Two feng shui authors who have greatly influenced my practice are Carole Hyder and Terah Kathryn Collins. Both of them have written about the impracticality of having chairs that are...... Read More

On my last trip to Oahu, I filmed a few short videos that focus on reducing conflict and increasing harmony in the home, specifically referencing situations that come in up...... Read More

I should have known the French would have a word for it—enfilade. Enfilade doors are doors that are lined up exactly, one door coming into the room and another door...... Read More

Your home and its contents are a chorus. Every object has a voice; the objects that are out in view have the loudest voices and the most profound effect. What...... Read More

My mother’s father, Clarence Twitty, ran a nightly poker game in the hill country of Alabama at a gas station near the Mississippi line. My grandfather fed his family by...... Read More

I taught a Feng Shui for Gardens workshop on my recent trip to O‘ahu. It’s been some time since I’ve offered this class, and in preparation, I flipped through Feng...... Read More

In addition to being a feng shui consultant and author, I’m also a gardener and book reviewer. (My horticultural reviews are usually published in the West Hawaii Today.) Sometimes this...... Read More

Painting one or more walls an accent color can be great or horrible, from a design viewpoint and from a feng shui perspective. Remove the possibility of “horrible” results by...... Read More

Wall color is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. There are only two rooms in our house that are white—the bathroom and the library. The library...... Read More

Michael Wu is a Compass School feng shui master in Honolulu. In his book Year of the Ram 2015—Secrets of Heaven and Earth he refers to Landform (Form School) Feng...... Read More