Fresh Paint Ideas for Dining Room

Placing bonsais inside your house or hanging potted plants aren’t the only ways to feel closer to nature. A few simple facelifts inside your house will help you feel connected with the flora and fauna outside. Start with painting your house!

1. Tranquilizing Green Walls

‘A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy’. - Juan Montoya. Beautifying a house is a process that involves lots of care and attention. Each swab of paint and every chosen element requires a touch of your personality and liking, to make a home appealing and attractive.

Its Diwali season and we’re already being inundated with ads on TV and social media. From furniture to lighting, showpieces to wall art, bedding to rugs, and kitchenware to bathware, we are bombarded with choices to make our home look its best. And why not? Diwali is the season where we take extra care of our home. We clean, wash, and scrub it. We decorate and illuminate it. We do so much to give...

India is a ‘dharmic’ or religious country where every festival is celebrated with great pomp and show. With commencement of Ganesh Chaturthi and welcoming of Lord Ganesha into your abode requires lots of preparations and effort. Homeowners start planning and shopping a month or two in advance. But, when it comes to home decor and...

‘There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night’s sleep’. - Edgar Watson Howe. A comfortable and functional bedroom is essential for a sound slumber. The bedroom décor can help set the right mood and create a soothing and relaxing atmosphere that can reduce stress levels and promotes restful sleep.Use our handy guide to create the dreamiest of bedroom décor, for a...

Putting a toddler to sleep is hard. All they want to do is play, watch cartoons, talk to you, or hear bedtime stories. As they grow and start sleeping in their own room, the challenge to put them to sleep becomes even more difficult. From your child’s point of view, though, this is understandable. Independence can be scary at first, even if it just involves something seemingly insignificant such...

Colours are undoubtedly an essential part of our life. Look anywhere and you will see one colour or the other. This is because the phenomenon of reflection of light enables us to see and make sense of different colours. But, have you ever wondered what effect do these colours have on your mind? Yes, colours tend to affect our moods and the way we function. There is a science called the ‘...

‘Your home should tell the story of who you are and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof’. - Nate Berkus

As we inch closer to the new year, the chilly winter brings with it some hot trends to end the year with a bang. Most trends are minimalistic, thanks to the huge appeal of the Scandinavian home décor look. But we see some revival of opulence and grandeur too, with luxe making a comeback. Earthy and aqua tones continue to be the...

As we set foot into the festive season of the year, there are more and more occasions that demand family get-togethers and celebrations. From cleaning every nook and corner of the house to redesigning your rooms, you go out of the way to ensure your house looks stunning.

The carefully planned and uncluttered modern living rooms are a playful take on straight lines, modernised furniture and a well-selected neutral colour palette. Seasoned designers showcase modern living room designs that are minimalist and reek simplicity, yet are eye-catching and glamorous.

There is no doubt that a simple, solid coat of paint can make a bedroom look beautiful and elegant. However, for those who are not satisfied by a mere “nice” looking bedroom, there are ways in which you can up the “wow factor”.

If you’re thrifty and resourceful, you probably hate throwing away stuff that hasn’t reached its end-of-life yet. Like that can of paint, which is still quarter-full with that favorite colour you painted your walls with. We hoard these paint colours, waiting for the day we can use them to repaint something, but we...

With Diwali round the corner, most people have started prepping their home for the festival of lights. This festival is by far the grandest and most anticipated event of the year. Be it home painting, cleaning or even shopping, people go the extra mile to give their homes an ethnic touch. Are you, too, in the same phase? If yes, then here...

Here we are, almost at the end of the first half of 2018. During this period, we saw some amazing colour shade trends at the center of attractive home décor settings. If you are seeking some inspiration for your home renovation, then here are some home colours that we found are dominating 2018’s home...

‘A subtle amount of texture attracts the eye’. - Clyde Aspevig. While interior paint can be availed in a variety of sheens and colours, to give any room a distinctively eye-catching look, you may need to add some texture to its feature or focal wall. Texturing a wall, owing to the evolution of paint feature, can be easily achieved using pre-textured paints or standard interior paint using...

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. It’s about time you started planning something fascinating for your significant other. Do something unusual this time. Something like redoing your bedroom and planning a memorable date in there! All you have to do is…. Work on the Bedroom...

Many belief systems focus on the presence of energies in the world. Religions like Buddhism believe that everything in and around us is comprised of different kinds of energies. Feng Shui is a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to flow of energy, and whose favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into account. Simply put, Feng Shui is yet another...

Colours are an essential part of our life. Imagine a world devoid of color. It’s practically unimaginable right? Well, colours have the power to affect our moods, eating habits, and even who we date. This is why, some people choose their house paint colour very carefully.