The Vastu Home

Case 01

Studio, north-facing door, NE is the bathroom

One room plus a galley kitchen on the west wall. Entry on the north. The only bathroom sits in the northeast corner. A beam crosses the only place the bed fits.

Square studio: north door, northeast bathroom, west kitchen, beam over the bed zoneBathfixed bathDoorKitchenBedoff the beamshrine ≠ bath

Square studio. North arrow at the top. Hatched wet room in the northeast. Door mid-north. Dashed beam over the bed. West strip kitchen.

What blogs will say

MarketingAn NE toilet will ruin you. The north door is fine; the toilet is not. Buy a pyramid, a yantra, or a copper strip.

What the texts actually support

ClassicalNE is preferred for a shrine and for light (Brihat Samhita 53.118), not a flush-toilet curse. Sleeping under a beam is the rare classical sleep line (53.124).

Living practiceIndoor WC padas are a fight (NW vs SSW schools), not a classical rebuild order.

Fixed
Door, bathroom, beam, kitchen wet wall.
Change this weekend
  1. 01Bed: solid headboard on the long wall; slide so your head is not under the beam if 30 cm clears it. Head south or east if that wall allows; if not, sleep.
    See in Shop
  2. 02Quiet shelf / prayer: not next to the toilet. Use a calm wall elsewhere.
  3. 03Bathroom: dry, exhaust on, door shut. Optional grocery salt bowl as a drying habit — not a shield.
    See in Shop
  4. 04Brightest living corner: keep walkable. Lamp at the entry.
    See in Shop

Ignore
Toilet-doom, facing-correction yantra, copper tape on the pan.

An NE bathroom is a light problem and a shrine problem, not a life sentence.