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Measure: Facing + home location

Stand just inside the main door and point the top of your flat phone outside, through the doorway.

This measures entrance facing. Take a separate reading from the home’s centre toward the door to find its location zone. A south- or west-facing home is not automatically unsuitable.

Contemporary Vastu guidance considers the entrance’s exact position along a boundary, not just the direction it faces. Keep the threshold clear, the door in working order and the entrance well lit. A toran or nameplate is a customary finishing touch, not a directional correction.

Measure: Home centre → shrine

Stand at the centre of your home and point the top of your phone toward the pooja room or mandir.

Northeast is the commonly preferred pooja zone. East or another quiet, clean space may be used in a compact flat. Shrine location, worshipper facing and idol facing are three separate measurements.

A dedicated room is not essential: a small, clean mandir unit can serve the same household purpose. Keep it uncluttered and allow comfortable space for prayer. Advice on sharing a bathroom wall or placing a shrine below stairs varies with the layout and practice followed.

Measure: Worshipper’s facing

Stand or sit where you normally pray and point the top of your phone forward, toward the shrine.

This is the direction you face while praying. East is commonly preferred. An idol facing you points in the opposite direction; its facing is not the same as its location in the home.

If the worshipper faces east toward an idol directly ahead, that idol faces west toward the worshipper. Published advice differs on alternatives, and some deity-specific practices differ too. Follow your family’s worship tradition rather than treating one compass sector as a rule for every deity.

Measure: Home centre → kitchen

Stand at the centre of your home and point the top of your phone toward the kitchen.

Southeast is the traditional kitchen zone; northwest is a commonly suggested alternative. This measures location, not the direction you face while cooking.

The kitchen is associated with Agni, the fire element. In an existing flat, its position may be fixed by services. Check cooking direction and worktop layout separately, while keeping ventilation, light and everyday usability central to the arrangement.

Measure: Home centre → bedroom

Stand at the centre of your home and point the top of your phone toward the main bedroom.

Southwest is commonly suggested for the main bedroom. Bedroom location and the direction your head points while sleeping are separate checks.

Some joint-family guidance assigns the southwest bedroom to senior family members, while other practitioners select rooms differently. Keep the room restful and accessible for its occupants; do not infer sleeping direction from the room’s position.

Measure: Home centre → room

Stand at the centre of your home and point the top of your phone toward the guest room or children’s bedroom.

Northwest is commonly suggested for a guest room. Some practitioners suggest west for children’s rooms. Recommendations vary with occupants and the plan.

There is no single published room-allocation rule for every child, guest or older relative. Record the room’s location first, then consider bed facing, a comfortable temperature and a usable study area separately.

Measure: Home centre → room

Stand at the centre of your home and point the top of your phone toward the living or dining area.

North and east are commonly favoured for living areas. A dining area close to the kitchen is practical; published guidance also places it east or southeast of the living room.

The dining-area recommendation may be relative to the living room, not the whole home. In an open-plan flat, mark the different activity areas on your plan instead of treating the entire hall as a single point. Keep circulation clear.

Measure: Home centre → toilet

Stand at the centre of your home and point the top of your phone toward the toilet. Record the angle as well as the broad sector.

Many traditions keep the northeast free of toilets. Modern 16-zone advice may distinguish SSW, WNW and ESE; the eight-sector dial does not assess those finer zones.

Published sources disagree on acceptable bathroom and toilet placements, and sometimes mix bathing areas with toilets. Record the actual footprint on a plan rather than declaring the whole northwest or southwest suitable. In a flat, keep drainage, dryness and ventilation working well.

Measure: Cook’s facing

Stand where you cook and point the top of your flat phone straight ahead, in the direction you face at the hob. Keep away from the metal appliance when taking the reading.

East is the commonly recommended cooking-facing direction. A hob in the southeast of the kitchen is a separate placement check measured from the kitchen’s centre.

Do not confuse a southeast kitchen, a southeast hob and an east-facing cook. They use two different centres and one facing direction. Allow useful separation between the hob and sink without sacrificing a workable preparation area.

Measure: Kitchen centre → fixture

Stand near the centre of the kitchen and point the top of your phone toward the sink or drinking-water purifier.

North or northeast within the kitchen is commonly suggested for water fixtures. Keep the reference centre at the kitchen, not the whole home, for this check.

Vastu separates water-related fixtures from the cooking fire. Existing plumbing may constrain relocation. Keep the sink clean, fix leaks and maintain a comfortable preparation gap between wet and cooking areas.

Measure: Kitchen centre → storage

Stand near the centre of the kitchen and point toward the refrigerator or grain-storage cabinet. Take the reading away from the appliance.

The cited kitchen guidance suggests southwest for the refrigerator and grain stock. This is placement within the kitchen, not the fridge door’s opening direction.

Different designers propose alternatives for large appliances. Retain ventilation clearances and convenient access, and use the manufacturer’s installation requirements when deciding where the fridge can actually fit.

Measure: Foot of bed → pillow

Point the top of your phone from the foot of your bed toward the pillow. Keep away from the metal bed frame.

This is the direction your head points while lying down. South is commonly recommended, with east as an alternative; north is traditionally avoided.

