The RoomMates Cherry Blossom Peel and Stick Appliques are removable, repositionable and reusable wall stickers which can offer an extremely understated, artistic aspect to any room. It can also enliven a kid’s room or game room with riotous effects, by using any of the numerous other applique designs. The Cherry Blossom motif shown here is the “artistic” portion. Understated and elegant, it adds dimension and art to any wall.

Applied by almost anyone – one can stretch the distances between the matching pre-designed arrangement or tighten them at will. Repositioning the small articles can yield effects with which one can surprise oneself.

Naturally, there are an abundant list of other themes, but this Cherry Blossom theme does indeed stand out as a gentle but arresting work. Beautiful and appealing to the eye with its softer effects, this gorgeous arrangement also comes in a variety of colors and styles – Asian and Japanese themes especially, but also some kinds of country decor. What a great way to impart one’s own significant artistic impact inside the rooms of any home.

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This style focuses on a clean design, clutter-free  with well lit spaces setting the stage for a few chosen object des arts. Many rooms end up with a minimalistic look, which should contribute towards a zen-style sense of balance rather than alienate. To achieve the right effect, be prepared to invest in a few well-chosen items that will set the tone of the entire room.

Here are a few options for you to consider. All of these items can be ordered from Amazon with the provided links and delivered to your doorstep anywhere within the continental US, so go ahead and bring the Japanese magic into your home.

This Classic Japanese Shoji Screen allows you to install an instant wall in your room, possibly delimiting the Japanese styled area, or simply assisting in creating separate living areas in a larger space. It’s versatile enough to fit into any room, as you can order a combination of three to six panels. With other shades available, you can custom fit this into your color scheme, always retaining that distinct sense of natural materials and a balanced clean look. Click Here for the Japanese Shoji screen on Amazon

This classic tatami floor mat provides a clean chic Japanese touch to any room. The contrast between the natural woven grass shades and the sheer black border makes this item a great match to any modern Japanese room design. It’s also eco-friendly and fairly inexpensive, so definitely an item worth considering. Click here to read more and buy it online.

This gorgeous wall clock encompasses the clean de-cluttered look of contemporary Japanese style.  Large and metallic for an added modern edge, it has Japanese symbols in lieu of numbers. With the chopsticks like arms, it clearly conveys a sense of that unique look you’re going for. Click here for full specs, price and availability.

For your choice of furniture, try to stick to black solid items, with clean lines and a minimalistic look. This black table is a wonderful example of modern Japanese furniture. Use it as a living room table, or as a mantle piece on which you can display artwork, plants or even a small minimalistic zen garden. Click here for the Product page.

Last, but not least, consider introducing a natural element into your room setup. Goldfish will add to your feng shui design, but certainly require looking after. If you prefer not to have to deal with goldfish care, a plant is always an option. For the easiest low-maintenance element, a quality artificial plant works best, and you can’t go wrong with a couple of potted  Japanese bamboo plants. Click here to see details and price.

Finally, for more information and inspiration about Asian design do check out this site: Feng Shui Decorating.

Enjoyed these ideas? Do leave us comments and let us know what you think about this decorating style.

Here’s an excellent idea for decor that helps your Feng Shui. This gorgeous glowing decor accent piece is made from real slabs of natural salt crystals, and hand carved to preserve the beauty of the crystal’s color. No two are exactly alike, so you can make a row of them, without the arrangement looking fake.

Since Salt crystals are of the earth element, this Feng Shui cure would be perfect to place in the center of your home or clinic in order to promote health by raising the Chi (vital force) in your health zone.

Imagine lighting a hall way, or a child’s bedroom with these as night lights. If you have a favorite meditation corner or room, these salt crystal lamps will make you feel as if you are perched atop one of the Himalayan peaks, drawing strength from the Earth, and give you a focal point to help calm and still your mind.

These also make romantic dining room lights, and promote amourous feelings with their soft colored glow.

Each lamp comes with a 6 foot power cord that is UL listed, and has an on-off switch, polarized plug, and a 15 W bulb.

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Excellent! Not only do you get the beauty of bamboo blinds, with their warm tasteful color and texture, and their understated elegance; you also get the beauty of a traditional Chinese brush and ink painting of bamboo on the shade, which turns your closed window into a portal to a lovely forest or garden. Perfect combination!

From the point of view of a Feng shui consultant, this is an impeccable choice. The bamboo material and image will enhance your positive “Chi” (vital energy) and cure “Sha Chi” (negative energy), as bamboo is very auspicious and said to have magic properties that aide in healing.

Even if you simply like the way it looks, you’ll enjoy the peaceful serene feeling you get with this image.

