Easy & unique way to recycle old articles to deck up your walls with creative Headboards.

Do It Yourself Tip:-

If you are creative, you’ll also be innovative in your thinking. Here’s a unique way to recycle old articles to deck up your walls with creative Headboards. All you need to do is use any unused wooden item like in this case, an old unused wooden garden fence is used as a classy headboard. Voila! Transform your space into an inspiring room!

Homes Furnishings rings in Christmas with ‘Be A Santa’ Campaign

Homes Furnishings, popular Mumbai-based Furnishings Company, recently launched its Christmas Campaign and touched the hearts of its customers by running a special ‘Be A Santa’ contest on the digital platform.

The popular Furnishings Conglomerate is always working at innovative ways to provide a unique customer experience. Just like its varied products offerings that are synonymous of beauty, sophistication and top class quality, its engagement programmes with its customers is also noteworthy.

The Brand always tries to strengthen its bond with the customers by connecting with them on Facebook along with its myriad of product offerings that are promoted through mix-media integrated platforms.

Festive times are fun times and Homes has found a novel way to reach out to its customers. WaterCommunications, The Creative Agency for Homes Furnishings, has designed the ‘Be A Santa’ campaign.

The idea was to encourage people to play real Santa in the lives of their loved ones and share their thoughts on how would they play their part.  People with best replies would be gratified.

Talking about the campaign, Mr Gurvinder Singh, Managing Director, Homes Furnishings asserted, “The insight into running the Be A Santa contest stemmed from the fact that Santa is an epitome of love and kind gesture. He believes in spreading joy and bringing sunshine by way of gifting his loved ones. Joy begins at home so why not play Santa at home and surprise all those you care? This was the crux of the communication to awaken the Santa in people and make someone’s day. Moreover our Santa’s could explore a world of gifting options through our Homes Furnishings portfolio to make their search for the perfect gift easier.”   

Ms Vandana Sethhi, Director Water Communications opines that Christmas is a special time to bond better with loved ones and bonding happens at home. This was a good enough reason to establish a special rapport between Homes Furnishings and its customers. Apart from traditional advertising, it becomes necessary to design special engagement programmes and relate with the target audience. While participants share their thoughts, there would be more engagement and better brand recall for the Homes Furnishings brand. Participants would get a unique platform to share their thoughts and get gratified with goodies for playing a great Santa. We intend to bring in more contests and activities around festivals and gratify the customers for participating in it.

Homes Furnishings stand for the impeccable taste of homes connoisseurs who are passionate about finer things in life, luxury and sophistication that enhance their lifestyle.

And such customers are forever looking for a new range from season to season to complement their personality and their aspirations. With the objective of 'Premium Quality Fabrics at Competitive prices', the Brand enjoys a loyal customer base across the globe.

Latest Collection of Upholstery from Homes Furnishings

With an entire bouquet of products including designer curtains, upholstery, cushion and jacquard fabric etc. Homes Furnishings promises to give you the experience of ‘International Living’. For more visit www.homesfurnishings.com

Do It Yourself - Smarten up your delicate plants differently!

There’s an enchanted quality to this placement of greenery, as if delicate plants are spilling in from the chimney.

How to Do It:-

• First check to see that your fireplace gets at least a little bit of sun.

• Then shop the garden center (or your house) for about a dozen low-light plants—ferns and mosses are perfect—and nice-looking terra-cotta pots of different heights and shapes.

• Use a stump (again, at the garden center) or a stool to elevate one plant.

• Turn over spare pots to serve as stands for others, creating a sense of organic randomness through varied levels.

• Place some plants inside the fireplace opening, with others inching out and a few flanking the opening.

• Matched pairs pull the look together.

• Leave some blank space, rather than filling every inch.

• The intricate leaves can be appreciated (and watering is easier) with a little air around them.

You Are Done!

#DoItYourself - Utilize your pillowcase in a different way!

Handle with Care

Gather a pretty patterned pillowcase, an embroidery hoop (we used a 12-inch ring), and 10 inches of ribbon to hang.

Clamp the case into the hoop, tie on a loop of ribbon to the hoop's clamp, and hang near where you disrobe.

Easy & Amazing DIY Tip To Make Cork Planters!

These cork planters are super sweet. They are easy to make and make awesome fridge magnets. We also think they’d make for great up cycled gifts. Got a wine or plant lover on your list? We’ve got you covered.

These cork planter fridge magnets make for a quick and easy DIY.

They’re simple to make and only require wine corks, magnets, some soil and succulent clippings.

For tools you will need a hot glue gun, a pairing knife and a screw driver.

If you’ve been saving your wine corks for a special project then you will love these cork planters. If you are having a special bottle of wine be sure to set aside the cork and make a special memento from it in the form of a succulent cork planter!

