Salvaged Wood in a Feng Shui Room

The Serpentine Room is the first room you enter when you go around right from Palm Court of Phipps Conservatory. The one thing that I usually love about this room is that it is created in a way where you can take the same ideas and apply them to your own backyard or garden; it is displayed as a livable and functioning garden room. Currently this room showed how you can live Harmoniously with Nature (The theme of the exhibit) by using salvaged barn wood for your structures such as a bench or trellis. Feng Shui which is the notion of creating a living space which is in balance between the elements of fire, water, earth, metal and wood. Warm and cool colored plants were placed in balance to represent fire and water. A pond and a fake fire where also included in this space with the salvaged wood and of course earth. I couldn't quite find the element of metal except for the small wind chimes hanging from the pergolas in fire and water colors.
Hope you enjoy these pictures and are inspired to use some old wood pieces and create your garden to be in the Feng Shui style.

View as you enter

Giant hanging basket; love the ivy hanging down

Pond with lily pads

Close up off a water lily

These warm colored begonias help balance the element of fire

Wood bench with fire pit

Salvaged wood pergola with a fire wind chime

Water wind chime

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