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Vastu / Feng Shui Compliance Checker

Check room placement and orientation against Vastu Shastra and Feng Shui directional principles. Enter the entrance direction and room locations to see recommended, acceptable and caution placements for kitchen, bedroom, pooja, bathroom, stairs and more.

Plot Direction & Room Compass

Select the main entrance first, then click each room below to select it and click a sector on the compass to place it. Every placement is rated instantly.

Rooms
Summary
recommended placements
caution placements

About Vastu / Feng Shui Compliance Checker

A house plan is eight directions and a set of rooms, and the traditional disciplines of Vastu Shastra and Feng Shui read each room through the compass. The kitchen should sit in the fire corner, the master bedroom in the stable southwest, the pooja space in the light-giving northeast - and when a room lands in its caution direction, small layout choices often fix what a wall cannot.

Vastu / Feng Shui Compliance Checker is a rule-based screener: set the entrance direction, place each room on the compass, and see each placement rated as recommended, acceptable, or caution - with the reasoning behind every flag. Plot-facing, room placement and orientation are all evaluated through the same directional lens.

Use it to screen a plan before it is built, review a resale layout, or simply understand which corners the traditions treat as which energies. The guidance is advisory - a compass-level screening, not a substitute for a trained practitioner - and everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Features

  • Directional anchor: Set the entrance / plot-facing direction first; the entire check is read from it.
  • Ten room types: Entrance, kitchen, master and guest bedrooms, living room, pooja, bathrooms, stairs, storage/garage and water sources.
  • Three-way ratings: Each placement is marked recommended, acceptable or caution with a plain-language reason.
  • Interactive compass: Click a room, then click its sector on the compass to position it - or use the drop-down per room.
  • Summary score: Seeing how many placements fall in recommended vs caution directions at a glance.
  • Live re-check: Move any room and the rating updates instantly.
  • Tips & remedies: Common corrective actions for each caution placement.
  • Vastu + Feng Shui: Both traditions explained, with a Bagua reference map in the guide.
  • Export: Copy or download the placement report as text, CSV or JSON.
  • Private: No uploads, no accounts, no logging.

How to Use

  1. Set the main entrance direction. Use the compass buttons - the direction the front door faces.
  2. Select a room from the list.
  3. Place it on the compass by clicking its sector, or use the direction drop-down under the room.
  4. Read the rating. Recommended, acceptable or caution each with its reason.
  5. Adjust placements to see how a re-planned layout changes the score.
  6. Open the tips tab for corrective actions on any caution placement.
  7. Check the Feng Shui tab for the Bagua map of the same directions.
  8. Export the report as text, CSV or JSON.

Examples

Example 1 - Classic plan. North entrance, kitchen southeast, master southwest, pooja northeast, bathroom northwest, staircase south: every major placement lands in a recommended direction.

Example 2 - Common builder flat. Kitchen northeast adjacent to the pooja, bathroom next to the entrance, master in the northeast: the checker flags two cautions and the staircase issue, with layout fixes suggested.

Example 3 - Tiny-house compromise. A studio where kitchen, living and bedroom share one space: the checker rates the kitchen placement and suggests where to place the stove head and bed within the room.

Example 4 - Rework after scoring. Swapping the spare bedroom (northwest) with storage (southwest) flips two warnings into recommended placements in one move.

Example 5 - East-facing project. East entrance with a southwest master and southeast kitchen scores a clean recommended set; the guide notes the Feng Shui Bagua equivalent for each room.

Benefits

  • Screen before you build: Catch room-direction clashes while the plan is still a drawing.
  • Understand the "why": Every flag carries the traditional reasoning, not just a pass/fail.
  • Both traditions: Vastu rules and the Feng Shui Bagua shown side by side.
  • Act on layout: The tips tab turns every warning into a concrete corrective step.
  • Iterate live: Drag rooms around the compass and watch the score change instantly.
  • Export-ready: Text, CSV and JSON reports for your planner or consultant.
  • Free and private: No uploads, no accounts, no logging.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Vastu Shastra?
Vastu Shastra is the traditional Indian system of architecture that relates a building to the eight directions and the five elements. Each direction has energies, and each room type is classically placed where its element lives - kitchen in the fire corner (southeast), pooja in the moksha corner (northeast), heavy master bedroom in the stable southwest.
What is the difference between Vastu and Feng Shui?
Both map rooms and energies to compass directions but use different systems. Vastu uses the eight directions and five elements; Feng Shui uses the Bagua map and flow of chi. They often agree in practical terms, for example both favour light-ness in the northeast/north and restraint in the southwest/south.
Why does the entrance direction matter?
The main entrance is where energy enters the home. Vastu favours north, east and northeast entrances (sunrise and water energies), while Feng Shui reads the front door orientation as the start of energy flow through the Bagua. The checker treats the entrance direction as the anchor for everything else.
Which rooms are checked?
Entrance, kitchen, master bedroom, children's rooms, living room, pooja / meditation space, bathrooms, staircase, storage and garage, and water sources (tank / sump). Each has recommended, acceptable and caution directions based on classical principles.
Is the kitchen really best in the southeast?
In Vastu, yes - the southeast is the Agni (fire) corner. The northwest is an acceptable alternative. Kitchens are cautioned in the northeast and southwest, and many schools advise against cooking facing south. In Feng Shui this is parallel to the Bagua fire/wealth sector.
Is a north-east pooja room required?
The northeast (Ishanya) is considered the most sacred corner for prayer and meditation in Vastu, and the equivalent in Feng Shui is the Knowledge sector on the north/north-east arm. If the room cannot sit there, an east- or north-facing corner with a clean, light treatment is generally considered acceptable.
What can be done if a room is in a caution direction?
Remedies range from functional changes (moving the stove head, bed orientation, mirror placement) to colour and material balancing. The checker identifies the affected room and its caution, and the tips tab lists common corrective actions - many are simple layout tweaks rather than structural changes.
Is this a substitute for a professional Vastu consultant?
No. The checker applies common classical rules to your inputs but cannot see the actual plan, plot slope, adjoining roads or the building's specific layout. It is a compass-level screening tool, best used before consulting a practitioner for a full analysis.
Does Feng Shui use the same directions?
The eight perimeter directions line up with the eight Bagua life areas, but Feng Shui also considers the front door axis, compass facing and both earlier and later heaven layouts. The checker flags the same room-direction logic using Bagua-equivalent guidance in the Feng Shui tab.
Is my data stored?
No. Every evaluation runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded, saved or logged.