Feng Shui: Why you should decorate your kitchen with the color pink + 17 chic ideas to inspire you

It isn’t a secret that I love the color pink.

In the words of Audrey Hepburn, “I believe in pink!”. So there’s that.

As a child, in the early 80’s our house was painted in pastel pink, decorated with florals and black accents. To this day, I still love that look, so very vintage edgy glam.

Here’s the thing about pink in the home, the color pink represents unconditional love, compassion, fun, happiness.

It is the color of universal love of oneself and of others.

According to Feng Shui, Pink represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability.

Paris is the city of love and filled with gorgeous pink buildings and doors. India’s streets are lined with pink as it brings a vibrant joy. Back in the 1700’s European Aristocrats wore shades of pink to symbolize luxury and class. It’s historically a color of bliss.

In Feng Shui, using the soft shades of pink in your home helps to cultivate happiness within your family and strengthen the romantic love in partnerships. It can even encourage harmonious communication between those who reside within the home.

I honestly think every area of the home needs a little pink but after seeing this gorgeous kitchen designed by Arielle, it occurred to me that more kitchens need to be pink.

Especially because the kitchen is a place where love is cultivated. Through making food, nourishing your body, spending time with family…a lot of love goes on in the kitchen. I’m making a case for the pink kitchen.

However, I don’t think you have to renovate your kitchen to adorn it with pink. You can intentionally add hints of pink, think loving energy that will fill your kitchen with those loving intentions.

Every time you see your pink accoutrements in your kitchen, it should remind you of loving thoughts that will pour over your home and family. I came up with some of my favorite accents that you could add to your kitchen that could give it a little bit of pink and enhance your culinary space with a little bit of loving, healing energy.

HOT TIP: tell the boys in your home that the color pink symbolizes your love for them so when they see the pink, they'll remember you love them too and not just see a girlie color.

Another fabulous benefit of having the color pink in your kitchen is that it encourages and promotes a sense of self love, self compassion and self worth.

The color will help you feel more confident as you make food choices and eat mindfully. As you experience joy cooking and eating meals, it will allow you to eat without guilt, fill your body with loving feelings. Anyone who has a complicated relationship with food will benefit from eating in the pink.

17 chic pink kitchens you will swoon over:

01 | Paint the center island a dusty shade of pink

@mydarkhome_

02 | Pink painted cabinets

Decor By Donna

03 | Fill with pink decorative accessories

via : @thedecordiet

04 | Traditional kitchen with pink and brass

via : @elmhurst57

05 | Pink square tiles mixed with exposed wood

The Home of Ash

06 | Use pink kitchen accents as decor

Teresa T Pink Cake Dresser

07 | Use pink chairs or barstools

via: @moonstruck28

08 | Add a pink tile backsplash

Meg Monde

09 | Soft pink walls make a calming kitchen look

Expressen . se

10 | Paint your upper cabinets a muave shade of pink

via : @liefhuisjegroningen

11 | Add geometric patterned tile

via: Keiko Lynn

12 | Pink with black and white stripes

via: Houzz / Jessica Buckley Interiors

13 | Perfect Pink Accents

via: perfect pink kitchen

14 | Pink Cottage Kitchen

gorgeous kitchen makeover via: @bobbincottage

15 | Charming pink cabinets

via : @squirrellyminds

16 | Why not add a gorgeous pink rug

@studiodiy

17 | Gorgeous pink stove backsplash and barstools

Bear Hill Interiors // Luxe Mag

More pink kitchen accents:

Tips TO GIVE YOUR KITCHEN A DASH OF PINK:

• Everybody’s favorite candle is a capri blue candle and they finally made one in pink. This is such a perfect candle for the kitchen because the smell is welcoming and bright. It’s a little fruity but really simple and not too overpowering for people. You need to burn this candle when you’re all in the kitchen hanging out.

• Trays literally are fabulous for organizing things. Things tend to pile up on our kitchen island like keys, mail, catalogs, medicine, iphone chargers. It’s weird but it becomes like a magnet for random stuff we need everyday access to. This pretty pink tray is a perfect piece to have on your kitchen island to organize all your stuff. I just ordered one.

