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Feng Shui: Creating a Home with Heart and Harmony 

Bring new energy into your home and your life. Feng Shui is more than how a place looks, but how a space feels. Learn how to create a home that “feels right,” supports family connection and personal relaxation. Learn about Chi energy, the Ba-Gua template and the Nine Cures from an experienced consultant and speaker. Simple changes can make a profound impact on how you feel and function in your space. Generously illustrated with photo slides, handouts and real life examples.

Choose Home Colors with Confidence

Paint colors give you the biggest bang for your decorating buck, but with over 16,000 colors available making the right choice can be overwhelming. Before you open your wallet or grab a paint brush learn fool-proof color selection, how to find your color scheme, and the latest advances in paints. Learn how color can affect the mood of a space and why you should never pick your color in the hardware store. This presentation is filled with practical suggestions, real life examples, and generously illustrated with photo slides. Take home beautiful, practical ideas on how to bring new life into your space with the magic of color.

The Smarter Home Office: 8 Simple Steps to Increase Your Income, Inspiration and  Comfort

“If Your Home is Your Castle, Why Does Your Office Feel Like a Dungeon?”

Many home offices mimic the layout and impersonality of the typical cubicle. They are bare, and barely functional.  You want your home office to be efficient and comfortable, while reflecting you and your aspirations. Learn Linda’s practical solutions to support your work style and personal needs: desk placement to make it the hub of your office, ergonomics made easy, lighting, color – how it can energize or focus you, and innovative ways to find a workspace when you don’t have a spare room. You will leave with powerful changes you can put into place right away using what you already own. This presentation is generously illustrated with photo slides and real life examples.

The Smarter Office at Work: 6 Simple Steps to Increase Your Income, Inspiration and Comfort

“If Your Home is Your Castle, Why Does Your Office Feel Like a Dungeon?”

Are you tired of the drab cubicle you call your workspace? Does the set up of your office work against you?  You want your office to be efficient and comfortable. Learn Linda’s practical solutions to support the human factor in the office: you: desk placement to make it the hub of your office, ergonomics made easy, personalization that looks professional and lighting to prevent eye fatigue and headaches. You will leave with powerful changes you can put into place right away, simply and economically. This presentation is generously illustrated with photo slides and real life examples.

Childrens’ Rooms: Spaces for Kids to Grow at Home and at School

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Seniors: Tips on Downsizing and How to Create a New Home

Preparing to move into a smaller home, an assisted-living residence or nursing home is a major life transition. Much of the focus on preparing for this change is on downsizing – the getting rid of many of the possessions of a lifetime. The other – overlooked – part is planning and creating a new home for the next chapter of your life. Your new living space should not be a museum to the past. The best kind of new home is a place for your past, present and future.

When de-cluttering, “Attach the emotion to the memory, not the thing.” – Gail Blanke. Make a Memory Book – a photo album of the mementos and other items you won’t be taking with you, but will want to be reminded of.  When letting go of a  gift  hold on to the intention with which it was given and let go of the object. Bring only what you will really use and the essence of what will nourish you physically, mentally and emotionally. “Keep the stuff that really, really means something to you, and let the rest go.” – Julie Hall, estate expert.

When setting up your new home: Choose the safest and most comfortable seating, allow  generous space for moving around your new home, good lighting is essential, make sure your bed height gives you safe and easy in and out of bed. When arranging your new home, do not be anchored to the location of the TV cable outlet. Make sure you have contact with nature, through window views and plants in your space. Plan how to use your wall space for photos, artwork, or display cabinets. Picture yourself actively living in your new home with your selected personal treasures around you.

Architectural Psychology: The 6 Hidden Factors to Successful Design

Architectural Psychology explains our subconscious and hard-wired responses to our natural and built environments and how they influence how we feel in a space and interact with each other. Eye contact is essential for human connection, but eating at your kitchen counter can undermine this. Learn basic concepts like interpersonal distance, the use of light to draw people to a space, how environmental stimulation (noise, crowding) can support or undermine productivity, and the psychology of color. This presentation is light on statistics, and generously illustrated with photos and real life examples.

Bio

Linda Varone is a design consultant, author and professional speaker who brings the insights of Architectural Psychology (the study of how to spaces influence how we feel) to many audiences. Her internationally-known newsletter can be seen at www.LindaVarone.com. She was awarded Best of Boston© in 2007 by BOSTON magazine. She has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and studied Interior Design at Boston Architectural College. She has consulted in homes and offices, nationwide, for over 20 years. She has given presentations on Home Office Design, Architectural Psychology and Feng Shui at BuildBoston, FORTUNE 500 Cultural Forum, IKEA, Yankee Dental Conference and Cisco Systems.  She has appeared on WCVB-TV’s Chronicle and in the Sunday Boston Globe. Her book, The Smarter Home Office: 8 simple steps to increase your income, inspiration and comfort, was published in 2010 by Great Meadows Publishing. Visit her popular blog – The Smarter Home Office.

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