Vastu for Home

Vastu provide basic tips for the house construction that can be followed at the time of construction even they are also applied during the head hunting of plot. These enormously useful tips of Vastu if followed religiously can yield bestresults immediately in terms of good health, wealth, prosperity and contentment. Here are some important and authentic Vastu tips for the house construction:

• Before starting the construction some things have to be considered such as shape of plot which is the most important to determine. Irregular shape plot can have bad impact on occupants, so choose regular plot such as square or rectangle.
• Vastu suggests digging a well in North-east and after that to start the construction.
• Open space should be given more towards the North and the East and less towards the South and the West.
• Open space at South-east and North-west should be equal.
• Avoid planting trees in North-east corner while all other directions are suitable. Heavy trees must be grown towards South, West and South-west side.
• More windows must be given towards East and North while Southern and Western sides must be avoided for windows and doors.
• Avoid doors in straight line.
• Front door must be larger than other doors especially exit door.
• In the plots Western side must be elevated than Eastern side and Southern must be elevated than North to determine the auspiciousness.
• As discussed North-east is the first to dig and Vastu recommends starting construction from here and then move forward to East, North and finally South & West.
• After the foundation is dug in North-east pillars must be stand starting from South-west and later to go in South, West direction and finally in East and North.

Vastu for Apartment/Flat

Before purchasing a flat or apartment some basic things must be considered to make things going right. Vastu recommend some essential tips regarding construction and direction of flat or apartment while if you are interested in existing flat then Vastu offers rules regarding existing flat as well.

There are some best permissible directions in which mirror can be placed without a hitch to avoid any mishappenings in the relationships and behaviour. Placement of mirror should be in accordance with Vastu norms to reap the goodbenefits. Here are some essential tips & norms attached to the placement of mirror or glass:

• Construct or choose a flat/apartment having entrance in North, East or North-west. Avoid main door in South, South-west or South-east.
• Avoid purchasing flats with cuts in North-east or South-east direction.
• Drainage pipes should have their way in West, North or North-west.
• Slope of balcony should be towards the East or North.
• Check out the North-east corner of flat as this portion must be converted into worship room or left open.
• Kitchen should be in the South-east direction.
• Check or construct over-head tank in South-west and underwater tank in North-east.

Vastu for Entrance Gate

Entrance of a house explains every thing because this is the gateway from which energies constantly goes in and out. This important gate should be maintained with utmost care while direction should be appropriate to reap rich benefits. Specific directions decide fate of occupants and if unfortunately placed in wrong direction then remedies should be followed by traditional rituals prescribed.


All the negative and positive energies surround here and which is why is important to locate main gate in proper direction to maintain well-being and prosperity in house. Vastu tips for entrance are:

• Entrance of house is best in North and East sides.
• Entrance gate should be heavier, stronger and bigger than other doors of house.
• Keep the entrance clutter free and tidy to make the surrounding positive.
• Entrance should never be dark and ensure that this place is well lit throughout.
• Avoid keeping garbage or dustbin near the entrance.
• Main should not make any creaky noise.
• Main gate should never face intersecting roads.
• There should not be any obstruction in the entrance gate with things like poles, tree, wires and vehicles.
• Main door should always open inwards.
• Entrance of house should not face temple.
• Embellish main door with Om, Swastik, and flowers.
• Avoid any under-water or septic tanks under the main entrance.
• Lift of building should not face entrance.
• No wall should obstruct in front of main gate.
• Avoid self-closing door.
• Best material for main gate is Teak.

Vastu for Water Resource

Water tanks are important in every house and most houses install tanks random in direction wherever it is suitable. However water tanks have their own place and direction where installation of water resource is consider ideal. Vastu tells some ideal directions to place water resource for better health, wealth and prosperity in house. Water is an important element in Vastu and if its placement is not accordingly then it creates problems for occupants.


