11 KEY Vastu Tips for Toilet and Bathroom

When considering doing vastu for home, you must pay special attention to make toilets and bathrooms in your home as per rules and guidelines of vastu shastra.

Toilets and bathrooms are – or tend to become – a major source of negative energy if they are not built as per rules and guidelines of vastu.

Hence, in this article, I will reveal to you the best location, internal arrangement of items and the most efficient vastu tips which you can – and must – apply to make vastu compliant toilets and bathrooms in your home.

Here, I assume that you already know about vastu shastra; however, if you don’t know what vastu shastra is then I recommend you to read the article about what vastu shastra is and how it affects your life and become familiar with vastu shastra.

If you are planning to do vastu for your home – which I think you should do – then you MUST READ the article on how you can do vastu for your home so that you have a better plan to achieve a vastu compliant home.

Now, coming back to the topic of this article i.e. vastu for toilets and bathrooms.

As per vastu shastra, the toilets and bathrooms in a home must be separate and not attached, but there are over 7 billion people on earth and 70% of earth’s surface is water, hence the space is limited for living and thus attached toilets or attached bathrooms – as some people call them – have found a way into our homes.

But this doesn’t mean that if you have attached bathrooms or toilets in your home then you cannot do vastu for them.

You can easily do vastu for them also and that’s what you are going to learn here.

But before you take any action further, I want you to go through the next section of this article which tells you the importance of doing vastu for toilets and bathrooms in your home.

Also, the next section makes you aware of the common problems and issues associated with vastu non compliant bathrooms and toilets; hence if you are facing similar troubles in your life, you can easily pin point the reason for such troubles and apply suitable remedies to get rid of them.

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Toilet and Bathroom Vastu – Why so much fuss?

Many troubles and issues are invited by vastu non compliant bathrooms and toilets.

Here in this section, I have listed the most common – but in no way painless – troubles and issues which find their way in if the toilet/bathroom of your home doesn’t comply with vastu rules and guidelines.

Remember that many people have already faced these problems and there are many others who are still being grinded by them.

Vastu Non-Compliant Bathrooms – List of Problems They Attract

1. Financial Issues: Weak finances, loss of money by various means.
2. Health Issues: Mental tension and stress, frequent – lethal and minor – accidents.

Having seen – some – common problems that may arise due to vastu defect in toilet and bathroom, you are now ready to read and understand how you can make the toilet and bathroom in your home a vastu compliant one.

All you need to do now is to read the next section of this very same article.

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Vastu Compliant Toilets and Bathroom – How To Do It The Correct Way?

This section of the article reveals to you the best vastu tips, location, wall colors, internal arrangement of items and much more in a bathroom while complying with the rules and regulations of vastu shastra.

Making an attached toilet a vastu compliant one is a three step process.

In the first step you will learn the best location, as per vastu, where you can make a toilet or bathroom in your home.

Have a look at the image below and you will be able to easily understand the best and the second best locations, as per vastu, within a home where you can make toilet or bathroom.

Since you have seen the image and understood that the best location for a toilet or bathroom is the North-West part of the home (not the North-West corner), see carefully that I have left the corners in the image.

The second best location for a toilet is the North-East part and not the North-East corner, and the South-West part leaving the South-West corner, you are now ready for the second step in making a vastu compliant toilet.

The second step is to identify the internal arrangements of items such as geyser, bathtub, taps, mirror, commode etc. in an attached bathroom.

To make this process simpler, I have created another image which tells you the best possible arrangements of essential items and fittings in a bathroom.

Since you now have seen – and hopefully – understood the internal arrangement of items for a vastu compliant attached bathroom, you are now ready to learn and understand the best vastu tips for a vastu compliant attached toilet or bathroom.

Vastu Tips for Attached Bathroom and Toilet

11 Things You MUST DO

1. Water closet (commode) should preferentially be aligned to North-South axis in toilet.
2. Build toilets in West or North-West side of north of a room depending upon whether toilet is with bedroom or separate.
3. Toilets can also be constructed on South side.
4. Place commode inside the toilet in West, South or North-West side of West.
5. Fit the pot, in toilet, in such a way that while using the commode the person never faces East or West.
6. Construct toilet 1-2 feet higher than ground level.
7. You can have entrance door of the toilet on East or North wall.
8. The flooring of toilet should slope towards East or North so that water drains from these sides.
9. Store water, taps etc. in East, North or North-East.
10. Color walls of toilet as desired, but prefer light colors.
11. Provide a small window in the toilet in East, West or North wall

5 Things You MUST AVOID

1. Do not have water closet, in toilet, above or under pooja room, fire or bed place.
2. Avoid toilets in center, North-East or South-West corners of home.
3. Avoid septic tank in South side of toilet.  
4. Never locate an attached toilet South-East or South-West corner.
5. Never store water or install taps in South-West or South-East.

I assume that you now have understood the importance of having a vastu compliant attached toilet or bathroom in your home. Also, I believe that you will follow the above mentioned vastu tips for toilet and bathroom and make the attached bathroom in your home a vastu compliant one.