• I love a good kitchen rug. I don’t know, I just think a chic rug is so much better than those weird mats right by the sink. It just looks better. Perk up your kitchen with this chic boho patterned rug. Or if you want something a little more practical and affordable, this one is a good find too.

• I am obsessed with the entire SMEG line. They are just the coolest looking kitchen appliances out there right now. How adorable is this pink SMEG blender? There is also an adorable kettle I have my eye on.

• Omg, this cookbook, Cherry Bombe is gorgeous!! Every page is absolutely beautiful. I found it at TJ Maxx once and wanted it so bad but the line was so ridiculously long, I didn’t end up getting it. Now, it is in my Amazon cart.

• It’s important to have some dishes that are cute when you’re having snacks at home or just eating a quick bowl of cereal. If its boring, you won’t really tap into your bliss while eating. But if you have a beautiful plate or bowl to eat off of, you take in the entire experience differently. So, this dish set is fun and affordable and a really great way to get some pink into your kitchen.

• If you need barstools, these barstools are definitely the ones you need. They’re a beautiful blush pink velvet with a gold finish. They’re so good and so chic.

• You should know by now that Rose Quartz is a must have in the home. It’s the crystal of love. So, why not serve your cheese on this gorgeous Rose Quartz plate? There isn’t anything more spiritually glamorous than that?

If you love this post, you will most certainly love this one too.

What are your thoughts about pink in the kitchen? If you have any thoughts of hesitations, let me know in the comments, I would love to discuss.

There are so many benefits to understanding how color works in the home. This is what I teach in my workshop, High Vibe Home.

love you, ashlina

Setting Your Fall Intentions: 5 steps to manifest your best life this season (podcast ep. 277)

In this post I will be sharing 5 steps for Fall intention setting! Learn how to utilize seasonal intentions to help shift your state of being towards positivity & mindfulness so you can manifest the life you want!

Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love the transition into Fall. It's my most favorite time of year, not just because I am obsessed with wearing sweaters, hats and boots ( and also the Fall manicures) but actually because of the energy the that Fall brings to our personal lives. According to Feng Shui, Fall is represented by the Metal element. In contrast to the YANG (masculine) energy of Spring and Summer, Fall begins the YIN (feminine) energy time of year.

Fall is filled with soothing colors and the appreciation of home and relationships. Beautiful mornings and the bounty of the harvest encourage self-reflection and gratefulness.

SEASONS OF SETTING INTENTIONS:

Spiritually speaking, the Springtime is a time when you begin to start new activities, plant new seeds, try new hobbies, etc. It’s the start to a seasonal cycle.

Then we have Summer, where we are in celebration and work energy. You start to see what seeds have actually been blooming in your life. The days are longer and you have more time to work towards bringing to fruition all the things that you desire.

After that is the transition to Autumn, the season where we sit back and enjoy all that we have manifested. It’s where gratitude for everything you have cultivated becomes the focus and energy. It’s time to slow down and bask in all that you have cultivated in your life.

This carries on into Winter, when we move into a hibernation where we reflect and prepare to begin again.

As we enter into the new fall season, what are you focusing on?

For years now, I have been setting goals and intentions seasonally. I always split up my focus and effort by the seasons since each season has its own energy. I also create affirmations which are mantras and statements that help to reprogram your subconscious mind in the direction

So, at the start of Fall, setting intentions is a great activity to help you make the most of Fall season and ensure you are energetically in harmony with the cycle. I also create affirmations which are mantras and statements that help to reprogram your subconscious mind in the direction of the things I am wanting to manifest, I used these specific 30 money affirmations that got me to 10k months.

Related Reading: How to actually manifest (5 core principles to know)

WHAT IS INTENTION SETTING?

An intention is something that guides your mindset and energy toward a focus and desire. It’s less specific than a goal, but it can give you a theme to focus on that will help you reach that goal. If implemented correctly, it’s a way of inviting the universe to guide you towards the life you want in a way that will surpise and delight you.

Setting intentions can help set you on the path toward the life you want to create, its very similar to that of creating a vision board. Where each photo keeps you mentally ‘on track’ towards moving in the direction of your desire.

