Bedroom Vastu: direction, bed position and sleep direction

Which bedroom goes where

Bed position and sleeping direction

• Sleep with your head to the south, or to the east. South is the classical first choice; east is considered good for students and for early risers.
• Avoid sleeping with your head to the north.
• Put the bed against a solid wall, not under a window and not under a beam.
• Do not place the bed directly in line with the door.
• Mirrors and TVs should not reflect the bed. If a wardrobe has a mirror door, keep it on a wall the bed does not face.

The rest of the room

• Wardrobe and heavy storage on the south or west wall.
• Attached toilet in the west or north-west of the room; never in the north-east.
• Windows on the north or east side of the room where the plan allows.
• Keep the south-west corner of the room solid — no cut-out, no opening.

Check your own plan against this

Open the plan editor, set your plot size and the facing, and the Vastu checker marks each zone on the sheet — green where the room matches the convention, amber where it is borderline, red where it is wrong — with the reason written out next to it. Move the wall, and the check updates as you drag.

A note on how to use this

Vastu Shastra is a traditional Indian system of directional planning, not a building code. Plenty of its rules line up neatly with good tropical design — a south-east kitchen gets morning sun and keeps afternoon heat away from the living room, a north-east opening brings in soft light, heavy mass on the south-west shades the house through the hottest hours. Others are purely traditional.

Treat the checker in the editor the same way a structural engineer treats a rule of thumb: it tells you what the convention says, quickly, so you can decide what to follow and what to trade away. It will never stop you drawing the plan you want.