South Facing House What Vastu Says About It

You must know and understand that vastu shastra has always claimed that all the directions
are equally good, be it, North, East, West or South. However, as per the same yes very same vastu
shastra, one thing that can make a house inauspicious is the entrance/main door of the house (even if
all other vastu rules are followed). Hence, with South facing houses, one thing that can make it
auspicious is the entrance or main door of the home (considering that all other vastu principles are
followed).
In other words, I can say that if a house (be it South facing) is as per rules and guidelines of vastu
shastra, then its bound to be auspicious in fact amazingly auspicious. This is a reason why you might
and will, if you observe carefully see a lot of very powerful, influential, rich, successful and happy
people living in south facing houses.
So, without any delay, lets take a look at rules and guidelines of vastu for south facing house.

South Facing House Vastu The Tips, Rules and Guidelines

As mentioned earlier, the entrance of a south facing house is of prime importance in vastu shastra. Vastu
says that, if a house is South facing, then the entrance or main door of the house must be located on
the 4th pada (step or part) of the south side.
Now, in order to understand the concept of pada or step, all you need to do is to have a look at the
image below.

In the image above you can see that the South part (the length from South-East to South-West) is
divided in 9 equal parts. Each part is called as pada or step in vastu shastra.
Also, you must have noticed that only the pada numbered 4 is in green color and the padas to the
right i.e. pada number 1, 2 and 3 are in orange color where the remaining padas, from 5 to 9 are in red
color.
Heres what this entire thing means:
1. The 4th pada (green one) is the best and the most auspicious for entrance or main door of a
south facing home.
2. The padas 1, 2 and 3 are the ones that you can use (for entrance/main door) if pada 4 alone is
small. But make sure to include pada 4 along with padas 3, 2 or 1. If youre using space up to

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pada 1, then make sure that the entrance/main door doesnt touch the SE corner. Leave at least
6 inches from SE wall.
3. The padas 5 to 9 are the ones that are prohibited, as per vastu shastra, for having an entrance.
Hence, a main door at padas 5 to 9 is inauspicious.

South Facing House Vastu What to Avoid [7 Tips]

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Avoid main entrance in any pada from 5th to 9th.

Avoid having anything related to water like sump, bore-well etc. in South-West corner.
Avoid a plot that slopes from North to South.
Avoid a cut or extension in South.
Avoid car parking in South.
Avoid keeping more open space in South than North side.
Avoid kitchen in South-West.

South Facing House Vastu What to Do [10 Tips]

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Make sure to have the entrance or main door on 4th pada or step.
If the space, after utilizing 4th step, seems less then you can use 3rd, 2nd and 1st
Make the walls in South and West thicker and higher than North and East.
Choose a plot that slopes from South to North.
Make sure that the kitchen is in South-East or North-West corner.
While cooking face towards East (for South-East kitchen) or West (for North-West kitchen).
Make the master bedroom in the South-West corner.
You can have staircase in South.
Make a living and/or Pooja room in North-East.
You can make a guest bedroom in North-West.

Having said all this, I believe and trust that you now understand what a vastu compliant south facing
house means and arent afraid anymore to dwell in one.

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Kitchen Vastu Heres How to Have a Vastu Compliant

Kitchen
Vastu for kitchen is important since kitchen represents the Fire element. I am sure you already know
that fire, in controlled environment, is beneficial, but if the same yes very same fire goes out of hand
then it obliterates everything and anything in its way. The above statement holds true for both types of
fire the actual fire and symbolic fire. Getting confused? Just read on and everything will make sense to
you in a moment.
As actual fire transforms uncooked or raw food into edible one, in the same manner, symbolic fire
provides heat to your physical body and desires to your spiritual self for everything in life. Imagine, what
would happen if symbolic fire within you died? You start to lose hope in life; all the burning desires
come to end; your body becomes cold. On the other hand, what would happen if the same fire
symbolic one goes out of control? You start to suffer medically, the burning desires will make you
mentally sick and you start to lose your position, respect and dignity in society. Now, you see, why is it
important to have kitchen as per vastu shastra?

Vastu for Kitchen What is it?

