This is every incompetent contractor’s worst nightmare. A book that gives YOU, the consumer, the knowledge and understanding of the home building or renovation process. With help from this book, you will be able to hold contractors to higher standards to produce a more efficient and reliable home. No more excuses from the contractor as to why the home didn’t turn out the way you planned it. This book has all the information that home owners need. Each chapter goes over the do’s and don’ts of every process from planning to moving day. It even provides sample contract forms to help you create legal sheets to be signed by you and any contractors to hold them liable for their workmanship. After all, this is to be your Dream home, so make it exciting and enjoyable all the way through the process.

This is every incompetent contractor’s worst nightmare. A book that gives YOU, the consumer, the knowledge and understanding of the home building or renovation process. With help from this book, you will be able to hold contractors to higher standards to produce a more efficient and reliable home. No more excuses from the contractor as to why the home didn’t turn out the way you planned it. This book has all the information that home owners need. Each chapter goes over the do’s and don’ts of every process from planning to moving day. It even provides sample contract forms to help you create legal sheets to be signed by you and any contractors to hold them liable for their workmanship. After all, this is to be your Dream home, so make it exciting and enjoyable all the way through the process.

Feng Shui for Architecture is an easy-to-use manual to incorporate Scientific Feng Shui into the design, renovation, and decorating of your home. The final goal is to support your well-being, as well as your family's, in all aspects of life. It is also particularly useful during a real estate pre-acquisition inspection, for it offers examples of bad Feng Shui (to avoid), good Feng Shui (to desire), and how to correct any overall problems. This will help you to evaluate the kind of investment to be made and to make the property Feng Shui proof (as well as decide if you want to either buy it or pass on it).
The only book on the market written by an architect, interior designer, and Feng Shui expert who has over 20 years of expertise in the fields of architectural planning, design, and Scientific Feng Shui Mastery, Feng Shui for Architecture is largely the result of answering frequent questions that have arisen over the years by concerned Feng Shui and Interior Architecture students in classes taught by the author as well as addressing common issues brought up by professional architects, designers, and clients with whom the author has consulted with during the development of hundreds of projects (and whom are also the same people who encouraged her to write this book).

Editorial Reviews "Dr. Simona Mainini has an astonishing ability to interpret and install ancient Chinese formulas in such a way that they change lives today. Her discipline and precision in a field not often distinguished by these qualities is both unique and world class."
Richard Ashworth
Author of The Feng Shui Diaries
Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the Feng Shui Society

"Dr. Mainini is one of those few, wonderful people who have managed to weld together the strict disciplines of architectural practice with the aesthetics and philosophies of the ancient Chinese traditions of Feng Shui. Readers can be assured that what she writes is not founded just on theory alone, but sound, practical experience."
Derek Walters
Author of The Feng Shui Handbook & The Complete Guide to Chinese Astrology

"Feng Shui for Architecture is an excellent guide for both the Feng Shui professional and layperson. You can benefit from the knowledge presented here and use it to make your environment as harmonious as possible."
Larry Sang
Author of The Principles of Feng Shui
President & Founder of The American Feng Shui Institute

"Feng Shui for Architecture has been extremely inspirational to me and many of my students at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). We are very impressed with Dr. Mainini’s knowledge and experience. She brings a new pattern to design and architecture."
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, PhD
Author of Movel Moderno no Brasil
Professor, Design Department, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

"The title and subtitle promises a lot-- and this book delivers even more! Dr. Mainini has done a fabulous job organizing and explaining-- in a clear, precise manner-- the principles of Feng Shui and the ancient Chinese art of placement for good energy flow as it applies to the spaces in which we live and work.

Not only is this book great for the preparation of buildings, it is also extremely useful even if you are only searching for an energetically superior apartment, house, or office space to rent. If you are looking for an invaluable source of Feng Shui information to help bring harmony to your living and working space and your life, this is a book for you. I applaud Dr. Mainini for the publishing of this, her first book, and highly recommend it to those who want to learn more about this most fascinating modality of healing. A+!"
Raphaelle Tamura
Founder, Star of Peace Publishing
Founder, Seraphim at Mount Shasta

Feng Shui for Architecture is an easy-to-use manual to incorporate Scientific Feng Shui into the design, renovation, and decorating of your home. The final goal is to support your well-being, as well as your family's, in all aspects of life. It is also particularly useful during a real estate pre-acquisition inspection, for it offers examples of bad Feng Shui (to avoid), good Feng Shui (to desire), and how to correct any overall problems. This will help you to evaluate the kind of investment to be made and to make the property Feng Shui proof (as well as decide if you want to either buy it or pass on it).
The only book on the market written by an architect, interior designer, and Feng Shui expert who has over 20 years of expertise in the fields of architectural planning, design, and Scientific Feng Shui Mastery, Feng Shui for Architecture is largely the result of answering frequent questions that have arisen over the years by concerned Feng Shui and Interior Architecture students in classes taught by the author as well as addressing common issues brought up by professional architects, designers, and clients with whom the author has consulted with during the development of hundreds of projects (and whom are also the same people who encouraged her to write this book).

