Feng Shui Colour for your Kitchen

Feng Shui Colour for your Kitchen

In Feng Shui the colours and tones you use and blend together can create a serene calm place to cook and socialise in or a fiery hot and exciting place to work. Understanding this can help to create the perfectr kitchen for the mood and ambiance you seek to create. Ignorance of this could lead to creating a kitchen that may look beautiful but feel uncomfortable to cook and entertain in.

Feng Shui Colours

Red colour signifies richness and luxury. Used sparcely and carefully in your decor with accessories and details in offers that spice which your kitchen might need. However, too much red will create a kitchen which is hotter than raw chillis creating restlessness and irritation.

Yellow color signifies the energy of the Fire in a much subtler way than red; it can be used in much larger quantities as it helps to strengthen well being and confidence thus it is an all round pleasant colour to use in your kitchen.

Green color is calming for your nerves and good for your well being. It helps to create healing feng shui vibrations from Mother Nature. In order to maximise the effect of green use various shades as you would find in a peaceful forest of woodland.

Black color reperesents the feminine. passive energy that moves like the deep ocean waters which it also represents. Black signifies strength and grounding and can be used sparingley to emphasize other colours in your kitchen.

The colour white signifies cleanliness, freshness and crispness. It calms the psyche and spreads healing feng shui vibrations with your kitchen.

The colour blue signifies healing, refreshing waters and clear skies. Light blue is color of harmony and gentle growth, while darker blue represents deep calm and serenity. Blue works well with white.
 

The colour orange creates the feng shui energy to promote lively conversations and good times in your kitchen. This is an excellent colour for kitchens where family and friends can sit down and socialise as it is a socialising colour. On cloudy days or during winter it is a warm colour.

The colour purple represents spirituality and is very strong colour which like black shoud be used with moderation. 

The colour brown is a feng shui color choice for the main entry of the kitchen, or as a feature wall. It is natural and nourishing colour.



 

Feng Shui Kitchen Colours

Feng Shui Kitchen Colours

Planning to bring Feng Shui into your new or existing kitchen? Why not start with Feng Shui colours the help create the perfect ambiance for your kitchen.

Feng Shui Kitchen Design for Prosperity

Feng Shui Kitchen Design for Prosperity and Health

By Jacob Jelling

According to feng shui, the kitchen represents nourishment and prosperity. Good nutrition is always associated with health and wealth. By designing your kitchen in accordance with the principles of feng shui, you may assist in your own prosperity and health.

Feng shui is a rather complicated theory presented by various schools, where tips are usually given for a particular house and the individuals living in it. Despite this, there are basic principles applicable to any kitchen, which will help to make it a feng shui kitchen.

Location: This does not always depend on us. However, if you are building a house or you have the option of re-planning, you can build the kitchen in the right place - the rear of the house, or at least, behind the central axis of the house.

It's considered a negative if you see the kitchen as soon as you enter the house. This may encourage you and other residents to eat non-stop. It may also cause your guests to leave immediately after eating. Even if your kitchen is in the front, do not panic, because there are certain techniques that will help to reduce the possible negatives. You can hang beaded curtains or blinds on the kitchen door. You can also place something bright and distracting diagonally across from the kitchen, such as a painting.

Color Palette: Try to avoid red and orange hues in the kitchen, because they can provoke controversy. Try to use white, light green and light blue, to balance the elements of Fire and Water. For the same reason, try to use the utensils, appliances, and accessories made of stainless steel.

The positioning: One of the most important principles is that the one who cooks is in the dominant position. That is, standing behind the stove or table, you should be facing the door. This may be difficult to achieve in small kitchens; if you have a small kitchen, you can hang a mirror or other object with a reflective surface over the stove. The mirror can be of any size, but the larger the better. It's good if the kitchen is spacious and has a wide doorway - in this case, you do not feel isolated.

According to experts, a feng shui kitchen should be based on a triangle - the refrigerator, stove and sink should form the angles of a triangle. The distance between them should be about 6 feet - this will ensure maximum comfort with minimal repetitive movements. This arrangement will also help to separate the elements of Fire (stove, microwave oven) from the elements of Water (refrigerator, sink). They can also be separated with the Wood element, such as wooden furniture, a plant or images of plants.

The stove should not stand next to the window, because heat represents prosperity and wealth, and nobody wants their wealth to fly out the window. The feng shui kitchen has to be kept clean and tidy. If anything breaks, try to get rid of it as fast as possible.

Feng Shui Kitchen

Feng Shui Kitchen

In Feng Shui, the kitchen represents wealth, prosperity and nourishment. In a Feng Shui Kitchen the cook should be able to clearly see the doorway without turning away from the stove. Energy should be able to freely flow around a Feng Shui Kitchen even in the smallest of kitchens. We will cover Feng Shui Kitchen design in more detail in a later article on the subject.