Vastu Mirror Placement Checker

This checker takes the room a mirror is in, the wall it hangs on and where along that wall, and sets it against the popular mirror rules our mirrors page records. The first answer is the plainest one: we found no mention of a mirror in the Brihat Samhita or in Acharya’s summary of the Manasara. Every mirror rule is modern, so the checker shows them as conventions to try against your own room, with the safety points first.

How it works

You choose the room and the wall. The wall a mirror hangs on is not the way it faces: a mirror on the north wall faces south. The checker says both, so you can match it to whichever form of the rule you have been told.

Then you choose where along the wall the mirror is. Each wall has two ends, and each end is a corner of the room: on the north wall, the west end is the north-west of the room and the east end the north-east. That gives the part of the room the mirror is in. For a wardrobe door or a free-standing mirror you choose the part of the room directly.

The popular rules set against your answers are: a mirror on the north or east wall, the bathroom mirror too; none in the south-west, the heavy corner; none in the north-east of a prayer area; none facing the bed; none facing the main door. Our mirrors page also names “none in the north-east” among the most repeated rules, while its table narrows that to a prayer area, so a mirror in the north-east of any other room is shown as a note. The practical points are fixings rated for the weight, no heavy mirror above a bed, a cot or a sofa, none reflecting a stove flame or direct sunlight, and cracked glass replaced.

Reading the result

Every point is listed under its own heading, practical first, with a count for each kind. The count is a tally and not a grade. A mirror on the south or west wall is shown as a note: popular guides prefer the north or east wall, but the rules our page records do not warn against the south or west wall as such, apart from its south-west end.

A mirror in the dining room is shown as a note too. It can make a small dining area feel larger, and the idea that it doubles the food is a folk saying.

Where traditions differ

There is no classical side to this question in the texts read for this site, so the difference here is between the popular rules and plain sense. The bed rule has a good reason behind it, since a reflection that catches your movement in the dark can wake you. Others are preferences. The checker shows which is which.

Mirrors are also sold as remedies: convex mirrors on doors, small mirrors on walls and mirror strips. The classical texts read here do not mention any of them, and this site does not recommend buying them.

What it does not do

It makes no prediction. It does not tell you to remove a mirror that is built into a wardrobe, a bathroom or a dressing wall: a curtain or a cloth at night deals with one that faces the bed. It cannot check how a mirror is fixed, so if a heavy mirror hangs on a nail, ask someone to fix it properly to the wall.

For the room as a whole, the bedrooms page and the main door page say more, and rearranging furniture covers the free changes you can try and undo.

Frequently asked questions