According to Vastu North-east is the place for water resource but there are some conditions in which water has to be placed such as over-head tank and under-water tank. Both the tanks can be located here in the North direction but under some conditions of working which are:

• Underwater tank should be dug in North-east direction while before digging a sump draw an axis marking from North-east to South-west while both the sides right or left are apt for underwater tank. North-east is an important place in home which is held scared due to which it should be left vacant as much as possible and that is why underwater tank is recommended here. Avoid any water source/tank towards North-west or South-east.
• Over-head tank should be installed in South-west direction only because South is inauspicious corner of house where heavy things can be placed to equate the energies. Over-head tank in this direction balance energies to bring health, prosperity and all-round peace. Avoid over-head tank in North-east as it leads to unnecessary expenses and losses.

Vastu advice for the Bedroom

The Vastu plays a major role in placement and designing of the master bedroom. The way you sleep with your head in different direction and your placement of bed is a major decision which must be taken properly with utmost care. Here are some basic points one must adhere to getpeace and prosperity in your bedroom.

• The master bedroom should always be located in the Southwest part of the house as Southwest represents the element Earth which implies the heaviness, which makes it as the ideal place for the master of the house.
• This is not at all suitable for children room, guest room, servant room or any other room.
• A great deal of attention should be paid to bedrooms in a house. One should sleep with head towards South, East or West and never in north.
• There should not be any beam crossing over the bed. If it exists, proper rectification should be done immediately otherwise the health will be affected.
• The bed placed should be on the South/West walls and if not there, it should be kept at least 4” away from the walls.
• The heavy almirah should be on the South/west wall.
• The construction material for the bed should be the wood and the wrought iron beds should be avoided.
• All the electronic gadgets should be placed at a distance from the bed as the Electro- magnetic waves emitted by them interferes with the sleep.

• There should not be any mirror in front of the bed.
• The shape of the bed should be regular and any irregular shape should be avoided.
• The bed should never be placed in front of the bedroom door.
• The mattress used on the double bed should be a single one.
• The door of the bedroom should never produce the creaking noise.
• The colour scheme for the bedroom in Southwest direction should be in any earthy tone like browns, shades of almond, all families of earthen colour.

Vastu for Bed

Bed is an important furnishing item where we always need to carry out different activities apart from sleeping. This essential furnishing item has to be with accordance to Vastuin order to get sound sleep and keep stress & tension at bay. We probably spend 6-8 hours on our bed while sleeping, resting or doing various activities, so it become necessary to get a specific Vastu bed for making your activities meaningful.

Our bed surrounds all negative and positive energies which makes us sensitive and perhaps gives us stress and tension if it is negative. Negative energy around bed is generally produced by metal bed and metal or leather storage under the bed. Bed in Vastu should be such that it gives you peaceful sleep after tiresome day and keep you away from all problems. Some tips for bed Vastu are:

• Bed should always be purchased in irregular shape.
• Avoid any kind of storage bed while you can for simple bed without storage.
• If there is any storage in your bed, avoid storing metal items and leather objects.
• Beds are best to be purchased in wood material while metal or wrought iron beds should not be purchased.
• Bed should never touch the ground and ensure that bed is positioned at a distance of 3 inches from wall.
• Avoid any mirror or glass on bed.
• There should not be any scrap material stored in bed’s headboard.
• Bed should not make creaky noise when sleeping or sitting.

Vastu for Bathroom

A Vastu compliant living place provides inmates a disease free and barrier free house followed by peace, harmony and progress. Bathroom and toilet are basic sections of house sometimes made anywhere which tends to give negative energy because both the places have a specific location according to Vastu principles. Bathrooms constructed in anywhere in the house leads to complications and severe problems related to health and finance.


Thus it becomes important to abide by Vastu principles when renovating or constructing bathroom or toilet in house so that the results won’t disturb inmates further. Vastu rules for bathroom are as follows:

• Ideally a bathroom can be placed in Eastern portion of the house.
• Fitting of pipes for drained water should be provided in North-east.
• The toilets should be constructed to the west of the building or the north-west side.
• Shower and taps in bathroom can be attached on Northern wall which is also suitable for mirror.
• If there is attached toilet in the bathroom itself then WC should be on the West or North-west side and few inches above the ground.
• Geyser should ideally be placed in South-east corner.
• Bathtub must be located in West portion and provision for washbasin could be made in North-east.
• Overhead tank should be in South-west.
• There should be windows or ventilators in the east or the north.
• Bath should be taken in the west side.
• Choose bright and soothing colours for bathroom walls.
• Mirror should always be on the East wall.
• The dirty linens should be placed in the West Side of the bathroom as setting rays are very harmful for bacteria and kill them.
• If there is almirah, it should always be on the Southwest Side of the bathroom.
• The slope of the bathroom floor should be towards north and east so water drains to the northeast side of the bathroom.
• The suitable directions for keeping the washing machine are southeast and northwest.