Editorial Reviews "Dr. Simona Mainini has an astonishing ability to interpret and install ancient Chinese formulas in such a way that they change lives today. Her discipline and precision in a field not often distinguished by these qualities is both unique and world class."
Richard Ashworth
Author of The Feng Shui Diaries
Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the Feng Shui Society

"Dr. Mainini is one of those few, wonderful people who have managed to weld together the strict disciplines of architectural practice with the aesthetics and philosophies of the ancient Chinese traditions of Feng Shui. Readers can be assured that what she writes is not founded just on theory alone, but sound, practical experience."
Derek Walters
Author of The Feng Shui Handbook & The Complete Guide to Chinese Astrology

"Feng Shui for Architecture is an excellent guide for both the Feng Shui professional and layperson. You can benefit from the knowledge presented here and use it to make your environment as harmonious as possible."
Larry Sang
Author of The Principles of Feng Shui
President & Founder of The American Feng Shui Institute

"Feng Shui for Architecture has been extremely inspirational to me and many of my students at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). We are very impressed with Dr. Mainini’s knowledge and experience. She brings a new pattern to design and architecture."
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, PhD
Author of Movel Moderno no Brasil
Professor, Design Department, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

"The title and subtitle promises a lot-- and this book delivers even more! Dr. Mainini has done a fabulous job organizing and explaining-- in a clear, precise manner-- the principles of Feng Shui and the ancient Chinese art of placement for good energy flow as it applies to the spaces in which we live and work.

Not only is this book great for the preparation of buildings, it is also extremely useful even if you are only searching for an energetically superior apartment, house, or office space to rent. If you are looking for an invaluable source of Feng Shui information to help bring harmony to your living and working space and your life, this is a book for you. I applaud Dr. Mainini for the publishing of this, her first book, and highly recommend it to those who want to learn more about this most fascinating modality of healing. A+!"
Raphaelle Tamura
Founder, Star of Peace Publishing
Founder, Seraphim at Mount Shasta

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If Your Household Title Is: “Cook” and you Plan family mealsBuy groceries, put them in the car, drive home, unload, and put them awayPrepare meals, according to each family member’s tasteCook while others ask: “When can I eat?”THIS BOOK’S FOR YOU!“Laundry Attendant” and youFind dirty clothes all over the house and wag them to wash areaSort, wash, dry, iron, fold, and place in appropriate closets or drawersGather “dry clean only” clothes, take to cleaners, and bring them homeTHIS BOOK’S FOR YOU!“Chauffeur” and youDrop off, pick up, and move family and friends from here to there Fill gas tank, check engine, air tires, and take auto for necessary repairsSpend as much time on the road as you do in the houseTHIS BOOK’S FOR YOU!“Counselor” and “Therapist” and youListen patiently to daily catastrophes Teach stress relieving exercisesOffer a sympathetic ear, shoulder to cry on, and/or hugTHIS BOOK’S FOR YOU!“Co-Provider” and youWork in or out of the home to bring in extra moneySpend more on family than yourselfWork harder at home than on the jobTHIS BOOK’S FOR YOU!“Maid” and youPick up, fix up, put up, make up, and clean upWipe it, polish it, shine it, and/or buff itChange, rearrange, decorate, and create Sweep, mop, dust, vacuum, and scrubTHIS BOOK IS DEFINITELY FOR YOU!

Love is a commitment of respect loyalty, tolerance, patience ,sacrifice ,support, causing no psychological, financial, moral or physical harm and is that beautiful feelings that is to stay for life. This book is the gift I wanted to give to love. This book is about you when you feel that you are ready to start a relation with a commitment for life. It is not about short duration fun and run stuff. Being ready to start this stage of your life makes you ready to start reading in this book. If you still in a totally different stage it is nice to read in such a book to know what is it about getting into a lifelong relation . It is right that the perfect one is not easy to find and the 100% match may be doesn't exist. For that with all the ideality you are going to see in this book you have to make your own way and your own equation to choose your future life partner. There is clear stress on specific secrets and that's why this book will at the end give you a new vision that helps to change the way you use to make your decision to a more wise and rational way but this book won't make the decision for you. At the end it is your call to make. I have tried to use the universal rules that can help anyone from any background or any culture to go through this big decision with more ideas and tools to use but still personal variations do exist and for that you should use your judgment as you read till you reach to your own equation. I had to wait for long long time till life creates inside me all the meanings and values I had in this book. I give this book for every one who wants to get into a relation that last forever. This book is not about how to catch interest of a smart woman. It is not about how to get attraction of a smart guy. It is about what comes after that. Now you both already attracted to each other but are you suitable for each other for a life long relationship and when you are suitable how can you both keep this relation for ever. This is what this book is about. Its up to the reader to continue reading every next line and its up to the reader to follow what is written .I put here all the things that will help giving health and life for everyone's relation’s .With that it is very important that the reader use mind ,experience and judgment to do or not do what is written. I am sure that everyone reads this book will find it the most useful book in relations ever. I put this book not to let you down. I put it for relations to start correctly and last forever.

