HOME & GARDEN

Find Yourself at Home: A Conscious Approach to Shaping Your Space and Your Life

Chronicle Prism. Jun. 2023. 224p. ISBN 9781797221403. $22.95. INTERIOR DESIGN
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Oregon Home magazine editor Grosvenor is a certified feng shui consultant. She utilizes her background to focus on making home designs align with achieving one’s desired life. The author acknowledges that COVID led to a shift in people’s relationships with their homes, but some readers might appreciate a deeper exploration of this topic. The book occasionally mentions people living in multipurpose spaces by necessity, but it places a much bigger emphasis on places big enough for its occupants to have separate spaces. These type of spots, the book stresses, can help define how people feel when they are in them. Much of the design advice—viewing home-care as self-care, focusing on reducing clutter, and choosing items based on the feelings they evoke—doesn’t seem new. This book focuses on blending environmental psychology theories and strategies with the practices of feng shui. This work’s best quality is that it details how feng shui can help readers manifest the things that they are looking for in life.
VERDICT While much of the design advice feels familiar, readers with an interest in feng shui will likely enjoy this book.
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