Living Rooms Living rooms are meant to receive guests, therefore are less complicated. However, they should be light and large and devoid of Feng Shui ills such as beams, oddly shaped corners and angles, or three windows or doors in a row. The host's favorite chair should face the entrance, as not to be startled by in coming guests or family members. Living Rooms should include certain shapes, pictures, and objects instilled with symbolic powers with which the resident identifies, such as a ba-gua shaped rug or rounded tables. The traditional Chinese families pay close attention to the kitchen, especially the placement of the stove and rice cooker.
Stoves are traditionally the symbolic sources of fortune because food is cooked there.
It is believed that food affects health, emotions, and behavior, which makes cooking satisfaction crucial. If it is well prepared and of good quality, we will do well in the world, earn more money to buy even better food. Because food is so important in the Chinese household, the stove should be placed in such a location as to not be in a cramped corner, inhibiting the cook's chi, but should allow the cook room to work. If a cook faces away from the door, health, wealth, and domestic harmony will suffer. Another precaution is to hang a mirror, slightly slanted, over the stove so as to see any intruders without becoming startled.