Dear Karen,

We have a butler's pantry and dressing room directly above one another in the wealth, prosperity and abundance corner of the bagua. In our garden we are also about to build a shed in the same area. What could this mean for us?

- Carol Walker, UK

Karen's reply:

If the prosperity areas of your home are unexceptional, at best you can expect your finances and fortune blessings to be also unexceptional -- just average, OK, getting by. At worst, you may experience that this aspect of your life stagnates due to the lack of fresh energy circulating in these areas of the bagua.

You will need to do as much as possible to uplift the energy (use attractive colours and storage units, organize your things well, clear out clutter, etc) and then, to further compensate, accent the prosperity areas of all the other rooms of your home with Feng Shui enhancements, such as those I describe in Part 5 of my Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui book.

Another titles I can recommend to help you with this is Feng Shui Made Easy by William Spear.

Finally, it would be better to put your garden shed somewhere else, or else create a magnificent garden around it. You can also hang a bird feeder there to encourage birds (high energy) to come into the space.