Houses In Bangsar

We are indeed a very hospitable country and mine is one of the nicest little corners of my beautiful country! My "village" can be considered to be part of the great BANGSAR neighborhood, which in the recent twenty or so years has become very trendy indeed, being near enough to the city center yet incredibly self contained in terms of having everything you need to live the great life, all "just down the road", including not one but three very well-managed shopping malls.

Houses In Bangsar

These fully air-conditioned social centers come complete with swanky supermarkets, upscale movie houses, live show theaters, designer boutique shops, small town businesses and bank branches and hundreds of restaurants.
There are hospitals, country clubs, schools and everything else you need to make life very comfortable indeed. Bangsar roads are wide, traffic here is manageable, views are terrific and the terrain is hilly and undulating, definitely signifying the presence of Earth Dragons! So the area has auspicious foundations!

Bangsar is thus famous and extremely popular with the expatriate community. Fewer people know about Bukit Pantai, the high-end corner of this suburb. Within Bukit Pantai is a small and secluded valley where less than a hundred families live. This is where I live, and it is here where prime residential land can still be found. These come in the form of old houses begging to be torn down and rebuilt, and right now there are several houses being renovated and revitalized - like what I have been doing with my own house.

Changing these older lots into period 8 abodes is the key to giving it the feng shui oomph necessary to get the chi flowing auspiciously again. Many of the houses here sit on choice pieces of bungalow land in a neighborhood; this is ground that sits along tree-lined roads that are wide and with mature infrastructure facilities. Happily, the roads here have only just been "upgraded" with a new layer of tar, giving the enclave here a fresh new feeling.

There are not many of such finds left as the city expands further outwards. I love building an auspicious house. I enjoy tapping into old energy and revitalizing it, making local landlords happy and cared for. It is lucky to have an auspicious house next door - mutual good fortune rubs off on each other. This creates a nice neighborhood. 

The challenge here was to create a Period 8 house that taps into the auspicious new energy of the current period. The bonus here was that this is an elevated piece of land where it was not necessary to make any structural changes. This was also a lucky house, as the previous occupant had made his fortune here and had moved on to a much bigger place.

But it was an old house. There were too many little rooms tucked into cramped corners. The winding narrow staircase and heavily stained water feature beneath it had to be removed and replaced.
 
The house looked tired. Its veins and arteries - wiring and plumbing - needed to be changed. Most of all, the house needed new heaven, earth and mankind energy to revitalize the chi within. It was badly crying out for a new roof, new floor, new doors and new windows.

 
We demolished the entrance, the old stairs, and the overhanging beams and built a brand new entrance that was wide and spacious, relocating it to the center of the front elevation to capture the all-powerful 8 water and mountain stars in the Flying Star chart.
 
It is only when one is building a new house or making extensive renovations that one can really transform the energy of any home. This is done by adding important features that enable the effect of the powerful flying stars of the current period to emerge. This ends Part 1 of Houses In Bangsar. You can continue to read Part 2 at the next post.