stove below a beam or facing kitchen door

[myfs_149470]

Dear Cecil,
Due to limitation of my kitchen layout, I can only place my stove either under a beam or facing the kitchen entrance door (not main entrance door).? I've read that it is bad fengshui to have stove under the beam and stove facing the kitchen door.? Which is the worst of the two evils??Is there any remedy for?these?two situations?
Thank you?

[Cecil Lee]

Bear in my that when we approach such questions

Often many of the situations, it may or might be based on "commonsense".

For example, a reason why the stove should not be facing say a kitchen door entrance is e.g. when one is cooking, one's back is against the kitchen entrance, since all of us dn't have eyes behind our head, it was felt that one may be caaught unawares, in this instance.

The other reason is under "symbolism". Here, it is best to avoid having a stove face a bedroom door.

If the stove faces a kitchen door but does not face a bedroom door, this is considered the lesser of the two evils as compared to a stove below a beam, unless this beam is "covered" by say a kitchen cabinet or ventilation exhaust fan unit.

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On 3/29/2011 3:01:38 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear Cecil,Due to limitation
of my kitchen layout, I can
only place my stove either
under a beam or facing the
kitchen entrance door (not
main entrance door).? I've
read that it is bad fengshui
to have stove under the beam
and stove facing the kitchen
door.? Which is the worst of
the two evils??Is there any
remedy for?these?two
situations?Thank you?