The first thing your guests will notice is your good taste and your sophistication. Not only are these beautiful, they also help the environment. Bamboo is a quickly renewable resource, not requiring pesticides.

This blind would look lovely in a room with bamboo or rattan furniture, and bamboo wood floors.

The blind is even available in a variety of sizes: 2 ft, 3 ft, 4 ft, 5 ft, or 6 ft wide.

This makes a great house warming gift!

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This is a wonderful design idea. The clean lines and serenity of bamboo are elegant and beautiful without being gaudy. The color is perfect for rooms featuring a sand colored pallet. Blond wood looks right at home with this window decor.

Window film by art-scape self adheres without adhesives, so it can be easily removed even after years insitu. The white background and golden bamboo are translucent but not transparent, so they allow the room to be bathed in beautiful muted natural light, while providing privacy. The design is visible from both sides, so you enjoy the look of stained glass in more than one location. The pattern repeats like wallpaper, so you can add panels top, bottom, left, or right, and it and can be trimmed to fit your window size and shape.

Bamboo is a powerful Feng Shui remedy, so using this window film could raise the positive “Chi” (vital energy) in the rooms, home, office, clinic, or studio where it is used. It also makes a good privacy screen for a glass shower, as the wood energy helps to balance the excess water energy and compensate for the drains.

Even if you simply enjoy the Asian Aesthetic, and appreciate the peaceful and relaxing feeling you get with the Japanese decor , you’ll be glad you chose this window film instead of curtains.

The film filters out UV radiation, and stands up well to heat, cold, humidity, and steam.

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The white shade is shaped like a paper fan and will create an elegant understated look that will not dominate the room. It will add atmosphere and an Asian flavor without demanding attention. The pleats are a perfect way to add texture in a white on white decor theme, and therefore avoid the flat look you get when a monochrome room lacks texture.

This 36 by 72 inches window shade is so easy to install, you can stick it on instantly when you need privacy or to block the light. The shade can be trimmed down to fit even a window that is 36 inches wide, or left as is for a window that is 72 inches wide. It comes with a self adhesive holder for windowsill mounting, and can be installed in seconds. The shade is made of durable paper, and can be easily removed. This is an economical way to shade a half circle shaped window.

Here’s a suggestion: Use this fan shaped shade on the window, and then add a few Asian accent pieces around the room. Try a Japanese theme, with an iron tea pot and Raku glazed ceramic cups. Add a floral arrangement of cherry blossoms on long thin branches, and throw in a white porcelain Neko cat for luck.

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The frameless mirror with beveled edges is a great decor concept. The beveled edges give it a finished and framed look, without adding a frame that may not match your decor scheme. Leaving the mirror frameless means that no mater what color pallet your room decor employs, this mirror will always match it. The reflected light will give the mirror’s edges the color of the adjacent wall or decor items. Ingenious!

This mirror is 24 inches by 36 inches, and comes with the hooks bonded to the back of the mirror. This means that there won’t be any hardware visible when you hang it. All hardware is included.

The mirror is of a good size and shape to facilitate grooming, and to check your self before leaving the house. For this reason, it would be equally fitting in either your bathroom, dressing room, or entrance hallway. Additionally, the mirror will help to make a small space feel bigger, and a dark room feel brighter.

This room can be used to reflect the top of your stove in the kitchen, doubling your prosperity according to Feng Shui principles. The mirror would also be well placed if it (by way of a window) reflected a mature and healthy tree growing in your yard. If the tree has round green broad leaves, that is even better. Reflecting that image may increase your prosperity, and your families growth.

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Remember the post about techniques for making your decor items look like antiques, even if they aren’t? Well, here’s an example of the “distressed” finishing that makes an item look as if aged by time, when it is really just  painted by someone who knows what they are doing. This mirror has all the charm of an antique, and looks like one.

The vintage design is pretty, resembling twigs with birds perched on them. The organic lines bring taste and understated elegance to your room’s decor, and the colors easily blend with your theme.

This would be a very good mirror to use as a Feng Shui cure, as it combines more than one of the 5 elements.

The mirror is 22 inches in diameter, making it practical for grooming, and not only for Feng Shui. But if you do use it for Feng Shui, remember that mirrors represent virtual windows when placed on an indoor wall that blocks Chi (vital energy); so use the mirror like a portal, where there is blockage or stagnation of energy flow.

The bare twigs could represent potential for growth in a dormant period, so this might be well placed where you archive projects you plan to do next year, rather than where you are trying to bring something to fruition right now.

