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Feng shui for the kitchen.

The back burner still has last Tuesday's spill crusted onto it, because it is the one nobody but you will ever look at closely. The kitchen contains two of the most consequential objects in the home: the stove and the sink. The stove is the traditional wealth gateway. The sink is its elemental opposite. How you handle the pair shapes how the room feels every time you walk into it.

Three moves you can make tonight. Free.

None of these need a compass, a Kua number, new furniture, or money. Pick one. Do it before bed.

  1. Clean every burner on the stove. Tonight.

    Even the back ones. Especially the back ones. The traditional reading puts the stove at the centre of the wealth chain; the modern reading is simpler - a clean stove makes you cook more.

  2. Clear the sink before bed every night this week.

    Try it for seven days. The morning starts differently when the kitchen does. Standing water in a dirty sink is wealth-corner trouble in the tradition and quiet domestic stress in the modern reading.

  3. Stand at the cook's position and check the sightline.

    Can the cook see the kitchen door without turning? If not, hang one small mirror so the door is in their peripheral view. Cooking with your back to the door drains low-grade attention all day.

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