DIY Lamp Shade

Now a days I am pretty much hooked into Instagram. There are so many inspirational decor images. One such image made me do this lamp. In that image they have kept a floor lamp which back lighted the palm plant and same was lighting above wall painting. In my case, I have just nailed a beautiful Jharoka which we bought from our recent trip to Jaipur and have a palm plant just below it. Thought why not use an old lamp shade base to do my type of floor lamp. 

I grabbed a piece of cloth, scissors, glue, gum tape and card sheet to do so. I measured old lamp shade base and cut the card sheet. I rolled paper to form a cylinder shape and glued it. I rolled same paper cylinder on cloth to get the measurement, cut and glued on this paper from outside. Looked fab to me. There was a little problem. I needed some base for the lamp. Thought of using beads. To gum the beads directly to thin shade is not possible. Suddenly a new idea struck me. I took out tooth picks, inserted beads in them and stick three of them to the bottom of the shade. DONE! 

Now I placed the bulb and the wiring into its place. My bead base allowed me to pass the wire out from the lamp shade. You can read how I fitted this wiring from this old tutorial.

 Here is the result. I am quiet Happy. How you feel?



With Jharoka, I'll write a new post :)

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Ever Changing Home

When I look back and see these images, wonder ever changing home! These are from the very first our Mumbai home. That is eight years back. I can connect the monetary progress with these images too. Nothing much, nothing more, all essentials. 

This from the first set up I did. The living hall was of L shape. I divided to dining and sitting.  The TV stand is actually a PC table which is transformed.

You can notice the different position of picture frames. Same with the TV unit and Dining set. I interchanged both. The bigger PC tables in this pic is no more with us. We have given same to our maid and small unit is still on use. I am using same table for writing this blog. More interesting factor is, I am using same unit from my schooling days. The chipped out part are tooth mark of an abandon squirrel which I raised for few months. It got sweet memories of that squirrel baby attached to.

The setup from first image was replaced by this. I added two Madhubani paintings done by me and those four wall arts were purchased at Big Bazaar.I wonder, where is Big Bazaar now ! Its place is taken by Hypercity and D mart. We have stopped going to Big Bazaar and this brand was the first hyped super market mall in India. They have recently closed their outlet nearby. Sigh.

I used to stick frames then. These frames were light weight, made up of Thermocol and paper. No framing is required. Now, TV unit got its surround audio system and still able to stand all the weight!

When we moved to our second home in Mumbai, same setting continued with little changes. This image was taken without audio speakers. I usually rearrange all my knickknack after dusting. I dust once in a week or in two weeks. With that arrangement changes. 

I loved those two plaster of paris elephants. One of them broken while wiping floor by maid and second one followed same fate after few months. Both of them stayed well in the hand of my old maid, old house. Hmm.

This is with the new TV unit. You can see the elephant standing alone without its partner! The PC table used to bear all this stuff went back to carry PC. I do not have many images with different decorations and placing of same house. Its because, I went busy with new job. Before that, I stayed at home for two years enjoying  rearranging and taking pictures.

This image is from the third and present home. Same old TV unit holds LCD now. As usual settings and placing of objects changes as per my mood. At present I am having different settings. This is from old footage. That right side golden pothos and left side palm plant are not more in their glory. The lucky plant, Bamboo stem has grown 3 ft long now and enjoying breeze in balcony.

I'll post another series with different sitting arrangement tried in this present home. I searched my footage, not to find any closeup shot of TV unit. Last couple of years, My hobby of taking pictures of home at different time is been reduced. Nowadays, I enjoy being at space rather than documenting.

Its said every house reflect characters of its housemates. This is true in my case. My house is like me, ever changing and ever evolving. Its good to see old photos and remember those moments. Happy Reading!

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Country Side Collections

Last weekend, we visited Barvi Lake, Thane. My hubby was busy in capturing photos and I indulged myself in collecting these wonders. When I was collecting, remembered the hero from " Everything is Illuminated'.  He also had a hobby of collecting unique things wherever he goes.

