I had employed the services of a feng shui master who is also a friend of mine when we shifted to our new house in June last year. According to her, our house is a north east facing hse (main door facing NE) and is an 'earth' house. During that time, she had told us not to use colours like red, blue, purple for our house but to use colours like beige, white, brown and light yellow.. However, in the recent yearly review which we had asked her to do for the house, she has told us we cannot use green. I had already bought green material for my curtain and sofa set since she had not mentioned not to use green the 1st time. Now she says green, which is a 'wood' color will destroy the earth house. I had remembered her saying that colors will only affect 10% of feng shui but when I asked her if it was alright if I went ahead to have green sofa set and curtain, she said definitely not. I am now very confused. I do not want to get rid of the green materials which I had spend a few hundred dollars on, but on the other hand, is afraid it will be bad feng shui. There are other things which she has adviced which seems to be contradicting but since she is a friend, it is difficult for us to question her too much. Q. Is it true that I cannot use the green color material? Q. Can you please let me know what are the good colors and what are the bad colors for the house? Q. Is it that I can't put certain colors only for certain years?

Dear Pek Cheng, in Feng Shui, colour scheme is almost never an issue. You already have all the 'green' in your house, are you facing any disasters as we speak? (this is assuming that the green actually 'destroys' your house). Extending our discussion to a wider scope, how about your other neighbours who are also facing NE? Those who did not paint the house yellow, are they doing badly? The conclusion is: do not worry about colours. I don't. What's important is where your main door is, and what room you are using. Feng Shui is essentially about Qi, and colours do not affect Qi. Cheers! SN