Dear Karen,

I am currently reading Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui and when I came to the section on the bagua was unsure at first if I should include the garage or just the living space. Our house is oddly shaped due to a garage addition added on to the back of the house. The old garage was turned into an office.

- A.L., USA

Karen's reply:

The bagua is explained in a lot more detail in my first book, Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui.

If the garage is just used for parking the car, there is no need to include it in the bagua of your home. However many people these days, like you, are using their garage as an office, hobby room, junk room or whatever, in which case it definitely needs to be included in the overall bagua of the home.

This can create missing areas in your bagua and therefore in your life. You'll find some cures for this in Part 5 of my book. However, if the garage is being used to store junk, it is always better to clear out the junk and reclaim the space for your car rather than to try to solve the problem with Feng Shui cures!