Vastu Tips for Kitchen

Below we give you some quick Vastu tips for kitchen to help you plan the layout of your kitchen to ensure
good health and prosperity in your home.

o The ideal position for kitchen is the South East corner of the house

o The kitchen door should open in North, North East or East direction in clockwise manner.

o The cooking stove is best placed in the South East corner (the place of Lord Agni).

o The person cooking should face East direction as this brings good health for the family members
and violating this with face towards South while cooking could bring financial losses to the family

o The Kitchen sink should be placed in North East.

o The ventilators and larger kitchen windows should be in the East direction and smaller windows in
the South.

o The water filter and other drinking water storage should be done in the North East direction of the
kitchen.

o The refrigerator should be placed in the South West corner.

o The dining table if placed in the kitchen should be in the North West corner and not in the centre
with the face in East or North direction while consuming food.

o Any toilet or bathroom should not share a common wall with your kitchen.

Vastu Tips for Bedroom

• The master bedroom is best suitable for the South West corner of the house for complete control
over the household.

• Children's room should lie either on the North or East of the master bedroom.

• The South West corner should not be for the children's room or for an unmarried girl in the family.

• The guest room should occupy the North West corner.

• The Vastu bed direction is South to North that allows you a sleeping position of your head in the
South and feet pointing North. Vastu advocates avoiding head in North or West while sleeping.

• The South West portion of your bedroom can be occupied with heavy furniture like almiras and
wardrobes.

• The dressing table or mirror should be placed on the Eastern or Northern walls and strictly not
facing the bed. This ensures a blissful married life.
• The Vastu Colors ideal for your bedroom are soft pastel shades of blue, green and off white. Avoid
cark & very bright colors in the bedroom.

• It is not advisable to have an aquarium or real plants in the bedroom.

• If you have an attached bathroom, make sure it does not directly face your bed and the door is
closed at all times.

Vastu For Staircase

Vastu Shastra defines certain basic rules to be followed while constructing a staircase in a building.
This is separately studied under Vastu for stairs and is and integral component of the complete Vastu
Shastra Course. The ideal Vastu Directions for a staircase are South and South West.

It is not advisable to build the stairs of the building in the North East corner. The steps in the
staircase should climb up from either east to west or north to south. Also the total number of steps
should count to an odd number so that the person climbing with one foot lands with the same foot
forward on top of the stairs. The landings and turnings in any staircase are planned to be in the
clockwise direction.

Principles of Vastu for Stairs

Vastu Principles are clearly demarcated about the construction of the stairs in a building. Facing west
or south while starting climbing and finishing in the North East direction is considered auspicious.

Therefore, the stairs are planned to be constructed with each turnings at such an angle that these
basics are followed. Keeping doors at beginning and end of the staircase is also considered
auspicious. Care should be taken to ensure that the stairs do not touch the eastern or northern walls.
 Vastu for Puja Room
Vastu for Puja room pronounces the direction of the Pooja room to be in the North, East or North
East part of the house. Vastu Shastra recommends these directions for Puja room because of various
effects the energy flow from these can have on the members of the household. Puja room should not
be placed in the bedroom.

And the idols of the Lord should be in the North East portion of the Pooja Griha. The idols' faces
should not be covered by any garment, garland or even flowers. The idols should also not face each
other and any broken idol or torn photograph should not be kept within the Puja room. The lamps or
Diyas in the Pooja room are best placed in front of the Lord's idol.

Vastu Tips for Pooja Room

The materials required for the Puja or the Puja Samigri should be kept in the South East direction. If
some Idol or any thing else from the Pooja room is removed for some reason, make sure you do not
keep it within the house and ensure that it is duly Vserjit in a river. Ground floor is the favored place
for the Pooja room and planning it in the basement is strictly prohibited.

Heavy furniture or idols and figures like that of Lord Ganesha should be avoided. The color of the
room is advised to be white or light yellow or light blue and light yellow & white marble work for the
floor. Sometimes it is not possible for a separate Pooja room due to paucity of space. In case the
kitchen has a small Mandir, it is advised to keep it in the North East corner.

There should be a clear demarcation of the Puja room and it should not be used as a store. And even
the additional furniture like the almiras and cupboards should be in same height as that of the
placement of the idols. Photographs of ancestors are not advised to be kept in the Puja room. Also
the toilet or bathroom should not share common wall with the Pooja room.

For further information and Vastu Shastra Tips browse through this Vastu section on
Indiahousing.com and get answers to all your Vastu related queries.
 Vastu For Toilet
Vastu Shastra lays down certain basic principles to be followed while positioning the toilet in the
house. Vastu for toilet recommends North West corner of the house or building to be assigned to the
toilet. For an attached toilet, again the North West side of the room is recommended as per Vaastu.
The second option could be the South East direction.

Toilet in the North East can adversely affect the finances and prosperity of the family. Whereas toilet
in South West direction directly affects the head of the family in terms of his health and might make
him highly indecisive.

Vastu Tips for Toilet

Some effective Vastu Tips for architecture of the toilet include:

o Toilet seats should ideally be placed in either South to North directions or West to East
direction.
o The doors should be either in the North East or East walls.
o Mirrors should be placed on the North or East walls only.
o Planning the windows such that we have a larger window in the North direction and smaller
in the West (keeping the privacy intact)

o The toilet walls should be painted in lighter hues and not warning colors like red and black.