Spiritual Architecture: Vaastu

Vaastu means spiritual architecture. It was first written about around the sixth century CE in ancient Indian Sanskrit literature.

Vaastu is a very ancient set of guidelines laid down to improve the way we live. It covers just about every aspect of house design and construction, including decor and decoration, furnishings and fabrics, siting of rooms, structure of the building, location of the building, direction the house should face, and size and dimensions of the building. In fact there is no aspect of where and how we live that isn't covered.

Strictly speaking, Vaastu is an architectural science - it applies to how and where you build your house. The principles of Vaastu are taken into consideration before the first spade of earth is dug or the first brick is laid.