Vaastu tips to place decorative items in home

Buying a new house is considered a monumental job in today's world. When we buy our dream home we start decorating it to make it reflect our liking and personality. While most of us follow Vaastu Shastra to design and build our house, we don’t take much care of internal arrangements and using decorative accents inside the house. Following vaastu tips in our home is believed to offer prosperity, wealth, health and happiness. Vaastu Shastra tells that placing things at right position and arranging the internal things according to Vaastu will help in creating a peaceful and happy atmosphere at home. Here are few tips to make internal arrangements inside your house.

Always have storage or console in the south and west wall and do not have storage in the eastern and northern wall. If you have heavy furnishing and other heavy items in the southern and western side of the house, Place TV and electronic items in the eastern and northern wall. Crystal decorative accents should be placed in north or east side. If the decorative items at house are heavy weighted then one should place them in the south and western walls.

Here are few tips to design your home with respect to different directions of home.

• North-east corner:

North-east corners are always considered as a place of wealth and prosperity. Do not place any heavy statues, heavy decorative objects, and holy shrines in this corner. Also when you are constructing your house, do not have any overhead water tank or septic tank in this corner. Do not dump many things in this corner. It is very important to keep north-east corner of a house clean and tidy to have wealth and prosperity in house.

• South-west corner:

This is the best place to store valuable things, documents, cash, and jewels. You can place cupboard in this corner as it is considered a corner of wealth. Place the cupboard in this corner facing east or north. You should open the cupboards towards north.

• South-east corner:

If you wish to bring good luck and wealth to your house, then you can place money plants in purple pots in this corner.

Having discussed about importance of different corners of the house, let us take a look on where to place certain decorative items at home according to Vaasthu Shastra.

• Never place the statue of lord Ganesha in the north-east corner of the house
• To attract wealth to your house, you can keep active fishes in clean and ventilated aquariums
• Always keep the entryway of your house clean and free from clutter
• You can place mirror in cash drawers or incorporate mirror into the design of your cupboard and cash drawer to multiply wealth
• Place painting depicting natural scenes, waterfalls, gardens and flowers in home
• You can place flowering plants inside your house and avoid placing cactus and thorny plants inside your home

Following Vaasthu Shastra while constructing you home is always vital as it is believed to bring wealth, peace, prosperity and health to your home. Apart from building your home according to Vaasthu, placing certain decorative objects in proper place and directions will bring all good luck to your home and creates a harmonious balance.






This is a guest post by Pratheepa who writes for indiaproperty.com – the online portal that meets the requirement of sellers, buyers and real estate professionals in the real estate space of the country.