Living Room Vastu Tips:

1. Construct a living room in East (not in South East corner, except for South facing houses) or in North.

2. A living room is more beneficial in North direction.

3. The North-West living room is also good; since presiding element of North-West part of a home is “Air”, the guests in this drawing-room start to feel restless after sometime and tend to leave early. This could be a great site of living area for families who want to avoid late night parties and get-together.

4. God presides North-East of the house and this is one of the ideal locations for a living room, however it’s better suited for a pooja or prayer room.

5. A living room in North brings lot of wealth and health for entire family.

6. South-West located living room makes your guests feel at home and they stick to your home for long time. If you – and your family – have very active social life and just love your guests to stay too long (which could be difficult to manage at times) then you can locate your living room here. However, this place is best suited for Master Bedroom.

7. Living area floor should slope towards East or North.

8. The ceiling of living area, if sloping towards East or North is good.

9. Have the door of the living room in East or North as they are very auspicious and brings wealth, health and overall progress.

10. South, North-East or South-East entrance indicates success but then it takes lot of hard work to achieve.

11. West entrance for living area is good for scholars and researchers.

12. Living area’s North-West entrance supports development in all areas of life.

13. South entrance for living area is inauspicious; just shift the entrance to West for better results.

14. Within the living area keep internal furniture, articles and heavy things in West or South side. If there is no option, then use a base of 1-3 inches height to keep furniture in North or North-East.

15. The head of the family, in living area, should sit facing East or North so that he remains in command and guests are not able to dominate him.

16. Put the TV in South-East corner and not in North-East corner.

17. If TV is in South-West corner, then it will breakdown often.

18. If television is in the North-West corner then the family will waste a lot of precious time watching TV only.

19. Keep telephone in East, South-East or North.

20. Do not keep telephone in South-West or North-West.

21. Place air cooler and air conditioner in West, North-West or East and not in South-East.

22. You can hang portraits of Gods or some beautiful paintings in the North-East wall or corner.

23. Do not hang any portrait depicting negative energy e.g. war, crime, weeping etc in the living area (actually avoid them anywhere in a home).

24. Use white, light yellow, blue or green colors for living room walls.

25. Avoid red or black for living area wall colors.

26. Keep square or rectangular furniture in living area and avoid circular, oval or any other shape of furniture (this is applicable to furniture in entire home).

27. Provide a staircase in the South, West or South-West corner of living area.

28. Put light curtains on North-East windows and doors and heavy curtains in South-West (this is applicable anywhere in a home) of living area.

29. Keep North-East corner of living area clean and empty if possible. Also, to make things better, keep some healthy plants in this corner.

30. Never keep artificial flowers, dried flowers (they attract misfortune), cactus/cacti or bonsai plants (have negative influence on finance and career) and are inauspicious.

31. Hang a chandelier in South or West of living area; do not hang anything in center.

32. Lit the living area brightly with soothing lights.

33. Keep a fish aquarium in the East, North or North-East of the living area. In vastu shastra, a fish aquarium is considered a very powerful tool – so powerful that it acts a remedy for many vastu defects. But, you must use fish aquarium as per the rules and guidelines of vastu; else it may ruin all the happiness in your home.

34. If there is an error in the North-West corner then placing an aquarium will drop that issue.

35. Never keep an aquarium in South as draws all positive energy out of home.

36. You can place a water fountain in North.