The Feng-Shui Kitchen
The Feng-Shui Kitchen is built around the basic principles of an ancient Chinese philosophy. In Feng Shui, the kitchen represents nourishment and prosperity. Followers believe that how you decorate and design your kitchen will influence these two life elements. 
Although an Ancient Chinese philosophy, the principles of the Feng-Shui kitchen are often supported in our modern world by research that agrees with the overall guidelines that color, light, harmony and balance promote health and prosperity, which equate to stability and happiness. Many of these principles are common sense.
Note that Feng-Shui is a complex Philosophy and taught different ways, so that many recommendations are different.
However, there are basic recommendations that are widely adhered to when it scomes to home design. That energy is either positive or negative. For example, clean flowing water is positive whereas dirty water is negative. 
If you want to negate negative energy in your Feng-Shui kitchen, then you should place something with positive energy in its place or to block it...such as a living green plant in front of a stagnant pond of water outside the kitchen window. The plant will give off positive energy to counteract the negative force from the dirty water.
Positive energy is important and good housekeeping provides that. A dirty, cluttered kitchen will have poor energy and a stagnant vibe which doesn't produce good, healthy, nourishing food, thereby minimizing prosperity due to the family being poorly nourished and unable to work hard to earn a good income. Feng shui means "wind-water". It comes from an ancient Chinese proverb that describes the best place to live. The kitchen will always be a 'yang' room with lots of activity. But the sharp corners and electrical items in it may cause the 'chi' to move too quickly.
Another problem is the clash of fire and water elements such as the sink and the oven. If these elements clash, the flow of chi can be ruptured. What is needed, is a balance of the energy to promote beneficial, active chi. Wherever the kitchen is in the home, it should have much energy (chi) and this can then be transformed into abundance.
...see Feng-Shui Kitchen Layout for more about this feature. Ideally the kitchen should be at the back of the home - it is better not to see the kitchen upon entry as this can portend digestive, nutritional and eating problems. Living things are the greatest source of positive energy. Plants, flowers, pets and living natural elements give off much postive energy. Bringing the natural world (metal, earth, water, fire and wood) into your home gives you peace and serenity.
The art of placement and arrangement can always and greatly improve your life, according to feng shui. 
An example of a feng shui principle is that the kitchen should be well ventilated and well lit.
It should be easy to move around in and have comfortable seating. Chairs should always be in pairs.
Things that need repair or don't work have no place in a feng shui kitchen. Leaking faucets need to be fixed
promptly because water is symbolic of money - a leaking tap means financial drain.
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