Dear Master Cecil Lee

My kitchen is located in the South. (Fire) The kitchen cabinet, its original colour is brown,dark green and green.Its never been change the cabinet nor paint accept the lower cabinet change to the new cabinet and its colour isdark green (the top table) and green thelower cabinetsince we moved in 1995. As South (Fire element) does it clashes the colour of the cabinet it we were to change.

Is it alright if we were to repaint the top cabinet to sky blue for those doors and the side edges of the cabinet to blue beauty but the lower part of the cabinet not to paint as it is in good condition. Display our stove facing washing machine.(South - Fire/Wood)

Awaiting for your reply. Thank you.

With warmest regards

Sophia Chia

Dear Sophia,

Generally, (or very generally), yes, south represents the fire element.

To side-track-a-little: And in quite alot of past forum messages, I mentioned that for a kitchen at the south, it is acceptable to have the stove face a water position. This would not be ideal -- if the kitchen is located at the north. (water location).

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On 1/18/2005 2:29:14 PM, Anonymous wrote:

Dear Master Cecil Lee

My kitchen is located in the

South. (Fire) The kitchen

cabinet, its original

colour is brown,dark

green and

green.Its never been

change the cabinet nor paint

accept the lower cabinet

change to the new cabinet and

its colour isdark green

(the top table) and green

thelower

cabinetsince we moved in

1995. As South (Fire element)

does it clashes the colour of

the cabinet it we were to

change.

Is it alright if we were to

repaint the top cabinet to sky

blue for those doors and the

side edges of the cabinet to

blue beauty but the lower part

of the cabinet not to paint as

it is in good condition.

Display our stove facing

washing machine.(South -

Fire/Wood)

There are a few considerations:

1. Actually, the more accurate way is to look at the Flying star numbers at the kitchen area to best determine the colours.

2. Generally speaking, wood cabinets are in harmony with the kitchen since it has fire (stove) and wood element fuels fire (stove) - in a productive cycle.

You can also read up an article, I wrote for the Home Concepts magazine - the article has been extracted to the forum. Do a search perhaps for "home concept" or "home concepts" to read the article.

3. Generally, since the kitchen is in the south (fire), often blue cabinet or partial blue cabinet color is acceptable in this area. Thus most of the time, a non issue.

4. A kitchen actually has more than just fire (stove); water (water basin pipes/ fridge or sometimes washing machine) but also the metal element i.e. utensils and even microwave belongs to the metal element.

5. Under the productive cycle of the five elements:

Metal -

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Water -
Wood -
Fire -
Earth -
Metal

thus: metal is often represented by cooking utensils; or kitchen cabinet in white or metallic

water by the wash basin / fridge

wood often represented by kitchen cabinets especially in wood tone

fire is represented by the stove

And this is already a harmonious flow of metal , water, wood and fire.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil