If you want a smooth ceiling between the kitchen and family room, you will need to put a beam in the attic above wall before you remove the wall. The ceiling joist are hung to the beam with metal hangers. Then repair the sheet rock and texture, you will have a smooth ceiling from the family room to the kitchen.

If you want an Arch below the ceiling, separating the kitchen ceiling from the family room ceiling, you need to place a support to hold up the ceilings on each side of the wall to be removed. Once the supports are in place, remove the wall and install a beam to hold up the ceiling joist. Once the beam is in place, you can remove the supports on each side of the beam and proceed to frame in the arch.

Either method will require that you add studs to the wall on each end of the beam to hold up the beam. Also you must go under the house and directly under the wall studs holding up the beam, pour a cement circle 18" in diameter and 6 inches high, then place a vapor barrier over the cement and then a pier block between the cement you just poured and the floor.

If you don’t provide the support under the floor, the floor around the studs holding up the beam will slowly sink because of the weight being concentrated in a small spot instead of distributed like it was when the wall was still in place.

Achieve Financial Freedom with Feng Shui

It’s the middle of the month and you are still struggling to pay the mortgage, car payment, and make sure the electric company doesn’t turn off your power. The kids need new clothes and shoes; the fridge is bare, and just once you want to be able to get through a month of bills without the never-ending agony. You’ve been there, you know you have. We all have. Most families and individuals struggle financially from time or time or constantly. It happens.

The frustrating part is that most of us work hard, try to be money savvy, and do without the little things to make sure that paycheck stretches. Some of us take second jobs just to make ends meet. The result of all of this work and feeling of treading water leaves us with a horrible energy imbalance. Even if the ideas of chi and energy are unfamiliar to you, you still feel the results. You don’t have patience with your children or spouse. On a personal level you know something isn’t right. You’re constantly tired and ill tempered. It’s time to get rid of your money worries once and for all. With the use of Feng Shui, financial freedom isn’t just a pipe dream. You can create the positive energy flows necessary to achieve peace of mind.

It’s no secret that money comes from work. For this reason, your work space is where you should focus your energy to produce a more balanced, harmonious environment. For those who work in an office outside their home, there are certain steps you can take to increase your wealth and productivity at work. It all adds up to positive steps in the right direction on the road to financial freedom.

Let’s take a look at how your desk is placed in the office. If at all possible your desk should be placed either directly facing or on a diagonal to the main door of your office. Under no circumstances should you sit with your back to the door. It is also important in Feng Shui to check door alignment. In other words if the office door across the hall isn’t in line with your office, use a mirror to promote the constant flow of energy. Not everyone has full walls in their work area. If you have partitions or partial walls, the use of mirrors is helpful here as well.

With the furniture in your work space placed properly, you can focus on more Feng Shui tips to improve your financial freedom. Plants are a tremendous help in this regard. Being green and full of life, plants will help to encourage growth and life in your job and money making ability. If you don’t have the time or inclination to grow a plant, artificial ones are just as effective. You have to be sure to keep them dusted and clean.

Finally focus on the decorations you place in your area. When you work outside the home, it may be easier on you to use things that aren’t obviously Feng Shui. The last thing the energy flow needs is negative comments and feelings from others. Luckily, Feng Shui works just as well with any type of décor as long as the placement is correct. Pictures and paintings are great for this purpose. Choose images that represent a variety of different elements and aspects of total balance. Any image that inspires positive feelings in you will help a lot.

On the home front, the home office Feng Shui rules is similar to the ones for outside office space. Obviously there are a few differences. If at all possible, have a separate entrance into your office. If that isn’t possible, place the space separate from your living quarters. This way you are able to separate work from home. In the event that your office must be part of the main house, separate your area with a partition or large plants. Remember from above how important green plants are to the flow of money and balance.

In either type of office, it is vitally important to Feng Shui and financial freedom to keep things clean and clutter free. Clutter represents a disorganized mind and physically blocks the flow of good energy. All supplies should be kept neatly stacked and labeled. If possible leave a few inches between the walls and your office furniture to further enable the positive chi to move through the space.

Sometimes it takes more than hard work to achieve financial freedom. Feng Shui is an amazing aid in creating the type of life you have always wanted for yourself and your family. With financial freedom comes a more peaceful existence, a balanced life, and the opportunity to more fully appreciate your loved ones. The steps are simple and make a huge difference in your ability to succeed.

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Over the last weekend, my wife and I finished all our Christmas present shopping (and we wrapped it!). Now we simply have to give the presents.

We finish all our Christmas shopping nice and early every year.

The closer and closer it gets to Christmas the shops get busier and busier – and we hate that.

We can relax now and what I like to do during December while others are fighting their way through the shopping crowds is to plan next year’s activities.

Here I am not referring to those great big projects…these are little activities than can make a huge difference to your life and enjoyment.

Each year I want to improve on the last.

So I’m gonna make 2009 my best ever…what about you?

Here are some thoughts on how to make 2009 Your Best Year Ever…

1. Go on a date with your other half. My wife and I have been married for almost 25 years and I still ask her out on dates. Can be simply a pizza in the local restaurant…but it’s fun. My wife and I try and get out at least once a week.
2. Get in shape. I’m not saying join a gym or start jogging. Just do a little more exercise. Maybe walk to the local shops instead of getting the car. Use the stairs instead of the lift. Along with more exercise, eat healthier. Eat only one biscuit instead of three. Eat cakes only at the weekends. Try some simple small steps.
3. Make contact with an old friend. How many ‘friends’ have you lost touch with? Too many. I know I have. Take 30 minutes out of just one of your days each month and contact an old friend – maybe by email or Facebook.
4. Change your journey to work. You’ll be off autopilot which means you’ll get new ideas. Taking a different route makes your brain work differently.
5. Your first week back at work after the Christmas break, get to work 30 minutes earlier and leave 30 minutes later. Use this extra hour to knock one big thing off your to-do list. Knocking things of your to-do list will reduce your stress levels, help you sleep and at the end of the week while going home, start planning how you’ll spend the pay rise you get!
6. Only list the things you are really going to do and let go of the things you keep saying you are going to do. How many years have you said you are going to do something and never have? Write a book, learn a new language, start drama classes or learn to draw. If over the last few years you keep saying these things and you never start, you never will or will this be the year? If not, let them go and only list things your will do.
7. Plan your holidays. What holidays will you be enjoying in 2010 and 2011. Think about them now, plan them, and book them. Have something to look forward to.
8. Change the TV channel. Start watching some of the History or Discovery channels or dare I say it…watch less TV than you did in 2008 and complete some of the other activities listed here.
9. Never skip breakfast again.
10. Update your resume. Even if you are not looking for a job. You never know when you are going to need it. Plus by updating it as you go, you remember all your achievements.
11. Re-arrange your furniture. Great therapy and gives a new perspective in the room you live.
12. Start your own business or shut-up about it. Will 2009 be your year of starting your own business or will you just talk about it (like you have for the past 5 years). It’s your choice but please don’t just talk about it.
13. Change your aftershave or perfume. Still wearing that same old smell? Get a new one, surprise the other half!
14. Clear your desk of rubbish. Either file all the paperwork or ‘bin it’. Get a simple ‘in’, ‘out’, ‘reading’ tray. They do work. Tell everyone about your new ‘clear desk’ process. Having a clear desk can save you hours and be so invigorating.
15. Get your kids into exercise. I’m not talking about going down the gym or start jogging. But go swimming with them. Have a family bike-ride. Encourage them to join a local sports activity club. Take them and stay and watch them – don’t just take them, dump them and use it as a crèche while you go shopping.
16. Make dinner for your partner. Leave the office early, get all the ingredients and cook!
17. Re-read a book you read 10 years ago. You just never know what you might find.
18. Do some voluntary work. You’ll be helping others and it is one of the best ways to find new contacts.
19. Organise a ‘mans’ or ‘girls’ night out with 6 of your best friends. Have a good old gossip. You’ll love it.
20. Introduce a new work habit. Talk to your customers everyday. Managers, employees who talk to customers have the advantage over those that don’t. Find out what their issues and needs are. Then, even better, be a customer. Experience what it is like to buy your business’s product – you may be surprised.
21. Talk to someone you don’t know. I do this all the time! Making conversation with someone next to you in a queue will make you feel good.
22. Pat yourself on the back. List all your achievements (can be used to update your resume as well). This will help inform you what areas you excel in and allow you to feel great about knowing what your strengths are.

Which ones will you use?

What can you add?

Andrew Rondeau
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