Vastu Tips for Kitchen:

What You Must Avoid:

1. Avoid kitchen directly under or above pooja/prayer room.

2. Do not have kitchen directly under or above toilets.
3. Avoid kitchen directly under or above bedroom.
4. Do not place cooking gas burner or stove directly in front kitchen’s entrance door.
5. Do not have main door of kitchen in any corners; place it in East, North or West wall.
6. A kitchen in North-East causes mental tension among family members and they suffer
great losses. This is a common vastu defect, if – in your home – the kitchen is in the
North-East corner, then you must read the article mentioning the remedies which you
can take to reduce the ill effects of this vastu defect.
7. Kitchen in South-West leads to clashes among family members.
8. A kitchen in North-West direction is acceptable but it leads to increase in monetary
expenditure.
9. Most dangerous kitchen is the one placed in North direction; as North is Lord Kubera’s
(the God of Wealth) direction, having kitchen in North will increase expenditure of family
beyond expectations and control.
10. Never face west while cooking as this leads to severe health problems to the cook.
11. If – while cooking – the cook faces south then family has to face monetary losses.
12. Avoid black color for kitchen wall and flooring.
13. Avoid keeping refrigerator in North-East direction.

What You Must Do:

1. Place platform of the kitchen in East and South-East corner.

2. Put cooking gas burner or stove in South-East corner of kitchen, make sure that it is a
few inches away from wall.
3. Provide “L” shaped platform, next to the kitchen’s main platform, near South wall and use
this platform for keeping and operating microwave ovens, mixer/grinder etc.
4. Use North-East to set up wash-basin or sink in the kitchen.
5. Use North-East or North side to keep drinking water and utensils for drinking water.
6. Keep grain boxes, pulses, various spices, salt etc. in South or West direction.
7. Have two windows/gaps in East and West walls of kitchen and place an exhaust fan in
any of the windows/gaps.
8. You can optionally place a dining table in North-West or West side of kitchen.
9. Keep light weight things in East or North in kitchen.
10. Build mezzanine floor in West or South of kitchen.
 11. The cook must always face towards East while cooking; this ensures good health of
family members.
12. Use yellow, orange, rose, chocolate or red as floor and wall colors of kitchen.
13. You can place a refrigerator in South-East, South, West or North direction of Kitchen. If
the refrigerator is in South-West direction then place it a foot away from wall else it will
often get out-of-order.
14. Give sacred offering to fire of the first thing you prepare in kitchen to make sure peace
and prosperity.
15. Clean kitchen, kitchen platform and utensils daily at night before sleeping.

Just follow all above mentioned vastu tips and you can – and definitely will – feel a big and
positive change in your life.

There is one more important thing related to food – apart from cooking – and that “important
thing” is the place where you consume your food namely, dining room or dining area. If you
already have a dining room in your home then the article on dining room vastu shastra will
enable you to cross check if your dining room is as per vastu shastra or not. However, if you
don’t have a dining room in your home then read the article which tells you how you can – easily
and simply – create a vastu compliant dining area in your home.

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