Last Year Diwali Decor Round-up (Diwali 2019)

Hope that festival preparations have started at your end and you are brewing up ideas for this Diwali. Oh yes, I have started to lighten up the glow of Diwali by small bursts of twinkling diyas and overload of brass. After all, putting on a play of lighting and swapping out accessories in every corner is a full proof formula to beckon the festival ;). 

It really gets busy during diwali so instead of taking time out for a blog post with a busy schedule of Diwali, I had decided to share all the Diwali posts on the social feeds of Facebook & Instagram only last year. However, before I kick start this year's Diwali preparations, I wanted to give you a round up of Diwali 2019 decor we did at our home. 

Taking you along with our last year's Diwali decor. Brass, as you all know, still reigns supreme in my all décor and our entry way is a perfect winning location to display all...after all the first impression does matter. Welcome to our grand entryway. However, this wall has been transformed totally. As this year we tweaked this powerful bold gold to another color (cedar green) by swapping, switching and adding few wall frames around.

This wall has always been festive ready in our home but decorating with special touches adds the thrill at the entry for the atmosphere of a celebration. Hope you enjoy your stay here and take some inspiration along for your own Diwali decor this year.

I don’t know about you but the festive season always seems to sneak up on me every year (24 hours aren’t enough). Suddenly I am knee deep in to-do lists with limited time. It definitely takes a certain amount of planning (read stress) to have a successful Diwali ready home but frankly that’s part of the fun.  Taking you forward to our under the stairs setting where I usually place our rangoli. Until I put up rangoli (coming up soon) here, the setting constantly reminds us of the glorious touches of the festive season. The irony of using brass cannot be missed when it comes to power game of festive décor.    

Diwali makes me go an extra mile and throw in some clever touches with glamorous effects to be a total show-off. Here are the portraits of our living room with diverse style, colors, accoutrements and ambience that exemplifies how small personal touches can bring charm to make your home look welcoming and festive ready this season.

Wanted to draw your closer attention to the pieces I received from Divine India Each piece is exquisite and perfectly falls in the rhythm of my decor style with ease. I also wanted to point out to that big brass pot (that I acquired from Facebook marketplace) is used as a side table by placing a tray atop. With the pieces from Divine India, it was quite easy for me to pull the overall Diwali look in our living room last year.

And we ended Diwali hubbub last year with a wonderful "Annakoot" celebration at home with friends and families who joined us from far and wide. 

Here are the decor pictures of the celebration. For someone like me who believes in a traditional approach it was just perfect to inject some "desi" touches with blissful colors to support the occasion.

It was an eventful yet equally tiring celebration...by the way, the bell decor is a DIY. I married Christmas bells to marigold strings for this look.  

Red and gold are the Diwali classics and can easily kick up a notch in any décor. I also sizzled up the foyer console table here with some exciting changes by mixing modern and vintage pieces. Staging of small pieces in a bunch can give you a power of a large display. 

As I end this post with our last year's Diwali celebration wishing you all that may the beauty of Diwali fill your home with happiness and may the coming years provide you all that brings joy in your life. Here is the last year's rangoli made with rice and food colors. The making of the same is up on my Youtube Video here. 

This was all about last year. Get ready to absorb all the eye candy coming your way this year also, as I will be sharing more videos and pictures of Diwali styling on my social feeds. Stay connected there until we meet again here, toodles!

Splendors of Classic Traditional Accessories - Featuring Crafts N Chisel

When a business is powered through reflecting love and passion of Indian handicrafts that we all evolve in....brands like Crafts N Chisel is borned. With roots in India and wings in USA, Crafts N Chisel will be your one stop shop for the next level up in decorating your home. Learning from the trend of globe, collecting with an appreciation for the unusual and gathering from the diverse sources - Crafts N Chisel will help you bring the much-needed aesthetic stroke to your home via their extensive range of home décor products.  

Introducing Craft N Chisel

Indian handicrafts are making their presence felt across runways and have created quite a stir in home décor industry. Thankfully, we have sources like Crafts N Chisel at our fingertips, resulting in a much wider choice. This e-commerce website will leave you spoilt and show you the ropes and pave the way for your home advancement. Art and objects at Crafts and Chisel begs exploration that echoes splendors of classic traditional accessories.  

