Vastu Tips & Tricks

• The image of Gajalaxmi at the main door is considered auspicious.


• The North-East corner is the face house and should always be kept clean.


• While cleaning the floor with any disinfectant, a little sea salt should be added.


• Students should study facing the north or east.


• Rain water or drainage should flow towards NE-East-North.


• Material to be used in the construction of a house or even commercial building should always be new, except when renovating.


• Elderly people are always more comfortable in the South-West corner.


• Do not sit or sleep under a beam.


• Do not keep or hang paintings depicting war, crime, violence, unrest, agony or distress.


• Construct the front door in such a manner as to avoid the fall of a shadow on it.


• Grow a tulsi or basil plant in front of the house.


• Bhumi-pujan ceremony should be performed before commencing the construction of a new house and Griha-pravesh ceremony before shifting into it.


• Do not have a toilet or prayer room (puja room) under a staircase.


• Do not dig well in the middle of a house or plot. It is very inauspicious.


• Keep all electrical / heat generating appliances in the SE corner of the room.


• Do not construct kitchen, toilets and prayer room (puja-room) next to one another.


• The kitchen should not be directly in front of the main door.


• Do not keep broken mirrors, and watches and electrical gadgets which are either lying idle or out of order in the house.


• Mirrors, sinks, wash-basins and taps should preferably be along the NE wall.


• The safe should open towards the north or the east. So, keep it along south or the west.


• The toilet seat should preferably be along the North-South axis. The septic tank can be in the NW or the SE corner of the House.


• Avoid having garbage dump, street-light pole, or boulders in front of the main gate or door.


• Your main door should not be opposite the main door of another house.


• The number of doors and windows should be more on the ground floor and less on the upper floor.


• Do not have any cactus in the house. Having it outside the boundry is good.


• The height of the building should reduced from the SW to the NE.


• Walls along the SW should be thicker as compared to walls along the NE.