The Perfect Feng Kitchen

Create a feng kitchen your entire family can enjoy!

Many people are unsure about how to create a feng kitchen. After all, the kitchen is such a busy place -- and it's somewhere that has a lot of necessities, too. For example, although you should do your best to keep the stove away from the sink (since the conflicting water and fire energies create turbulent chi), you're not likely to remodel your entire kitchen if that's the way things are set up. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to create a feng kitchen without losing your mind! 

Begin by assessing the room itself. Use the ba gua to consider what area of your home the kitchen occupies and how you can use its energies to further that sector. Remember, the kitchen has very strong fire and water elements (as I said above), so it's important to keep that in mind when deciding on placements and tasks.

Tips for a feng kitchen

Having said that, let's consider some practical tips you can use right now to get that feng kitchen up and going:

• The oven should hold the command position in the room. That means that when you're cooking, you should be able to see all the entrances to the room. If you must stand with your back to an entrance, place a guardian image (bird, religious symbol, etc.) on the wall behind you and a mirror above the oven.

• The kitchen is a magnet for clutter and garbage. Is your garbage can overflowing? Are there rotting candies from last Christmas in the back of the fridge? And do you even dare open the junk drawer? Organize these things to the best of your abilities -- junk has no place in a feng kitchen.

• Keep in mind the room's purpose and decorate appropriately. Food makes a natural and very sensible decoration in the kitchen. I don't mean you should hang lemons from the walls, but a bowl of purple grapes on the kitchen table is attractive, stimulates wealth, and might have the added benefit of encouraging the kids to eat fruit!

• Make sure there's life in your kitchen. Never display dry or wilted plants, including spices (a spice rack is okay, but not a big pile of drying plant leaves). Put the knives away (they cut through vital life energy, even if they're in a wooden block) and keep something live and fresh around, whether it's a plant or the aforementioned fruit in a bowl.

Remember, your kitchen is part of the feng shui triad of health (along with your bathroom and bedroom). Creating a feng kitchen is essential to you and your family's health and well-being!

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