Marble Tile Diplays

When Megha got married and moved to USA, she was majorly missing the traditional touch in her décor. Raised in a tightly knit Indian family where Megha’s mom is an architect and brilliant artist, Megha was fed with the love of handicrafts, paintings and murals. Inspired and instilled by her mom’s artistic direction Megha had hard time meeting the pleasing and practical needs of fulfilling her dream home here in USA. To give free run to her more adventurous design inclination, she managed to ship home décor products from India for her home here in USA. Admiration of her choices in home décor by friends and guests let Megha unfold the dream of the brand Crafts N Chisel with a motto to bring Indian handicrafts to homes away from home. 

Carefully Handpicked Collection 

When it comes to your home décor – making sure it has layered collected feel means tons of tough decisions. Often what gives our home an authenticity is the visual stories of our home décor...our artfully edited collection with colliding eras and styles of our roots. Keeping the same in mind, Megha cherry picks the best of the authentic and quality pieces via collaborating with multiple artisans in India.  

Dizzying Array of Wall Decor

Let Crafts N Chisel relieve the stress and restore the fun while introducing you to their extensive collection of home décor products from the most sought-after collection. Quality and Customer Satisfaction being the success mantra behind this brand, Crafts N Chisel value customers and their needs more than anything. Keeping the assurance that customers are really happy with the product and service, they go the extra mile to fulfill it.  Their masterly vision brings not only best of the products but they offer free shipping and free return. 

Traditional Touch of Brass

 Megha has converted her passion of home decor into work through Crafts & Chisel by taking along many creative souls behind the brand to bring it together. She points out: “We are a team of young enthusiasts trying to bring rich Indian art easily to people. Here at Craft N Chisel we don't just sell products; we sell ethnic decor ideas. Every day we try to build new collections and styles around our products, keeping it interesting. With every product styling, we bring a little piece of us to people, our customers."

Classic Brass Decor

Crafts N Chisel has rightly won to bring the boldness in home décor via big and little strokes of their products. Their business breathes on about bringing unique and luxurious Indian art to homes in abroad. Apart from collaborating with artisans, they also design a wide range of products in-house which brings uniqueness in their products. 
As they embrace success …..they take great pleasure in their creations of Crafts N Chisel along with the love and smile they bring to their customers. 

Traditional Brass 

While focusing more on their dedicated collection, Megha coins: "The heart of our brand is detailed oriented and proficient handcrafters of India. We realized the reach is the primary issue for artisans to bring their art on a large scale. We are the bridge bringing the Indian traditional art from artists to the world, and also help artists create new products around their traditional style. We explore, curate and collaborate with artists specializing in different Indian handicrafts, and design and experiment in-house products."

Pleasing palette of Dokra Art and Leaf Frames

Indian Handicraft is nourishing in every sense of décor. But with Megha’s masterly vision and never-ending curiosity she brings in the best of both the worlds in her décor brand. Along with traditional she also injects a touch of bit contemporary in her products. Crafts N Chisel by all means embraces its roots but the products are also designed for a new generation look. 

Global Decor Accessories

Giving her creative persona its freedom Megha’s ability to see the light beyond dusky horizon has resulted in this brand. Now she has come full circle as a president of Crafts N Chisel. Result of her vision and courage to see differently has crack open the decorating choices for many homes across the globe.  If your home deserves a playful mix of these easy going yet undeniably stylish products, scroll into their website here and you are sure to be assured of quality and standardized services. 

Décor accessories always go on a long way ensuring our home possesses character and life. As we sign off, wishing Crafts N Chisel all the very best for all future accomplishments. Do visit their website here for more inquiries or product search. 

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Until we meet again, stay connected on social feeds of Pinkz Passion on Instagram and Facebook, toodles.

Touch of Traditional Elegance (Home Tour of Shubhaa Satish)

Layering process of a home is a natural one, in that you can decide and adapt to suit your needs and tastes. When you progress each layer carefully and give due thought to your designing style while giving free rein to your imagination, you are looking at your dream home. Take a walk with me through one such basic home today which has become a jewel box in the hands of our today’s homeowners.  

It’s incredibly rewarding to interact with people who radiate positivity and joy. Meet Shubhaa, who hails from a family of spirited women with strong design sensibilities. Yes, she is a sister of Jayalakshmy whose home tour was featured last here on the blog. Ever since, we have been waiting with bated breath to cover Shubhaa’s home next. Even though Shubhaa shares similar décor traits/taste as her sibling Jaya, her unique style of beefing up the colors, mixing and matching sumptuous brass and cloaking every room in some kind of interesting wall treatment will make you fall in love with her home just like me. 