“Sleep south” means the head is toward south and feet toward north, not that the bedroom must lie in the south. Compare the head direction with the room location as two separate readings.

Measure: Seated person’s facing

Sit in your study or desk chair and point the top of your phone forward, in the direction you look while working.

East or north is commonly suggested for a child’s study-facing direction. Home-office prescriptions differ; the cited article distinguishes office placement and facing from a child’s study.

A desk being on the north side of a room does not mean the person faces north. Measure while seated. Provide good task lighting, a supportive chair and usable space in front; bookshelf location is another separate check.

Measure: Room centre → wall

Stand at the centre of the room and point the top of your phone toward the wall holding the mirror.

North or east walls are commonly suggested for mirrors. This measures the wall’s location; a mirror on the north wall generally has its reflective face pointing south.

Traditional bedroom advice often avoids mirrors reflecting the bed. Check the reflection visually, not with the compass. The wall location and the direction the glass faces are opposite references in a simple rectangular room.

Measure: Room centre → safe

Stand at the centre of the room and point toward the locker or safe. For its opening-facing direction, take a separate reading pointing outward from the closed front.

Southwest placement and a front opening toward north or northeast are suggested in the cited guidance. Placement and opening-facing direction are separate.

For a hinged door, “opens north” refers to the outward-facing front of the safe, not the arc through which its door swings. A safe located south of you can have a north-facing front. This is traditional symbolism, not a promise of financial growth.

Measure: Room centre → furniture

Stand at the centre of the room and point toward the wardrobe or heavy storage cabinet.

South and southwest are commonly used for heavy storage; west also appears in furniture guidance. Keep the northeast and central circulation areas lighter.

Apply a room-centre reference for furniture within a room, and a home-centre reference for a store room. Keep doors and windows usable instead of fitting heavy cupboards solely by compass sector.

Measure: Living-room centre → furniture

Stand near the centre of the living room and point toward the TV unit or sofa. Take the reading away from speakers and electronics.

The cited living-room guidance puts the TV in the southeast and heavy seating in the west or southwest. Measure each item separately from the living-room centre.

These are furniture locations, not the direction a viewer faces. Allow an easy viewing angle, clear walkways and natural ventilation. Electronics and speaker magnets can distort the compass reading close to the TV.

Measure: Room centre → shelf

Stand at the centre of the room and point toward the bookshelf. Note the angle if you are using a finer-zone plan.

The cited guidance distinguishes study books in WSW from sacred books in northeast. This tool uses eight broad sectors, so it does not identify WSW as a separate zone.

Keep religious books with a clean, dedicated prayer collection; regularly edit study papers and unused books. Avoid blocking the entrance or home centre with heavy shelving. The book type and chosen reference plan matter more than a generic “bookshelf direction”.

Measure: Home centre → plant

From the centre of your home, point toward the Tulsi plant or its proposed balcony or courtyard position.

East or northeast is commonly suggested for Tulsi in the cited plant guidance. Check the plant’s actual sunlight and drainage as well as its direction.

In a flat, a balcony planter may be more practical than a dedicated Tulsi structure. Use the home-centre reference for its position in the home. If following a balcony-specific plan, state that different reference explicitly.

Measure: Home centre → plant

Stand near the centre of your home and point toward the money plant or its intended spot.

Southeast is suggested for money plants in the cited guidance. Plant recommendations are species-specific and differ among practitioners.

General advice to put greenery in east or north is not identical to a species-specific money-plant prescription. Choose a position that also suits the plant’s light and care requirements. Direction does not guarantee prosperity.

Measure: Living-room centre → feature

Stand near the centre of the living room and point toward the aquarium or indoor fountain.

North, east or northeast appear in living-room guidance for aquariums; north is also suggested for fountains. This is an indoor feature, not an overhead tank.

Keep water circulating and the feature maintained. Published guidance uses both room-level and home-level references; use the level specified by the plan you follow. An aquarium is optional décor, not a required remedy.

Measure: Home centre → opening

Stand near the centre of your home and point toward the balcony or window you want to locate.

Contemporary Vastu guidance often keeps north and east open, well lit and less cluttered. Balcony location is different from the direction its view faces.

For a balcony’s outward view, stand at its opening and take a separate outward-facing reading. In a fixed apartment layout, daylight, shading and cross-ventilation help determine how comfortably openings work.

Measure: Home centre → stair footprint

Stand near the centre of your home and point toward the staircase. Mark the whole stair footprint on the plan, not just its first step.

Keep the home’s central area open where feasible. Stair advice needs the plan, occupied footprint and circulation; the direction you climb alone is not a Vastu assessment.

The sources emphasise openness of the centre and avoiding an under-stair mandir. A compass can locate the stairs but cannot assess a complete staircase layout, proportions or structural design.

Measure: Plan centre → tank footprint

Use the centre of the relevant home or plot plan and point toward the tank’s projected position. Take a reading from an accessible spot; the roof itself is not necessary.

Overhead tanks are treated differently from wells and low-level water features. The cited kitchen guidance suggests a west-side overhead tank; other guidance discourages northeast/SE overhead placement.

Do not transfer a northeast fountain recommendation to a heavy rooftop tank. Published water-storage advice is not consistent. Record whether the tank is above or below ground and whether the reference is the flat, building or plot before comparing recommendations.