To make you understand vastu for kitchen in a better way, I want you to consider the words vastu and
kitchen separately and then I will combine the two terms so that term vastu for kitchen becomes
clearer to you.
Vastu: You might already know that Vastu Shastra is an ancient Indian science of balancing energies in
and around a place. Here, I assume that you already know what vastu shastra is; if you dont know what

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vastu is then I suggest you to read our article which enables you to understand vastu shastra in a better
way.
Kitchen: Kitchen is where healthy and nutritious food is cooked. Kitchen is the place of transformation
because its in the kitchen where all the raw and uncooked food is transformed into delicious meals. The
same food then provides energy to family members. I want you to pay special attention to the word
energy here. The energy that you receive by consuming the food is positive one thats why it makes
you feel good, happy and contented. What would happen if the same food starts to instill negative
energy in you? Want to know how this can happen? Just read on.
I believe that you know that everything in this universe is energy. Fire is also an expression of energy. I
have told you earlier that a controlled fire is beneficial i.e. it is positive energy with respect to you and
uncontrolled fire is disastrous i.e. negative energy. Now, imagine due to vastu defect, which is
imbalance in energy your kitchen starts to give off negative energy rather that positive ones. What
happens next? The negative energy starts to affect you physically and mentally. You start to feel the
negative impacts on your body and mind. Obviously, you lose your health; with degrading health you
dont stand a chance to manage your day to day work; you start to become frustrated and this
repercussions list can go on and on and on. It is therefore very important for you to make your kitchen as
per rules and regulations of vastu shastra so that the kitchen generates and enhances positive
energy, suppressing and even eliminating negative ones.
Now combine the above two terms, namely, vastu and kitchen. What you get is a vastu compliant kitchen
having all the ability and capacity to dispose of all negative energies together with accepting and
enhancing all the positive energies available. This in turn will always have positive and beneficial
impacts on you. You will prosper, become more and more joyous, successful and will have peace of
mind always.

Vastu for Kitchen Is it Important?

I believe that you have already read the previous section of this article and are in a better position
to understand the ill-effects of vastu non-compliant kitchen. In the previous section, I believe you
understood some of the negative impacts of a vastu non-compliant kitchen. Here, in this section, I have
pin pointed some in fact very few butdefinite problems which one will face if he/she chooses not to
do vastu for kitchen.

Vastu Non-Compliant Kitchen Heres the List of Problems

1. Health Loss loss of health for the cook and head of the family, lethal diseases and untimely
death
2. Financial Loss financial condition deteriorates, credits goes up, bankruptcy
3. Family Disputes clashes within family, separation or divorce
and these are as I mentioned very few.
Your dedication to read this far of this article makes me to believe and safely assert that you are a
responsible person and under no circumstances you will ever want yourself or your family to go through
all the troubles which are mentioned and unmentioned above.
Being an intelligent person who I know you are you might have already understood by now that doing
vastu for kitchen ensures that you and your family are protected and shielded from all negative attributes
arising out of kitchen and hence you must take the necessary action to do vastu for your kitchen.
Now, in order to take that necessary action and make your kitchen a vastu compliant one, all you need
to know is vastu tips for kitchen which I have detailed in the next section, so just read on.

Vastu for Kitchen How You Can Do It?

Better to prevent and prepare, rather than repent and repair and this part of article makes you
to prevent the entry of any negative energy via kitchen in your home.

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There are actually two steps to make your kitchen as per rules and guidelines of vastu shastra. The first
step which I really want you to take is to have a very good look at the image below. This image tells
you the best location of kitchen in a house.

Having seen the image, I believe, you now know that the best location to make kitchen is the South-East
corner of a home. However, as I have seen in many cases, sometimes a kitchen is placed in the NorthEast corner of a home and this is a serious vastu defect. If by any chance the kitchen in your home
is placed in the North-East corner then you must read the article on vastu remedies you must apply
immediately to eliminate the negative impacts of North-East kitchen.
The second and the last step that you must take to make your kitchen in complete accordance with vastu
shastra is reading and applying following vastu tips.

Vastu Tips for Kitchen:

What You Must Avoid:
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Avoid kitchen directly under or above pooja/prayer room.

