Try playing with these interior design and Feng Shui ideas to bring more awareness to your Kitchens Workspace.

Some spaces are better for Kitchens People than others, but considering what’s available to you in the space around you can go a long way.

Below, you’ll find a list of ideas to consider and experiment with in your Home Office as a Kitchens Human Design Environment.

These ideas are to get you thinking about your Environment more expansively; they are not hard-and-fast rules, but considerations that will impact how good you feel in your body and in your workspace.

Take what feels fun and expansive and leave the rest!

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Have a Central Work Station

How can you create a Center Hub in the middle of your workspace? This will inspire you to get to the heart of your creations, or whatever it is you make a living through. Can the table or counter be in the middle of the room? Can you configure the space to have a central focal point? Having your work surface near the center of the room, or having multiple sides around a desk available to work from, or having a tall drafting table you can walk around — these are all supportive ideas for someone who resonates with getting to the heart and core of things in life.

Build in Decor Zones

Depending on your unique practice or workspace, how might you create decor zones that move around your primary work activities? For example, can your packaging supplies be built into the decor along the walls around you? Can your reference books become part of the decor? Can your samples, or swatches, or results become part of the decor and space that holds you? You can also create small vignettes around the space; these are items gathered that go well together in some way, like a collection of treasures on a bookshelf, or a book, plant and trinket piled on a coffee table. These are little decor zones that imbue the space with stimulation and creativity.

Bring on the Trends!

What is cool to you right now? What hot look are all the cool kids bringing into their space? Is it a certain plant? I remember when everyone was gushing over the Pink Princess Philodendron. Is it a certain texture? I remember when all the cool-girls were into pink terrazzo. What’s catching your eye lately that you want to dabble and experiment with in your space? Consider how you might bring that design element into your Home Office space for inspiration — it doesn’t need to be related to your field at all, or it can be. What’s more important is that it’s a cool-new-thing you’ve recognized and you want your try at seeing how it feels for you.

Get Playful and Collaborative

It’s important for you to have people you can bump into in your workplace, whether that is colleagues, clients, customers, or creative peers. If you work from home, consider how you can engage, create or collaborate with others throughout the day. Regularly put yourself in places or situations where you have options to meet or connect with people in like-minded or connected fields. Working with mentors, assistants or peers can all help get the creative juices flowing in the Kitchen space. Consider how this affects you if you work primarily online, and what creative ways you could experiment with playfully creating with others. You may want a space carved out in your Home Office where you can hold meetings (in person or digitally) and invite collaborative energy into your space.

Create an Immersive Area in Your Workspace

Is there something that can be regularly rearranged? Can you colour coordinate books on a bookshelf, or organize them into genres, or even alphabetical order? Rearranging or organizing something can be a great way for you to process energy. Once I visited a boardroom that had all kinds of irregularly shaped blocks in the middle of a long table, encouraging those around the table to pile, place and move the objects into different structures while they listened or engaged with what was happening in the boardroom. This is SO Kitchens! Creative objects than can be assembled and disassembled are great to include in a space that needs to be as creatively stimulating as a Kitchens Home Office.

Play With Colour

The “Kitchens Room” is stimulating, no matter what room in the home you’re decorating or staging. Colour is a great way to play with this. You may have a favourite colour, you may want to try a trending colour, or you may feel that the room has a colour it wants to be. Don’t be afraid to put a pop of colour on the walls, in an area carpet, on a piece of furniture, or even through art on the wall. An emerald couch? A yellow side table? A striking magenta art piece? A geometric rug? You want there to be a stimulating colour somewhere in the room that jumps out — or, you can create a monochromatic look where everything in the space is all pink, or all blue, etc. This way, the entire room becomes stimulating. Playing with coloured lights that can be switched out or adjusted to another colour is another great way to bring in stimulating creative energy into the space depending how you feel.

Gathering Spaces

Gathering around a table, boardroom or shared space is a great bustling Kitchens Environment where all kinds of ideas and creations are bound to alchemize. These are great spaces where things may “come together” for Kitchens people. If you work from home, is there a way you can create a welcoming gathering space in the room, even if it is only you in there? If you sometimes have people enter your Home Office, such as family members or housemates, notice where they tend to gather in the space for a clue on where the hotspots are. In Feng Shui practices, having areas in a room where cosmic chi can gather, creates a very harmonious environment that is creatively stimulating.

Not Everything Needs to Match!

Don’t be afraid to mix and match. Having a different chair to sit in around a work table creates a dynamic and creative environment. Who will you be depending on what chair you sit in? Depending on what’s available to you, consider mixing and matching your pillows, your textures, your colours, your elements, etc. This creates a lot of stimulation in your workspace!

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