Making The Feng Shui Tips To Work On Your Home Kitchen

Here are Top-Ten Feng Shui Tips for making your kitchen into the "healthy heart" of your home.

1. 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.

2. Evaluate what you really use. Feng Shui asks that you keep only what you use, need, or love. As you remove things from upboards 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. As an example, separate sweet baking spices from savory ones, and store coffee filters near your coffee mugs. You will make your life feel just that much easier going forward.

5. Adjust shelves to maximize cupboard space. 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 in an appropriate way.

6. Use "shelf helpers" for simplicity and potency. 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 crucial step – things that are well-cared-for indicate your goal to take the very best care of yourself, too!

7. Make a secure place for paperwork. Paper processing in the kitchen creates perplexity, and can be dangerous. If your kitchen has turned into a mini home-office, is time to get the papers out of there.

8. Recognize the significance of your stove. The burner, a strong Feng Shui symbol of Wealth in your life, is the centerpiece of this "Heart of Your Home" and must be treated with particular respect. A way to do this is by noting your disposition to use just one or two burners. Spread the wealth and use them all to bring more healthy energy into your house.

9. Use mirrors to create more wealth. In Feng Shui, the burners on your stove symbolize wealth coming into your home. 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 also.

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's sometimes missing, Wood, can be brought in simply with things like fruit or a little plant – or a picture of one of these. When the elements are balanced, a space feels great.