Doors and Marmastana

Main doors should be located based on this chart. Each direction has good pada and not every pada is giving good results. Even at the west direction has good pada for a door.

It is always good to have East, North, West and South doors are perpendicular to each other as per the compass needle.

For us to understand, it is very simple. We have to take care that the doors of those buildings which has a 15 degrees twist, the gate and main door in East is now shifted to North-East and that is not favourable. Same goes with those building with South gate gets shifted to South-West. In such situation it is advisable to have gates and door in the North-East in East side plots, North-East in North side plots, South-East in South side plots and the North-West in West side plots.


We have readings saying that the west facing and south facing houses are inauspicious, but its not the truth. The truth is that all the four facing plots are good and it as per the favourable direction for every individual. What we have to take care is that the house is built according to the Vastu Shastra.

For any rooms with the entrance from South West, the door should always be placed in the North-East. The reason behind this is, when someone enters, the waves emerging from the doors affect the mind with the magnetic waves always flow around us.

As far as the size and shape of the door is concern, Vastu advises that width of the door should be half of the height of the door, its good for the commercial buildings. The width of the door should be one third of the height of the door, its good for the house. Not only that, the height of the door should be calculated based on the Width of the house and size of the Hastha (Length of the hand) of the owner of the house.

The main entrance door of the house has lots of importance and hence it is always good to have it made from good quality wood. Its width should always be bigger than other doors of the house to distingue it from other doors. It should be decorated with a design and should be painted. It should look grand compared with the other doors. The main door is the index of the quality of the good vibrations of the house.

Wansha lines (diagonal lines)

When we positioning the other internal doors, it is essential to consider the Marmastana points and Wansha lines (diagonal lines). All doors should be keep away from the Wansha lines. If there is a door on the main marmastana that will creates very bad problem for the users. That will reduce the life span of the users.