Vastu for Renovations vs New Builds: What to Decide, and When
On a new build almost everything is still a choice. In a renovation the order you do things in is what saves money — here is the sequence.
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Griha Pravesh: The Checklist, and How the Date Is Chosen
What the ceremony actually requires, which nakshatras and tithis are favourable, and how to do a scaled-down version in a rented flat.
Plot Shape as per Vastu: What Works and What to Do About the Rest
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.
Is a South-Facing House Really Bad as per Vastu?
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.
East vs North vs West vs South Facing: An Honest Comparison
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.
Vastu in Delhi NCR Builder Projects: What to Check Before You Book
"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.
The Vastu Checklist to Run Before You Buy a Flat
Thirty things you can decide on a twenty-minute viewing, in the order that matters — with a printable sheet to take with you.
Builder Floor vs Apartment vs House: What Changes in Vastu
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.
Vastu for Studio Apartments and 1RKs
One room has to be bedroom, kitchen and living room at once. The quarters still work — you zone them with furniture instead of walls.
Balcony Vastu in Apartments: Directions and Layouts
East, North and North-East are the easy ones. Here is what to do with the South and West balconies most flats actually have.
Vastu for 2BHK Flats: Realistic Layouts and Remedies
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.
Vastu for Flat Main Doors Opening Onto a Corridor
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.
Which Floor Is Best as per Vastu in a High-Rise?
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.
12 Signs of a Vastu Problem in Your Home
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.
Do Vastu Pyramids, Yantras and Copper Strips Work?
Honest answers about the objects people sell as Vastu remedies — which are classical, which were invented for apartments, and which do nothing at all.
Brahmasthan in Vastu: Why the Centre of a Home Stays Open
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.
Vastu Remedies for Renters: Colour, Light and Objects
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.
South-West Entrance Vastu: Remedies Without Demolition
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.
North-East and Brahmasthan Toilet Vastu Remedies
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.
North-East Kitchen Vastu Remedies Without Renovation
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.
How to Fix Vastu Dosh Without Breaking a Wall
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.
What Is Vastu Dosh, and How Do You Identify One?
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.
Mirror Placement as per Vastu: A Room by Room Guide
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.
Water Tank and Borewell Direction as per Vastu
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.
Best Direction for a Study Desk as per Vastu
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.
Staircase Direction and Shape as per Vastu
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.
Pooja Room in a Flat With No Spare Room: Best Directions
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.
Bathroom and Toilet Direction as per Vastu
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.
Master Bedroom Vastu: Best Directions and Layouts
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.
Best Sleeping Direction As Per Vastu: Why Head Position Matters
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.
Best Direction for a Kitchen as per Vastu
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.
Main Door Vastu: Which Direction Should It Face?
The exact compass degrees for the best main door directions according to Vastu — and practical, renter-friendly threshold remedies for any entrance.