Do not have kitchen directly under or above toilets.
Avoid kitchen directly under or above bedroom.
Do not place cooking gas burner or stove directly in front kitchens entrance door.
Do not have main door of kitchen in any corners; place it in East, North or West wall.
A kitchen in North-East causes mental tension among family members and they suffer great
losses. This is a common vastu defect, if in your home the kitchen is in the North-East corner,
then you must read the article mentioning the remedies which you can take to reduce the ill
effects of this vastu defect.
Kitchen in South-West leads to clashes among family members.
A kitchen in North-West direction is acceptable but it leads to increase in monetary expenditure.
Most dangerous kitchen is the one placed in North direction; as North is Lord Kuberas (the God
of Wealth) direction, having kitchen in North will increase expenditure of family beyond
expectations and control.
Never face west while cooking as this leads to severe health problems to the cook.
If while cooking the cook faces south then family has to face monetary losses.
Avoid black color for kitchen wall and flooring.
Avoid keeping refrigerator in North-East direction.

What You Must Do:

1. Place platform of the kitchen in East and South-East corner.
2. Put cooking gas burner or stove in South-East corner of kitchen, make sure that it is a few inches
away from wall.
3. Provide L shaped platform, next to the kitchens main platform, near South wall and use this
platform for keeping and operating microwave ovens, mixer/grinder etc.
4. Use North-East to set up wash-basin or sink in the kitchen.
5. Use North-East or North side to keep drinking water and utensils for drinking water.

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6. Keep grain boxes, pulses, various spices, salt etc. in South or West direction.
7. Have two windows/gaps in East and West walls of kitchen and place an exhaust fan in any of the
windows/gaps.
8. You can optionally place a dining table in North-West or West side of kitchen.
9. Keep light weight things in East or North in kitchen.
10. Build mezzanine floor in West or South of kitchen.
11. The cook must always face towards East while cooking; this ensures good health of family
members.
12. Use yellow, orange, rose, chocolate or red as floor and wall colors of kitchen.
13. You can place a refrigerator in South-East, South, West or North direction of Kitchen. If the
refrigerator is in South-West direction then place it a foot away from wall else it will often get outof-order.
14. Give sacred offering to fire of the first thing you prepare in kitchen to make sure peace and
prosperity.
15. Clean kitchen, kitchen platform and utensils daily at night before sleeping.
Just follow all above mentioned vastu tips and you can and definitely will feel a big and positive
change in your life.
There is one more important thing related to food apart from cooking and that important thing is the
place where you consume your food namely, dining room or dining area. If you already have a dining
room in your home then the article on dining room vastu shastra will enable you to cross check if your
dining room is as per vastu shastra or not. However, if you dont have a dining room in your home then
read the article which tells you how you can easily and simply create a vastu compliant dining area in
your home.

19 Amazing Dining Room Vastu Tips

You are what you eat! Heard the saying already? You might have. I am in love with this saying just
because of its meaning. It simply means that the food consumed by you and your family tends to alter
the thinking, behavior and way of living. Ever thought that the food which you eat daily could have such
an impact on your life? NO? Lemme reveal another very important thing related to food and thats the
location where you eat i.e. The Dining Room or, as some of you may call it, The Dining Area. Call it by
whatever name but remember that the significance of this area is high in vastu shastra. Understand; this
area is important, really important! BUT WHY? You may ask, and heres the answer; where you eat
ensures that the food consumed has constructive and positive effects on family members. Imagine the
outcome if food has negative and destructive influence on family members!!!

Lets spice up the conversation some more; allow me to ask some questions to you regarding the
dining room in your home. Do you have a dedicated place in your home where you and your family
eat? If you said YES; then all you need to do is to read our vastu tips for dining room and verify if
your dining room/area is as per vastu shastra or not. If it is then CONGRATULATIONS!!! You
may like reading our article on kitchen vastu and check vastu of your kitchen) but if its not then you
can make small modifications to it and it becomes as per vastu in a jiffy.
However, if you dont have a dining room/area in your home then dont be disheartened, you can
make one RIGHT NOW in your home by following our vastu tips and guidelines.
To begin with, have a good look at the image below and understand the best location for a dining
room in a home

