Vastu for Kitchen

Kitchen plays a very important role in Vastu. It represents the fire element in Vastu. Fire element is represented at the Southeast corner of the house.

Why Southeast is associated as the fire element? It is due to movement of the Sun from East to West. it is very auspicious to prepare your meals from 6am to 9am in the morning as the corner receives more light and less heat from the sun.

In the morning from 3am to 6am where it is called Brahma-Muhurtam. The sun will be located at the Northeast zone, that is why it is associated with Water element to represent calmness. It is best to do meditation and prayers at this time keep a bowl of water at the Northeast corner.

If you notice only one part of your house will be very hot, despite fan or air-cond installed. frequent quarrel and tensed, hot tempered. then that is the fire corner of the house.

Vastu is not a superstition to be believed. Its a science of cosmos and it can only be experienced.
It deals with various forces that cannot be seen but felt. For example, the tilt of earth towards Northeast at 22.5 degrees which makes Northeast part of the plot extremely auspicious for cosmic energy moving in from that direction. It deals with solar energy and how to tap the solar energy into our well being. Next is the Geopathic stress, movements of planets, wind movements, magnetic energy for us to have blissful sleep and much more.

Coming back to the kitchen at the Southeast zone just follow this principle to created a beautiful atmosphere in your kitchen.
1. Sink at North, Northeast zone.
2. Stove and electrical items along Southeast zone. Cook facing east.
3. Storage along West and South walls.
4. Fridge along Northwest zone.
5. Room color: Orange. pink, white (based planetary directions (Venus, Shukra) and cardinal directions)

This is how an ideal Southeast kitchen should be:


If kitchen on Southeast is not possible, then locating it at the Northwest is good which is the Wind corner.

Why Northwest is chosen as the alternative corner for kitchen? Because Wind supports fire. Earth and Water destroys fire.

Take note that Cooking must always face East. Other directions are not favorable. Possible consequences are cook for the sake of cooking, cooked but no one feels like eating, controversies, no mood in cooking.

The is an example of kitchen locating at Northwest zone:

Noted that kitchen color is based on planetary directions. In this case Northwest is associated with the Moon (Chandra). So its best to have it white, green or blue. Green is due to Planet mercury(Buddha) along North zone and blue for Saturn (Sani) on the west zone. White color is associated to Moon.

Upon deciding color of rooms is also another complicating task. Relationship between planets have to be considered. That is Astrology all together.

Kairesh Jeevant
Vastu Expert