Dining Room Designs and Vaastu Shastra
You’ve heard about Feng Shui as a guiding principle in achieving the best home designs. Now consider Vaastu Shastra, an ancient Indian art of developing a perfectly balanced environment composed of physical and metaphysical forces. Vaastu Shastra also has solid principles on the power of energy and how its flow in a room affects the lives of its dwellers. What ‘Chi’ is to Feng Shui, ‘Pran’ is to Vaastu. Both are terms referring to the energy flow that makes space be either a positive or negative influence to its occupants. Feng Shui or Vaastu Shastra, everyone can use a good set of guidelines to consider in designing a dining room where family members meet and share precious moments while sharing a meal.
‘Vas’ means to reside or live in and ‘Shastra’ means science. The term Vaastu Shastra may then be literally projected as the “science of building homes.” It fundamentally gives you a picture of what things to put in a room and how to arrange them in a way that attracts a flow of positive energy. However, there is more to it that makes it popular.
Vaastu Shastra recommends that the west portion of a house be utilized for constructing a dining room. In terms of dining room furniture, the dining table should not set against a wall. It is also deemed important that diners have ample space between each other and all around the table for them to be able to move with ease. As for the shape of the dining tables, the most recommended are square and rectangular.
The principles of Vaastu Shastra also encourage neat furniture arrangements in the dining and every other room in the house. Too many furniture pieces which result in overcrowding of any living space is also discouraged. If the dining room merges into the kitchen or any other room as part of an open plan area, there should be some form of division in the form of potted plants or glass.
Having a toilet immediate to the dining room or one that opens into it is discouraged, as well as having a chandelier or anything that directs a beam of light into the dining table. Only calming colors such as beige or yellow should also be painted on the walls and anything too strong is taken as unfavorable.
The ancient belief not only covers dining room arrangements but also the seating arrangement of family members who are about to share a meal. It is encouraged that parents sit facing the North, North – East, or Eastern directions. If children were to be seated in any of those positions, it is believed that they will eventually overpower their parents in terms of running the household and their lives. This Indian tradition also recommends some kind of offering made to a cow, crow or dog before a meal is served.
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