In Feng Shui, the kitchen is an area to be considered inauspicious due to the activities that we perform in it, such as cutting veggies and meats.
These activities create a negative connotation when it comes to your kitchen’s energy Feng Shui. However, if your kitchen is placed in a sector that is inauspicious to you, it will help you suppress the bad energy coming from that sector.
You can apply these 6 tips that I recommend you use in your own kitchen’s Feng Shui:
∞ Kitchens should never be located in the northwest sector of your home
In Feng Shui, we call this “fire at heaven’s gate” and it can greatly affect the patriarch.
If you happen to have your kitchen located in this sector, place an urn or container filled with yin water or still water.
This is a great remedy for this problem and will absorb the fire energy without causing any damages to the patriarch.
Also, avoid having the stove and oven place in the northwest corner of your kitchen as this can also be dangerous to the patriarchal’s energy.
∞ Avoid the color red
The kitchen has already enough fire energy, therefore, adding more fire, or red color will represent a real danger to your home’s Feng Shui.
Keep the kitchen in pastel colors, or black and white to create a good balance between yin and yang.
∞ Family portraits, fierce animal pictures, or mirrors
These 3 home decors are better to stay out of your kitchen since they will enhance and bring too much yang energy into your kitchen becoming harmful energy to your family.
Pictures of animals in your home are considered to be of protective nature in Feng Shui, therefore, placing fierce animal photos inside your kitchen might disturb the energy and the natural aura of your home.
Mirrors will simply duplicate the fire energy that already exists.
∞ Store properly your rice
In Chinese culture, rice represents the family’s livelihood and wealth.
From generation to generation, the Chinese store their rice in beautiful ceramic urns decorated with auspicious symbols.
Always store your rice in a nice container preferably made out of glass or ceramic, which represents earth energy.
Earth energy is always the best option to store your food, and especially the food that represents your family’s wealth.
Avoid using plastic containers to store your leftover rice.
Not only is bad for your food and health, but it is also bad for mother earth.
∞ Kitchen located in the center of your home
Try not to have your kitchen located in the center of your home, but if you do, cook your meals with a lower flame to soften out the fire energy.
∞ The position of oven and stove matter:
Your oven and stove must never be next to or opposite to your sink and refrigerator as this will cause a clash of elements in your kitchen Feng Shui.
The kitchen should never face the main entrance door of your home.
It’s best when energy enters your home, it meanders slowly through your house and doesn’t go straight to burn in your kitchen.
Generally speaking, there is no need to activate the chi or energy of your kitchen, but rather take into consideration these tips in order to improve your home’s energy and your kitchen’s Feng Shui.
Which other questions do you have regarding your kitchen’s Feng Shui?