Sell Your House with Feng Shui
9 Ways to Help it Sell Faster and Easier
by Kathryn Weber
Publisher, The Red Lotus Letter
From determining pricing to having to keep a home “show
ready,” marketing a house is always a challenge. And, just
like inoculations, homeowners usually want to get the sale
over as quickly as possible. Here’s nine feng shui tips to help
your house move faster.
1. Engage the senses.
Prospective buyers must be engaged in every way possible. Use these ideas to engage the senses of buyers at your home.
Looks good:
Use lots of horizontal space. Clear off all the tops of everything (dressers, counters, shelves, etc.). Draw the eye to the corner diagonal to the door to each room. This makes the room feel larger and makes buyers focus on a feng shui good luck area.
Feels good:
Make sure all entries and rooms can be entered easily and comfortably, and that there are no mirrors opposite any door. Keep your home from being “dead still” by keeping something moving, such as ceiling fans.
Sounds good: Place a fountain close to the front of the house or keep music playing at all times, especially in the northwest corner of the house.
Smells good: According to feng shui, earthy scents are the most appealing to the widest range of people. So, opt for cinnamon and pine scents rather than floral or vanilla scents.
2. Sales are made by first impressions.
The front door is THE most important area of the house in feng shui. Keep it immaculate, with lights turned on in front at in the foyer, a new doormat, and have something flanking either side of the front door, such as two pots of lush, healthy plants and flowers.
3. Be ready to move.
To assist you over the mental hurdle of leaving, buy the new owners a small gift such as a new front door mat or crystal candy dish (filled with chocolates because chocolate is excellent feng shui).
Perhaps more importantly, start moving out. Yes, that's right. You want new energy (a buyer) to come into the house, right? Well, then give it (them) room to come in by putting a lot of the excess stuff you don't need into a rented storage unit.
Ask any Realtor -- they'll tell you that they wish ALL their sellers would do this! It makes more space -- and it gives you a jump start on packing. From a feng shui perspective, it symbolically creates room for another family to move in.
4. Correctly place your “for sale” sign.
Make sure the “for sale” sign is to the right of the front door as you look at it. This is the yang, or energetic, side of the house.
5. Make a “Welcome Vignette.”
Have a table in the foyer or front room of the house, on the right as you enter the front door, with business cards, literature, a bowl of chocolates or cinnamon candies, and small vase of fresh flowers. Put this on a red-colored cloth. Make sure business cards are in an acrylic holder so they are not “laying down” on the job.
6. Energize the helpful people sector.
The northwest corner of a home is considered the “helpful people” area – important for sales. Activate it with music playing here.
7. Focus on the kitchen.
In feng shui, kitchens are prosperity and health areas. Insist on clear counters, clean, organized pantry, and wastebaskets and knives out of sight. Place a small, lush plant and jar full of cookies on the counter.
8. Get growing.
Make sure there are no plants touching the house (this draws energy away from the house), no spindly plants (it makes the house seem like it’s dying, too), and no dead plants whatsoever. Give all the plants in and around your house a good sprucing up!
9. Insist that bathroom doors remain shut.
Buyers should never see a toilet when they enter a house or a room. Toilet lids should remain down and doors to bathrooms should always be closed.
I read this article on how to sell your house with Feng Shui after our house had
been on the market for about a year. We were getting a lot of showings and
great feed back, but we hadn't had any offers.
After reading the article I did everything you suggested. Two weeks later we had
a cash offer! The deal was finished and we were out of the house, all within six
weeks of Feng Shui-ing! Thank you so much for your articles and your services.
Dianne Hawhee
Gardnerville, Nevada
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Homeowner Praises Selling A Home with the Benefit of Feng Shui
Thank you ever so much for your advice on selling our home. Each step you suggested had a more powerful effect as we moved toward attracting a prospective buyer.
We did the curb appeal on our own, meaning plants, manicured lawn, along with fresh paint...but nothing was happening. There were a lot of "lookers" but no serious offers.
In a panic we contacted you for suggestions which have had amazing results. We did not do all of these steps at once but the build up of your suggestions over time and our implementation made believers out of us.
•When possible we kept the lights burning 24 hours a day on the south side of the house.
•Wind chimes (small inexpensive ones) on the SE & NW corners of the roof over hang of the house.
•A radio tuned to a classical station turned very low. It was placed in the NW area of the house. This is one step that had a very magnetic effect to it...viewing really picked up when we did this.
Even so, we panicked once again and contacted you and got the suggestion of the price tag/bird. We used a scrap piece of paper and drew a stick figure type of bird with a price tag in its mouth with the amount of money we wanted for the house written on the price tag. You mentioned how having the strings of the price tag showing was important. This went on the wall in the East. More potential buyers began to show up.
As the attraction to buyers began to build we didn't change anything, even when we got a contract on the house. We kept lights on, windchimes, etc., until we handed over the keys to the new owners.
All I can say is over the course of less than 5 months, the house was sold (and in a VERY tough real estate market!), and we feel that we owe you a debt of gratitude for your advice. Your skill and calmness were amazing.
