The year we stopped decorating at Christmas I pulled several small bells out of the ornament boxes.
I hung them on my office door, and on our outside doors. Whenever someone goes through these doors, the bells gently chime. It always puts a smile on my face.
Turns out, it’s feng shui. In particular, a bell on your main door, tied with a red ribbon, brings money luck into your house. The noise of bells can also help control bad chi energy, especially when you choose the materials carefully– metal or ceramic, crystal or wood. While feng shui states that you should hang bells on only the main door, I like having the small chime ring whenever I enter or leave the house, by any door.
What beautiful bells Xan! I love bells and have one at our gate, one (from my grandmothers home) mounted on the deck and many strands of bells littered around the deck. I love the sound of them and might just have to take a leaf out of your book and put some on our doors as well. The only problem with that is that our dogs are in and out of the dog door all night and they are heiffer dogs who don’t go gently and so we might get woken up a lot if we had bells on the doors…might change my mind on that one before I start!
I love bells! We have a ships bell instead of a doorbell on our new log home. Our neighbour’s 6 year old daughter always has to be the first one up the stairs to ring the bell. On a clear day you can hear it a quarter mile away.