Top-Ten Feng Shui Kitchen Makeover Tips
The home is incomplete without a designated place to cook and eat! The kitchen is one of the essential places you’ll always find in the most well-equipped homes worldwide. Feng Shui experts have toured some kitchens and called them a “nightmare.” While every room needs its own feng shui treatment to be harmonious, the kitchen has special feng shui requirements. If you're still struggling with renovating your kitchen or looking for top ten Feng Shui makeover tips – Then keep reading!
Why is a Kitchen Important in Feng Shui?
A Feng Shui kitchen is one of the three most important areas of your home, so it’s essential to ensure Chi energy is flowing and abundant.
The food you store and prepare there nourishes and sustains you, keeping you healthy and making it possible for you and your family to create wealth and abundance.
Making meals and cleaning up afterward are important ways to show how much you care for yourself and your loved ones. It won’t come as a surprise that in Feng Shui, the kitchen is considered the heart of your home, symbolizing health, wealth, and abundance! So without further ado, here are my Top Ten Tips for giving your kitchen a Feng Shui makeover to make it the “healthy heart” of your home.
1. Get Good Chi energy Flowing by Making Sure Everything
Works
Broken or non-functional things in your kitchen can be a big turn-off for anyone who visits that place. Fix things that are broken.
● Tighten the hinges of the doors that swing freely.
● Replace chipped bowls, glasses, and any other cutlery
● Sharpen your knives
● Fix leaky faucets
In Feng Shui, this is a crucial step – things that are well-cared-for signify your intention to take the very best care of yourself, too!
2. Recognize the Importance of Your Stove.
Your stove is a powerful Feng Shui symbol of Wealth. This centerpiece of the “Heart of Your Home” must be treated with particular respect. An important aspect while setting up your stove is to make sure that the back of the stove has a wall for support. Some other non-avoidable tips for drawing more positive Chi energy into your life include:
● Keeping it clean
● Using all the burners
● Having a proper ventilation system
3. Clean Everything Inside & Out.
The last thing you would want is to make a bad impression with a dirty, messy, and an overall disastrous kitchen. Your food is cooked here. No one wants to breed potential diseases in this place. So, make sure that you.
● Wash the dishes as soon as possible and arrange them in a cabinet
● Clean drawers and cabinets, appliances, walls, and counters.
● Line shelves with new liner paper
● Give the floor a good scrub.
● Remove the trash
● Take everything out of the cabinets, leading naturally to step.
4. Assess What You Really Use
Feng Shui asks that you keep only what you use, need, or love. As you remove things from cabinets and drawers, ask yourself when you last used them. If you want to keep an item you seldom use, consider deep storage, or make room for it on a higher shelf. A huge cauldron is useful when cooking food for a large party and unnecessary when cooking dinner for your small family. Consider storing it in deep storage. Keep regularly used things, like spoons, near your grasp
5. Clear the counters
Many appliances and other seldom-used items can take up permanent residence on counters, preventing you from having the space you need to work comfortably. Remove all the unnecessary objects, wipe down the surfaces, and replace them with the things you use on a daily basis. Voila! Now you have a more efficient working space.
6. Put Like with Like
As you sort through your cabinets, make your life easier by putting like things together. Avoidputting things randomly in the cabinets, so you don’t turn your kitchen upside-down while trying
to find that pink bowl! To make things easier, you can
● Separate sweet baking spices from savory ones
● Store coffee filters near your coffee mugs
● Keep the sauces for your soup together, and so on
7. Adjust Shelves to Maximize Storage Space
As you put things back into the cabinets, separate tall items from shorter ones and adjust your shelf height accordingly. Utilize “shelf helpers” like tray racks, lazy susans, and stacking shelves. They don’t cost much, and they can change your life. (Don’t forget to measure your cabinets before you shop!)
8. Use Mirrors to Create More Wealth
Mirrors are famous in Feng Shui due to their energy-amplifying abilities! Since stove burners symbolize wealth, multiply the effect by placing a mirror behind the stove to reflect the burners. This mirror also reflects activity behind you, putting you in the Command Position as you cook.
9. Balance the Elements
Your kitchen already contains four of Feng Shui’s Five Elements: Fire (stove, electronic appliances), Water (glass, water)., Metal (spoon, knives, tap) and Earth (ceramics, square or rectangular shapes like cabinets). The element that’s usually missing, Wood, can be brought in with a bowl of fruit, a small plant, or even a picture of one of these. When the elements are balanced, a space feels best.
10. Add Artwork of Abundance and Good Health!
Abundance means different things to different people, so choose something that really lights you up every time you look at it. It can be
● Your family pictures
● Hand-made drawings of fruits and vegetables
● A beautiful scenery of a waterfall
● Calligraphy
● Picture of a delicious chocolate cake or a juicy steak
Or anything else – You get the idea!
Don’t Forget!
Your kitchen should make your life easier while sending a message of health and abundance. It needs to be easy to make meals in, easy to clean, and above all, it needs to be appetizing!