Principle
Anti-Element Colours Matter Only When the Whole Room Is That Colour
A colour counts as an anti-element only when the entire room or zone is done in it; a small item of about 10 percent of the volume creates no dosh.
All zones and rooms
TopicVastu
Interior Vastu
इंटीरियर वास्तु
Sessions, remedies, methods and answers on this topic across all courses.
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Principle
Dining Area Effects in Each of the 16 Zones
West is the ideal dining zone because Varun gives coolness and taste; WSW, North, NNE, East, SSE and South also support eating, while ESE, SE, SSW and WNW disturb it.
Best: West. Very good: WSW, North, NNE, NE, East, ENE. Good: SSE, South. Moderate: SW, NW, NNW. Avoid: ESE, SE, SSW, WNW.
Principle
Dining Room Interior: Crystal Chandelier, Greenery, Flowers and God's Photo
Hang a sphatik (crystal) chandelier over the dining table, keep light colours, greenery and flowers, a good table and chairs, and a picture of God in the dining room.
Dining room
Principle
Drawing Room Effects in Each of the 16 Zones
East is the ideal drawing room zone, North suits business talks and the NE gives peace, while the SE, SSW and WNW are poor; a room energised with crystallised quartz can work almost anywhere.
Best: East. Good: North, NNE, NE, ENE, NNW, West, WSW, South (not too open). Moderate: SSE, SW, NW. Poor: ESE, SE, SSW, WNW.
Principle
Drawing Room Interior: Rectangular Seating, North Facing, Light Colours
The drawing room is the place for exchanging ideas, so its furniture is set in a square or rectangle, the person putting forward his views faces North, the colours are light and windows give cross-ventilation.
Drawing room (swagat kaksh, the room for receiving guests)
Principle
Office Furniture of Solid Teak Wood, No Black or Grey Glass
Business is ruled by Budh (Mercury), which wood represents, so office tables and furniture should be made of the best solid wood such as teak, without black or grey glass tops.
Office table, wardrobes and furniture; study tables
Principle
Placement of Ancestor and Family Photos
Photos of departed ancestors go in the South-West, but never inside a bedroom; family photos of the living go anywhere except the South and SSW zones, on a wall where their faces look North.
Ancestors: South-West, outside the bedroom. Family photos: South wall, not in the South or SSW zones
Principle
Placement of TV, Washing Machine, Inverter, Meter, AC, Cooler and Dustbin
Appliances that run on electricity represent the fire element, so the washing machine, inverter, electric meter, AC and cooler go in the SE, ESE, SSE or NW, while the TV goes where viewers face North.
Fire and disposal zones of the house or of each room
Principle
Study Room Colours: Ivory, Golden Yellow, Green, White or the 5th Lord's Colour
Study room colours follow the zone, but education belongs to Jupiter, so ivory, golden yellow, green (Mercury) and white suit study, as does the colour of the 5th house lord when it is well placed.
Study room walls and study area
Principle
Study Room Effects in Each of the 16 Zones
WSW, West, SW, East, North and NE are strong study zones and ESE suits research, while SE, SSE, South, WNW, NW and NNW disturb concentration.
Best: WSW, West, SW, East, North, NE, NNE, ENE. Research: ESE. Avoid: SE, SSE, South, WNW, NW, NNW.
Principle
Study Room Layout: Door, Cross Ventilation, Slope and a Level Study Table
A study room needs its door in the NE, East, North or West, cross-ventilation, a correct slope, a perfectly level study table and bookshelves on a North or East-facing wall.
Study room
Principle
Toilet Effects in Each of the 16 Zones
Zone-by-zone results of a toilet: SSW and WNW are workable, NW and ESE only in an emergency, and every other zone damages what that zone governs.
Workable: South-South-West (modern Vastu) and West-North-West. Emergency only: North-West (with a strong Moon) and East-South-East (septic tank). Avoid all other zones.
Principle
Toilet Interior: Glazed Tiles, Ventilation, Grey-White Colour, No Mirror
A toilet should be lined with glazed ceramic tiles, well ventilated, kept in white or grey, and should have no mirror facing the seat.