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Having seen the best locations for a dining room or dining area in a home, lets take the step further
and learn vastu tips for dining room.
Vastu Tips for Dining Room
1.
Dining area in West is best, in North or East is second best.
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Dining room should always be spacious, hospitable and comfy.
3.
While dining; head of the family must face East. Rest of the family members can face East,
North or West.
4.
Children should not sit in South-West corner of dining table as this will make them to gain
control of house overpower their parents.
5.
No one from the family should face South while dining else it causes small disputes among
family members.
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East, North or West walls are best for doors of dining room; avoid door in South wall.
7.
Square or rectangular dining tables are best; avoid circular, oval or any other shape as far as
possible.
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Place the dining table towards South-West corner of dining area, but make sure that dining
table doesnt touch wall. Also keep enough space between dining chair and wall so that anyone can
get up easily.
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Dining table must not fold against any wall.
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Do not place dining table under a beam.
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Use North-East of dining area to keep drinking water.
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Provide wash-basin in North or East but not in South-East or North-West.
13.
Do not attach any toilets to dining place, but a place for washing utensils or clothes is
acceptable.
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Main door of the house and entrance door of dining room should not face each other.
15.
Build kitchen and dining area on same floor.
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You can keep a refrigerator in South-East corner of dining area.
17.
If dining place is a part of drawing-room (which mostly is the case these days) then use a
curtain or a plotted plant as a demarcation. Once separated, apply all dining room vastu tips to this
area.
18.
Best colors for dining room walls are pink, orange, yellow, cream or off-white.
19.
You can hang a mirror in East or North wall of dining area.
Apart from above dining room vastu tips there are some other factors also that need attention. These
factors are not related to dining area vastu shastra but they can make a family well balanced and
healthy.
Other Factors for Dining Area:

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1.
Place posters or photos of mouth-watering dishes in dining area to arouse hunger.
2.
A family, while eating, should always be relaxed, happy and stress free.
3.
Family members must speak politely to each other while eating (of course, they should not
yell at each other anywhere) they should converse respectfully at all times.
4.
Also, while a family is talking on a dining table, they should not make fun about inadequacy
of anyone. Again this applies not only to dining table but universally.
5.
Dining table must not become a classroom of etiquette for anyone as they may lose interest in
consuming food.
6.
Play soft and subdued music in dining room.
7.
Please avoid idiot box (TV) in dining room so that whole family spends quality time together.

Bedroom Vastu How To Make It Vastu Compliant

Vastu for Bedroom is very important as bedroom is the place for privacy and total relaxation. A bedroom
is the place where we retire after strenuous days job to relax and have a sound sleep to gain energy for
the next day. Vastu Shastra for Bedroom has been given a very high priority and significance. As per
Bedroom Vastu Shastra acceptable shapes for are square or rectangular. Now, in case if the bedroom is
rectangular, then as per bedroom vastu shastra, reasonable length to breadth ratio is less or equal to 1:2
e.g. if the length is 20 foot, then the breadth lies between 10 feet to 40 feet. From the below image we
can see the ideal place of bedrooms for different members of the family

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Vastu Shastra Bedroom Tips are given below:

1. As per Vastu for Master Bedroom, it should always be in the South-West corner of the home and
head of the family must occupy this bedroom.
2. The master bedroom should always be bigger than other rooms of the house.
3. If the house is multi-story then master bedroom in the South-West corner of the top floor is best.
4. Perfect place for bed in master bedroom is towards South or West wall, so that while sleeping
the persons head is towards South or West and legs towards North or East.
5. Directions for Sleeping in bedroom as per Vastu Shastra:1.
Sleeping with legs towards the east gives name, reputation & richness.
2.
Sleeping with legs towards the west gives mental harmony & augments fondness for
spiritualism.
3.
Sleeping with legs towards the north, increases prosperity and opulence.
4.
However, one should not sleep with legs towards South as he will not have a sound
sleep. There will be bad dreams, bad thoughts in the mind. Heaviness in the chest can also be
sensed occasionally. South direction is Place of Yama (the Lord of Death). Mind sickness will
increase and there is possibility of lessening of life span.
6. Bed alignment to any corners is unsuitable.
7. Vastu says that the master bedroom should only be used by married couples.
8. West or North side is suitable for attached bathroom, changing room or bath tub etc.
9. The bathroom should not face the bed directly and the door of the bathroom must always be kept
closed.
10. East, North or West walls are best spot for entrance door of master bedroom. Avoid entrance on
South wall.
11. Make sure the door of the bedroom is of single shutter and always opens completely without any
noise.
12. East or North walls are good for windows in the bedroom.
13. South-West corner of the master bedroom should always be occupied.
14. Best place to keep heavy wardrobes, shelves or almirah is the South-West corner of the master
bedroom.
15. A mezzanine floor in South or West wall is tolerable in the bedroom.
16. Never place safe in bedroom. If unavoidable then place the safe away from the North-East,
North-West, South-East and South-West corners and East and West directions.
17. If the safe is kept towards the South wall and opens towards the North then its very auspicious.
18. Place dressing table with/without mirror in the North or East wall.
19. If a mirror is in the bedroom with/without dressing table then make sure than none of the body
part is visible in the mirror while sleeping on the bed, else the same body part will develop
medical problems.
20. Please avoid TV, PC or laptops in the bedroom (I know it is hard, but thats the way it is).
21. Put TV (if you cant control yourself), heater and other electrical appliances in the South-East of
the bedroom.

