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Any Feng Shui advice on the kitchen?

Plenty! Kitchens could be the subject of a book by themselves, or at least a whole chapter. The kitchen is a very important location in Feng Shui, one that should be protected. This is because the stove it thought to relate to the income of the family in traditional Feng Shui.

Besides, like with the bathroom or toilets, there are locations that the kitchen should not violate either. Here are a few of the Feng Shui kitchen rules:

• The kitchen, and stove, should be voided from direct view

• The kitchen is best not to be located on the Tiger side (right side of the house)

• The kitchen should not violate the Qian area (Northwest: putting fire at heaven’s gate)

• It should not produce a Fire and Water clash with the bathroom

• It should not spoil one of your best sector, or Element

There are many other rules of placement and as usual only a real life audit can diagnose the kitchen location and bring remedy if necessary.

 

Open-plan kitchen are not in line with the views of traditional Feng Shui. Of course classical books thousands of years ago did not mention of lounge and open-plan kitchen. However the rule is to void the kitchen and stove from direct view, and to protect them. Ideally the kitchen was at the back of the house. An open plan kitchen is anything but voided from the view, and as such can bring financial problems. When I visit a place I always discard house with open plan kitchen. If your house has an open plan kitchen, practical solutions exist however.