Kitchen Designs With Feng Shui
October 20th, 2010 | by admin |Kitchens are the center of home life. This is where we laugh, celebrate, and nourish our souls with friends and family. Generations of families have taken substance, done homework, and had important conversations around the kitchen table. For these reasons, if for none other, we owe it to ourselves and our loved ones to create an atmosphere of warmth and harmonious balance in our kitchens. One of the easiest ways to achieve this harmony is by using Feng Shui and kitchen design to enjoy a space intended for the preparation and eating of food with loved ones.
In the optimum home environment the kitchen is located in an area that is not clearly visible from the front door. If the kitchen is seen from the front door the occupants of the home may develop problems with digestion or even eating disorders. Guests to the home may feel an instinctive need to eat and immediately leave. Fortunately there are remedies for this situation. After all, there is no way a person can predetermine the lay out of a home unless they design and build it themselves. Installing a folding door or curtains in front of the kitchen door is an effective way to fix the situation. The busy activity of the kitchen won’t distract from the positive flow of chi. With Feng Shui and kitchen design, there aren’t any problems that can’t be corrected.
Once any kitchen placement issues have been corrected, it’s time to study the lay out of the kitchen. In Feng Shui and kitchen décor the room must be kept clear of debris and spotlessly clean. Clutter is not useful in generating good energy. Take the time to clear out and arrange the counters, cabinets, and open surfaces of the kitchen. Be sure to keep an eye out for the problem areas, like the top of the fridge and table tops. Enlist the help of the other occupants of the home to help prepare the kitchen for Feng Shui practices.
Appliance placement is particularly imperative in combining Feng Shui and the kitchen. The person cooking absolutely must be in a position of prominence in the room. Ideally the stove will be placed in such a way as to allow the cook to clearly see all of the kitchen. If the stove must be placed facing a wall, there are ways that you can remedy the situation. The simplest and fastest way to do this is to place a mirror or other reflective surface on the wall. In this manner, the cook will be able to see the entire kitchen in the reflection. The larger the reflective object is the more potent the correction will be in the room. The stove is also a symbol of health and wealth. Obviously the health aspect comes into play through the nourishment the appliance provides the family. In terms of wealth, it is related to the fire element. Actually, a good cook who is practiced in the Feng Shui tradition will be sure to use all of the burners equally. This ensures that the occupants of the house will receive money from multiple sources. Die hard Feng Shui practitioners avoid using a microwave oven to prepare their food, as this can lead to an unsettled frame of mind. After all, the work you are putting into your new Feng Shui kitchen is intended to create an environment rich in good chi and balance.
The stove should hold a specific place in relation the other appliances of the kitchen. Like elements should be grouped together. For example, the water elements of the refrigerator, dishwasher, and sink should be situated together in the kitchen space. The fire elements of the stove and microwave oven need to be placed together for optimum spacing. Feng Shui and kitchen design is fortunately one of the most common sense oriented ways of creating a space. You will find with the new look comes better usage of this vital space. Think of it as creating a warm, positive environment for your family and designing a space that is ideal for creative, efficient cooking. Feng Shui is a win-win situation.
When you consider that Feng Shui is such an ancient philosophy, it is clear how long kitchens have served as the center of family life. Imagine how much more memorable and meaningful family celebrations will be when held in a Feng Shui kitchen. The positive flow of health, wealth, and good chi can’t help but add a feeling of unity and well being to all that are fortunate enough to enter your personal space. The feng shui and kitchen design are relatively easy to accomplish. It is a matter of choosing the correct kitchen lay out and color designs. Before you know it, your kitchen will be the most restful, welcoming area of your home.
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3 Responses to “Kitchen Designs With Feng Shui”
By T Quin on Oct 20, 2010 | Reply
Feng Shui suggestions for someone living in a bach apt?
It looks similiar to a hotel room, designed in a ‘L’ shape, abit smaller with a mini kitchen/ living rm. bathroom is hidden in the hallway for more privacy, bedding area is in the opposite direction of the kitchen area. At first, I thought Feng Shui was a plant…After some browsing online, I was starting to understand it abit better & re-arranged my place. I am wondering if I’m missing something, I know that book shelves should be away from the bedding area, Front entrance and windows should be open and not cluttered. What stopped me in my tracks, computers should not be facing the window, I have it near because of the heat and need air flow near the open windows..Although I have to dust my computer n’ desk, which ain’t difficult to do..