Vastu Advice For The Drawing Room

The aim of Vaastu is to make us live in harmonywith nature taking advantage of the magnetic fields, gravitational effects etc. of the earth, the rainfall, the galaxy and the whole of the nature and the universe and duly invoking the blessing of the Gods of thedirections. Every room has their eight directionsagain, so one must be aware of the facts how to design the rooms.

• Drawing Room should be in the east or northso one can get the morning sunlight and positive vibrations.
• The door of the drawing room should be in East or West.
• The sitting arrangement of the head of the family should be facing the east or in the northdirection.
• The heavy articles of furniture or decoration should be in the west or the south direction because weight is the element of Southwest corner.
• The heavy chandelier should not be at the center of the room as to make the Bhrmasthaan light.
• As far as possible TV should be in the southeast portion of the drawing room as all electrical gadgets should be in SE quadrant, the fire zone.
• The portraits of the God or waterfalls are hung in the northeast corner.
• Stuffed animals should be in thenorthwest corner.
• Furniture of this room should not be circular, triangular, egg shaped hexagonal or odd shapes. It should be square or rectangular.
• Portraits of birds, animals, women, weeping children, scenes from the wars etc. should not be displayed in the room as they give the gloomy feelings and thus the negative vibes.
• The colour of the walls and the tiles used in this room should be white, yellow, blue or green. As far as possible it should not be red or black.
• No photograph of God should be hanged above the entrance door, from outside.
• The fireplace, if designed, should be done in Southeast part of the living room

Vastu for Pooja Room

Universe is one of the beautiful creations of nature and everything stands alive only in the limelight of truth. Just like every subject of human aspect is governed with rules, regulations & acts, similarly the art of worshipping has got certain key factor principles to attain all its benefits.

While planning a house, due to the space constraints, many people tend to ignore a separate pooja room but we must not sideline the need to make a place for GOD. Thus by creating a room for worshipping, we are creating a room to get charged with positivevibrations every morning and that energy will energize our environment, mind, body and soul. Our work efficiency will increase and so the progress, prosperity and peace.


This room should be designed carefully because when you do meditation, you should gain the positive energies and then you can feel charged. If it is in wrong direction, then no matter how much meditation you do, you will not feel charged. There are certain rules which one must follow before the commencement of designing a pooja room.

• The pooja room should always be situated in the North, East or the Northeast side of the house.
• One should face towards East/North while worshipping.
• Ideally there should be no idols in the worship room. But if one wish to keep, the height of the idol should not be more than 9"and less than 2".

• While worshipping, the legs of the idol should be at the chest level of the person worshipping depending on the position, whether standing or sitting.
• Nothing should be stored above the cabinet or slab here the God's idol is placed.
• A Pooja room should never be made in abedroom or on a wall adjacent to thebathroom wall.
• One shall not enter the pooja room for any purpose without washing his legs and hands. Cleaning the feet by rubbing them against each other is prohibited. The left hand must clean them and the water must be poured by the right hand. Reared side of the feet must always be cleaned first.
• In pooja room, copper vessels only shall be used particularly where water is collected.
• Triangular pattern of any God should not be drawn in the Pujaghar.
• The colour of walls of pooja room should be white, lemon or light blue and the marble used should be white.
• The worship room should have doors and windows in the north or the east
• The Agnikund should be in the southeast direction of the worship room. The sacred offerings to the fire should be made with the face towards the east
• Lamp stand should be placed in the Southeast corner of the pooja room.

