Giving A Postive Energy Flow To Your Home Kitchen By Dallas Feng Shui
November 29, 2009 by Lifestyle Editor
Filed under Home Improvement
In Feng Shui, the kitchen has a long record of symbolizing health, wealth and abundance. The food you store and prepare there supplies nourishment and nourishment, enabling you to flourish in the world. Making meals and cleaning up afterwards are vital methods to show how much you care for yourself and your loved ones.
Here are Top-Ten Dallas Feng Shui Tips for making your kitchen into the “healthy heart” of your house.
1. Clean everything within & out. This includes drawers and cabinets, appliances, walls and counters. Line shelves with new liner paper, and give the floor a good scrub.
2. Evaluate what you actually use. Feng Shui asks that you keep only what you use, need, or love. As you remove things from cupboards and drawers, ask yourself when you last used this item, and what the chance is of using it. If you’d like to keep an item you seldom use, consider deep storage, or make room for it on higher kitchen shelves.
3. Clear the counters. Remove everything from the countertops to scrub them off and ask, “How often do I use this?” before you put it back. Many appliances live on the countertop unquestioningly.
4. Put like with like. As you take things out, put like things together. For instance, separate sweet baking spices from savoury ones, and store coffee filters near your coffee mugs. You will make your life feel just that much more straightforward going forward.
5. Adjust shelves to maximise space for storing. Most cabinet shelves are adjustable. As you consider putting your newly-organized things back in the cupboards, separate tall items from shorter ones and adjust your shelf-height accordingly .
6. Use “shelf helpers” for convenience and efficiency. Items like tray racks, lazy susans, and stacking shelves don’t cost much, and they can change your life. Get good “chi energy” flowing by ensuring everything works. Fix things that are broken. Check that doors swing openly. Replace chipped spoons and sharpen your knives. In Feng Shui this is a critical step – things that are well-cared-for indicate your design to take the absolute best care of yourself, too!
7. Make a secure place for paperwork. Paper processing in the kitchen creates confusion, and can be perilous. If your kitchen has turned into a mini home-office, it’s time to get the papers out of there.
8. Recognize the importance of your stove. The burner, a strong Feng Shui symbol of Wealth in your life, is the center-piece of this “Heart of Your Home” and must be treated with particular respect. One way to do this is by noting your tendency to use just 1 or 2 burners. Spread the wealth and use them all to bring more healthy energy into your house.
9. Use mirrors to make more wealth. In Feng Shui, the burners on your stove symbolize wealth coming into your house. You can multiply this by simply placing a mirror behind the oven so that it reflects the burners. This mirror also reflects activity behind you as you cook, so it brings in a desirable part of safety and comfort as well .
10. Balance the elements. Finally, your kitchen already contains four of the five elements of Feng Shui : Fire, Water, Metal and Earth elements. The part that is’s usually missing, Wood, can be brought in simply with stuff like fruit or a small plant – or even an image of one of these. When the elements are balanced, a space feels great.
Is your kitchen everything it may be? Take a look and use Feng Shui to make the changes — you’ll notice the uplift immediately!
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