Is it a pop of colour? Or an expression of style? Or just the most comfortable nook of the living room? Accent chairs can be all this and more. A living room might see you entertain large number of guests from time to time and you need a variety of furniture, placed strategically to ensure…
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Glassy Beauty
Glass is beautiful. Stained or coloured glass is stunning! I’m loving a recent trend of home decorating with stained bottles, coloured glass lamps and tea light holders. Glass vases have always been popular and even exorbitantly priced sometimes. But now the market has also made available, up-cycled glass bottles that might have held perfume or…
An All Encompassing Room
Does the concept of living in a single room that may be small or big, seem too confining and terrifies you? Well, with constantly evolving careers, city-hopping and ever increasing real estate costs, you might have to look at making your home in a single, mostly undivided room. This concept known popularly as the studio…
Traditional South Indian Homes
I recently visited a more than 150 year old traditional home in Narayanavanam in Andhra Pradesh. The family has been traditionally involved in the silk saree business for many generations and follow the joint-family system with grandparents, sons, their wives and children all living and growing together. As a recent home owner myself and all…
DIY – My Try At Up-Cycled Bottle Art
Got plenty of empty glass bottles lying at home, why don’t you up-cyle them to add to your home or garden decor? There are many ways you can up-cycle bottles, you can make lamps with them, candle/tea light holders, paint them or do thread work around them. I love this particular form of work and…
The Purple Turtles
In continuation of my visual walk through of two lighting stores in the city that I find interesting, lets take a look at a rather unique store starting with their unusual name – The Purple Turtles. Started by ex-advertising professional Radeesh R Shetty, this store offers designer lighting of every kind from industrial to recycled…
Sunshine Boulevard – Let There Be Light !
Over the next two days, I’m going to walk you through two magical and unique lighting stores in Bangalore, India. I have been to both stores, on more than one occasion to just relax and soak in all that radiant beauty around me. And no matter how many times I visit, I still get tempted…
Screens and Partitions, Help You Acheive More With Less!
My love for screens and partitions started with a visit to my best friend’s house way back in my childhood, as I sat in their apartment living room admiring their intricately carved out wooden partition shielding the dining area from my view. Since then I have been fascinated by the beautiful range of screens and…
The Magic Carpet!
It can transport you to a different world, one of fun or style or colour. It can make you feel warm and cozy and bring conversations together as you entertain. And we don’t need Alladin and his Genie to make this true for us! In India, homes don’t use wall to wall carpeting throughout the…
Demystifying Colour For Your Interiors!
A few years ago there was an amusing commercial on Indian television of a young couple trying to imagine a certain colour for their room, a heady combination of sunshine, summer mangoes and some candy, the spouse desperately tries to visualise the same in her head and fails! Choosing colours for your walls is always…
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