Every toilet and bathroom
Principle
Toilet Never in Brahmasthan, Opposite Main Door or Kitchen, or Under Stairs
Four positions are forbidden for a toilet whatever the zone: the Brahmasthan, directly opposite the main door, directly opposite the kitchen and under the staircase.
Not in the Brahmasthan, not directly in front of the main door or the kitchen, not under the stairs
Principle
Toilet in Vedic Vastu: Outside the Foundation, Never Attached
Vedic Vastu texts assign no place to a toilet inside the house and say its wall should not even touch the house foundation; toilets were built outside, and palaces placed them at the rear in the West-North-West.
Outside the house foundation; in palaces at the rear, on the lower side, in the West-North-West, reached by a pathway not joined to the main wall
Principleद्वार का आकार
Door Shapes to Avoid: Triangle, Shakat, Supa, Bow, Sun and Round
The shape of a door affects the household: triangular, cart-shaped (shakat), winnow-shaped (supa), bow-shaped, sun-shaped and round doors all bring problems. A door should always be rectangular with a full frame.
Main door and other doors
Principle
Main Door Material, Art and Colour: Solid Wood with Auspicious Carvings
Make the main door of solid wood such as teak, ideally with a little sandalwood, and carve auspicious symbols, mantras and floral designs on it. Energy takes on the chemistry of the material it passes through, so flush, ply, fibre and glass doors weaken the result.
Main door
Principleदो पल्ले युक्त मुख्य द्वार
Main Door Must Have Two Shutters (Ida and Pingala Principle)
The main door is the door of fortune: like the two nostrils it draws nature-given positive energy into the whole house and lets negative energy out. Its two shutters stand for ida and pingala, the two breaths that alternate roughly every hour.
Main door; preferably every door of the house
Principleद्वार का अनुपात और आय
Main Door Proportion, Four-Piece Chaukhat and Aay Calculation
The main door should be rectangular, its height twice its width, with a four-piece wooden chaukhat. When the 1:2 ratio cannot be kept, size it by aay (length times width divided by 8) to get a 1 or 3 aay door.
Main door
Principleखिड़की और वेंटिलेटर
Window and Ventilator Rules: Allowed Padas, Outward Opening, Even Numbers
Windows and ventilators work on the lighter, higher layers of energy and are needed to let negativity out. Place them on the allowed padas, make them open outward, keep them in even numbers and ideally two-shuttered, and open them every morning.
All windows and ventilators; a window and its ventilator on the same pada
Principle
Ceiling Colour: Keep It White, Never Red or Brown
The ceiling belongs to the space element, so it should stay white, or natural wood colour for wooden ceilings; red or brown on the ceiling sets fire to space and brings trouble.
Ceilings of all rooms
Principle
False Ceiling Materials: Wood Best; Fibre, Metal, Fabric and PVC Avoided
A solid wooden false ceiling without gaps is the best; a glass ceiling is acceptable if fully sealed, while fibre, steel or other metal, synthetic fabric and PVC ceilings disturb energy.
Ceilings; glass at the Brahmasthan or drawing room
Principle
False Ceiling Shapes Matched to the Element of the Zone
A ceiling's shape brings its element into the room, so ceilings are shaped by zone: half-moon in water zones, a round dome at the Brahmasthan, a rectangle in South and West bedrooms, and never a triangle.
Ceilings, zone by zone
Principle
Furniture Shape and Arrangement by Zone Element
Furniture gives the best results when it is made of good wood, upholstered in cloth and arranged in the shape of the element of its zone.
Living room, Brahmasthan and every zone
Principle
Granite: Limited Use on Stairs and Windows, Never the Whole House
Granite contains fluoride, and areas with granite bedrock show more kidney problems and aggression, so it should be used only in limited places such as stairs and windows.
Staircase and windows
Principle
Kota Stone Flooring: Best for Stairs and Business, Green Kota for Mercury
Kota stone (about 40 percent lime and 22 percent silica) is cool and full of good energy; it represents Mercury and is the best stone for stairs and business floors, especially in green.
Staircase, business premises and warehouses
Principle
Oil-based Lead Paint: Never Use Where People Sleep, Work or Study
Oil-based paint contains lead that is released into the air and breathed in, causing cough, cold, eye irritation and disease; water-based paint should be used instead.
