At a glance:

All the four sides of a building should have a fencing wall. Gates have to be provided at specified places.

The compound (walls around your house) on all the four sides will create a powerful mandala and keeps the strength of the mandala within the enclosure. Of course consider the local by-laws before you put up the walls. Depending on the road the gates can be provided.

The walls have to be perfectly oriented to the principal directions. Make use of a compass or sankhu to first fix the directions, then put pegs beginning from north-east, north-west, south-east and then south-west corners. Tie the pegs with a cord and then construct the walls.

Always have your walls on the south and west higher and thicker than the north and east walls. Depending on security and other local factors you can study the possibility of having on the north and east sides a low fencing instead of a wall. This will ensure that the site is flooded with the positive energies from the Sun.

Stone walls on the South and West and brick walls on the North and East may also be thought of.if you are living in Dallas, Los Angeles and other areas where brick is normally used. In other places like Chicago, etc. wood may be used.

The building to come up later may be totally independent of the walls. A space of one-ninth of the width or length of the site corresponding to the Paisacha zone may be allowed as moving space between the building and the walls round the building.

If a garage has to come it can be either in the northwest or in the south-east touching the compound wall but not the main building.