How to create a Diwali ready home

Diwali ready home is your everyday space with an extra dose of festive touch! It need not be something that is extravagant and burns a hole in your pocket.

For me, what works best is addition of flowers and lights, change of cushions, fresh bed linen and curtains. Having a clean home is anyway something that everyone aims for before the onset of Deepavali. By the way, if you haven't seen my last post on cleaning and tackling kitchen grime and dirt, do it here.

So, basically create corners in your home with love and warmth. How? Okay, look at these images below to gather some styling tips.

These are various setting created in my living room. Just a combination of elements that sends a happy vibe around your home. 

Styling tip

Colours are a big factor in home decor. How you may ask. Now, scroll to the first image. When I keep a plant on the centre table, I make sure the colour of the runner on the sofa or some other fabric is colour Coordinated.

For instance, the second setting, where in I have placed a cut work white mat on the table plus the plant and red rose petals, the cushion too is white, green and red combo.

The last setting has brass and zardosi cushions as part of the decor and both of these have a classic and ever lasting style. So, do you get the drift of how I plan my decor at home ?

Please do let me know, if you find this post useful or have any queries. I shall be most glad to answer them.

Have an enjoyable week ahead to Diwali. Do not forget to visit my instagram page for regular updates. 😊💕

To a clean & sparkling Diwali

The most awaited time, Diwali, the festival of lights is celebrated across the country with much pomp and show. The young and the old, friends and family all come together on this happy occasion to indulge in fun & frolic, lip smacking food to well decorated spaces to enjoy the festive fervour dressed in their traditional best.

And a good 10 days before the actual D Day, we start preparing our homes for the festivity ahead. Declutter becomes the mantra, everyone loves to talk about! All traditional decorations like brassware, silver, diya are taken out. Cleaned, polished and various corners of our homes are brightened up with flowers and the like. The mandir or the pooja room becomes the epicentre of activity. New torans are hung. Attractive rangolis are made. Amidst all this, cleaning the entire home and especially the kitchen is a ritual most religiously followed. Afterall, the kitchen is the heart of every home.

Cleaning the gas stove, chimney, backsplash used to give me nightmares, what with all the dirt and grime accumulation. It felt like a test of my muscle power. But not anymore! Let me share with you a cleaning product that makes my ‘Diwali ki safai’ so much easy!

The product in focus here is CIF. It helps to clean tough stains like the grease from our cooking and grime accumulation, leaving surfaces shine like new!

Today, I got down to cleaning my gas stove and the wall behind. The images below stand a testimony to how easy the whole process was.

BEFORE:

Notice the stains on the gas stove, burners and the grease on the wall. Well, now I have CIF to my rescue.

 

With CIF cleaner it is just 3 easy steps to a clean gas stove.

1.       Apply on a damp cloth

2.       Wipe over

3.       Rinse away

Taking a damp kitchen napkin, I applied CIF on it, wiped the gas burners, also applied on the wall and left it for a few minutes. Then you just rinse and wipe with a fresh napkin and lo! you have a clean and sparkling surface.

 New Cif Cream Lemon, with its fresh citrus scent, is packed with millions of natural cleaning particles. This multi-purpose surface cleaner removes 100% of tough dirt for a beautifully clean finish on a range of surfaces. It can be used as a kitchen cleaner to clean hobs, sinks, and kitchen tiles, as well as a bathroom cleaner to clean bathtubs, sinks, and bathroom tiles.

All you’ll need is a tiny squirt to completely remove all kinds of ugly dirt - even those that seem impossible to clean such as encrusted grease and dirty marks from walls.

AFTER:

 

Well, you sure can see me smiling, can’t you? The satisfaction of a clean kitchen is beyond words. So #Don’tJustCleanIt,CifIt

The Diwali vibe

How do you create the vibe of any festival at home? Rituals and food to a large extent help us, no doubt. But certain decorative elements are synonymous with festivals and as we all know Diwali is nothing without lamps!!! So, just get on with it.

All kinds of lamps, big or small, brass, silver, metal and our mitti k diye...sab ko chance do!!

It will be an absolute visual treat to see your home well lit on this auspicious day.

Sharing with you many such arrangements from our home from the years gone by.

A simple arrangement on our side table with a peacock lamp inside a uruli and flowers.

This one with silverware. Please, do not keep your silverware locked inside the safety of your locker.  Use them atleast on special occasions.  The fragrance of rajnigandha and the light from the lamps create an interesting tablescape.

Now for some more ...

Just plain T lights, flowers and rangoli...

Mitti k diye as a table centerpiece 

Table arrangement 

Pooja room 

At the entrance 

Candle with food laid on the table is perfect Diwali set up

Now, I leave it upto you to tell me, which one you find the most attractive or the one that screams Diwali.🙃

Shall soon share this year's Diwali decor with you. Till then scroll through my instagram feed here.

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