Taming the Too-Big House
by Elizabeth Lutyens
Success story written for the web site of Intentional Design,
an interior design and Feng Shui consulting firm. The full feature
story can be read in its entirety on the Intentional Design web
site, at: http://www.intentionaldesigner.com/taming.html.
With feng shui, less is much, much more
Nancy and Greg Forsythe bought their house in southeast Asheville for the
view. For the five-acres of privacy. For the surrounding woods, a playground
for their two German Shepherds. And they liked the rugged post-and-beam,
mountain-lodge style of the house with its passive solar feature. After
living there for six years and approaching retirement age, they considered
moving from this 4,000-square-foot home and building a smaller one. The
idea of "building green" was especially attractive to them,
but they decided that they weren't up to the demands of composting toilets
and wood-burning stoves. And they didn't see a setting anywhere that
they liked as much as their own land.
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