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- Erica Sofrina
- February 23, 2012
- 10:28 am
- 32 comments
By the author of Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World
If we like our kitchens, it is logical that we will want to spend more time there, creating meals that nurture our bodies and souls. If we don’t like them we will be tempted to just get in and get out, eating more fast foods and eating on the fly and our health (and figure) will suffer.
In Feng Shui Kitchens are considered one of most important rooms in the home. They represent the hearth and home and should be clean, well-lit, happy places for friends and family to gather and connect.
Since our health is so important, Kitchens are also connected to wealth, as poor health will hamper our ability to make a living.
Here are 9 Feng Shui fixes to help you love spending time in this most important space!
Make it Bright and Happy
Bring in nature!
Kitchens are one of the more active or yang areas of the home (see my article on Yin and Yang), so bring in brighter colors, active, happy and inspiring artwork and brighter lighting, and bring in nature. Live plants and/or pictures from nature will always inspire out souls! (See Bringing Nature into the Home)
Get Organized
Kitchens are magnets for everything to land, so you want to head it off at the pass and create places for everything to belong. Baskets are great for this. Train yourself to always put keys and mail in your designated container. (See Clutter Article)
Clear Refrigerator Door Clutter
Does your refrigerator door look like an overwhelming cacophony of to do lists and a hodgepodge of assorted pictures?
Refrigerator doors are great places to celebrate achievements and display pictures of friends and loved ones but they often get out of hand. A good rule of thumb it to take everything down, store in a shoe box and rotate the pictures, giving everything and everyone prominence, rotating them every few weeks.
Read more: Feng Shui & Organizing, Home, Inspiration, Spirit, clear clutter, feng shui, five elements, five elements theory, home decor, home decorating, inspiring home, kitchens, organizing
Erica Sofrina
Erica Sofrina is a motivational speaker, author and life coach specializing in connecting people to their spiritual essence. She is also an Internationally recognized Feng Shui speaker, green living columnist, teacher and the author of the book Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World and the Founder of the West Coast Academy of Feng Shui. She is also the founder of Earth Spirit Adventure Travel which takes people on retreats to powerful energy vortexes such as Bali and Hawaii to facilitate their deep earth/spirit connection. Find out more at www.ericasofrina.com
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+ add your ownErica: You have been in my kitchen and seen all my bad habits (LOL). I think the only thing I do correctly is having live plants and flowers from my yard in my kitchen.
I was just looking at a tan countertop at Menards last eeekend. I need to do our taxes to see if we are getting anything back this year.
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My counters are so full of things!!! but then it's because there's no space in the drawers and cupboards. I guess I'll have to start organizing my cabinets first so as to make room for all the stuff on counters. Another task for the weekend...
Thanks Erika. Another good article. If I could just keep clutter off the table and the dishes done up our kitchen would be a happier place.
Instead of adding to the defaceing of a mountain by haveing granite counters,which are very expensive, heavy and cold, why not have regular counter tops and add a small slab of granite or marble for hot pans .
We bought an old house where the kitchen was obviously designed as an afterthought... it's horrible. No light, no flow, no storage... We are going to renovate but on a very tight budget. IKEA has awesome ideas for small rooms, and I am looking at butcherblock counters. Ripping out all the plastic! Thanks for the guidance.
Thank you all! Carol C, I think your combination sounds good. The earthy and fiery counter top material which is balanced by the metal element ( whites) which will tone it down. Just make sure the counter tops are more of an earthy fire element rather than bright fire, the more earth we have in the kitchens the better! Hannah, you have to train those guys up to keep the kitchen clean! Sometimes we need to acknowledge how important it is to ourselves first, then we will be much stronger in asking for what we need from others.
Good stuff. Thanks.
i would enjoy the kitchen more but i'm the only one who cleans, and I am so sick and tired of cleaning up after everyone every single day, there are no kids here. just me and two grown men. and i need my kitchen clean more than any other place in the house, growing up the cooking and baking were my escape from reality. so messy kitchen bugs me so bad
my kitchen is small but funcional and very 70´s in blue and white formica ( thank God it's not harvest gold or avocado!) not a lot of storage so not a lot of clutter.... but my girls have learned to cook there and it is comfortable... i DO dream of remodeling one day and I want granite countertops, in a rich orangey red I saw... everything else in white with stainless steel apliances. Is this a good combination?
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