Vastu Shastra, the ancient Indian science of architecture, suggests the best practices to invite positive energies into living spaces. A workspace brimming with positivity plays a vital role in uplifting employees’ moods and energy. An office interior with positive energy can also be a welcoming sign for more business and cash flow.
One of the misconceptions about designing a Vastu-friendly office interior is that it might be a costly affair. On the contrary, Vastu practices are simple and cost-effective ways to add positivity to an office interior.
Vastu Tips for Office Interiors
Vastu practices focus on elevating the positive energy inside the office spaces. This article will explain easy-to-implement Vastu tips for office design to boost your business.
Reception:
1. The reception is the face of an office and hence should reflect positive vibes to the visitors and employees. Always set up the reception counter in the East or Northeast direction with your office name board on the south. Your receptionist must face North or East.
2. Flowers add a dose of fresh energy to a reception. A bunch of fresh lavender flowers or green jade flowers in the reception attract abundance.
3. If adding greenery to the reception is on your mind, liven up the reception space with snake plant, areca palm, four-leaved clover plant, and lucky bamboo. According to Vastu, they are potent enough to attract luck and wealth to your business when placed in the reception.
Equipment
4. The best direction to place office equipment of any size, such as generators, electrical machines, printers, scanners, and servers, is southeast. The same applies to electrical appliances such as the oven and coffee machine in the pantry.
Lighting
5. Design your office interior to allow more sunlight. Sunlight is filled with positivity and helps to energise your workspace naturally.
6. Ensure that the south of your office is more lit than the rest. This supports employee productivity and fills welcoming vibes in the whole work area.
7. The office interior lighting must be warm and soothing such that it does not create any glare on the employee computer screens.
Colours and Painting
8. Vastu shastra advises lighter shades for painting office spaces. They impart a more spacious look to the rooms and promote positive energy flow.
9. For startups, nothing beats green when it comes to painting the office interior. Green and its shades stimulate ideation and boost revenue.
10. Light blue calms and de-stresses the minds of the individuals in the living space. Hence, blue and its shades are the perfect pick for employee relaxing areas such as game zones and chill zones.
11. Always ensure that ceilings are lighter than the walls. Besides, Vastu suggests preferably refraining from the shades of black, brown, and dark blue for office spaces.
Office of the Managing Director/CEO/Founder
12. The MD or the Founder’s cabin is best located in the South-West corner with them facing towards east or north.
13. To promote harmony and attract abundance, the office of the Managing Director/CEO/Founder must be in yellow. Red, green and brown do not go well with the CEO's office, as per Vastu.
14. The wall at the back of the CEO seat must be solid. Vastu does not encourage glass frames, idols, or wooden partitions behind the CEO's desk as they reflect positive energy.
15. Always choose a wooden table in the CEO room as their desk instead of a glass one. Similarly, opt for a rectangular or square-shaped table rather than a curved or an elongated one.
Desk Rules
16. Sleeping at the desk might hamper the positive energy surrounding it. Similarly, encourage employees to have a clutter-free desk to add more life to their desks.
17. Add peace lily, money plant, jade plant and lucky bamboo plants on the desks of employees and the higher officials.
Artworks and paintings
18. Paintings of sun and greenery on the North walls promote the fire element in the office space that boosts employee creativity and productivity.
19. Boost your business revenue with paintings in turquoise or ocean blue on the northeastern walls of your office.
20. Paintings or pictures of sea and conch shells invite good inter-team relations and client relationships.
Mirrors
21. Mirrors are one of the vital energy elements in Vastu. Use only rectangle or square-shaped mirrors in the office. Preferably, refrain from the circle or oval ones.
22. To promote more cash flow, owners can keep a mirror inside the cash locker. However, the mirror must not have any spots or cracks.
23. Employees must refrain from placing mirrors on their desks. Otherwise, the workload may get piled up and add more stress.
Staircase
24. The steps in the office must be odd in number, according to Vastu. Similarly, they must be in lighter shades and never in dark colours.
25. A staircase must never be located in the centre of the office space. Instead, the best direction for it is in the south or south-west.
26. One of the top office interior tips, as per Vastu, is to place plants at the end of every step. It attracts positivity, promotes employee well-being, and brings abundance and fortune.
Idols
27. Prefer the north side of the office space for placing idols. Clean this space daily and offer prayers.
28. Ganesh idol in the white and Lakshmi idol in the sitting pose are the best for business spaces. They attract prosperity and increase the favourable chances for the business owners.
Aquarium
29. North-East is the best place for an aquarium in the office. Vastu experts suggest nine goldfishes and one blackfish in the aquarium for multiplying wealth and prosperity.
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