Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living [Paperback]

Sharon Stasney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000

Thousands of years old—and today’s hottest interior design trend. “Gives suggestions for balance and harmony.”—Publisher’s Weekly. “Learn how to use color, texture and shape to boost your energy, calm your spirit and simply create a stunning home that will feel as good as it looks.” —Timber Homes Illustrated.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

God knows--uh, sorry--Buddha knows that this book was released during the feng shui design-fad glut. But in a workbook-handy softcover and at a price that won't throw off your chi, it's a fun, interesting, and erudite hands-on guide to designing your living space along the principles of "fung shway"--that ages-old Chinese practice of directing invisible energy, or "chi" through your home for maximum physical, mental, and spiritual health and balance. Whether this do-it-yourselfer is a pure distillation of feng shui theory and practice or a conveniently Westernized version of them, most of its advice seems to accord with both general good design instinct and common sense. No pretty-but-vague viewbook, Feng Shui Chic breaks it all down with a wealth of nice color shots of home interiors and exteriors robustly explained in captions and call-outs, plus lots of floorplan charts, boxed sections, and checklists for everything from adjusting each room's yin and yang to bringing just the right balance of earth, fire, wood, and water energy into a space. A lot of the interiors lean toward suburban baroque, but you'll still want to live in half of them, especially if, like this reviewer, you live in an apartment so small that all the chi in the world won't make it chi-chi. --Timothy Murphy

About the Author

The author lives in Salt Lake City, UT.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806960817
• ISBN-13: 978-0806960814
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,980 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feng Shui Chic really hits home!, November 30, 2000

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Maura Powers (Salt Lake City, Ut United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living (Paperback)

Sharon Stasney gives western culture a book that fits our aesthetics and our cultural needs. This book takes the mystery and confusion out of Feng Shui and allows readers to really get down to making some changes in their life. Many of the feng shui books I have read have left me in a perpetual thinking loop-meaning no action taken, no change.

Feng Shui Chic is well organized in an understandable, practical format. The exercises are very helpful and highlight the versatility of feng shui as a healing tool. The room by room guide is essential for being able to diagnose one's own home.

As a student and practioner of Feng Shui, I know how powerful a tool it can be, but very few books offer ideas that are as aesthetically pleasing, versatile and practical as Sharon's. The other very impressive part of the book is that it truly gives the reader gentle and practical ways to look closer at the connection of the physical space to the whole person and see how these two things are connected and the beautiful energy dance that happens between them.

The color photographs are beautifully done and essential to digesting the information being presented in each of the sections.

I will be giving and recommending this book to everyone I know.

Maura Powers Salt Lake City, UT

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Usable Feng Shui Resource -- One of the Very Best!, December 19, 2008

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Vive Bene "Live Well" (WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living (Paperback)

I have owned Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living for years and have given it as a gift more times than I can count. It is by far one of the best, most practical, useful, understandable resources on the market. The pictures, illustrations, and text help a beginner or experienced decorator who is intergrating feng shui into design or home improvement projects. I bought a lot of other books before I found this one and none have ever compared. Buy it! Also a great gift. Every person to whom I have given this book has raved about it, too!

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Attractive ideas, marginal feng shui content, January 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Feng Shui Chic: Stylish Designs for Harmonious Living (Paperback)

As a feng shui practitioner-in-training, I take all feng shui manuals and books with a grain of salt. In other words, don't believe everything you read. That's not to say Stasney's book doesn't contain some interesting concepts. If you're looking for some fresh interior design ideas, by all means read and enjoy this book. The photos are attractive, and the book itself is well ordered and thoughtfully written. On the other hand, if you're serious about authentic, traditional feng shui -- meaning real, honest-to-goodness theory and application -- start somewhere else, and pick this book up later as a study to test your knowledge and eye for authenticity. Stasney authorizes liberal use of intuition in your interior design. Which is fine ... but just remember that feng shui is a science, not solely a mere feeling or preference. As with all feng shui books, consider this just book just one of many layers in your living-space analysis.