Every Vastu guide we have ever written — the room maps, the staircase zones, the water placements, the door remedies — operates inside one boundary that was drawn before any of it:The plot.

Here is a Vastu question that has confused more home-builders than any other:"You said the North-East is the water zone — so why did the consultant put our overhead tank in the South-West?"

Of all the decisions frozen into a home's concrete, none is harder to undo than the staircase.A wall can be repainted. A kitchen can — expensively — be shifted. But the staircase is the home's spine… Read more

Every Vastu guide ever written seems to assume you own a house.

There is a fortnight in the Indian calendar that asks a home to hold something no other festival asks it to hold:The presence of those who are no longer here.

Lord Vishwakarma created Vastu Shastra.

Every few years, it happens to every Indian home: the painter is booked, the shade cards are spread across the dining table, and the family discovers it holds seventeen strong opinions about the… Read more

Ask Vastu Shastra what single addition improves almost any home, in almost any condition, at almost any budget — and the answer has been the same for three thousand years:

Ten days ago, you carried Bappa home carefully — face covered with a cloth, bell ringing, everyone a little quieter than usual, the pooja space cleaned and ready and waiting.

Somewhere in India right now, a young couple is standing in a flat that still smells of fresh paint, surrounded by wedding-gift boxes, arguing gently about where the sofa should go.