How to use feng shui to get out of house work

My house is a mess. I am trying to convert my dining room into a studio: a place to write, create and think. As I a result it is no longer a dining room and not yet a studio and I am eating twice as much in twice as many rooms, usually undercooked (the food) and usually standing up (me). So not a huge success so far. But I can sit down and type!


In an effort to inspire house cleaning, i did buy houseplants today to bring "chi" to the space in the hopes that by placing them I would have to move stuff out of the way and in that process continue to the natural next step and actually put stuff away. Oh how I make myself laugh!


One of the plants is a maiden's hair fern, a finicky favorite. I killed one once in less than the 10 minutes it took me to drive from the nursery to my house, but it was a hot day. Today it was foggy, as it has been since time immemorial, and the plant made it home and into a jade green Chinese cricket pot, previously used for cricket fighting. Fortunes were made and lives were lost within the confines of the pot now holding my fern. Now put to peaceful use, the pot sits in the South side of my office above the hearth, where, according to the laws of success according to feng shui, I am meant to emphasize Fire. Plants are supposed to be on the East area of the room in the Wood section but that would be behind me where I can't see them so what's the point?


 I do have an old farm table behind me holding my printer so I think I have the Wood area covered.


Metal is in front of me to the West in the guise of bronze curtain tie-backs and an outdoor space heater that I can see through the window and therefore counts as far as I'm concerned. I've decided to add the garden outside my window as part of my studio footprint. Seeing it certainly counts as psychological space.


I should have Water represented to my right in the North section and hanging black and white photos seems to be allowed as an alternate to a fountain. Easier said than done as I have intricate wainscoting to 7' above the floor topped with a plate rail that juts out 8" and this is an earthquake area. To be continued.


The fifth element is Earth and the instructions start to get a bit vague as it breaks away from the four cardinal directions. Earth is represented in the North East and South West of the room. So I put a rock in each corner. I knew having a few spare rocks around the house would come in handy some day.


So that is the current feng shui layout of my studio.

Cricket fighting arena and implements