What it does
To choose colours that support luck, business, study and health rather than personal taste alone.
Where
Every room, the office and the building elevation
Samagri used
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Cautions
Explanation and notes
Colour is the first thing that absorbs and reflects cosmic energy, so it plays the biggest role in interior vastu. It heals, gives mental peace, balances the five elements, makes up for light a room lacks, and can make a small plot look bigger or a big one smaller. A person's own element colour, or a friendly element colour, supports them for life; the colours that spoil one's fortune come from the kundali. This is why a colour one buyer rejects attracts the next. Dress codes follow the same logic: advocates wear black, doctors white, and school children were given white shirts.
Red represents Mars and the Surya swar; it creates heat, fire and zeal in the body, so it is used wherever heavy physical work must be done fast.
Blue is a natural cooling and antiseptic colour that brings devotion, truth and respect, keeps body temperature balanced, and gives mental peace and spiritual growth.
Green, the colour of the air element, is antiseptic; it removes swelling, brings happiness, reduces negativity and detoxes the body.
Slightly warmed banyan leaves tied over a swollen part of the body remove the swelling; the healing comes from the natural green colour of the leaf.
Each trade has a supporting colour: yellow for every business, red for jewellery, chemicals, sweets and fire-related work, white for education, cloth and stationery, and green for health; black and grey only in small amounts.
Each direction has colours that suit it and colours to avoid, based on the friendship and enmity of the planets ruling the zones.
Oil-based paint contains lead that is released into the air and breathed in, causing cough, cold, eye irritation and disease; water-based paint should be used instead.
PU (polyurethane) finish on furniture is even more dangerous than oil paint and can cause breathing trouble, asthma, headache, vomiting and fainting; natural wood with a traditional natural polish should be used instead.