How to Organize Your Kitchen Cabinets for Good Feng Shui?

If you want your kitchen to be a good feng shui kitchen, start from organizing your kitchen cabinet. In feng shui a kitchen is recognized as one of the most significant room for promoting health, wealth, and happiness. Life is hundred times better when your kitchen emits free flowing harmonious energy. In this article we will go through the ways to transform your kitchen into a feng shui kitchen resonating positive chi energy. 

Don’t Clutter the Countertops!

Common mistakes most kitchen owners do to compensate for storage space constraint, is that they start cluttering their countertops. Never ever turn your countertop into storage as it will create poison arrows. 

In feng shui poison arrow is negative energy acting like an arrow, aimed at a particular target. Therefore, if you need additional storage space, try expanding your cabinet or add additional furniture, but cluttering the countertops is not in options. 

To The Ceiling Cabinets

A wise design idea to for a good feng shui kitchen design would be to have cabinets that run straight up to the ceiling. Open space between the cabinet top and ceiling acts like a trap for the chi energy, creating stagnant chi, also considered clutter. 

However, if your cabinet design leaves space between its top and ceiling, try to fill the space with indoor plants like spider plant, basil, and aglaonema. They will keep the air fresh and also brighten up the space. Also, remember to keep this space free of dust to avoid stagnant chi energy. 

Avoid Open Cabinets and Shelves

If your kitchen currently has open cabinets, it’s high time that you consider adding doors to them. Open cabinets and shelves create poison arrows. According to feng shui, open shelving creates visual clutter, thereby emitting negative energy. Try to store things where they are accessible but out of sight. 

Limit open shelving to those areas of your house like garage, and pantry where it won’t affect the rest of the house.  Even with closed cabinet, take caution to not overwhelm the space, with too many items as it will create visual clutter. From feng shui perspective, there should be few items on display. You can rotate your collection every six month or so, and also you will appreciate your collection more.

Lower Cabinets and Countertops

Due to the difficulty in bending down and search for items, lower cabinets usually get cluttered. It would be good to invest some money in hanging and sliding baskets for easy access of items. 

The countertops should be clear of all unnecessary items so that the positive chi energy can flow smoothly for the cook in the house has a suitable preparation space.  

Lighting up the Cabinet

Light is one of the fundamental requirements of good feng shui. It represents fire elements and is the strongest manifestation of energy. Good lighting arrangement means that you will have a workplace that’s convenient and efficient, at the same time improving your kitchen’s Qi, your life force energy. 

Make sure that the intensity of light is uniform in all areas, and it should neither be too low or too much, as it’s obstructive in both the cases. Uniform lighting throughout the area ensures free flow of positive energy.

Don’t Display the Knives

 Many people use countertop knife block which is a good idea rather than displaying the knives openly. Feng shui however suggests a solution that conceals the knives neatly in a drawer. 

Feng shui experts warn that storing this kitchen item incorrectly may obstruct your kitchen’s chi and cause arguments. It’s important to avoid sharp edges in your kitchen to have positive feng shui, which considers such objects as poison arrows. 

Feng Shui considers the aura of knives too threatening to display openly; hence they are better concealed neatly in a drawer.

Keep Your Pantry Neat and Clean

Pantry is a place where you store not only utensils but also food. The best way to organize your pantry as per feng shui is to avoid cluttering your pantry at all cost. Whether it is utensils, pots, tools, pans or food, everything should be stored properly, giving your pantry a clean and tidy look. 

The food in cabinet and pantry can be organized for easy access based on how often you need a particular item. 

Keep Out Dented Cans and Outdated Food 

Food that is past its shelf date must be tossed out immediately. Also, keep out the food that you know that you will never consume. Also, feng shui recommends to not keep dented or torn boxes. 

Like Items should be stored together

Here is a quick feng shui checklist of what items should be stored together-

• Store all the spices together in a drawer; preferably near the cooking area for easy access.
• Store all the silverware together in drawers, dividers.
• Don’t suspend pots and pans overhead, rather store them inside cabinets. 
• Don’t display cooking utensils on the wall. 
• Appliances that are used daily can be kept on countertops, but small utensils rarely used, must be kept inside the pantry or cabinet.  
• Baking pans must be neatly stored inside a cabinet with easy access near the oven.

Remove all damaged items

Any broken or chipped piece of cutlery, utensil, attracts negative chi energy and also acts as a breeding ground for the bacteria. Immediately replace such items. 

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