Vastu Advice For The Children Room

Children room is a hub of recreation, fun and frolic; however some basic things should be taken care of to make your child an all-rounder. Vastu complaint room suggests placing every thing at its proper location according to corresponding direction such as study table, bed, bathroom, and clock, and window, door and so on. Proper placement of things instills positive thinking in children’s mind to work harder and making then cheerful.

Every parent is keen to see their child’s progress in every sphere of life while there are some negative things that every house has due to Vastu defects which affects children behaviour and mind. Improper placement of things transforms children into brat, stubborn and low in concentration pushing their parents to get on nerves. Converting your child’s room with Vastu set of rules can perhaps give you positive results making your child obedient and progressive.


Some basic tips of Vastu for children’s room are as follows:

• West direction is ideal for children room and must be place there.
• Keep the bed in South-west portion of room and let your child sleep with head towardsSouth or East direction for peace of mind.
• Door of children room should not directly face the bed.
• South-west direction is best for placing furniture while avoid any kind of furnishing in middle or centre of the room which creates obstruction.

• Keep all the furnishing 3” away from the wall.
• Cabinets and closets should be placed inSouth or West direction.
• Avoid recruiting TV, computer/laptop in children room as they effect child concentration. But seeing today’s scenario and compulsion computers should be located in North and Television in South-east.
• Avoid any exposed mirror in children room and do not place any kind of mirror in front for bed.
• Study table should face East, North or North-east.
• Study area should be clutter free in order to boosts concentration and clutter free ambience is good for generating new ideas.
• Good lights should be placed in South-east direction while avoid sharp lamps on study table which begets strain.
• To add freshness in your child’s mood brush up his room with Green or Blue hue.
• Doors in children room are best at East or North.

Vastu Advice For The Study Room

Study room is a place where one sits peacefully to concentrate on studies. This room should be located at proper place and direction followed by vastu principles. Thevibration in this room creates unseen noise making it unpleasing and if the directions of books, table are placed accordingly, this room will always give you peace and knowledge.

• The study room should be placed either in theNortheast / East or West side of the house.
• Students must face East/North while studying.
• A beam should never run above your head while studying.
• The study room should be well lit and one should not face a blank wall or a window while studying.
• One should prefer not to have the toilets in the study room, however bathrooms are fine.
• The book rack should be made on the Southern or the Western wall.
• The book shelf should never be planned above the study table.
• The shape of the study table should either be square or rectangle.
• The size of the study table should not be too big or too small. The proportion of the length & width should not exceed more than 1:2.
• The study room should have images of Lord Ganesha and Goddess Saraswati.

• The study table should not stick to the wall .It should be at least 3-4 inches away from it.
• If the learner makes use of the Table lamp then the lamp should be kept in the Southeast corner of the desk.
• A pyramid can be kept near study table as it balances the energy and increase the remembering power.
• A pendulum watch should be put on the North wall of the room.
• The windows should be larger on the eastern side and smaller on the western side of the room.
• Use light/neutral colour scheme for better learning power.

Vastu for Stairs

Stairs of house or building must conform some norms as per Vastu because oddly made stairs can lead various mishappenings in house related to disease, odd things and losing mental peace. There some rules laid down in Vastu-Shastra as how stair case should construct:

• Ideally stairs should be constructed in South. West or South-west corners to gain good wealth and for inmates health. However, stairs in other corners lead to loss of wealth.
• Stairs should be constructed clock i.e. clock wise and anti-clockwise stairs should be avoided.
• Number of stairs should not be even numbers or zero at unit place such as 10, 20, 30; stairs are good in odd number for instance 3, 9, 11, 13 etc.
• Avoid stairs in Brahmsthan- Centre of the house which is inauspicious. Main stair should never originate from strong room, kitchen and pooja room.
• Circular stairs should also be avoided.
• Stairs arising from South, West or South-west are auspicious and beneficial in terms of financial gain.
• The starting stair should not be round.
• Unruly and bad conditioned stairs create mental instability and stress among inmates. Thus stairs should be kept in good condition through repair.
• Room having staircase in South-west direction is not good for occupant and lead to problems like hypertension, anemia and other complicated disease which are sometimes incurable.