In Feng Shui the kitchen is considered the heart of your home, symbolizing health, wealth and abundance.
A Feng Shui kitchen is one of the three most important areas of your home, so it’s essential to make sure 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.
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. Fix things that are broken. Check that doors swing freely. Replace chipped bowls and sharpen your knives.
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. Keep it clean and use all the burners to draw more positive Chi into your life.
3. Clean everything inside & out. This includes drawers and cabinets, appliances, walls and counters. Line shelves with new liner paper, and give the floor a good scrub. Take everything out of the cabinets, leading naturally to step 4,
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.
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 everything, wipe down the surfaces, and replace only the things you use on a daily basis.
6. Put like with like. As you sort through your cabinets, make your life easier by putting like things together. For example, separate sweet baking spices from savory ones, and store coffee filters near your coffee mugs.
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. Since stove burners symbolize wealth, multiply the effect it by placing a mirror behind the stove to reflect the burners. This mirror also reflects activity behind you, placing you in the Command Position as you cook.
9. Balance the elements. Your kitchen already contains four of Feng Shui’s Five Elements: Fire, Water, Metal and Earth. The element that’s usually missing, Wood, can be brought in with a bowl of fruit or 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.
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!
What are your favorite Kitchen Feng Shui tips?
(Photo courtesy of John Coley on Creative Commons)
Thanks for posting such great information
So glad you stopped by, James. A comment like yours from a kitchen expert means a lot!
‘Put like with like’ and ‘put what you need most front’. Very nice tips: I would have never thought of mirrors in the kitchen.
I’m so glad these kitchen tips are helpful 🙂 Thanks for commenting!
Any tips for when your stovetop is in your relationship area? How do you make that romantic?! Does putting your toaster oven and microwave together count as a couple?
Hello there, This is an interesting question which I will expand on in a future article. For now I will say that I hope your stove, toaster oven and microwave are not grouped TOO closely together as this is an overabundance of possibly-hazardous Fire energy. That said, having your kitchen in your relationship area is not necessarily a bad thing since the kitchen’s Fire energy nourishes your relationship area’s Earth energy. Secondly I recommend using artwork to bring in the idea of pairs. More to come — thanks for the comment and question.
This is a very interesting post. These tips you have shared are absolutely very doable. I am certain that after reading this, several homeowners will find a way to reflect their stove burners. Of course, I will do that myself, too. So, thank you for all these Feng Shui kitchen makeover tips. Please keep on posting.
Thank you so much! I hope your Feng Shui brings you much success!
Wow!!! your such a blessing to me. You have for provided some clarity for me as to what Im experiencing in my life. Im now printing this & taping this to my refrigerator for my whole family to see. As well as making the necessary changes immediately.
Thanks again!
Kymberli, I’m honored by your comment and so glad that my article was helpful. Please stay in touch!
Ok…. I was up all night making changes & everything looks so…. much better & I checked my mail today and had a check waiting on me, It was totally unexpected.
so again… Thank You!!!!!
If your ever in Dallas please let me know… I would love to have a consultation with you. Im sure I can find someone here locally but I like your site & how you explain…. so please let me know if your ever in my neck of the woods.
That is great – exactly what Feng Shui is all about! Thrilled for you 🙂 I will definitely let you know if I’m ever in the Dallas area; I also do long-distance consultations over the phone if you’re interested. All the best!!
I love this article, Ann! I have spent a lot of energy trying to figure out where to start in getting my kitchen under control, and it really came down to cleaning out the pantry. Every time I tried to do something, I either had to put something in or get something out of the pantry, and that was a problem – it was so overcrowded and outdated. So I hunkered down and pulled everything out, threw out outdated materials, donated current materials that I won’t use, organized my dishes and baking goods and everything else that remains. Immediately, the rest of the kitchen felt better. I’m not done yet, but I have certainly jump started the process!
So glad you’ve gotten your kitchen under control, Anne! I know how challenging it can be and am glad the article was helpful:) Doesn’t a decluttered kitchen make your whole life feel like it’s flowing better?
Here’s to good Chi!!
hi there, my kitchen meets most of the ten, but i worry as we eat mainly simple meals of fresh fruit s and vegetables and we do not have a stove or oven as we don’t eat much cooked food. We are only renting here so will be unlikely to buy one. we have a very basic three burner gas hob. i don’t need an oven but in feng shui terms …
Hello Becci,
A stove is not a must for good Feng Shui. The most important thing is your ability to eat in a healthy manner with the tools you have.