East facing house Vastu plan

What counts as east facing

Facing is decided by the direction you look when you walk out of the main door. If you step out and face north, it is a north facing house — regardless of which way the plot is longer.

On an east facing plot the road is to the east. The main door belongs in the east wall, towards its north-east end — the same principle as a north facing house, rotated one quadrant.

Room placement for an east facing house

Handling the afternoon sun

On an east facing plot, the west wall is the one that will heat the house. This is where Vastu and building science agree completely: load the west and south-west with mass — the staircase, wardrobes, storage, the master bedroom wall — and keep openings on that side small and shaded.

• Small, high windows on the west. Big openings on the east and north.
• Put the utility, store and staircase against the west wall as a thermal buffer.
• A 2–3 ft roof overhang on the west is worth more than any curtain.

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.