Ultimately, the kitchen is a place where the family prepares and stores their food. Hence, from a Feng Shui's eye view, it draws a linear impact to the family's health and finance department. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, so let's crack open some common mistakes you may find in a kitchen!
Gone were the days where kitchens only contain a stove, a sink and a fridge. Now, we have cabinets of all sizes and materials, eyebrow-raising kitchen arrangements and new cooking technologies that could blend befittingly into a sci-fi movie! Regardless of what style you're gravitating to, all these wouldn't amount to anything without proper kitchen positioning in positive environmental factors, favourable sector (Palace) and with the right structure. As always, the stove remains a pivotal point in a kitchen, so ensure it is placed in a crucial and suitable location.
Centre is a No-no Position
The kitchen certainly doesn't bode well in the centre of your house. The middle section of your property is where the "heart" resides. Placing your kitchen there will, metaphorically, burn the heart of the house! Be extra careful of this feature as it can create instability, long-term and niggling health issues or problems to the occupants.
Island as the Last Resort for Stove
Ideally, stove should be placed firmly against solid walls. Though trendy and attractive, stove in the middle of the kitchen will expose it to Qi from various angles, making it extra vulnerable to Sha Qi. As a result, food prepared in this arrangement will be affected and the health of the occupants as well.
Door opens directly to kitchen stove
Be mindful of stoves located in this position, as it will be hit by a rush of Qi from the door, afflicting the quality of food prepared there with Sha Qi. If this feature is prevalent in your kitchen, diffuse it by relocating the door or the stove to another area to avoid exacerbating the negative energies there. Remember, health is wealth; if your health is affected; your wealth will likely take a turn for the worse as well.
Location of the kitchen
To determine the most suitable location for your kitchen, a House Gua - a system of Eight Mansion method to calculate the ideal (most suitable) position of an area in a house - needs to be obtained and calculated. This would be followed up by a complete assessment of the environment factors on the sector (Beams, stoves, doors and other features). As a rule of thumb, the most suitable position to place your kitchen would be at a negative sector of your house. Why negative, you would ask? According to the Eight Mansion Feng Shui, the purpose of locating the kitchen in a negative sector is to suppress the negative Qi in the property, and thus balancing the whole movement of Qi of the property!
To know more about your kitchen position, or any other features internally, I would recommended you to read my book, Feng Shui for Homebuyer - Interior, to get an all encompassing overview on everything you need to know about your house from the internal perspective.
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