DOORS



Main entrance door should be in the exalted position only i.e in favourable direction.
Rest of the doors in the houses should not be bigger than the main entrance door.
The favourable directions are North North East, East North East, South South East and West North West.
Door should not be fixed in the centre of the building or at the extreme corner of the building.
When the main door happens to be from the South South East it is better to fix another door in the East North East or North North East direction.
When more than one external door is proposed it is better to have one of the doors in the North East.
Three doors falling in one line is not good, there can only be two or four in one line.
Two doors/windows opposite each other should be of same width, ad they should be in alignment.
Rubbish, garbage or any kind of mounds opposite a gate or door should be avoided.
Number of doors and windows should not be the same in the ground and first floor , they should differ.
Doors in the first floor should be in the same position as those in the ground floor.
Number of doors and windows o each floor should be even i.e 2,4,6,8,12 etc.
Doors and windows should not be in 10, 20, 30, 40, numbers though they are even because these numbers end with zero.
Number of columns, beams in the building too shall be even.
Number of trees in a property too should be even.
Two main entrance doors of two houses opposite each other shall not be in one alignment they should differ.
Similarly two gates of houses opposite each other too shall not be in one alignment.
When the plot has deflected North South axis it is advisable at least to have the building parallel to the North South direction.
Better to have all the four side frames to the door or at least the external and pooja room door should have four frames.
When decorating the main an other doors onl permitted motifs should be selected i.e Image of family deity, two sentinels or guards, a dwarfish nurse, shanka and padmanidhi emitting coins, the astamagala, lakshmi-lotus seated and being bathed by elephants and cow with her calf.
Using motifs like images of gods in decoration of doors is prohibited.
Wood from the trees grown in cemeteries, side of the roads, banks of tanks and rivers shall not be used in the buildings.
Wood from decayed, dried-up, burnt out trees etc., shall not be used in building.
Wood from auspicious trees like Ashwatha, Atti, Coconut etc., too shall not be used in buildings.