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22. Hang a beautiful and pleasant painting or any portrait on the wall so that it is easily seen as
someone enters the bedroom.
23. Vastu bedroom tips say that plants, fish aquariums or any other life forms are a strict NO in
bedroom.
24. If a bedroom is in the West side of the home then its best for children.
25. As per bedroom vastu, unmarried children or guests can use a bedroom in the East.
26. Lay beds in the childrens bedroom in the South-West so that a childs head is in East or South
direction.
27. As per Vastu Shastra do not place any bedroom in the South-East direction of the main building
as it leads to unnecessary quarrels (this does not means that there are necessary quarrels also )
between husband and wife, inefficient expenditure increases and the couple has to face lot of
difficulties.
28. However still if a bedroom is present in the South-East direction then use it as an office or
unmarried sons bedroom.
29. Do not have any bedroom in the North-East direction as this is the place for deities and if a
bedroom is present in this site then one faces many mishaps and sickness in the family
increases.
30. Also if a married couple sleeps in a North-East bedroom then they have to face long-term
diseases.
31. Avoid any bedroom in the center of the home.
32. Use light rose, gray, blue, chocolate, green etc as wall colors for bedroom.
33. Stay away from use of marble stones (white and yellow colored) in the newly married couples
bedroom.
34. Install a bagua outside a bedroom to protect from negativity.

36 MUST FOLLOW Living Room Vastu Tips

In this article, I am going to present to you, all the simple and easy vastu tips which you can and
MUST follow to make your living room a vastu compliant one. You know, a living room or drawing
room which follows vastu shastra attracts wealth, happiness and prosperity which are all positive
energies. These positive energies then interact with you and your family making you and them
successful, joyous and contented.
Living rooms are an important part of each and every home; it doesnt matter whether a house is modern
or ancient, you will certainly find a living room in that home. But WHY, you may ask; and the answer to
this question is very simple. Man is a social animal by nature this is the simplest and the most
straightforward answer to this question. A living room is the place of gathering the place where you
entertain your guests, socialize with people, enjoy and spend immeasurable quality time with your family.

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In short, it is the place where most of your sweet memories are made. For these reasons, I can safely
state that a living room has dual functions:
1. It is an interface where you socialize with outside people, such as guests, friends and distant
relatives.
2. Its also a place where you share private time with your family doing activities, such as, watching
TV, family discussions and anything and everything that you and your family love to do together.
Since a living room serves dual purposes in a home, hence its very important to make it as per rules and
regulations of vastu shastra. If you want to know why, then read the next section.
In most cases the entrance or main door of a home leads directly to drawing/living room; the main
door of a home is the place from where energy positive or negative enters the home; hence its very
important to make home entrance a vastu compliant one.

Living Room Vastu Why Is It Important?

Since you have now become aware of the dual purposes of living room, you are in a better position to
understand and contemplate the reasons to have a living room that follows vastu shastra. Below, I have
provided some examples that will make you consider doing vastu for your living room.
As mentioned earlier that its the living room where guests are entertained in a home; some of them have
positive feelings or energy whereas others have negative ones (Hmm, there are all kinds of people in
this world). Now, imagine a guest, who hasnegative feelings for you and your family, entering your
home and spending time in your living room. Where is the guest dropping all the negative energy?
RIGHT IN YOUR LIVING ROOM!! What happens to this negative energy if your living room if not
equipped to get rid of it? It spreads to entire home, affects you and your family in obviously
negative ways.
I will tell you one more way of negative energy entering your home. The main door of a home mostly
leads to living room; hence any negative energy which somehow crosses the main door, enters the
living room directly. Since you and your family spend time in living room with each other and with
people outside of family hence you all get impacted by negative energies present in the living room.
Since you have now read two main but easily possible scenarios of negative energies entering your
home, I believe that you now understand how vulnerable a living room becomes if its not able to dispose
of negative energies and attract and simultaneously enhance positive ones which is why we do vastu.
Hence, if the living room in your home is not as per vastu shastra; then I sincerely urge you to read the
next section of this article to know and understand all the important steps that you need to take to make
your living room a vastu compliant one.

