Easy DIY Tip - Use Nail Paint to Make Marbled Votives!

This simple and quick technique will have you wanting to marble everything you own! Combine a few drops of nail paint with water to create these colorful candle holders, just in time for your summer celebrations.

Materials Needed:

• clear glass votive cups
• nail paint
• container with water
• toothpicks
• nail paint remover
• cotton balls
• clear spray sealant (optional)

Instructions:

Fill a container half full with water. The marbling will work best with water that’s just slightly warmer than room temperature.

Mix your colors, this part needs to happen quickly, so that the nail paint doesn’t have time to dry. Beginning with your first color, let a few drops of paint fall onto the water. Apply them near the water’s surface; if you let them fall from too high they’ll sink to the bottom.

The nail paint will start spreading once it hits the water. After you have a few drops of the first color, add a second and it will spread a bit as well. Swirl it quickly and gently drag a toothpick across the surface of the water to swirl the colors and create a marbled effect.

These last two steps shouldn’t take much more than a minute or so. Dip votive with the votive held sideways, gently dip and roll the surface across the nail paint on the water.
The paint will pull off of the water and stick to the votive. Roll the votive until all sides are covered. If you’d like marbling on the bottom as well, dip the bottom into the water to pick up more nail paint.

Set the votive upside down to dry. Let it cure the nail paint will dry quickly, but allow at least an hour before you handle them so that the nail paint has time to cure. Use the nail paint remover and a cotton ball to remove any smudges.

If desired, take to a well-ventilated area and spray with a clear sealant to protect the marbling.

Fill your marbled candle holders with candles and enjoy!

DIY Instructions and Project Credit - Chelsea Costa

Easy & amazing DIY tip to make chair with old tyre!

You will need two tyres to create this lovely chair as well as a wood pallets, sponge for filling and a bit of fabric to cover it. You can make these in different sizes depending on the tyres that you have available. If you want to create a child’s chair for instance, use small tyres or you can use larger tyres and have it sitting in your living room or bedroom. Cover it with whatever fabric you want that matches your current decor. It’s really easy to make and great for any indoor sitting area.

Required Items:

• Two used tyres

• Wood pallets

• Drill machine

• Stapler

• Sponge to fill the chair

• Fabric

Steps to make yourself a great chair from old tyres:

• Drill holes inside of one tire

• Using the stapler attach the sponge to the tire (Make sure to cover the inside of your tire with the sponge in order to make the chair more comfortable.)

• Cut the surplus of sponge on the edges and staple a piece of fabric to the bottom of one tire. This will be the part of the chair which will be placed on the floor

• Drill holes into the wooden palettes, this will be screwed to the tire and will eventually be the back of your chair. Cut these palettes as big as you want the back of your chair to be

• Attach the second tire on to the bottom one

• Fill the second tire with sponge

• Cover the whole structure with the fabric of your choice

• After covering with fabric, it will be ready and you can enjoy sitting on your new, recycled chair

DIY Instructions and Project Credit – Archieli

Do It Yourself Tip - use old paper rolls & spruce up your walls with flower motifs.

It’s not every day that you find a clever way to reuse something from the bathroom, upcycle old paper rolls & spruce up your walls flower motifs.

Materials: Paper rolls,Scissors,White glue,paint(as per your choice).

Steps:

1. Crush paper roll. Place the rolls on a flat surface.

2. Create a desired pattern.Try different compositions & patterns.

3. Glue where rolls are touching.Expend the pattern in to an organic cell growth,you may paint and add sparkles & you are done! – BROWN & Black

Moonlit Inspirations - Homes Furnishings

A romantic night amidst the full moon setting, make the most of it!

Warm up your hearts, fill your home with love!

This Season of Love, surprise your loved ones with a complete home makeover!

This ‪Valentine‬’s Season, get the showers of blessings!

 Deck up your cocoon of comfort with ‪furnishings that are inspired by ‪nature's bounty!

Do It Yourself - Interesting way to make a jute seat out of unused tyre.

Take an unused four wheeler tyre. Drill at six places and fasten two plywood planks by cutting them into two circles of 55cm diameter each. Screw the planks to your tyre tightly enough so that it won’t come off. Do it on the reverse side of the tyre as well. Take sisal rope and start glueing at the center of the circle in order to obtain a perfect finish. With the hot glue gun, apply the glue on the board and secure one end of sisal.

Use enough glue to stick and move the sisal rope round in a snail shape. Repeat till you make sure that the end of the sisal from the board meets the beginning of the one on the edge. Do this for the reverse side of the tyre as well. Once you cover the entire tyre, cut the rope.

Apply the sealer to the brush and cover all sisal surface with it. Wait one hour before you put another coat on it. This sealer is ready to touch after one day but the complete drying takes two weeks!

Your sisal rope seat is ready!

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DIY Tip - Make a trendy centre-table and re-define the art of home decor

REQUIREMENTS:

Materials:

• Round wood logs cut 18 inches long
• 4×8-foot sheet plywood
• Wood glue
• Wood screws
• Grout
• 4-inch casters
• Clear polyurethane

Tools:

• Circular saw
• Miter saw
• Drill Machine
• Grout float
• Putty knife

Method:

• Use the plywood to create a base of 33×24 inches and a box measuring 27x18x16 inches. Cut two 27×16-inch and two 18×16-inch pieces for sides and one 27×18-inch piece for the top. Unite the box to the wooden base using screws.

• Use a miter saw to cut logs to 18 inches. Using wood glue add logs to the wood box and base and screw through each log for extra strength.

• Close the box with the plywood piece you have cut in step 1 and secure it to the rest of the box with screws.

• Cut 1 inch wood rounds from the logs and place them to your box top using wood glue, masking the box underneath.

• To fill the empty spaces remained between the pieces of logs, add grout to the entire surface and even it with a grout float. Use a putty knife to remove the excess grout from the coffee table and let the grout dry well before moving on.

• Attach rolling feet to the base of the centre table using screws by positioning them 1 inch from the edge. For the finishing touch, add a coat of clear polyurethane to the table.

You are done!

Courtesy:-Homesthetics

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.

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!

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.