What Vastu Score Is Good Enough to Buy? Why One Number Can't Answer It
A flat where every room reads good can score 74. A flat with a room in the avoid band can score 94. Here is why a Vastu score threshold fails, and the three numbers that work instead.
Author - Vaastu AI Editorial
There is no Vastu score that is "good enough to buy", and the arithmetic says why. In our check, a 2BHK where every single room reads good or better can total 74. A 2BHK with a room sitting in the avoid band can total 94. Those two ranges overlap across almost the entire scale a real flat lands in, so a threshold — 70%, 80%, 85% — cannot separate a clean layout from a faulty one. What separates them is three other numbers: how many rooms are in the avoid band, which rooms they are, and how far the score can be lifted without breaking a wall. This post gives all three, with the tables they come from.
The thresholds in circulation contradict each other
Search for this and you will be handed a number. One page says aim for 70–80% compliance. Another grades above 85 as excellent, 70–84 as good. Another says 60 is enough to move in. None of them states what scale the number is on, what the rooms were weighted by, or where the cut-offs came from. A threshold without a scale is not advice.
First problem: the bands are per room, not per flat
Our check reports four verdicts, and they are defined on a single room's placement score:
| Room score | Verdict |
|---|---|
| 90–100 | ideal |
| 70–89 | good |
| 50–69 | acceptable |
| below 50 | avoid |
Every room in your plan gets one of those, from the direction it sits in. The overall score you see on the free check is a weighted average of those room scores — the main entrance counts 18%, the kitchen 16%, the master bedroom 13%, each toilet 12%, the pooja room 9%, the living room 8%, a second bedroom 7%, dining 4%, and anything minor 2–3%.
Nothing anywhere applies the four bands to that average. They were never meant to be read that way, and reading them that way is what produces "aim for 80".
Second problem: the scale does not reach 100
Assemble a 2BHK — entrance, kitchen, master bedroom, second bedroom, two toilets, living, dining, balcony, pooja — and put every room in the best direction it has. The total is 95, not 100.
It cannot be 100, because two of those rooms have no perfect direction anywhere in the table. A second bedroom peaks at 84 in the north-west. The dining room peaks at 85 in the west. Those are the highest numbers those rooms can score, in any flat, ever. Allow for the fact that the entrance, the living room, the balcony and the pooja room all want the same north-east corner and cannot all have it, and a realistic best falls to about 94–95.
So a flat scoring 88 is not "12 points short of perfect". It is roughly 7 points short of the best a 2BHK can be.
Third problem: the overlap
This is the one that kills the threshold outright. Both of these are real 2BHK layouts our check would score:
| Layout | Worst room in it | Overall score |
|---|---|---|
| Every room parked in its weakest good direction — entrance west (70), master bedroom north-west (70), living room west (70), both toilets south (75) | nothing below good | 74 |
| Everything ideal, one balcony pushed to the south (45) | one room in avoid | 94 |
A 74 with no defect at all. A 94 with a defect. Any cut-off you pick between them mislabels one of the two.
What to read instead
Ask the free check for three things. They are all on the result.
1. How many rooms are in the avoid band. Not the average — the count. One is normal in an Indian flat. Four is a different property.
2. Which rooms they are. This decides whether the fault is fixable. Our model recovers 85% of the deficit on a badly placed bedroom, living room, pooja room, study or store — rooms whose problem is use, furniture and layout. It recovers only 45% on a toilet or kitchen and 50% on the main entrance, a staircase or a garage, because those are anchored to plumbing, flues and structure. A fault in the second group is a renovation, not a weekend.
3. The gap between the score and the reachable score. The reachable figure is what the plan gets to with non-structural remedies only, and it is the number a buyer should actually compare. Here is the same clean 2BHK with one room moved, each time:
| The one fault | Room score | Score today | Reachable | Counted fixable at home? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master bedroom in the north-east | 25 (avoid) | 85 | 93 | yes |
| Toilet in the north-east | 15 (avoid) | 86 | 91 | no |
| Pooja room in the south-west | 25 (avoid) | 88 | 94 | yes |
| Kitchen in the north | 35 (avoid) | 85 | 89 | no |
| Main entrance in the south-west | 25 (avoid) | 81 | 88 | no |
| Kitchen in the north-east | 15 (avoid) | 81 | 87 | no |
Read the first two rows together. The flat with the toilet in the north-east scores higher today — 86 against 85 — and is the worse buy. The bedroom flat reaches 93; the toilet flat stops at 91, and the toilet is not counted as fixable at home at all. A buyer comparing the two numbers on the listing picks the wrong flat.
Two more things worth knowing about that column. The reachable score is capped at 96, so no amount of remedy work makes a compromised plan a perfect one. And rooms already scoring 70 or above get no remedy credit — the model does not pretend you can squeeze points out of a layout that is already fine.
So what is the rule?
If you want one sentence: buy on the reachable score and the fault list, not on the score. A flat at 82 whose faults are all in the 85%-recovery group is a better property than a flat at 88 with a kitchen in the north-east, and our own table says so.
And if the two flats you are choosing between are within five points of each other, the score is not the thing deciding it. The location, the floor, the light and the price are.
What the check cannot see
Worth stating plainly, because it bounds all of the above. Our check reads the rooms on your floor plan and the north you confirm. It does not see the plot's shape, the slope, the road level, the compound wall, what sits above or below a room, the water source, or whether the drawing still matches the flat after someone enclosed the balcony. Those are site questions. A score is a reading of the layout, not of the property.
You can get all three numbers free: upload your floor plan for a free Vastu check — you confirm north and the room labels, and the check returns the direction-wise zones, the score, and where the points went. To see the nine zones the rooms are graded in before you upload anything, the Vastu grid and Brahmasthan tool draws them. And if you are working through a specific flat, the room-by-room checklist for a 2BHK or 3BHK takes the rooms in the order they matter.