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49 questions on Interior Vastu

Should a heavy sofa be kept in the North of the drawing room?

No. As the human-body model shows, the North must stay light so that the magnetic current can flow out from the North to the South; making it heavy weakens this magnetic flow.

Can a fan be installed above the dining table?

No, there is no need for one; it brings electromagnetic currents and many other negative effects.

Can the dining table be round?

Yes, a round table works if it is placed in a water-element zone. Furniture shapes for each direction are covered in the next class.

Will an AC or cooler in the South-East cool down its fire element?

No. An AC or cooler is cooled by electricity, not by ice; when the power goes it stops. It runs on electricity and so represents the fire element, which suits the SE. Place coolers in the same zones as ACs.

Why are main doors made with two shutters?

The two shutters correspond to the Ida and Pingala nadis: we breathe through one nostril and then the other, each flowing for about an hour, so a door with two shutters brings energy in and lets it out easily, while a single shutter struggles to do both. Doors thousands of years old, and even the small room doors of old palaces, were always made with two shutters. The main door must have two shutters; inner doors should preferably have two as well, though one shutter is acceptable there.

What results do flush, plywood, fiber and glass main doors give?

The main door should be only of wood, best of teak, and royal doors were of sandalwood or had a little sandalwood mixed in. Flush doors are made from plywood of thorny shrubs, so even a house costing crores with a cheap flush main door does not get good results, because energy takes on the chemistry of the material it passes through. A sandalwood Om or Swastik pasted on the door also gives very good results.

What does a window do, and why should it open outward?

A door is placed by pada, but a window does not work on the surface current: currents are dense near the ground and lighter higher up, so positive energy stays higher, which makes ventilation a must. Windows and ventilators bring in clean air and push the negativity of the house out, so they should open outward, while the main door opens inward; sliding windows are acceptable. Keep windows in even numbers, two-shuttered if possible, in one row at one level, with a window beside the main door; open all windows in the morning and keep the left (Chandra swar) window open during the day.

On which padas can windows and ventilators be made?

In the North anywhere from N1 to N5; from N8 across the East up to E7, but not at E8; in the South on S3, S4 and S5; and in the West on W3, W4 and W5. These are the green-marked padas of the window chart.

Large glass panes now fill whole walls instead of windows. Do they count as windows, since the window pada chart cannot be applied to them?

With UPVC systems whole sections can open, so at least open the part that has an opening system, wherever possible. Following the allowed span, the East from E1 to E7 can be opened fully, at least five padas of the North, three padas of the South and three or four padas of the West.

Should windows and ventilators be on the same padas?

Yes. Both follow the same allowed padas: N1 to N5, from N8 across the East up to E7, S3 to S5 and W3 to W5.

In the main door picture, which were the jharokhas and which were the niches (aale)?

The small niches were made for lamps; they are the eyes of the door, and lamps placed in them open its eyes. The jharokhas beside them are the ears. Lamps must be lit in the niches on festivals such as Diwali, Dussehra, Holi and Raksha Bandhan, and in royal houses they were lit daily; a house whose eyes stay open keeps a right watch over everyone. If a door, even one in a wrong place, is decorated like this with small desi cow ghee lamps in the niches, its defects do not apply.

Can Kota stone tiles be used?

Yes, Kota stone is among the best floors and produces very good energy. It is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that stays cool.

When should the vastu of the whole house be checked, and when only that of a room?

Check the whole house when the whole house is being built, and the room when only its interior is being done. Just as a person is first seen as a whole and then limb by limb, first assess the whole house and then each portion, and try to make every part good.

The bedroom falls in the South-South-West, a negative zone of the house, but its own zoning looks right. Which should be followed?

Zones are first taken from the total area of the house. After that, the room's own vastu is used for the interior inside it, such as where to keep water, a meter or other items in that room.

Can quartz be hung?

Yes, quartz can be hung, just as chandeliers are hung. But do not hang the chandeliers sold in the market today, because they are mixed with lead, which is harmful.

Can these planet artifacts be used even when the birth chart shows no defect?

Yes. Without a dosh they simply add energy. Nobody would refuse if God offered an exalted Jupiter, Mars or Saturn in their chart, and decorating with the items that represent such planets raises energy in the same way. Energy never becomes so much that it causes harm; how the gain is used is the person's own responsibility.

Should golden yellow and white be used only in the North-East, or can the whole house use this combination?

The whole house can use it. The teacher has done a complete home interior in white and golden yellow, creating Gajkesari yoga throughout. When one colour combination is used in every direction, no dosh is counted.

How do we choose a direction when no planet in the chart is exalted and several planets sit in one direction?

First choose the direction of exalted planets. If none are exalted, go towards the direction where the benefic planets sit: Venus, Mercury, Moon and Jupiter are benefic, while Rahu, Ketu, Saturn, Sun and Mars are malefic. Then use the interior items, seed mantras, artifacts, statues, trees, colours and symbols, to strengthen the planets that are not exalted.

What size should a quartz ball be?
Are the quartz trees sold today good to keep?

Yes. They mostly carry natural quartz of different colours, and they are far better than plastic decor, so they can be kept as showpieces in the interior.

Can these planet items be kept in the toilet?

No, they were not prescribed for the toilet and there is no need to keep them there.

If the Sun is exalted in the 10th house, should the South also be improved, or should Sun items go only in the East?

Sun items go in the East, but they can also go in the directions of the friends of the Sun; one colour or one showpiece is not restricted to one place. That is why the colour combinations of friend planets were given.

Which element do curtains represent?

Curtains represent the air element: they move only when air comes in. The main door, every door and every window also represent the air element.

As an interior designer, clients choose their own colours and I cannot check their planets; should I give a remedy or try to convince them?

Do not try to convince anyone. People mostly like the colours that match their own planets. If a client chooses an anti-element colour and their kundli allows it, never stop them; it will bring them benefit.