When you think back to your earliest childhood memories, you will often have memories of meals, cooking, and spending time together as a family around a dinner table or in the kitchen. Therefore it should come as no surprise that the kitchen should be one of the most balanced areas in your home in order to keep the positive chi flowing throughout. Although each of the elements are represented with the basic design of the average kitchen, there is some balancing that still needs to be done to counteract the dangerous fire element , so representing metal and earth elements in the kitchen, along with others, is still essential.
Metal`s Importance
Because metal is the direct opposite of fire, it is the most important addition to the kitchen that you will encounter. While it can be disastrous to overwhelm the room with the metal element, since you do not want to completely destroy the fire element, you have to add more metal than is usually present unless you have stainless steel appliances. The stove`s fire element can quickly outweigh all of the other elements in the room, so be very careful to balance the fire with the addition of metal in the kitchen.
Adding metal is not a difficult job, and it can be as simple as purchasing energy-efficient and eco-friendly stainless steel appliances. When this is not an option, consider a great metal sculpture for the corner of the room, or a metal wind chime to hang in the kitchen window. It is all about balancing the power of the fire element with the coolness of the metal element. Whether you do it with something made from metal or something the color of metal, such as gray, silver, gold, copper, platinum, white, iron, or similar shades, it is important to remember to balance fire with elements like metal and earth, which we will discuss next.
Earth`s Importance
Earth is another critical element in the kitchen, because it protects against fire and can really have a tremendous impact on the room. Although it may sound like a great idea to add a lot of earth representations to balance the fire element, doing this may entirely quench the fire element and therefore throw the home out of balance again. Use it sparingly, much the same as you would the fire element, and it is often a great idea to stick to using the earthy shades, colors, patterns, prints, and accessories on the walls and flooring or somewhere subtle.
Of the five important elements that make up the feng shui decorating style, earth is already the most stable and calm element, so it does not take much in order to achieve balance and maximize the positive chi flow in the kitchen. Earth is more than dirt; it is actually everything around you that is alive, from trees and grass to mountains and caves, so you can easily represent this important balancing element with a simple live plant, beautiful rock or rock formation, or clay pottery.