What’s your pet peeve? You love people to visit your home BUT…sometimes you wonder……How can I improve the experience? This book House Rules can help. Different rules for different homes.I agree Change will be slow but sure……….We all need Great reminders, we forget sometimes.Hey look at this one; Remind your mother in law that this is my house( she is queen of her castle and I am king/queen of mine.)Do not put your hand in my food (avoid the kitchen when I am cooking.)Leave all your mood swings outside (because my mood might “accidentally” swing back)No smoking, No drugs ( yes marijuana is a drug)You should get one and just leave it on your book table in the living room or put a copy in the guest bedroom(s)

Thinking About Remodeling?Whether it’s big or small, a room addition, a new kitchen, an in-law suite, a new facade,a porch, whole house makeover - or whatever - this unique book will help you arrive atthe correct design solution for your specifi c home. Written and illustrated by a licensedarchitect, nationally recognized for his expertise in the fi eld, this book is specifi callywritten to help steer you clear of the many pitfalls encountered in remodeling.Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer, or you intend to engage professional contractors, thisis a step by step guide organized to help you make the correct design choices for yourhome. With over 1000 illustrations and 300 different plans there is likely a plan, or manydifferent plans, that should satisfy your budget as well as your needs.

Thinking About Remodeling?Whether it’s big or small, a room addition, a new kitchen, an in-law suite, a new facade,a porch, whole house makeover - or whatever - this unique book will help you arrive atthe correct design solution for your specifi c home. Written and illustrated by a licensedarchitect, nationally recognized for his expertise in the fi eld, this book is specifi callywritten to help steer you clear of the many pitfalls encountered in remodeling.Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer, or you intend to engage professional contractors, thisis a step by step guide organized to help you make the correct design choices for yourhome. With over 1000 illustrations and 300 different plans there is likely a plan, or manydifferent plans, that should satisfy your budget as well as your needs.

Thinking About Remodeling?Whether it’s big or small, a room addition, a new kitchen, an in-law suite, a new facade,a porch, whole house makeover - or whatever - this unique book will help you arrive atthe correct design solution for your specifi c home. Written and illustrated by a licensedarchitect, nationally recognized for his expertise in the fi eld, this book is specifi callywritten to help steer you clear of the many pitfalls encountered in remodeling.Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer, or you intend to engage professional contractors, thisis a step by step guide organized to help you make the correct design choices for yourhome. With over 1000 illustrations and 300 different plans there is likely a plan, or manydifferent plans, that should satisfy your budget as well as your needs.

Beautifully painted and written from the heart of a true Feng Shui Grand Master, this 80-page book is filled with 50 vibrant paintings and insightful teachings and poetry about chi (the energies within and around us.) A treasure of wisdom and creativity.

Reader Reviews:

"Seeing Master Liu´s art gave me a lot of power and enlightenment. In the deep, mysterious world, there´s beautiful art skill. As I keep looking at it, I want to possess it. Master Liu is not only a philosopher, he´s also the #1 artist in the world." Q.C. – Saigon, VIETNAM

"From his teaching, I understand the existence of the universal natural law. Especially for me, an artist, I appreciate his care and the openness with which he shares his knowledge. When I saw his art show, I fell in love with his painting. I´m crazy about the color, composition and symbolism of his art. I can feel the uniqueness, personality and warmth of his art." K. - Beverly Hills, CA

"After I enjoyed the art of Master Liu, I realized that he has an abundance of feng shui knowledge and natural philosophy in his deep consciousness." L.N. – Maui, HI

"Seeing Master Liu´s art, my heart is peaceful and calm with a feeling of happiness. All his art has different meanings - his color, creativity, skill and composition let me feel surprised. I am impressed by his talent. I don´t believe anyone else can create such powerful paintings." P.H. – Shanghai, CHINA

"Master Liu, when I see your art, the beautiful colors and delicate images make me feel joyous. I feel hope when the images, that are so delicately placed, speak back to me. I feel like a viewer who, seeing the image viewed, becomes the image." M.B. - Los Angeles, CA

"I come from Taiwan and it’s a rare occasion to see Master Liu´s art. I felt an instant enlightenment - as if the painting is communicating with me. Sincere appreciation." M.P.F. – Taipei, TAIWAN

"His painting is like meditation, a dream, supernatural, it is the creativity of a Grand Master." L.B.C. – New York, NY

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The author has garnered knowledge through the often difficult and varied years of her life. She has drawn on her experience as wife and mother, to write a book that will help the younger generation. Trial and error have helped her acquire the know-how that every woman needs as she begin life as wife and/or mother.This book is dedicated to the author’s granddaughters and, as such, offers down-to-earth advice on relationships, being a mother, raising children, household and cooking tips and recipes, as well as the author’s philosophy of life.