If you do have the luxury of Building with Feng Shui from the Ground Up (ie the beginning of the project) this is also a good time to add the right Building Materials and Interior Design finishes.

Because Feng Shui is based on the Five Elements, when a sector of the building needs to have 'the Earth element' we can add marble, granite, terracotta features, etc. Or, if we know an area is going to need 'the Metal element' to reduce negative energies, again we can incorporate these into the interior design. Other features you may wish to incorporate into the Interior Design are Feng Shui Water Gardens or Water Feature. Making these features spectacular interior design features... as if they have always been meant to be there... allows the Chi to flow well in a building. When the Chi flows well in a building it has the potential to make the entire house prosperous... again we can plan for these things in the building stages.

In some consultations adding the right building materials and finishes can balance out bad feng shui and alleviate the need for adding lots of remedies later (that you might have had to do after it was built). This doesn't meant to say that everything can be "fixed" by adding the right building materials or finishes. Sometimes Building Horoscopes have peculiarities that need additional support and that's why symbolic objects, etc are used.

Having said that, in other consultations, the building materials and finishes are vital. This is because in some consultations, significant parts of the building can be remedied by adding good building materials and finishes that would enhance all aspects of the Feng Shui - reducing negative energies as well as stimulating the positive.

Another remedy that often falls into a similar category to building materials is the use of Color. See the Feng Shui Colors under our Feng Shui Remedies Section.