Kitchen Arrangements and Layouts in Feng Shui

In Feng Shui, the kitchen is the room best suited to “pressing down on bad luck.” Thus, kitchens are considered to have excellent Feng Shui placement when they are located in any of the sectors of the house that represent bad luck, either during particular periods or based on personalized directions of good and bad fortune.

Certain sectors of the home are deemed to be unlucky for individuals, based on the application of Compass School formulas. Thus, according to the Eight Mansions formula, which uses the calculation of the Kua numbers, certain sectors of the house are deemed to be unlucky depending on one’s date of birth and sex. If your kitchen is located in any one of your unlucky sectors this is a good thing: the kitchen will press down on the bad luck and instead create good luck for you.

Similarly, if the kitchen is in the sector representing the deadly five yellows of Flying Star Feng Shui, it will squash the bad luck that they bring. In 1999, the five yellows were located in the south.

The power to press down on bad luck comes from the strong fire element of the kitchen stove. This fire must always be kept under control. Thus the stove should never be energized or strengthened by, for example, the presence of a mirror. This would be dangerous, and could even bring accidents into the residents’ lives. The stove is also one of the most significant items of Feng Shui. When auspiciously oriented, the stove can bring enormous good fortune to a family.

This means, therefore, that the power entering the stove should come from the most auspicious direction of the father of the family. The auspicious and inauspicious directions are based on the Kua formula and one of the most potent applications of the formula is to energize the stove by eating food cooked on or in an auspiciously oriented stove. In the old days the mouth of the stove had to face a good direction. Today, however, when almost everything is powered either by gas or by electricity, it is more difficult to work out where the supply is coming from since the pipes or cables are usually hidden away. The Chinese and most Asians use the rice cooker as the easiest way to tap into the favorable directions of their Kua number.

Kitchen arrangements that have good Feng Shui always take the orientation of the stove, oven, or rice cooker into account. The stove must not be placed either next to, or directly opposite, the refrigerator or the sink. This is because of the incompatibility of the water and fire elements. Water puts out fire. Placing a table between the stove and the sink is one way of dealing with this confrontation of two hostile elements.

Other important guidelines on kitchen placements are:

• Kitchens should be nearer the back door than the front.
• The kitchen should never be located in the middle of the home.
• The kitchen, and especially the stove, should not be in the northwest. This is described as “fire at heaven’s gate” and is said to be most inauspicious. The bad luck manifests itself as danger to the house and breadwinner. A kitchen in the northwest can cause the head of the household to lose his job, fall out of favor at work, or lose money in an important contract. This should be corrected by changing the position of the stove. It is also useful to point out that the northwest location should always be “protected,” or should have g Feng Shui, since an auspicious northwest benefits the paternal figure and thus the household.
• The stove should not directly face a toilet. This affects the food being cooked, resulting in bad luck for the family. Keep the bathroom door closed at all times. Another way of correcting this situation is to paint the bathroom door red.

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