Shui for Modern Living magazine, the world's best-selling magazine on feng shui, which was available in 41 countries and published simultaneously in English and Chinese. He is the author of the first English book on feng shui in the 20th century, The Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing; Paperback with Flaps edition (May 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804832838
• ISBN-13: 978-0804832830
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #795,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephen Skinner wrote, with Francis King, the classic "Techniques of High Magic" in 1976. He followed that with "Oracle of Geomancy" and "Terrestrial Astrology: Divinatory Geomancy", which has become the standard work on Western divinatory geomancy. Highly illustrated books on "Nostradamus" and "Millennium Prophecies" followed. He also edited "Aleister Crowley's Magical Diaries" and "Astrology".

In the 1970s Stephen was responsible for stimulating interest in John Dee and Enochian magic by publishing through his imprint Askin Publishers the first reprint of Meric Casaubon's "True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr John Dee and some Spirits.." and Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on the angelic language "The Complete Enochian Dictionary".

He is currently working with David Rankine to reproduce the best available source books of practical ceremonial magic, particularly from old never before printed manuscripts owned by practising magicians.

His latest book on magic, "The Complete Magician's Tables" is a book of correspondences, which with more than 800 tables, is the most complete tabular book of magical correspondences in print.

Stephen is also the author of eight books on feng shui, including the first English one in the 20th century.

He has written more than 27 books translated into 20 different languages. He lives in Johor Bahru, near Singapore, where he researches both feng shui and classical magic.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good basic feng shui book, February 22, 2008

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Penn Power - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feng Shui Before and After: Practical Room-by-Room Makeovers for Your House (Paperback)

This feng shui book is very good for the beginner.
The author is big on having your back protected and feeling protected in general.
It makes me want to live in a castle on the high ground with a mountain to my back, special trees on each side, surrounded by a moat, with a full view of the village below.
It must be this "protected" feeling that allows the rooms to feel cozy and secure.
The best part of this book is the basic room set up for each room.
Also worth checking out is "Feng Shui In A Weekend". That's a great book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book., March 16, 2009

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This review is from: Feng Shui Before and After: Practical Room-by-Room Makeovers for Your House (Paperback)

I loved this book. I've had it for years and keep it as a reference book. It's easy to understand and has really good photos and diagrams. It has the formulas to figure out your best direction and worst. The way you should face when you sit and direction to sleep in. I highly recommend this book for feng shui beginner. It made a believer out of me. Must buy.