Bedrooms, doors, offices and schools
Principle
POP False Ceiling: Hollow Gaps Store Negativity, Dust and Bacteria
POP (plaster of Paris with gypsum and adhesive) false ceilings leave hollow gaps that collect dust and negativity and retain moisture and bacteria, so they are best avoided.
Ceilings of all rooms
Principle
PU Polish Hazards and the Natural Wood Polish Alternative
PU (polyurethane) finish on furniture is even more dangerous than oil paint and can cause breathing trouble, asthma, headache, vomiting and fainting; natural wood with a traditional natural polish should be used instead.
Furniture, tables and doors
Principle
Sandstone Flooring: 94 Percent Silica, Earth Element, Strong Administration
Sandstone, a sedimentary earth-element rock with about 94 percent silica, keeps the energy of a place positive and is the best floor where strong administration is needed.
Flooring; administrative offices
Questions and answers
All 49 questionsIs a camel statue good to keep in the house?
This is a subject of astro vastu. Different items represent different planets; if a planet is very negative in your kundli and you keep the item that represents it, the negativity grows further. Which item suits which home, and with what, is covered in interior vastu.
Only one friend and one enemy were given for each element. Is that the complete picture?
No. The element relationships are taught in much more detail in interior vastu, including the cases where two elements come together in one place.
Should each zone of the house be painted in the colour of its devta?
Colours are taught in interior vastu; do not get confused now and focus on what is being taught.
In a flat no window has been made at the door. What can be done?
No problem. As taught in interior vastu, make one symbolically, and if that is not possible, make a figure (picture) of it.
If furniture made by carpenters is placed on a devta's pad, does it affect the devta?
All 45 devta places cannot be left empty, or there would be nowhere to live or keep things in a house or flat. The Vedic texts say to protect the ashtamansh (one-eighth part of the pad); wooden items kept on any devta's place, even on a marma, are not counted as a dosh, because wood does not sink in water but floats. Besides, the devta's place lies beneath us, and the devta is basically a particular energy.
Is a rooftop water storage tank also counted as the water element?
Yes. Water stored anywhere, including on the roof, represents the water element. But if the tank is built in a square shape, it moves to the earth element, because the square is the earth element's shape, and it becomes an earth combination.
If one family member has a planet exalted and another has it debilitated, should that planet's items be kept in the interior?
Decide room by room. In your own bedroom use the materials of your exalted planet and not of your debilitated one; your daughter's bedroom is designed from her kundli. The house facing and common areas such as the drawing room and kitchen are decided from the grih swami's kundli. Many people make the master bedroom in the South-West by default, which is wrong when Rahu is debilitated: such people suffered there and got very good results after moving to another direction.
Who is the originator (janak) of interior vastu?
Adi Brahma (Adi Prabhu) gave each son a different knowledge: Bharat received arthashastra, Bahubali kaam neeti and Ayurveda, Vrishabhsen gandharva shastra (music and instruments), and Anant Vijay all the arts of painting, colour, brushwork and artefacts. Anant Vijay is therefore the source of interior knowledge, which he spread further, and Vishwakarma received the knowledge of vastu.
Why do some homes and businesses decline right after an expensive interior?
Because the interior changes colours, furniture directions, tiles and artefacts without regard to the owner's element and planets. Often the colours belong to the element opposite to the owner's, artefacts are combined wrongly, or harmful adhesives, lights and lead-based paints are used. One client who spent 60 to 80 lakh on an interior saw his loans turn NPA and his wife leave; his whole house had been painted in the colours of his opposite element.
Is interior done only for beauty and maximum use of space?
No. Interior is done to use the maximum energy of the universe, balance the five elements, control particular emotions and achieve a particular goal. Every painting, artefact, idol, colour and orientation changes the mind through images (chitra se chitt), so the interior itself can balance the five elements, the nine planets and the three forces of a home, temple or factory.
What does floor-to-slab height on the slide mean?
It is the height from the floor up to the ceiling (slab) of the room.
If the ideal placement of a room is not possible, is there an alternative?
Yes, move to the second, third and further options. As a professional, give the client a written list: the first option according to the kundali and element, then the second, third, fourth and fifth options. This is covered with kundalis in the diploma.