Festive Makeover for your Home

Giving your home a makeover is an important part of any festival, and Diwali in particular. As you cannot renovate your house every year, giving a new look may require making those subtle changes that bring out a good new look. It would need simple changes such as tinkering with lights, lampshades, sofa covers and little minor decorative articles.

Light Effects

If you thought creating great effects with light involves spending a lot, some ideas can surprise you. Ever thought of changing the colour and style of your lampshade. Merely by getting festive, bright and catchy colours for your lampshade, you can bring about an entire new look to your room. Hang lanterns, place trendy tea light holders at appropriate corners and do everything based on creating a theme. You may choose to go trendy or artistically ethnic.

Matching Embellishments

It would be advisable that you do not get new sofa covers, cushions, curtains or upholstery that requires you to dig deep in your pocket. Simple cotton curtains in place of heavy silk ones, a Zari border chatai in the room’s corner or trendy slip covers for your plain chairs are enough to brighten up your home. Keep in mind the theme for your makeover, but the bottom line should be that the embellishments give a better look to your home.

Go Green

You can give a green look to your home by placing a rubber plant in a corner. You can also place a real mogra or fern around the house to give a refreshing look and make for a fragrant ambience. Vases with real or imitation roses can also do wonders in giving a new look. Get tall glass vases for putting these flowers. Flowers such as rose or the exotic ones found in the season should be used as centrepieces.

Feel Space

Understand the importance of space as a means to feel good about your house. If your house has too many decorative pieces, getting rid of some of them is all that can breathe a fresh look into your home. Make sure that you get your house immaculate clean to have the real festive feeling.  Having got rid of objects, invite more people instead to fit in the newfound place!

Use Snaps

Use snaps of scenic locations and historic places as decorative items. If you are a little handy with Photoshop software, brushing up the images would not be too difficult. Get their coloured printouts for framing. No need to look elsewhere for a cool decorative piece than your old snaps!

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