The placement table
Ask the classical Vastu tradition where anything in a house belongs and it answers from one table: the kitchen with fire, rest with earth and weight, prayer and water with the lightest corner, guests and movement with air. This tool holds that table whole. It can be read in either direction — from a zone to the rooms it welcomes and resists, or from a room to the zones that suit it, in order of preference.
Preference, not prohibition alone
For each room the table gives more than one acceptable zone, ranked, because real floor plans rarely offer the first choice everywhere. A bedroom denied the south-west has honourable second placements; a kitchen denied the south-east has a recognised alternative corner. The entries also carry the reasons — the element served, the activity's nature — so you can reason about cases the table does not list, which is how the tradition itself is meant to be used.
How to use this tool
When planning, start from the rooms you cannot move — the entrance, the kitchen's plumbing, the stair — and look each up. When auditing an existing home, go zone by zone instead and compare what each zone holds with what the table expects. Mark the mismatches and take them to the Element balance tool for the house-wide view.
FAQ
Q. What if my room's best zone is occupied? Use the ranked alternatives; the table orders them for exactly this case.
Q. Does the table cover modern rooms — a home office, a gym? Yes, by their nature: focused work follows study placements, exertion follows activity placements.
Q. Is any placement absolutely forbidden? The tradition marks a few pairings as serious conflicts; the entry says so plainly where it applies.
This page explains the traditional principle; it names no specific text.