Vastu for Living Room How You Can Do It?

This part of the article is dedicated to provide you the actions which you MUST take to make the living
room in your home a vastu compliant one.
Understand that this is a two step process. In the first step I want to take a look at the image below so
that you understand the best location where you need to locate the drawing room in your home.

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Since you have seen and I believe have completely understood the best location(s) for a living room
in a home, you are now ready to take the second step towards making your living room a vastu
compliant one.
The second and the final step which you need to follow is to read and follow all the below mentioned
vastu tips for living room.

Living Room Vastu Tips:

1. Construct a living room in East (not in South East corner, except for South facing houses) or in
North.
2. A living room is more beneficial in North direction.
3. The North-West living room is also good; since presiding element of North-West part of a home
is Air, the guests in this drawing-room start to feel restless after sometime and tend to leave
early. This could be a great site of living area for families who want to avoid late night parties and
get-together.
4. God presides North-East of the house and this is one of the ideal locations for a living room,
however its better suited for a pooja or prayer room.
5. A living room in North brings lot of wealth and health for entire family.
6. South-West located living room makes your guests feel at home and they stick to your home for
long time. If you and your family have very active social life and just love your guests to stay
too long (which could be difficult to manage at times) then you can locate your living room here.
However, this place is best suited for Master Bedroom.
7. Living area floor should slope towards East or North.
8. The ceiling of living area, if sloping towards East or North is good.
9. Have the door of the living room in East or North as they are very auspicious and brings wealth,
health and overall progress.
10. South, North-East or South-East entrance indicates success but then it takes lot of hard work to
achieve.
11. West entrance for living area is good for scholars and researchers.
12. Living areas North-West entrance supports development in all areas of life.
13. South entrance for living area is inauspicious; just shift the entrance to West for better results.
14. Within the living area keep internal furniture, articles and heavy things in West or South side. If
there is no option, then use a base of 1-3 inches height to keep furniture in North or North-East.
15. The head of the family, in living area, should sit facing East or North so that he remains in
command and guests are not able to dominate him.
16. Put the TV in South-East corner and not in North-East corner.
17. If TV is in South-West corner, then it will breakdown often.
18. If television is in North-West corner then the family will waste a lot of precious time watching TV
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Keep telephone in East, South-East or North.

Do not keep telephone in South-West or North-West.
Place air cooler and air conditioner in West, North-West or East and not in South-East.
You can hang portraits of Gods or some beautiful paintings in the North-East wall or corner.
Do not hang any portrait depicting negative energy e.g. war, crime, weeping etc in the living area
(actually avoid them anywhere in a home).
Use white, light yellow, blue or green colors for living room walls.
Avoid red or black for living area wall colors.
Keep square or rectangular furniture in living area and avoid circular, oval or any other shape of
furniture (this is applicable to furniture in entire home).
Provide a staircase in the South, West or South-West corner of living area.
Put light curtains on North-East windows and doors and heavy curtains in South-West (this is
applicable anywhere in a home) of living area.
Keep North-East corner of living area clean and empty if possible. Also, to make things better,
keep some healthy plants in this corner.
Never keep artificial flowers, dried flowers (they attract misfortune), cactus/cacti or bonsai plants
(have negative influence on finance and career) and are inauspicious.
Hang a chandelier in South or West of living area; do not hang anything in center.
Lit the living area brightly with soothing lights.
Keep a fish aquarium in the East, North or North-East of the living area. In vastu shastra, a fish
aquarium is considered a very powerful tool so powerful that it acts a remedy for many vastu
defects. But, you must use fish aquarium as per the rules and guidelines of vastu; else it may
ruin all the happiness in your home. Read the article on vastu tips and guidelines for fish
aquarium to know more on how you can easily have a vastu compliant fish aquarium at your
home.
If there is an error in the North-West corner then placing an aquarium will drop that issue.
Never keep an aquarium in South as draws all positive energy out of home.
You can place a water fountain in North.

