Essential Feng Shui Tips: Feng Shui Kitchens

Feng Shui Kitchens

Feng Shui Definitions

Food symbolizes health and wealth in Feng Shui. When money is flowing, we can afford to buy the best food to sustain good health. Because food bridges these two treasures, special attention is given to the place where food is prepared—the kitchen.

Tips for our Feng Shui Kitchens:

• The stove, typically the center for food preparation, needs to be kept very clean. Use all the burners regularly, symbolizing the full circulation of Ch’i.
• If your stove is located next to your kitchen sink, place a healthy plant, flowers, or bowl of fruit between them to represent the Wood element, thus balancing the elemental relationship between sink (Water) and stove (Fire) (look here for the Five Elements chart).
• When the stove is placed against a wall, put a reflective surface nearby, such as a mirror or shiny pan. The reflection “doubles” the burners (and the health and wealth they represent), and gives cooks a view of what’s going on behind them.
• Keep your knives completely out of sight when not in use.
• Declutter kitchen countertops. Take an honest look at what’s living on your counters. Do you use everything there every day? If not, put away the items you don’t regularly use. Avoid the temptation to pile mail and you-name-it on the counters. Make plenty of room for meals to be enjoyably prepared and for the Ch’i to flow.
• Place trash and recycling containers out of sight. If these containers are currently “homeless,” decide how you can rearrange cabinets or pantries to accommodate them.
• Entering and exiting the house every day through the kitchen can promote an eternal appetite. Consider using another door as your primary entrance.