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Practical guides to Vastu Shastra: directions, the main entrance, bedroom, kitchen, living room and pooja room, apartments and how to read a floor plan.
Vastu Shastra is a traditional Indian system of architecture and spatial design. Its guidelines are traditional beliefs rather than scientifically established rules, and practitioners interpret them differently, so these guides separate what the texts say from what is practical in a modern flat.
Vastu Shastra is India's traditional system of architecture and spatial design. This guide explains what the word means, where it comes from, its core principles (directions, the Vastu Purusha Mandala, the five elements) and what it can and cannot claim.
What Vastu Shastra traditionally recommends for bedrooms: which zone suits the master bedroom, which way to sleep, where to place the bed, wardrobes and mirrors, and how to apply it in a flat you can't redesign.
The Vastu mistakes people make most often: misreading direction, fixating on the wrong features, buying 'remedies' the classical texts never mention, and the layout issues practitioners consistently flag. With a sense of priority, so you know what to act on.
A step-by-step method for reading any floor plan through Vastu Shastra: orient it to north, find the centre, lay the 3 × 3 grid (or 16 zones), map each room to its zone, and separate what matters from what doesn't.
Vastu Shastra places the kitchen in the south-east, the zone of fire. Here is the traditional guidance on where the kitchen, stove, sink, fridge and storage go, which way to face while cooking, and how to apply it to a modular kitchen in a flat.
Traditional Vastu guidance for the living room: which zone suits it, where the sofa, TV and heavy furniture go, which way to sit, how to treat the centre and the north-east corner, and how to apply it to a combined living-dining room in a flat.
What Vastu Shastra says about the main entrance: which directions are traditionally preferred, why the door's position along the wall matters, design guidance for the door itself, and what you can realistically change in a flat.
Vastu traditionally places the pooja room in the north-east. Here is guidance on direction, which way idols and the worshipper face, where the lamp goes, what to avoid near the shrine, and how to set up a mandir in a flat without a separate room.
In Vastu, every recommendation starts with direction. Here are the eight directions and the centre, what each is traditionally associated with, how to find true directions in your own home with a compass, and what a house's 'facing' means.
How to apply Vastu Shastra to a flat you're buying or moving into: which features to check (entrance, kitchen, master bedroom, centre, toilets), what matters less than people think, and what you can adjust after you move in.
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Draw your floor plan in Aroha Vastu and see every room judged by its direction, with a Vastu score for your home. On Android and the web now; a 3D version is coming soon.