Method:-

• Assemble your corks and get out your pocket knife.

• Punch a hole in the cork with the head of a screwdriver.

• Take the paring knife and wiggle it around, carving out a hole into your cork.

• Carving tip – Your hole should go about halfway down the cork.

• With a hot glue gun, affix magnets onto your corks.

• Fill your mini cork planters with soil.

• Plant your succulent clippings into the cork planters.

• Place your new magnets onto the fridge and admire your new cork planters!

Do It Yourself Tip: Dip - Dye Succulent Pot!

DIP DYE SUCCULENT POT!

1) What you need: 

• Ceramic Pots
• Tumble Tie Dye
• Water and bowl

 2) What to do:

• Fill up your bowl half way and pour in dye. 
• Dip your pot in half way, hold for 5 seconds the remove from water.
• Dip in again, lower than the first line, hold for 10 seconds. Remove from water.
• Dip in water a third time, hold until you get desired color.
• Remove from water and let dry.

Plant succulents. Done!

Do It Yourself Tip: This Festive Season Enhance Your Home With Strings of Lights!

Many people probably associate strings of lights with the festivals. But a simple string of lights can be such a great whimsical, playful, modern or simple home decor accessory any time of year.

As a bonus it's a great source of light — imagine that.

There are some great variations and styles of stringed lights out there these days.

• Wrap a vintage ladder with some white lights for style & enjoy the ambience.

• Make them part of your living room art.

• Create a calming space with lights over your bed, like in this example from The Design Chaser.

• Hang a vintage inspired string along a wall in your dining space.

Amazing DIY Tip to Turn a Drawer Organizer into a Bento-Box Guest Tray!

Tuck a drawer organizer into a storage tote with some thoughtful amenities to make your house guests feel like royalty!!

How to do:

Slip a drawer organizer into a fabric-covered box or other storage tote and stock it with a few travel-size essentials in coordinating materials and hues.

Tie a washcloth with colorful string; wrap a bar of soap with wide ribbon; use letter stamps and a label sticker to personalize a scented candle.

You are done!

Easy & Amazing Tips to Dye Drapes!

You can start with some 100% ‪cotton ‪drapes, a bucket, some rubber bands and some dark blue fabric dye. That's all you need!

• Mix dye according to package directions, in large bucket.

• Scrunch lower quarter of drapes and fasten with rubber bands to create tie dye effect.

• Dip lower quarter of drapes into dye and let sit according to directions.

• Carefully remove drapes and rinse dyed portion in the sink.

• Let it dry. Voila! 

Do It Yourself Tips Remote Possibilities!

Keep the clicker in easy reach of your armchair quarterback with this no-sew pillow pocket.

• You'll need: A throw pillow with a removable cover.

• The pocket from a pair of jeans (men's work best size-wise).

•  Fusible webbing (found at fabric stores).

• Cut the whole pocket out of the pants.

• Sandwich the webbing between the cover and back of pocket edges; iron layers together.

• Put the cover back on, and settle in for the big game.

Do It Yourself Tips Pillow with Rosette Clusters!

This design has a vital, dynamic quality, as the three-dimensional effect plays tricks with the eyes. The wonderful texture and depth of color have been created by folding small circles of bright orange cloth (either felt or felted wool) and packing them very tightly together on the base fabric in order to create a structure that seems alive, and screams out to be stroked !

Materials & tools

• Feather pillow insert, 10 x 18″ (25 x 45cm)
• For the pillow cover: 23 1/2 x 19″ (57 x 47cm) orange felt or felted woven-wool fabric
• For the folded rosettes: 20 x 18″ (50 x 45cm) orange felt or felted woven-wool fabric
• Matching zipper, 18″ (45cm) long — optional
• Matching sewing thread
• Basic sewing kit

• If you wish to make a pillow back with a zipper, cut out three pieces of felt for the pillow cover — one piece measuring 11 x 19″ (27 x 47cm) for the front and two pieces measuring 6 x 19″ (14.5 x 47cm) and 6 1/2 x 19″ (15.5 x 47cm) for the back. If you wish to make a sewn-in pillow back, cut the back panel to the same measurements as the front. To make the rosettes, cut out 60 felt circles with a 3″ (7cm) diameter.
• Pinch each felt circle in the middle, and fold the sides in to form a rosette. Hand-stitch the base of each folded rosette to hold it together.
•  Starting at one end of the front pillow panel, hand-stitch the rosettes onto the fabric, stitching neatly and securely through the base of each one.
• Continue adding rosettes, positioning them very close together to form a dense, wide row of rosettes through the center of the pillow panel. Make sure that the row of rosettes is straight and that there is the same amount of undecorated base fabric on either side of the row.
• Make up the pillow back and join the front and back following one of the two options below. Insert the pillow form into the finished cover.