Which Rooms Actually Decide Your Vastu Score (And Which Barely Count)
Four rooms carry about 71% of a flat's Vastu verdict. Here is the full weight table our check runs on, and why the same front door can be worth 18% or 27%.
Author - Vaastu AI Editorial
Short answer: four rooms decide roughly 71% of the verdict. In the weighting our check runs on, the main entrance carries 0.18, the kitchen 0.16, the master bedroom 0.13 and the toilet 0.12 — and in a typical 2BHK those four come to about 71% of the whole score between them. The living room, which every Vastu article treats as a headline room, carries 0.08. A second bedroom carries 0.07. A balcony, a study, a utility area and a garage carry 0.02 each, which is one-ninth of the front door. And the share any one room takes is not fixed: it depends on how many rooms your plan labels, which is the part nobody publishes at all.
Why nobody else prints this table
Search for a free Vastu score and you will find a dozen calculators that hand you a number out of 100. Ask any of them what the number is made of and you get the same answer: the tool "evaluates key rooms against their ideal directions." None says which rooms move the number, or by how much.
That is not a small omission. Without the weighting you cannot tell whether a 62 means one serious problem at the front door or five cosmetic ones spread around the flat — and those are completely different decisions about the same flat.
So here is ours, in full.
The weight table
These are the values in TYPE_WEIGHTS, the table the score is computed from. Every room type not named here falls through to a default of 0.02.
| Room type | Weight |
|---|---|
| Main entrance | 0.18 |
| Kitchen | 0.16 |
| Master bedroom | 0.13 |
| Toilet / bath | 0.12 |
| Pooja room | 0.09 |
| Living room | 0.08 |
| Other bedroom | 0.07 |
| Staircase | 0.05 |
| Dining | 0.04 |
| Store | 0.03 |
| Balcony, study, utility, garage | 0.02 each |
Two things in that list usually surprise people. The toilet outranks the living room — 0.12 against 0.08, half again as heavy — because a badly placed toilet is a genuine fault in the model and a living room has a wide, forgiving row of acceptable directions. And a second bedroom is worth a third of the entrance, which is why "my kid's room faces south-east" is rarely the thing to fix first.
What a weight is worth in points
A weight on its own is abstract. What matters is the swing: how many points of your final score move when a room goes from its best direction to its worst.
Normalised over the room set of a standard 2BHK — entrance, kitchen, master bedroom, second bedroom, living room, toilet, pooja — the weights sum to 0.83, and each room's share and swing come out like this:
| Room | Share of this flat | Best cell | Worst cell | Full swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kitchen | 19.3% | South-East 100 (ideal) | North-East 15 (avoid) | 16.4 pts |
| Main entrance | 21.7% | North-East 100 (ideal) | South-West 25 (avoid) | 16.3 pts |
| Master bedroom | 15.7% | South-West 100 (ideal) | North-East 25 (avoid) | 11.7 pts |
| Toilet / bath | 14.5% | North-West 90 (ideal) | North-East 15 (avoid) | 10.8 pts |
| Pooja room | 10.8% | North-East 100 (ideal) | South-West 25 (avoid) | 8.1 pts |
| Living room | 9.6% | North-East 95 (ideal) | South-West 45 (avoid) | 4.8 pts |
| Second bedroom | 8.4% | North-West 84 (good) | South-East 45 (avoid) | 3.3 pts |
The ordering changes once you multiply. The entrance is the heaviest room in the table, but the kitchen has the biggest swing in a flat — 16.4 points against the entrance's 16.3, effectively a tie with the kitchen marginally ahead. The kitchen's weight is lower, but its row is wider: it runs from 100 in the south-east down to 15 in the north-east, an 85-point spread, where the entrance row bottoms out at 25.
At the other end, a second bedroom placed as badly as the model allows costs 3.3 points — a fifth of what the kitchen costs, and the whole case for not worrying about it.
One detail from that last row: the second bedroom is the only type here with no ideal cell at all. Its best direction, north-west at 84, sits in the good band (70–89). So if yours reads good, that is the ceiling, not a near miss.
The part that genuinely is not published anywhere: weights are relative
Here is the rule that makes all of the above conditional, and it is the reason two tools can look at one flat and disagree.
The score is a weighted average over the rooms your plan actually has. The weights are divided by their own sum, not by some fixed total. So every room you label takes a share out of every other room.
Take the same front door through three plans:
- A compact 1BHK — entrance, kitchen, master bedroom, toilet, living room. Weights sum to 0.67, and the entrance is 26.9% of the verdict.
- A standard 2BHK — the seven rooms in the table above. Sum 0.83, entrance 21.7%.
- A fully labelled 3BHK — two more bedrooms plus a dining area, a store, a balcony and a utility. Sum 1.01, entrance 17.8%.
Same door, same direction, same score on its own row — and its influence on the total ranges from roughly 18% to 27% depending only on how many rooms the plan labels. A south-west front door is a materially worse problem in a small flat than in a large one, and not because anything about the door changed.
Duplicates count separately, too. Each room carries its own weight, so a flat with two toilets puts 0.24 on toilets rather than 0.12, and a second badly placed one costs as much as the first. The same goes for a third bedroom at 0.07.
This also means labelling is not free. If you confirm a balcony and a utility on your plan, you have slightly diluted every real problem in the flat. That is the correct behaviour — a bigger home genuinely has more places for things to go right — but it is worth knowing when you compare two reports.
What to do with this
If you are deciding where to spend attention, money or a negotiation, the order is not the twenty-item checklist that most Vastu pages open with. It is:
- The kitchen and the front door. Effectively tied, 16 points each. Everything else is a rounding error next to these two.
- The master bedroom and the toilets. Around 11 points each.
- Everything else. The pooja room at 8 and below, down to 3 for a second bedroom.
You can see your own version of this in about a minute. Upload a plan to our free Vastu check and it will detect the rooms, ask you to confirm which way north points and what each room is, and return the direction-wise zones and a score. The rooms it lists, in the order it lists them, are this table applied to your plan.
What this does not tell you
Three scope limits, stated rather than buried:
- The weights grade placement, nothing else. Room size, ceiling height, the slope of the plot, the road level, what sits above or below your flat, and the shared walls between rooms are all outside this table.
- Every share here depends on north being right. The zones are 45-degree sectors, so a room near a boundary can cross into the next zone if the north arrow is off by 10 to 20 degrees. If you are unsure of yours, take a reading with the vastu compass before trusting any of these numbers.
- A weighting is a model, not a scripture. It is our published, checkable answer to "what is this number made of" — which is more than the alternatives offer, and still an opinion about relative importance. Our honest comparison of what each kind of Vastu tool can know sets out what any of them, ours included, is actually reading.
The takeaway is the shape rather than the decimals: two rooms carry two-fifths of the verdict, four carry seven-tenths, and the long tail of balconies and studies carries almost nothing. Fix in that order.