Inauspicious Feng Shui Stove
Living styles have changed a lot the past twenty thirty years. The days of farms, vegetable gardens, bungalows or townhouses are replaced by high rise apartments and link houses. This sometimes poses interesting feng shui situations.
Let’s look at two real life situations. The first involved a terrace or link house. As is common, the owners wanted more space and being a link house, the only place available to extend were the front and back. It was difficult to do the front – building bye-laws would not permit. So the back was extended. The result was the toilet that once was at the extreme back now sits somewhere in the middle of the house. This is not good fengshui.
This kind of thing happens very often. If you are thinking of doing something similar, I would advise against it.
Example no 2 – the guy above you renovates and finding the toilet not where he wants it to be, he called in the contractors and had it moved. The plumbing is not such an easy thing to do but if he had somehow got his way around it without your knowledge and, coincidentally the toilet now sits right over your dining area or above your bed. Ouch! This is will not do!
You may laugh and say this sort of thing don’t happen but it happened to one chap who bought a second-hand apartment not knowing that such a job had been done. What could he do now? Either waste that area or move out.
A friend is undertaking some big kitchen fit out. Good for her, she realized that the ID had designed a stove right under a toilet above. On an earlier visit, her stove was ok but not so with this new layout. ID people normally do have some feng shui knowhow. I wonder how this was missed. IF she had gone ahead without spotting that, she would have another good opportunity to spend more money correcting it.
Sorry for meandering so much before coming to this simple tip.
To decide on a good kitchen arrangement, feng shui considers the stove as one of the six most important points. Some calculations are part and parcel of the job which makes it troublesome but the most basic and critical rule is to have the stove facing the direction of the kitchen door. Put another way, the cook’s back is going to be towards the kitchen door. You may call this the golden rule.
To have the stove facing the opposite direction as the kitchen door is taboo. Inauspicious.
Ah, of course there will be circumstances where the stove just cannot but face another direction. The next best is to choose what you may call the 50-50 arrangement, which is to have the stove at the sides, right angles to the door. The sketches above and below may help explain these arrangements.
Please remember this golden rule. I hope you find this useful.
Auspicious FengShui Kitchen Stove Arrangement
Feng Shui Kitchen Stove
This book is a translation of a text by FengShui Master Jiang Da Hong (ca1640) with my explanations and comments. The root text is a section on yang dwellings from his book “5 Songs of the Heavenly Principles”.