Vastu Shastra For Kitchen :

Placing of kitchen forms an important factor in Vastu. Kitchen should always be to the South East corner of the house or atleast to the North West corner of the house. Avoid placing the kitchen at the North East corner of the house which may lead to lost of unrest, quarrels, misunderstanding between the members of the house, unnecessary expenditure,(matter is from www.subhavaastu.com) Worries and tensions.  It is also better to avoid kitchen at Southwest side. Otherwise, it is also likely to cause many difficulties and worries to the owner. To get the best out of Vaastu, it is always advisable to consult a Vaastu. Expert. Whichever direction the site might face, it is best to have the kitchen in the Southeast. The cooking stove should be placed in the Southeast and it should be lit facing the East. By doing so, the house owner’s health and peace of mind increases.

At no cost should the stove be lit facing the South or North. In a South facing house, it might be difficult to have the kitchen in the Southeast hence the kitchen maybe set up in the Northwest room. In a Northwest kitchen, the stove has to be placed in the South-East, facing the West and the person lighting it should always face the East. In North-West kitchen, (matter is from www.subhavaastu.com) the stove can be placed in the North-West in West, only when it is inevitable. By doing so, the stove faces the East and the person lighting the stove faces the West. As a result, the guests coming to the house increase and the women have to frequently light up the stove more often for coffee and other refreshments for the guests.

At no cost should the kitchen be situated in the Northeast at in East or at North and it is very bad if already done so. If done so, the house hold money gets spent fast, there are always tensions and quarrels going on and any kind of accident may befall the people of the house hold. It is not that the kitchen should not be set up in the South, West or South-West rooms. If already done (matter is from www.subhavaastu.com) so try to shift it to the South-East room. If unavoidable, then the stove has to be placed in the south-East in East, facing the West and the stove should be lit facing the East. People newly constructing houses should see that the kitchen should not be set up in the South-West, West or South rooms, as they make good bedroom for the house owner and his children to sleep in. In a kitchen the Eastern slab should not touch the Eastern wall.

Attics should not be put up to store articles in the East and North. In a kitchen, the storage shelves and attics should be in the south and West. (matter is from www.subhavaastu.com) The kitchen should have its heavier articles placed in the South and West like the fridge, grinding machine, heavy vessels, and water storage drums.The slab is put up in the East, away from the Eastern wall, by a gap of 1Inch care should be taken that the slab should not be reaching the Northeast. The shelves, slabs and attics are in the South and West. The stove is in the South-East in East.

In the above image the entrance is at north east towards north side, this entrance is also very good one. Any how its better to approach one expert vastu consultant before setting the kitchen.

Where we place the kitchen :

In previous days our elders says that we have to maintain only one stove or burners, on those days they are using only firewood burning for food making. On those days they are very cautious on every part of life, while in the kitchen they are mostly planned to construct it at outside the house, still in villages we can observe the kitchens at outside the house only. What is it mean, those days our elders don’t have fire engines, fire fighters etc. So for each and every part they are taking as a serious thing and planning for strict proof of health and safety purposes. Now a days we are not using the firewood for cooking the food, we are modern people with all variety of deceases and we plan every thing in western country styles. We are using only gas stoves, that to the stove is compulsory stable stand at on open dais at kitchen. Our elders are so gentlemen and more cautious on our security. Kitchen means fire, those days they are using the firewood for cooking and the top is also made with bamboo’s , there is a right possibility of fire of the house, so they planned to through it out from the house, that is the main reason our elders are put the kitchen out of our homes. Now a days there is no such accidents.

In the above image, who needs to construct the kitchen at outside then they will construct the kitchen like this way. But they has to give some space towards south wall. The distance between main house and kitchen should be less than the distance between the kitchen and the east wall. Please observe the below image for more understanding of the construction type of outer kitchen. (Generally villagers do construct like this types).

In the above image please observe the arrow mark it shows that the gap in between the south compound wall and the kitchen.

How many burners should we place at Kitchen:

Regarding Burners in the kitchen also, there is no count on this burners, you can plan for 3 burners or 2 burners or 4 burners stove to be placed at kitchen. Even one burner is also not a problem. Faith is different and vastu is also a different. Dont see the odd burners of stove burners. Our thanks to Vineet Dewan, Hyderbad for giving this idea.

Stove placement at Kitchen:

Here is a small narration on stove placement at kitchen, we observed several rich people house kitchens, some kitchen (stove) are towards facing to south and some are towards facing to north also, its not a serious problem, but only thing is the placement of kitchen in the house is the important. For example placement of Kitchen in northeast is not good, so from olden days our eldars are planned to place the kitchen at southeast only, its called as "agni" corner. Kitchen means "fire" so fire can be sit and fit at fire (agni) place. The northeast kitchens are giving much trouble to the inmates, so its always better to place and construct the kitchen at southeast or next best place is northwest parts. Maximum try to place the stove towards east side, i.e., while we cook, our face is towards east side. This is the advisable suggestion.

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