Doors and Windows

Entrance Door To the House

The entrance door should also be taken in consideration while the application of Vastu to your house. Entrance door should be in North, East or North East of the house. The entrance door size should always be larger than the other doors of the house.

Number of Entrances

Many houses may have more than one entrance on the frontage. Some rules however, have to be followed for providing these doors. If there is only one main entrance door to the house then more wealth is expected over other factors. If there are two doors in the entrance then a comfortable life for the inmates can be expected. If there ar three doors than it is harmful to the residents. If more than three doors are provided as main entrance than it causes many problems.

Placement of Main Entrance Doors

One Door If only one entrance s provided to the house it should be placed in east or north for the best results. Doors in the west and south are not good/allowed, but these directions can be used for a entrance in commercial establishments. Two Doors

If a house has two doors than they can be in the following combinations:

• East in combination with north and west.
• West with north and East is allowed.
• South and West Doors are not allowed.
• South and East Doors are not allowed.

Three Doors

• Three doors excluding the east is inauspicious.
• Three doors excluding south is auspicious.
• Three Doors excluding north is inauspicious.
• Three doors excluding west is auspicious.

Four Doors
If the house is aligned to the magnetic orientation than keeping the door in all the 4 directions is very auspicious.

Inner Doors

Height of the doors should be at least 7'-0", and with of the door should be at least 3'-6".

Number of Doors

The number of doors within the house should be even in count, but not ten or multiples of eight. There are several rules to be noted before counting all ten doors within the house. the main gate or the doors in the outhouse are not counted with doors in the house. It is to be noted than two flanged doors are counted as one door. Entrance may without doors but if they are covered overhead to form a enclosed passage, than they are counted as doors. Doors to partitions within the house which do not touch the ceiling are not counted as doors. Following is the explanation of number of doors in the house and their effect:

2 Doors	Auspicious
3 Doors	Cause Enmity
4 Doors	Cause Extended Life
5 Doors	Dieses
6 Doors	Good Child Bearing
7 Doors	Death
8 Doors	Growth of Wealth
9 Doors	Des ease
10 Doors	Robbery
11 Doors	Destruction of the good
12 Doors	Growth of business
13 Doors	Lowers the man's life span
14 Doors	Increase in Wealth
15 Doors	Destruction of the good

Designing the Doors

Vastu allows decoration and carving on the main entrance and other doors, but has some rules to be strictly followed for the same:

• Lakshami seated on lotus with elephants is good to be used on doors.
• Traditional guard images can be carved.
• The gods of wealth emitting coins can be used for decoration.
• Kul Devta, the family deity can adorn the door.
• Birds like parrots, peacocks, swans images are good to be used on doors
• Nature paintings etc.
• Pictures or Sculptures of war scans etc. are not allowed.

One should keep in mind that any god images etc. should not be used on the outer side of the door as it may lead to poverty and other problems.

Windows Windows in the house provide us with fresh and light to enjoy our life with. All the windows should be on the exterior walls of the house and not opening within the rooms. All the windows bigger in size should be in the north-east and smaller window should be in the south-west. The number of windows in the house should be in even numbers (when counted in total), and not in the multiples of 10. Sun Shades The slopes of all sunshades constructed above doors and windows should be towards the north-east, so that the rain water must flow from south-west to north-east.