So, it is creating a list of ‘theme of focus’ that will guide you during the season.

The secret of change is focus — selecting the next right thing, getting really clear on the changes you want to make, setting the intention, and focusing on that intention until you’ve achieved your goal.

WHY YOU SHOULD SET INTENTIONS:

• It helps you maintain focus on what matters most so you can prioritize your energy and time.

• It’s like planting a seed into your subconscious mind that ends up creating its own momentum.

• Once you’ve set an intention, then you are more likely to see and attract opportunities that will help you with your intended goals.

• In yoga philosophy, it is called san-kalpa. According to one definition, the word can be described as: “A vow that comes from the very core of your heart -- the place of your deepest truth. It is different than a goal, in that it's a longing that comes from your highest self instead of your thinking brain.”

HOW TO SET YOUR FALL INTENTIONS:

What are your intentions and goals for this next season?

If you aren’t sure and haven’t set your intentions for the season, I encourage you to take time this weekend to meditate and/or journal it out and come up with your focus.

Intention Setting Step 1: Reflect & Get to the Core of What you Really Want

To tune into your deepest truth, you may want to try doing a deepest personal values exercise.

Knowing what is most important to you on this deeper level will help you create your own powerful San-Kalpa Intentions for this new season.

Journal what comes up for you when you ask yourself these questions:

What are my deepest personal values?

What am I longing for?

What would I love to create this season?

Fun fact: A similar Deepest Personal Values guided meditation was done as part of an experiment with a bunch of MBA students and those that identified their deepest personal values reported lower levels of stress and higher levels of achievement than the students that did not identify their deepest personal values. And I can say personally, staying connected helped me manage my stress and stay focused on my priorities during my studies last year.

I believe this is because under periods of stress such as starting full time school while working full time, without a focus on what matters most, people can easily get overwhelmed and lose focus on what is most important. This is when things get unnecessarily hard, difficult and our health and wellbeing suffer.

But when we focus on our deepest personal values first, then we can go into any activity whether it is a short-term stressor like school or other regular life ups-and-downs of running a business, work and general personal life stuff, we are able to prioritize and stay focused on what really matters!

Intention setting Step 2: Make the experience into a beautiful ritual

I find that most people prefer to first do a guided meditation, you can find many to choose from inside my membership, to tune-into their deeper levels of being. Then after the meditation, they journal about what came up and explore it deeper.

Beautiful relaxing music, maybe some candles, your favorite journal and a delicious cup of tea will also help you create the space and mood to make this an enjoyable and fun self-reflection exercise!

Create your own intention for this new season by connecting to your deepest personal values , truth and desires of your heart to make the most of the next 90 days to create your (im)possible future!

Intention setting Step 3: Choose the right language

It is so important to try and make intentions feel like affirmations so that you can reprogram your subconscious mind with them. I really encourage you to start your intentions with “I will"…

For example, here is a list of possible intentions you could set for Fall. . .

Intention Setting Step 4: Reinforce your intentions

When you set your intention, you’ll want to think about how you can keep it at the front of your mind moving forward.

Some ideas for you to consider:

• Write your intentions on a sticky note and place them somewhere you can see them each day.

• Create a vision board with images and the phrases you want to see

• Say your intentions out loud as if they were affirmations

• Set reminders on your phone reminding you of your intentions

Get creative on how you do this. Immerse yourself in an environment that supports your intentions so you connect with them daily. This will help you to not revert to your old, automatic habits. 

Intention Setting Step 5: Sit Back, Relax and watch as your intentions begin to unfold

Now that you have prepared your Fall with a list of intentions, you can relax and trust that things will always be working out in the direction of your intentions.

However, setting intentions does not allow you to control the future. What’s important to realize is that you have no idea how your intentions will manifest in your life, you must keep your energy in a calm and neutral state.

Your intentions are working behind the scenes in your subconscious.

It’s a delicate balance. You’ll want to check in with yourself and your intentions, but understand that there is more at play than you can see. 

Want more? Listen to this episode of the Blissfully Ambitious podcast

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