Suggestions please!!! Thx (GRINS)
hmm interesting cs313..One part I forgot to mention, I used to be able to sleep with small shelves above me, 4 yrs ago I couldn’t sleep that way anymore, ended up sleeping the opposite way..Any ideas??
By the way, bedding is tucked out of view from the hallway to the door.
By cs313 on Oct 20, 2010 | Reply
door cant face bed, bed cant face window or ur chi will be absorbed.
add on- this is all common sense kinda. anything with openings like shelves means that poison daggers will stab u.
though these things sound weird, it really changes ur energy of how u are everyday. some people are always liveley and happy while others are always tired.
its only bad when the door is facing directly in front of ur bed because that shows that ur lying in a coffin and anything related to death is bad.
try removing the shelves above the bed. anything hanging above u is not safe. also never sleep with ur hands on ur stomach or chest, or face. it blocks ur chi.
if ur wondering what chi is, its ur life force. the chi is in any form of gas like oxygen, steam, and any gas floating. it is important to direct ur chi the correct way. this is done in chi/qigong.
how u breath is essential to ur life because the better u breath the more energy and happiness u have. u will be less stressful. these r taught in yoga and tai chi.
chi is not magical, its real. its treated magically because its so important to ur life.
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By dogenzenji on Oct 20, 2010 | Reply
fengshui does not work like that. though if you have a blueprint or a houseplan, i might be able to give you a simple fengshui dos and don’ts. but more powerful fengshui concepts depend on measurements, meaning a fengshui auditor must come to your house and make an audit. he/ she will take some measurements regarding location of house and what are inside the house. using these, the auditor will know how to approach to make your house have a better fengshui.
when you just use a blueprint, you cannot know the location of the house. location is important in fengshui. because without location, how would you know which areas outside your house that is bad or good to you. bad areas are avoided while good areas are "brought into" your house – so to make these to your advantage.
next, what is inside the house is also important. it is difficult to adjust a house according to fengshui. but it is easier to build a house based on fengshui. that is why an auditor is important, because he/ she can recommend a cheaper/ better solution.
but based on what you mentioned:
designed in a ‘L’ shape> this is not a good shape, because an L shaped is like a boot (of the ground, similar to death – not successful), or a knife in chinese character
abit smaller> fengshui in general is based on chi, it uses the power of the elements (fire, metal, wood, water and earth). it does not use the power of the mind – meaning we do not have to believe in it for it to work. it is not a philosophy, it is not a religion, and it is not magic. it works by the interaction of these 5 elements; it is difficult to explain, esp if you ahve read books about fengshui. bec most books about fengshui is not about the real fengshui, which is deviced by the chinese thousands of years ago. that is why they are simple and do not work. going back, an element’s energy is chi. and space holds this chi, the more chi the space holds, the luckier you become, the less space you have, the unluckier you become – the rich become richer, and the poor gets poorer, which is happening right now.
book shelves should be away from the bedding area > this is not important at all, i also have read about this, but after i took some fengshui courses under 2 chinese masters, having this arrangement do not affect you in any way – i mean your life will not go bottom zero because of this.
Front entrance and windows should be open and not cluttered
> i do not know what this is really about. have you gone to a typical chinese house? most chinese houses are cluttered to start with, because most chinese wives love to shop to death and they don’t know where to put them when they go home. yet these people are rich, and their houses are cluttered. thus, i do not believe that cluttering your house can make you poor. simple fengshui but real fengshui is like 2 or more doors cannot be in a direct path, because this means death; stairs going directly go in to a door is the same thing; in fengshui, a mirror is like a door, thus, when you open a door like your toilet, you should not see a mirror in front of you, you can put it at the side, so when you enter a toilet, the mirror is either at your left or right side. this said, the front door and the back door cannot be in a straight line – bec this means that everything that come into your life will go out the other way, this includes weath, friends, health/ life.
computers should not be facing the window> why not? this is bogus! i put my pc facing the window, and my life is good. what you cannot put facing the window is your bed, meaning when you lie down, your feet or your head cannot face the window, but the side of your body can face the window, provided that you do not roll out of your window when you sleep. then that is bad.
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