You can see super dried seed plant which perfectly resemble flower sticks and yellowish orange seeds of some unknown tree. With that you can see my old sea shells collection in a new glass jar and cutest iron box collected from one of the collectors shops, Colaba, Mumbai ( just opposite Taj).  I hope you enjoy my new arrangement.

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A Color Change

Yes, at last I made some time for new posting. I am with my new sofa cover and shining-polished sofa. This time I wanted to have dark colors as they are easy to maintain for working woman like me. And we thought dark brown combination will go with other blackish furniture. Here is the result.

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Converted Book Rack

This weekend made several changes. This is one of them. This is the stand we used before buying wooden shoe cabinet. Later I kept it in dry area to store paper and other stuff. Today while browsing this idea stuck me. Here is the end result. Probably next weekend going to keep a painting beside this to cover hanging wires.

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Added Green

After four months, I am here with my newly added plants. Again we have moved to a new place. This time, we have shifted to a bigger space. I am in a full swing decorating our new palace urf place . I have added new curtains and bought beautiful hanging lights. Hopefully share those in my next weekend posts. As for now, here is my new babies;

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New Space

This is my new place!

Here I have a balcony for which I always wished and a nice flooring. The only problem is with the living hall. Hall is quiet small compare to the old house. In my old house, we had 'L' shaped room and dining n sitting arrangements seems to be separate. Here its in a long rectangle shape and quite complicate to arrange the furniture.

As it was summer, I had placed single seaters in our balcony so that my hall looks little bigger. One of this chair was for him to sit and practice his drawings and opposite one was for me to sit and chat with him while sipping a cup of Chai. This arrangement lasted till the first rain.

Now, I have a new setup. Balcony is now having a small garden, TV table once again 're' used as computer table (its original form). Another big computer table is sitting in the store room and holding most of my decor items. Because I have joined back work and scared of my maid. She already had broken one elephant while cleaning and I don't want other items to follow same route.  I hope I'll find out some safe method to re decor keeping in mind of new maid!  My DVD cum book stand moved to kitchen (space problem). DVDs into wardrobe and few lucky books are happy at dressing table. While others are wrapped under storage bags.

Really its difficult to move from one space to another. While purchasing new things tenants has to think twice, like will it fit in another '3X6' Mumbai homes?

Let it be. It seems more challenging. I'll coming up with new arranging ideas. This image is from my first set up of living room.

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Old Abode

Yes, I was out of blogging space; moved to a new place, a new home. Again resettling, re decorating and changed my status into working woman again, ..........lot of happenings.

Now, I miss this quiet, happy blog world. I am back again, hoping to post at weekends. This was my old sweet home. I still miss this place. I used to rearrange whole setup at least once in a month. So one can see lot of difference in these photos. And about my new place, I'll post next week. Till then, Happy Blogging.

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She sells seashells on the seashore...

These are my Sirsi Jatre(fair) findings. I love these small ones(cowrie shells) called as "Kavade" in Kannada. These are used in playing Choukabar and Pagade ata(game).

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Krishna Corner

Just now I rearranged these two miniature paintings. These are not the original paintings, These are from his old printouts collection from Salar Jung museum, Hyderabad.

I hope you have noticed the Peacock feathers. This is inspired from my 'decor photos collection' (saved from other decor blog's).  The original photo has lot of peacock feathers arranged aesthetically. I had only three feathers. Didn't mind, just hanged in a corner.

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Buddha Corner

This is my living room corner. You can see Lantana furnitures, clay tree, Buddha, four poster displays form Big Bazaar, DVD collection, books, dairy, computer table turned into TV stand, a marble Tiger, marble Taj gifted by my sister and so on. All these are illuminated by a bamboo lamp shade. Looking good and calm for me, thought to share with you.

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That extra chair

Due to lack of space, I have removed a chair from dining table and arranged like this in our bedroom. How do you feel?

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