Vastu Shastra tips for your home to keep your family healthy and happy while maintaining peace and positivity.
Vastu Shastra means “the science of architecture”. These ancient Indian texts help navigate through architectural designs, layout, groundwork, patterns, geometry, directions, etc to ensure prosperity and peace within the building structure being built. An architectural property that abides by these Vastu guidelines radiates good mental and physical health, wealth, harmonious interpersonal relationships, a sense of direction professionally and overall goodwill
Vastu revolves around balancing the 5 elements; air, fire, water, earth, space, all around the architectural structure. Through these tips, explore how to incorporate it into your entire home.
1. Entrance: Vastu tips begin from the very entrance of the house. The door of the house should face the North, East, or North East direction when you are leaving the house. As this door is the main opening to your home, it should be significantly bigger than your other doors as it is through this, good luck, health and wealth would step into your home. Colours like black should be avoided for the door as it is generally negative to look at and will make the doorway seem gloomy. Wood is the best material to build your door with. It is crucial to keep the main doorway lit and the door bright to make it appear welcoming for good energy. Avoid placing a garbage bin or even a shoe rack right outside the door as it looks repulsive and uninviting.
2. Water Element: The North East corner of the house is dominated by the water element, which makes it a gateway for the flow of constructivity. Placing some sort of water body such as a fluid decor or a fountain is a great idea to strengthen that corner. Keeping a fish tank or an aquarium in that corner too is a good substitute as fishes purify the home. Goldfishes are a wonderful choice for this as they’re known to invite good luck into your home. But be sure to clean the tank periodically and keep it tidy.
3. Living Room: This is the most prominent room of the house and one where many guests spend the most time in. This area serves as a melting pot of all energies, good and bad, but only the positive ones need to be retained. To ensure that, avoid setting cramped up living rooms to allow a free energy flow. North, East and North East directions are apt for this room.
4. Pooja or worship room: The pooja room or room for worship too should be placed in the North, East or North East direction of the house. It is advised against building a room of worship underground or in the basement of your home, the ground floor of the house is an ideal location.
5. Master Bedroom: The right location for the bedroom is the South West corner of the house. The South East part of the house should be avoided at all costs, especially for the main bedroom as it represents the fire element and can cause tensions or strains in relationships. The master bedroom, the biggest room of the house, shall only be occupied by the parents or the owners of the house. Psychological reasoning behind this is if the children occupy the largest room of the house, it can affect the parent-child dynamic of superiority and the parents might feel belittled. Furthermore, the owner of the house is truly entitled to their own biggest space. Placing mirrors opposite to cash lockers is a great way to multiply wealth as mirrors reflect and amplify exactly what is kept in front of them.
Attaching wind chimes in rooms is a wonderful way to maintain peace as it attracts positive energies.
6. Study Room: The suitable location for the study room is the North, North East or West part of the house. Head to Vastu Tips for Study for a detailed understanding.
7. Kitchen: As mentioned, it is the South East corner of the home that is dominated by the fire element, making it the best fit for a kitchen. Kitchen Vastu Tips is an entire article in itself.
8. Bathroom: This too is of the essence when it comes to Vastu Shashtra. Washrooms are the primary source through which negative energy comes into the house, due to the nature and purpose of the place. It is suggested to keep the washroom doors shut at all times. North West is the fitting direction for the bathroom. The walls of the bathroom should not be shared with that of the pooja room and kitchen as one is the place for discarding waste while the other is known to be sacred rooms.
9. Room Shape and Colours: It is preferred for all the rooms of the house to be in a square or rectangular shape. Avoid circular or other asymmetrical irregular shapes for the rooms. Paint your walls with bright light shades of yellow, cream, Orange, Green, White, pastel, Blue, etc. Strictly stir clear from extremely dark colours like Black, dark Brown as they, not only project darkness, they also give a negative appearance and make the rooms look smaller.
10. Maintain Peace and Positivity: A regular cleaning of the house should be sustained, daily disposal of garbage, removal of spider webs, dusting furniture and shelves should be regulated. A dirty or dusty house can lead to sickness and can be home to negativity too. Maintaining plants throughout the stretch of the house would not only enable fresh air but also look appealing. Tulsi or the Holy Basil is an excellent plant to keep in the North East direction of the house due to its healing properties and ability to transform a negative flow of energy into a positive one.
