North Facing House Vastu

The main entrance of the house is one of the most important areas. It is the mouth of a house which brings in main energy. North is the most prominent cardinal direction in Vastu Shastra and recognized as favourable after East. North is opposite direction of South and seems perpendicular to East and West. The significance of North in Vastu is due to its sacredness where all positive energies reign and surrounds that is why Northern sides of home or factory are recommended to leave open.

In other words, facing of a house is not a guarantee of it being auspicious, there’s something more to it than facing and that’s the placement of main door/entrance and remaining rooms of a home.

As vastu shastra, none of the direction is considered bad. In fact, vastu shastra never says that one direction is good and another one is bad. Also, as per same vastu shastra, it’s the placement of main door/entrance and other rooms of a home that makes it auspicious or inauspicious; however, a huge importance given to the main door.

Having said that, things are a bit different with North facing houses; since North direction, in vastu shastra, is believed to be auspicious, the placement of door at any location in North side is considered good. You can place main door at any location in North side and it’s not going to harm you at least.

We can divide north part (the length from North-East to North-West) in 9 equal parts. Each part is called as “pada” or step in vastu shastra. The 5th pada is the best and the most auspicious for entrance or main door of a north facing home. It’s the location of Kuber (the God of wealth) and attracts money.  The padas 1, 2, 3 and 4 are the ones that you can use (for entrance/main door) if pada 5 alone is small but make sure to include pada 5 along with padas 4, 3, 2 or 1. If you’re using space up to pada 1, then make sure that the entrance/main door doesn’t touch the North East corner. Leave at least 6 inches of space from North East wall. The pada’s 6 to 9 are the ones that can be used if there’s no option to place the main door in any other padas.

North Facing House Vastu should avoid a toilet, bedroom, septic tank, kitchen in the North East corner. Also avoid staircase in North side of the home especially from padas 1st to 5th.  Avoid a plot that slopes from North to South, big trees in North side of the house and having clutter, dirt, dustbins etc. towards North and North East.

North Facing House Vastu should choose plot that slopes from South to North and place the main door in 5th pada, this will give lots of wealth. Make walls in North and East slightly shorter and thinner than South and West. Kitchen should be in South East or North West and person face East (in South East kitchen) and West (in North West kitchen) while cooking. Make a Pooja room in North East corner; you also can make a living room in North East corner. Guest bedroom should be in North West and master bedroom should be in South West.