Shubhaa gets lots of shocked reactions while disclosing her city name. This beautiful home is in Ranchi, Jharkhand (while sharing this city name she paused and allowed the information to settle over me). While the world around her is buzzing at breakneck speed, Shubhaa has her own pace. Entrenched in the love for simpler aspects of living, Shubhaa finds her current city Jharkhand easy to fall in love with where she and her ex-navy husband eagerly wait for their son Sharran to come back on holidays from his university life of Bengluru.  

Being a navy man’s wife, Shubhaa’s décor style is constantly evolving - constantly experimenting. To fit in has never been her pursuit. Rather it has been to stand out. It’s her gravitas for décor that defines her. While it is challenging moving often, it is also an opportunity to enjoy new adventures for Shubhaa that she would have never experienced otherwise! Shubhaa happily chirps: “My navy husband has helped me grow some fabulous navy spouse wings over the years. Even though, we have moved 13 houses in last 20 years I have learned to adapt to change. I have done each 'fauji' home with equal enthusiasm as this one. I need my touch, identity and colors around me.” 

Juicy pop of attention-getting hues work their magic in her home. Shubhaa loves colors...earthy tones as well as bright red & orange. She swears by Fab India for all her linen in the home. Few treasures are also acquired from Ranchi Handloom House. 

Shubhaa thinks trial and error is the key to getting just the right mix of accents. Shubhaa is very picky about choosing idols: "Every time I pick up an idol, I look for how well it is made...the facial expressions and features are very important. If it is not made well, it can look totally wonky." Shubhaa has collected all these pieces along life's path. Some are accidental acquisitions (such as the vessel floated marigolds here is from their trek visit to Manali. The container is used for kneading dough by localities) and others came to her with special meanings.

Boasting her signature bold blend of colonial era opulence and modern day rock and roll Shubhaa has made this room, aptly enough, a visual knockout. What's not to fall in love here? Beyond timeless traits of comfortable, relaxed and inviting room, the colors are fresher, collections are sparer and the room is more personal than ever. Shubhaa, I could stay here forever!

Her living room focuses on comfort and durability while maintaining established design cues. The colonial recliner chair flaunts its flirtiest self here calling me to have a seat here and enjoy the filter kaapi and Medu Vadas that Shubhaa offered to feed me on my visit to her home ;). 

Shubhaa is easily drawn to colors and she thinks it is a simple way to bring something personal to your home. And for no apparent reason, color makes her happy. Bright colors being a visual trick, serves her the best. She recalls having her last home walls done up in bright red and orange.

Splashy colorful wall is a masterful push and pull of contrary characters around. A stunning table sits in the middle of the room. The positions of all elements makes this an inviting space to eat and entertain. An intriguing dose of brass and flowers are sprinkled on the hutch near dining table making the space alive and engaging. 

There are head spinning number of art pieces she owns (and while reading this please don't take your eyes off the wall). The wall beckons and invites you to linger awhile. The amazing pieces of collection here are from various cities across South India and Mumbai during their stay in those cities on Naval tenure. Shubhaa sums up: "It was a blank canvas with lack of ideas and decor items when we started building our home together, but our globe-trotting lifestyle has considerably feed our collecting habits. Now it has become something to be proud about in our home."

From her very young age, Shubhaa is drawn to things that have history, character and soul. Carved wood is also something that she really admires apart from paintings, bronze and brass. Hence a lot of wooden panels, carvings as well as mirror with wooden frame are scattered on different walls around the home.

Shubhaa knows well that the walls define your interiors and they are your biggest canvases. Don't let them be boring. I am sure stunning glimpses of this wall gave you bountiful of ideas to refresh your walls now, I know I did ;).

Having a defence background, the couple grew up in different cities. All of her furniture pieces are either rose or teak wood. The pieces are sourced from Jew Town in Kochi while the family was posted there. 

Every colorful ethnic art piece is arranged with design dignity. Bright colors, subtle designs & old world finishes inspired by traditional design sensibilities foster an air of high key elegance in this room. 

Impressively scaled living room is a perfect personal sanctuary for the family where they recharge the spirit and express their identities. In today's age, our homes have to handle a lot. We crave for a place to relax as much as for a spot to entertain, compute or simply drop things off. Stylish and adaptable with different sitting areas Shubhaa's living room answers the call well. 

As we end this home tour, I want to mention Shubhaa that your home can hold more than you often give credit for. Your home is as energetic and confident as it is warm and welcoming just like you. Wishing you and your family happily ever after. 

Finding the right inspiration comes from being creative. We all have an imagination and that's where our best ideas are born. Until we meet again, toodles!

(Images are taken by Shubhaa. Please do not use the images without the prior written permission of the home owner and Pinkz Passion however, you may re-pin them from Pinkz Passion's Pinterest account)