Classical Vastu is often misread as a rulebook about geometry: this room must be here, that wall must be there, or the home is doomed. In practice, the underlying logic is about flow. Every direction carries a quality of energy. Every zone has an element it responds to. Most defects show up because the flow is interrupted, not because the walls are wrong.
When the flow is restored, through colour, placement, element, or light, the same plan starts behaving differently. Conversations land easier. Sleep returns. Money stops leaking. The wall never moved.
Demolition is reserved for the rare cases where a structural feature is so disruptive that nothing else can compensate, for example, a toilet in the Brahmasthan of a brand-new build, or a kitchen in the North-East of a small apartment. Even there, the recommendation is honest: only if you are building, only if the cost is justified, and only with a clear before-and-after picture.

