Home Vastu Check: 10 Questions on Your Floor Plan

Short answer: This home Vastu check takes ten questions and about two minutes. Mark where each room sits on your floor plan, measured from the centre of the home, and it tells you which parts look settled, which are worth a closer look, and which are the spots I usually find trouble in. It reads directions only, so treat it as a first pass, not a verdict on your home.

Before you start, find true north. Stand in the middle of the home and use my Vastu compass on your phone, away from the fridge and steel cupboards. Then picture the plan as a grid of nine boxes: the four corners, the four sides and the centre.

1. Where is the main door, seen from the centre of the home?
2. Where is the kitchen (where you cook)?
3. Where is the master bedroom?
4. Where is the toilet you use most?
5. Where is the pooja space?
6. Where is the staircase?
7. Where is the overhead water tank?
8. When you sleep, which way does your head point?
9. What is in the centre of the home?
10. How is the north-east corner kept?

How to read your result

Each answer lands in one of three groups. “Looks fine” means the room sits where Vastu would put it. “Worth a closer look” means it can work, but the exact spot on the plan decides it. “A known trouble spot” is a placement I see causing problems again and again in the homes I review, such as a toilet in the north-east or a kitchen in the centre.

Two things this check cannot do. It cannot see the exact part of the wall your door is on, which is where the 32 padas come in, and it cannot weigh how the rooms work together. In a flat, where the walls are fixed, the answer is nearly always in placement and colour rather than in construction. If several answers come up as trouble spots, start with the one the family uses most each day.

When a full reading is worth it

If you are about to buy, go through my flat buying Vastu checklist before you pay the booking amount. If you already live in the home and two or more trouble spots came up, I would look at the floor plan with north marked and give you changes in order of effort. For a home planned around your birth chart as well, that is my Astro-Vastu consultation.