Armed with these simple but very powerful vastu tips for living room; as you now know the implications of
not having a vastu compliant living room, I sincerely trust that you will leave no stone unturned to make
you living room a vastu compliant one.

Pooja/Prayer Room Vastu Tips [17 DOs & 19 DONTs]

Pooja room or prayer room is and must be one the most auspicious and sacred rooms of your
home. But this most auspicious and sacred room needs be as per rules and guidelines of vastu

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shastra. Since you worship, keep religious texts, idols and images of deitys and other Godly belongings
in this room, hence you must protect this room from negative energies. WHY? To know the answer, just
read on.
Once you have made a pooja or prayer room in your home then the room automatically starts to
attract positivity and harmony. However, if the pooja room is left unprotected then this attracted
positivity and harmony starts to weaken due toinfluence of negative energies that may be present
in your home. Hence, you must take all the required actions and make sure that the pooja room in your
home is vastu shastra compliant so that it is capable of enhancing and attracting positive energies in and
around your home.

How to Make Your Pooja Room Vastu Compliant?

Making a pooja room vastu shastra compliant is a two step process.
The first step that you need to take is to locate the pooja room obviously in the most auspicious
way. Now, to help you to identify the best possible location for a pooja or prayer room in your home, I
have made an image, which reveals to you the best location for a pooja room in a home as per vastu
shastra.

As you may see in the image above that the best place to locate pooja room is the North-East corner of
your home. However due to any reason if the North-East corner is unavailable then you can make
the pooja room in East or West side of your home.
The next and the last step to make a vastu compliant pooja room is to follow all vastu tips and
guidelines for pooja room which are mentioned below.

Pooja Room Vastu Tips:

What You Must Follow
1. As per pooja room vastu, north-east corner of home is best site for pooja place.
2. East and west are second best locations.
3. Keep the pooja place on ground floor.
4. In big plots or factories etc. construct pooja ghar at center; this is very auspicious.
5. Keep the idols in east and/or west of the prayer room.
6. Place the idols a few inches (at least an inch) away from wall.
7. Make sure that all the idols are always in perfect condition.
8. Have two shutter door of high quality wood for prayer room.
9. Pooja Room can have doors and windows in north or east walls.
10. White or light yellow colored marble work in prayer room makes it more auspicious.
11. Use white, light yellow or light blue colors for walls of pooja room.
12. You can place a lamp stand in the pooja room in south-east or eastern side.

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If the roof of pooja room is pyramid shape then its very auspicious.
You can place an Agnikund in the prayer room in south-east corner.
Keep showcases and almirahs towards west or south walls.
Entrance of pooja place must have a threshold.
If the prayer area is in kitchen then keep it in the north-east corner of kitchen; you should face
east while praying.

What You Must Avoid

1. The pooja place should never be in south direction.
2. Do not have pooja place in a store-room.
3. Avoid pooja place in any bedroom. However if there is no option then use the north-east corner
of the bedroom as pooja place (but remember this is the last and least favored option). Also
remember that while sleeping or lying on bed your feet should not point towards this corner.
4. Never make pooja room in basement or first or above floors.
5. Do not have prayer place above, below or next to any toilet or kitchen.
6. Avoid pooja room or place under a staircase.
7. Idols should never face south.
8. Do not chisel off the wall to make place for keeping idols.
9. Never keep broken idols.
10. Idols should never be directly in front of the entrance door of prayer room.
11. Never keep the idols brought from old temples in the prayer room.
12. Women should not enter the prayer room during menses.
13. Scenes or photos of crime, battles or of any negative emotions are a strict no in the pooja
place. Actually you must avoid them in your entire home.
14. Do not hang photos of animals and birds in the pooja place.
15. Never have photos of passed away people in the pooja area.
16. Never keep a dustbin in the pooja place; it reduces positive energy of the room.
17. No one should sleep in the prayer room (except if the prayer room is in bedroom).
18. Dont keep the items in the pooja area that do not belong there.
19. Never ever under any circumstance conceal any money or other valuables in pooja place.
I believe and trust that above vastu tips for pooja room will definitely make your prayer room a very
auspicious one.

11 KEY Vastu Tips for Toilet & Bathroom

When considering doing vastu for home, you must pay special attention to make toilets and bathrooms
in your home as per rules and guidelines of vastu shastra. Toilets and bathrooms are or tend to
become a major source of negative energy if they are not built as per rules and guidelines of vastu.

