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Ms
Czarny is a professional trained to create a
functional and quality interior environment through
education and experience. Candace can
identify, research and resolve issues that lead to a
healthy, safe and comfortable physical environment.
With a Design Excellence Award,
Best of the Best Award in
Sedona, and LEED "Gold" Certified Building to her credit,
Ms, Czarny will provide you with excellence in Design. Ms.
Czarny, is a Professional member of the American Society of
Interior Design (ASID) and is the President of Wind and Water
Interiors, a full service interior design firm with more than 25 years of
experience in the field of residential and commercial
interiors.
Ms. Czarny is a professional who can assist
you in: visualizing and creating the big picture for your project,
evaluating your options, creating a plan and managing the
process of each
phase from the inception of an idea to the
completion and grand opening or move in. Her
experience in the areas
of facilities & project management and green
design add to the skills that she brings to your project.
The firm's portfolio includes
projects for residential, model homes, hospitality, corporate
facilities, private offices, law offices and restaurants,
ranging in size from 500 to 750,000 square feet.
Ms. Czarny has practiced interior design since 1977, when she
received her Bachelors Degree from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University. Her major was Interior
Design with a concentration in Business. Since that
time she has managed projects with budgets from a few
hundred dollars to $64 million. She has also developed cost
containment programs with savings of $42 million.
In 1991 Candace
apprenticed with Feng Shui Master Cuneo for 5 years. She
assisted in field work and daily training in the oral
tradition. Her training comes from a global perspective of
esoteric sciences and incorporates: Landform and Black Sect
Feng Shui, Hawaiian Huna, European Geomancy, Native American
and South American Energy Sciences. She incorporates the
ancient art of placement into all of her interior design
work. Her clients have testified of dramatic results using
Candace’s Feng Shui advice from romance to business.
Commercial & Residential
Interior Design Services:
Our Services are based upon your needs:
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Design
Consultation
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Architectural plan review
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Liaison between client and contractor
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Colorization
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Space
Planning
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Interior Architectural Detailing
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Custom
Cabinetry Plans
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Lighting design
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Material and fixture Selection/Coordination
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Furnishing Selection
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Purchasing and Expediting
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A Key to Your
Success and Happiness
by Candace Czarny
Every day we go into the world to
create and make our way, be it to a job or a business. We enter each day
with the attitude of accomplishment and achievement. However, for most
people, during the day we meet some sort of obstacles or roadblocks. It
could be a customer who changes the scope of the project that you just
completed the night before, the bank who needs just one more piece of
information to complete the loan you needed yesterday or the guy who cut
us off in traffic, caused us to run off the road and miss the most
important business meeting of our career. We rise to the occasion as
each monster rears its ugly head. Each time, we expend just a little bit
more of our energy that we had planned to use on another objective. By
the end of the day we are usually one, two or even three steps behind
where we wanted to be, worn out and ready to retreat to a place where we
have peace and serenity. This also holds true for our children today.
They encounter as much stress, be it different, in the their worlds as
we adults do. They are stressed by peer pressure to act and be different
than they are taught at home and by television and the media to become
something that they are not. These stresses can be overwhelming and we
are all looking for a place where we can escape from these pressures.
If everyday was like the one described above and you were not able to
rebuild your energy, you would begin to find yourself running on
reserves, feeling exhausted like you can never get ahead of the game.
Running on reserves can work for a while if you are still in your 20's
and maybe even your 30's but eventually your reserves can be depleted
and you are as the song goes +running on empty¦. The stresses of each
day are piled upon the stresses of the day before and the day before
that, until you no longer have the patience and tolerance to deal with
seemingly insignificant issues as they arise. These stresses also can
make us feel less then capable, which makes dealing with situations even
more difficult. This level of stress when not dealt with can start to
impact your performance at work and your ability to nurture and grow
interpersonal relationships, leaving you feeling like you are in a rut
with no way out.
If your energy levels are at their peak you have a greater chance of
successfully creating new opportunities and dealing with the day to day
experiences and pressures. You can have the ability to clearly see and
deal with each issue as it is and not through the filter of stress,
frustration and feeling less than. This clarity when added to peak
performance can assist you in achieving what ever you desire. We all
have had those rare days when everything came together, when you were in
the right place at the right time, when the answer to all of your bosses
questions were on the tip of your tongue. But how did that happen? How
can we create this on a daily basis?
To achieve this level of clarity and performance you must have an
environment away from the demands and chaos of the everyday world, where
you can go to rejuvenate, rebuild your energy and find clarity. Many
people think that they can find this state of being on a vacation in
Hawaii or some place similar. But, usually this state of being is only
temporary. This level of being that you seek must be nurtured on a daily
basis in an environment without stress, tension and conflict. A
successful environment for nurturing your level of clarity, and
performance will be calming, uplifting and healing.
For most, this environment will be your home. The balance and harmony in
your home is a critical factor in dealing with these stresses and are
important for your success and happiness. When a home feels calming and
nurturing, with no distractions, you can quiet the mind and sort out
what is important and what is not. You can create new ideas on how to
proceed and how to handle obstacles. You can start to see clearly what
actions need to be taken. When life is full of complications it is often
hard to distinguish the forest from the trees. If you have clarity, you
can sort out all of the issues and deal with them one at a time, making
clear decisions on each issue instead of complicating each issue with
other issues. This type of clarity will also give you the ability to see
solutions that you could not see before.
Unfortunately because of the pressures of society to achieve at all
costs, some houses today have become purely investments and places to
impress clients, customers and friends. These houses have been designed
strictly for the purpose of business and that is the master that they
serve. In these situations the home is completely ignored, leaving no
refuge for the soul to rejuvenate. Notice the usage of the words house
and home. A house is just a physical structure, where a home is a
physical structure that has been created for the purpose of nurturing
the soul. Ironically, if the house were used for the purpose of
nurturing and healing the soul, success in the outside world would come
much easier. In today's fast pace world it is even more important to
create homes instead of houses. Homes designed for business, investment
and to keep up with the Jones's, also ignore family identity and
intimacy. This loss of family identity undermines the stability of the
family and the role models set for children. The loss of intimacy starts
to breakdown communication and the core of family relationships. These
problems just add to the stress level in the home, complicating our
lives.
If we are to be successful in life we must start to address the
environment where our ability to succeed is created. As many
psychologists have said and most people would agree, +we are products of
our environment¦. But what parts of that environment shape us? How is
it that some children who come from the worst of neighborhoods are able
to rise above the circumstances of their external environment of crime
and poverty? How is it that some children who come from homes that are
in the best of neighborhoods and have ideal external environments end up
with drug or alcohol problems? Are the external factors in our
environment like the location that we live in or the size of the home
the factors that shape us? No, it has to do with the internal
environment we live in. That child rises out of the ghetto because
somewhere he/she received a nurturing environment that allowed them to
rise above the circumstances.
It is the internal environment we live in that plays an integral part in
creating the external aspects of our lives. If your internal environment
is one of balance and harmony, a space that is nurturing, where you feel
safe, secure and at peace, you can let go of the days challenges and
come back to your source of power. Then you can start each new day
refreshed and rejuvenated. © c.czarny 2000
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