Diwali is around the corner and everyone gets busy with cleaning of the house and buying new stuff for home around this time. This is the time of the year when every Hindu household gets busy with decorating their home for welcoming the Goddess Laxmi. Here are few ideas about how you too can decorate your home this Diwali and while you enjoy the process of decoration, you do not spend a fortune on it and yet the house looks bright and sparkling.
1. Bring Goddess Laxmi idol and decorate it: You can begin your decoration with bringing Goddess Laxmi idol and can drape a nice chunni around it like a sari and use artificial jewellery to decorate it. You may also adorn it with fresh flower garland.
2. Decorate you puja room with flowers and paper glass lamps: You can decorate your puja room with fresh flowers for the day. You can use rose garlands, marigold, and mogra garlands for the decoration. You can decorate the wall where you place the idol with long hanging flower garlands. You can make a hole in a paper glass and put a string light in the hole and make a string of these glasses connected with the string light and put it on a wall letting it hang on nails. Glass lamps look good and give a different effect to your home.
3. Decorate the entrance of your home with Rangoli: It is believed that Goddess Laxmi visits each home on the day of Diwali so our entrance should look beautiful to welcome her. For this you can create beautiful Rangoli at the entrance of your home. You can create any floral design, swastika, or om and decorate it with flower petals and diyas.
4. Paint diyas and decorate it in your balcony or exterior wall: A very good substitute of expensive designer diyas is diyas painted by you. It will not only look good but you will enjoy the process of painting it as well. Painted diyas look beautiful and you can paint one to be kept in puja thali and others for very specific places in the indoors where there is enough lighting to highlight the painting on the diyas. You can put these diyas in your balcony or on exterior wall of your home as well.
5. Decorate plants with string lights: You can decorate plants in your lawn or in your balcony with string lights. They not only look beautiful but give a natural look and create an ambience that is difficult to match.
6. Put a colourful toran at your main entrance and entrance of your puja room: Diwali is all about welcoming health, wealth, prosperity and happiness into your home. And what better way than to put a nice beautiful and colourful toran at your main entrance. There are many varieties of torans available in the market, some are adorned with beads, some with embroidery and some with a natural leafy look. You can choose one according to your choice and decor and let it adorn the main entrance of your home.
7. Rearrange the furniture in home: A very nice and inexpensive way to decorate your home is to rearrange the furniture in your home. It breaks the monotony of your home and gives you an opportunity to clean the spaces where your brooms have not reached in a long time. It enhances the cleanliness as dust from all the hidden corners can be cleaned and the rearrangement of the furniture brings a new look to your home.
8. Buy some new artificial flowers and lamps: Another rather economic way of decorating your home on Diwali is to buy some nice artificial flowers and lamps. Artificial flowers also enhance the ambience of your drawing room or wherever you keep it in your vases. There are many varieties of lamps also available in the market, some look like they are lit with diyas, they are called deepam lamps, they look rich when kept near an idol or anywhere in your drawing room or living room.
Diwali comes once in a year and it is the time to celebrate all that you have with love, gusto, and gratitude. We at Creativbuild wish our readers a very happy and prosperous Diwali.