Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Feng Shui in the Kitchen, is red or black or blue really bad?

The condo that I decided to buy has oak cabinets with a natural finish and I can pick the color granite. Im leaning toward a feng shui atmosphere but I cannot figure out the best color. Would an absolute black counter and backsplash be too much? Would it look better with some red glass tile? I read that blue, black and red are bad for the kitchen in feng shui. The condo is open so the kitchen will be visible all the time. We like the reds and oranges and might do that in the living room with our brown furniture. Im lost! Help! Would red be too much in the kitchen if we plan on doing it in the living room also?

Feng shui kitchens are considered one of the most important area of your home for health, wealth, and family harmony.
The colors that are okay are:
Any shade of yellow, red, brown or white are all good in the kitchen, but try to avoid a strong presence of water with the blue and black, because they put down the fire aspects. Feng shui is all about balance, one element can overpower and cancel another, yet you need different elements to be balanced for a space.
So, definitely go with what you love with the reds, and orange, and the brown furniture in you living room is fine.
The counter should not be black if you want true feng shui. You need the fire elements in a kitchen and water will just put that out. The red glass sounds great. There are a lot of granites that have red and copper flecks in them, may try going in that direction. Good luck.

according to classical feng shui, it depends on the direction the house is orriented (yang side or facing side and yin side or sitting side). based on this and the year your condo was built, each room houses a combination of elements interacting harmoniously or inharmoniously. so the colors and furniture one would want to put there would either help harmonize two inharmonious elements, tone down an unlucky element, or enhance a lucky element. this is according to the origional chinese form of feng shui.
surprisingly, you can figure it all out by using the idiot's guide to feng shui!

chinese fengshui is never about color nor style of interior design. you can have a very american home with a very good fengshui.
with regards to color, people who knows fengshui are just cautious about using the color red (and bright orange and yellow), as these colors can "activate" both good chi and bad chi. when good chi is activated, then good things happen; when bad chi is activated even by unintendedly, then bad things or accidents happen.
it is more difficult to apply fengshui to a condo than a house. because in a condo, your main front door is not the door that you use (in your floor), instead it is the front door of the whole building which all people are using. because of this, it is difficult to do a remedy to this front door, and you end up rearranging the insides of your condo unit.
best advice i can give you is to hire somebody who knows fengshui to audit your home.
on the other hand, you can go ahead and do what you like. but if the fengshui of your kitchen will have a bed effect on your life - you will know, because the kitchen has a direct effect on how you attract money in your life. if your kitchen have a major bad fengshui. then you will end up with major money problems. and you will feel as though there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
another observation of mine regarding fengshui in condos, look at your neighbors, because all of the occupants of a condo share the same front door, more or less your lifestyle will be at the same range. if 50% of the occupants are middle class, then it follows that you also will have that kind of lifestyle.

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