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Hence, in this article, I will reveal to you the best location, internal arrangement of items and the most
efficient vastu tips which you can and must apply to make vastu compliant toilets and bathrooms in
your home.
Now, coming back to the topic of this article i.e. vastu for toilets and bathrooms. As per vastu shastra, the
toilets and bathrooms in a home must be separate and not attached, but there are over 7 billion people
on earth and 70% of earths surface is water, hence the space is limited for living and thus attached
toilets or attached bathrooms as some people call them have found a way into our homes. But this
doesnt mean that if you have attached bathrooms or toilets in your home then you cannot do vastu for
them. You can easily do vastu for them also and thats what you are going to learn here.
But before you take any action further, I want you to go through the next section of this article which tells
you the importance of doing vastu for toilets and bathrooms in your home. Also, the next section makes
you aware of the common problems and issuesassociated with vastu non compliant bathrooms and
toilets; hence if you are facing similar troubles in your life, you can easily pin point the reason for such
troubles and apply suitable remedies to get rid of them.

Toilet and Bathroom Vastu Why so much fuss?

Many troubles and issues are invited by vastu non compliant bathrooms and toilets. Here in this section,
I have listed the most common but in no way painless troubles and issues which find their way in if
the toilet/bathroom of your home doesnt comply with vastu rules and guidelines. Remember that many
people have already faced these problems and there are many others who are still being grinded by
them.

Vastu Non-Compliant Bathrooms List of Problems They Attract

1. Financial Issues: Weak finances, loss of money by various means.
2. Health Issues: Mental tension and stress, frequent lethal and minor accidents.
Having seen some common problems that may arise due to vastu defect in toilet and bathroom, you
are now ready to read and understand how you can make the toilet and bathroom in your home a vastu
compliant one. All you need to do now is to read the next section of this very same article.

Vastu Compliant Toilets and Bathroom How To Do It The

Correct Way?
This section of the article reveals to you the best vastu tips, location, wall colors, internal arrangement of
items and much more in a bathroom while complying with the rules and regulations of vastu shastra.
Making an attached toilet a vastu compliant one is a three step process. In the first step you will learn
the best location, as per vastu, where you can make a toilet or bathroom in your home.
Have a look at the image below and you will be able to easily understand the best and the second best
locations, as per vastu, within a home where you can make toilet or bathroom.

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Since you have seen the image and understood that the best location for a toilet or bathroom is the
North-West part of the home (not the North-West corner), see carefully that I have left the corners in the
image. The second best location for a toilet is the North-East part and not the North-East corner, and the
South-West part leaving the South-West corner, you are now ready for the second step in making a
vastu compliant toilet.
The second step is to identify the internal arrangements of items such as geyser, bathtub, taps, mirror,
commode etc. in an attached bathroom. To make this process simpler, I have created another image
which tells you the best possible arrangements of essential items and fittings in a bathroom.

Vastu Tips for Attached Bathroom and Toilet

11 Things You MUST DO
1. Water closet (commode) should preferentially be aligned to North-South axis in toilet.
2. Build toilets in West or North-West side of north of a room depending upon whether toilet is with
bedroom or separate.
3. Toilets can also be constructed on South side.
4. Place commode inside the toilet in West, South or North-West side of West.
5. Fit the pot, in toilet, in such a way that while using the commode the person never faces East or
West.

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Construct toilet 1-2 feet higher than ground level.

You can have entrance door of the toilet on East or North wall.
The flooring of toilet should slope towards East or North so that water drains from these sides.
Store water, taps etc. in East, North or North-East.
Color walls of toilet as desired, but prefer light colors.
Provide a small window in the toilet in East, West or North wall

5 Things You MUST AVOID

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Do not have water closet, in toilet, above or under pooja room, fire or bed place.
Avoid toilets in center, North-East or South-West corners of home.
Avoid septic tank in South side of toilet
Never locate an attached toilet South-East or South-West corner.
Never store water or install taps in South-West or South-East.

I assume that you now have understood the importance of having a vastu compliant attached toilet or
bathroom in your home. Also, I believe that you will follow the above mentioned vastu tips for toilet and
bathroom and make the attached bathroom in your home a vastu compliant one.

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