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What the ceremony actually requires, which nakshatras and tithis are favourable, and how to do a scaled-down version in a rented flat.

Vterior Team · September 23, 2026 · 4 min read

Square and rectangular are the answer, with a length no more than twice the width. For everything else, the fix is landscaping rather than masonry.

Vterior Team · September 22, 2026 · 5 min read

No — but the reputation has a real cause. Six of the eight south padas are unfavourable, and the two that are not sit twelve degrees apart.

Vterior Team · September 22, 2026 · 5 min read

North and East are the easy answers. The more useful one is that a well-placed South door beats a badly placed North one — and here is why.

Vterior Team · September 21, 2026 · 5 min read

"Vastu compliant" in a brochure usually means the gate faces east. Here is what to verify yourself, and why your phone compass will lie to you in a Noida tower.

Vterior Team · September 21, 2026 · 5 min read

Thirty things you can decide on a twenty-minute viewing, in the order that matters — with a printable sheet to take with you.

Vterior Team · September 18, 2026 · 6 min read

What actually differs between the three is how much you control — the roof, the tank, the stairwell, the centre of the plan. The directional rules do not change at all.

Vterior Team · September 18, 2026 · 6 min read

One room has to be bedroom, kitchen and living room at once. The quarters still work — you zone them with furniture instead of walls.

Vterior Team · September 17, 2026 · 5 min read

East, North and North-East are the easy ones. Here is what to do with the South and West balconies most flats actually have.

Vterior Team · September 17, 2026 · 5 min read

You get four or five rooms and no say in where any of them went. Here is which of the Vastu rules are worth acting on in a builder flat, in priority order.

Vterior Team · September 16, 2026 · 5 min read

A shared corridor does not exempt your front door from anything — but it does change how you measure it, and it rules out half the remedies people try.

Vterior Team · September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

The honest answer is that practitioners contradict each other about floor numbers — and that the orientation of the unit matters more than its height either way.

Vterior Team · September 15, 2026 · 5 min read

Recurring damp in one corner, a door that sticks, a room nobody sits in — the patterns worth measuring, and the ones that are just maintenance.

Vterior Team · September 15, 2026 · 6 min read

Honest answers about the objects people sell as Vastu remedies — which are classical, which were invented for apartments, and which do nothing at all.

Vterior Team · September 14, 2026 · 7 min read

The central ninth of a floor plan, defined precisely in the classical grids — how to find it on an irregular layout, and what to do when a builder has put a column through it.

Vterior Team · September 14, 2026 · 8 min read

Everything here comes out with you when the lease ends — a bulb, a rug, a tape line, a slab under the hob. The renter's half of Vastu, which is most of it.

Vterior Team · September 11, 2026 · 7 min read

The South-West wants stillness and a front door is pure movement. Weight, colour and a brass threshold strip settle it — no wall needs to come down.

Vterior Team · September 11, 2026 · 6 min read

The two toilet placements tradition treats most seriously, the sixteen-zone degrees that tell you whether you actually have one, and the remedies that need no plumber.

Vterior Team · September 10, 2026 · 6 min read

A green marble slab under the burners, a clear corner, and a copper vessel of water — the North-East kitchen corrected without touching a countertop.

Vterior Team · September 9, 2026 · 6 min read

Metal strips matched to the zone, natural stone under the hob, sea salt, and moving the heavy things — the remedies that work in a rented flat, and the reasoning behind each.

Vterior Team · September 8, 2026 · 7 min read

A Vastu dosh is a spatial conflict you can measure with a compass — not a curse. Here is how to find one on your own floor plan, and what the degrees actually mean.

Vterior Team · September 7, 2026 · 6 min read

North or east wall, so you face north or east in the reflection — and never where it reflects the bed. The room-by-room rules, and what to do about a mirrored wardrobe you cannot move.

Vterior Team · September 4, 2026 · 7 min read

Underground tanks and borewells belong in the North-East. Overhead tanks belong in the South-West. The two rules point in opposite directions, and that is the whole idea.

Vterior Team · September 4, 2026 · 7 min read

Face East or North while you work — and put the desk in the South-West, so you are sitting in the heavy corner looking out across the light one.

Vterior Team · September 3, 2026 · 7 min read

South, West or South-West, turning clockwise as it climbs, with a step count that is odd and leaves a remainder of two — the staircase rules, and what to do when yours breaks them.

Vterior Team · September 3, 2026 · 6 min read

The North-East corner of the living room, a wall-hung shelf at chest height, and a wall that does not back onto plumbing — a mandir in a flat needs three decisions, not a spare room.

Vterior Team · September 2, 2026 · 7 min read

West and North-West are the settled quarters for a bathroom. Two quarters need care, the rest are workable — and none of it calls for demolition.

Vterior Team · September 2, 2026 · 7 min read

The South-West is the anchor quarter and the traditional master bedroom. If your room is somewhere else, the fix is weight and head position — not construction.

Vterior Team · September 1, 2026 · 6 min read

Vastu judges your sleeping direction by where your head points, not where the bed sits — which is why most bedrooms can be corrected by moving a pillow.

Vterior Team · September 1, 2026 · 5 min read

The South-East is the ideal kitchen direction in Vastu Shastra — and if yours sits elsewhere, there are specific non-structural remedies that work without demolition.

Vterior Team · August 31, 2026 · 5 min read

The exact compass degrees for the best main door directions according to Vastu — and practical, renter-friendly threshold remedies for any entrance.

Vterior Team · August 31, 2026 · 7 min read