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Vastu Consultation for Your Home

Consultation · from $345

A sector-by-sector reading of your house, apartment or workspace through Vastu Shastra — and a short, prioritised list of changes you can make this weekend.

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With Dahlia Sengupta

Consulting practitioner · Houston, Texas · Serving clients worldwide

Meet Dahlia
Open-plan living room with vaulted ceiling and garden doors, reviewed for Vastu

What is a Vastu consultation?

A Vastu consultation is an assessment of a building against Vastu Shastra — the Indian tradition of orientation, proportion and placement. The practitioner reviews direction, layout and room use, then recommends practical adjustments to light, placement and function. It does not normally require construction or demolition.

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The Vastu Purusha MandalaNine sectors · Brahmasthan at centre

What I review

What gets assessed

Direction first, then how you actually live in the rooms — which matters more than most people expect.

True orientation

Taken with a compass, not assumed from the street. Magnetic north and the building's real axis are frequently not what the floor plan implies.

The entrance and the first ten feet

Where you cross the threshold, what you meet immediately, and what that sets up for everything behind it.

Room function against sector

Which rooms sit in which directions, and whether the use each room has been given suits where it sits.

The centre

In Vastu the centre of a home — the Brahmasthan — is kept open and light. In American plans it is often a staircase, a kitchen island, or storage.

Sleep and work positions

Where the bed sits, which way the head points, and where a desk faces. Small moves, disproportionate effect.

Weight, light and clutter

Where the mass sits, where the light enters, and what has quietly accumulated in the corners that most affect a home.

American specifics

Attached garages, open-plan kitchens, basements, split levels, and the constraints of an HOA or a lease. This is where most Vastu advice stops being useful and where mine has to start.

How I work

A clear order of priorities

Start with the three or four changes that matter most. Understand why each one helps.Read the full explanation

It is easy to produce a report listing forty things wrong with a house. It is not useful. A long list of faults leaves people anxious and immobile, which is the opposite of what this practice is for.

So every assessment I write is ordered. Three or four adjustments that matter most, a second tier worth doing when convenient, and an honest note about anything structural that I would only raise if you were already renovating.

I explain why I recommend each adjustment, including any item that could help and what it would cost. Nothing requires adopting a belief. If an adjustment does not make sense to you when I explain the reasoning, do not make it.

A home does not need to be perfect to be supportive. It needs to be arranged in a way that agrees with the life being lived in it.

Questions

Common questions

Does Vastu work outside India?
Vastu reads direction, light, air and the use of space — conditions that exist in a Chicago apartment exactly as they do in a house in Chennai. What changes is the architecture it is applied to. Most of my work is translating principles written for courtyard houses into terms that make sense for American floor plans.
Do I have to knock down walls?
No, and I will not ask you to. The overwhelming majority of what I recommend is placement, use, light, colour and clearing — which room does what, where you sleep, where you work, what sits in a corner. Structural change is a last resort and rarely necessary.
Can you do this remotely, or do you need to visit?
Remotely, for almost every home worldwide. I work from a floor plan, a compass reading taken with your phone, photographs of each room, and a conversation about how you actually live in the space. An in-person meeting is usually not needed.
I rent. Is Vastu still useful?
Yes — arguably more so, because renters usually have more flexibility in how a space is used than in how it is built. Nearly every recommendation I give renters is reversible and costs nothing: which room becomes the bedroom, where the desk faces, what gets cleared.
What do I receive at the end?
A written assessment of the home by sector, a prioritised list of adjustments — what matters most, what is optional — and the reasoning behind each one. Prioritised, so you can do three things this weekend rather than thirty things never.

Have your home read before you rearrange it

Send a floor plan and a compass reading. Everything else can be done from photographs.

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