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The traditional Bagua mirror is an important part of Feng Shui decor and design. This authentic Chinese Bagua mirror features the traditional 8 sided trigram frame, and the concave reflective surface to reverse negative energy. Made of shiny metal rather than glass, the Bagua mirror is tough enough to weather the elements without breaking.

The Bagua mirror is always used on the outside of your home or office, unless you are in an apartment where you can not access the outside walls of the building. In that case, you would hang the bagua mirror in the window facing out.

Placement of the mirror depends on which Feng Shui cure is needed. If you place it on the out side of your door, you deflect Sha Chi (negative energy) trying to enter. If a neighboring building has a corner pointing at yours building, that is considered a “poison arrow” that brings Sha Chi. The cure is then to put a Bagua mirror on the outside wall of your building where the poison arrow would hit, to deflect the Sha Chi. If you live at a T junction, or other type on intersection, you may need to hang a Bagua mirror on a tree trunk or external wall to deflect the Sha Chi from the road.

This Bagua mirror is so affordable, you can buy as many as you need to cure your Feng Shui problems.

They make great gifts too!

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Look at this cool rug! The space theme is perfect decor for a kids room. This motif will inspire them to reach for the stars, and realize their dreams. Budding astronauts will appreciate this reminder that the sky is not a limit, and that their generation will go places we’ve always fantasized about.

The space theme rug measures 19 inches, by 29 inches, by 2 inches, and its shipping weight is 2 pounds. Made of nylon, this rug is fire retardant, and easy to clean.

This rug would be perfectly placed at the entrance to your kids room. According to Feng Shui, the entrance is where one’s career and life path Chi is focused. The color black and the color blue, both of which are featured in this rug, are the Feng Shui colors associated with entrances. The colors symbolize the fluidity of water, and this rug design echos that concept with its curved fluid lines of streams in space. Of course the flame coming out of the rocket would be appropriate for the fame and reputation zone on the opposite wall too. The picture of earth makes it perfect for the heath zone in the center of the room. From a Feng Shui perspective, this rug is versatile and well balanced.

The best part? The LA Out of This World Rugs are so affordable, you can give them as gifts, and to each one of your own children.

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Here’s the perfect decor item for an aspiring young fire fighter. Your child will love the versatility of this chair that folds out to become a mat. Not only is this Fire Truck sofa soft and comfortable, it looks cool and lets them imagine that they are responding to emergencies –heroes come to save the day!

The soft, plush cover is removable and washable. The inside is durable foam. Wide enough for two preschool aged kids to sit on together, and long enough to sleep on when folded out, this sofa bed is a very practical addition to your child’s room. You can have sleep over parties, story book time, a soft place to wrestle, and a place to fantasize about heroic adventures, all in one convenient piece of furniture.

If you practice Feng Shui, the red color and fire theme would be a perfect addition to the south side of the room, according to the traditional Compass School. If you are using the Western School orientation of the Bagua, you’d want this decor item against the wall opposite from the the wall containing the door through which you enter the room, which is the fame and reputation zone.

This sofa makes a great gift!

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Here is a decor item that is perfect for a study, library, workshop, or office. This is the perfect clock for someone who likes to know how things work. The visibility of the gears is an elegant tribute to fine engineering and craftsmanship. The Rosewood stained wood paired with the black columns make a sophisticated design statement. The hour and minute hands are done in serpentine form, and the second hand sweeps around to provide accurate time keeping. The bell sounds on the hour, and the Silvertone Roman numeral chapter ring adds just the right touch to this 10 inch high sculpture. With a clock this well made, of course there is quartz movement. The clock takes one battery (not included).

If you have a family member or friend who is a budding scientist or engineer, this makes a perfect gift. It is also very helpful in teaching dyslexic kids to learn to read analog clocks. If they are able to see the inner workings of the clock in three dimensions, it is much easier for them to grasp the concepts, and make visual sense of the clock’s face, and hand movements.

According to Feng Shui, the black columns make this a good decor item for an entrance way, the visible gears and clear encasement make it right for the knowledge zone of your home or office, and the rose wood makes it a good choice for the family zone.

This is a good housewarming gift, graduation or congratulatory gift, coming of age gift, and birthday present.

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To achieve a balance of energies from the five elements, water, wood, fire, earth, and metal, one must have them each proportionally represented in a room.

To be sure that Chi flows at the right pace and in best pathways, without stagnating or overwhelming any particular place in a room or home, refer to the above mentioned article.

With a little bit of knowledge, you can improve the well being of occupants in any space using the Feng Shui principles. Not only does it work to improve your health, it also improves your relationships and makes your decor more beautiful.