Questions and Answers

Ivory is a very light yellow. Off-white is often called ivory, but do not choose plain off-white; true ivory is a very light shade of yellow. It represents the earth element, which is why ivory floor tiles generate so much energy in a house.

Use green colour and a flag-like pattern: put up a flag (dhwaj) in the North-West and, if possible, open the North-West with a window; this brings at least some balance. Swar vigyan can do still more without expense or demolition.

The colour on the chakra is the colour of the devta of that zone, not of the element; the North devtas are shown in red, for example, which is not a colour to paint there. The air element has both green and blue as its colours.

Colours are taught in interior vastu; do not get confused now and focus on what is being taught.

Yes, a bedroom at Shikhi can suit elderly people, and it should be painted white rather than the zone's red colour, as advised for people of kapha nature and for those of pitta nature whose heat rises quickly. Shikhi is highly sensitive and already hot, so red would add heat and open the third eye.

Where there is heat, coolness is given, and where there is cold, heat is given; heat added to heat burns things out and cold added to cold also ends them. It is like swar, where the cooling chandra swar should flow in the body while the Sun is up. E7 lies next to the fire (Agni) corner, so it was given blue.

Yes, it affects the whole house. Just as dirt in one room spreads its smell through the air to the other rooms, an imbalance in one zone spreads to the entire house.

Green represents Budh (Mercury), and finance and accounts belong to Mercury. Using the colour of the planet that rules the work strengthens it; even clothes and pen ink act as interior vastu, which is also why lawyers choose black.

To keep Budh (Mercury), the planet of intellect, alert: if the mind or concentration slips during an operation, everything goes wrong. Green also nullifies infrared rays and bad energies, so hospitals mostly use green, pista, white and blue.

Because the interior changes colours, furniture directions, tiles and artefacts without regard to the owner's element and planets. Often the colours belong to the element opposite to the owner's, artefacts are combined wrongly, or harmful adhesives, lights and lead-based paints are used. One client who spent 60 to 80 lakh on an interior saw his loans turn NPA and his wife leave; his whole house had been painted in the colours of his opposite element.

As a planet colour, blue belongs to Shani (Saturn); as an element, it represents the water element.

Yes, the platform can be painted, but the type of paint matters, which is explained in the topic of paints, pigments and colours. Never use oil-based paint.

Take a colour catalogue and turn its pages with your own eyes: the colours you are drawn to are the ones that awaken your fortune. Use that colour along with the colour of the zone you sleep in, and if possible match it with your horoscope; it usually matches. Sleeping steadily for eight hours in that colour lets its planet act on the whole body.

They can follow the zone colour, but white or grey cause no problem in a toilet in any zone, because the toilet is represented by Shani and Rahu and here the planet is given more importance than the zone.

No. Only excessive use of a colour has an effect. Screens are black by nature and come in no other colour, so this is not a concern.

Most grocery goods belong to Mars, so yellow and red work very well for a kirana shop.

No, it is not necessary; many videos are made without any dark colour. If Saturn or Rahu is strong in your kundali, dark colours may even suit you. A video is short, so do not worry much about it; think carefully about colours in the office and bedroom, where you spend long hours.

Light green or a shining lustre white is better than blue in the North-West.

Oil-based paint is not compulsory even for a shutter. If it has already been used, spray desi cow urine on it once.

It does not need to be white. Keep the natural colour of the wood; wood-coloured ceilings have been used for thousands of years. Painting it red, green or grey is wrong.

Light sky blue that matches the colour of the sky can be used and causes no problem. If the blue is dark, paint small twinkling stars on it to nullify its effect.

Yes, metallic grey works well in the West.

Not at all. Brown on the ceiling starts representing fire in the space element.

A mobile shop deals in electronics, so use light green or pista colour, which represents Mercury.

Green or ivory is the best choice for a child's study table; a teak colour also works.