Crafting A Dream Home : Decorate Your Home This Diwali ,Reusing Your Old Material !!

Diwali, the festival of light is incomplete without Diwali home decoration. The time of the year is here when we light up our lives with the lamps of goodness winning over the evil and sharing sweets of a year’s hard work and toil. This Diwali season, let’s make our homes more welcoming and fill in the festive atmosphere with Diwali home decoration items. Most of you or your family members may have already prepared shopping list for Diwali celebration. Today, festival of India is celebrated as eco-friendly celebration. So why not we can go for reuse home decoration for this Diwali?

Eco-friendly or tips for reuse home decor

Diwali is the time of the year when people start to clean their homes a week prior to the festival and deck up the home front to welcome in the winter festivities. This year, instead of throwing out all your rubbish, make a pledge to recycle it. Here are a few tips on how you can make this Diwali beautiful and environment friendly.

	Using old newspaper: You can use all the old newspaper and pieces of colorful left over craft papers from your kid’s craft book and make beautiful lanterns out of it. There are many tutorials that can be found online which are easy to follow and give guidelines to make wall hangings, Diwali lanterns etc. This could make your house look very elegant and welcoming.
	Diyas and Candles: Diwali festival popular festival of India and known as festival of lights. People celebrate them with lighting Diyas or Diwali Candles. You can make candles by reusing candle wax and given new life. Think about all the times when you have lit up the candles at home when the power went off. You can use the candle residue into making a whole new candle and you can light up your house with candles on the Diwali night instead of electric lightings.
	Diwali Lights: Diwali is meaning less without lights and people used to decorate their home and surroundings with diyas, Diwali candles and Diwali lights. You can use electric lights to decorate your living room and if you are a proud owner of a garden, however small or big, be it even your balcony garden, you can light it up with LED lamp strings which cost very less and pull is zilch electricity. Not only that you can reuse light bulbs to decorate your home for Diwali by making flowervase, craft or sculpture, ballon art etc.
	Curtains: On Diwali festival, you can see different styles and curtain trends available in market. People choose or explore for rich color and patterns for Diwali home decoration. This gives your home a festival look and gives privacy along with welcoming look. Today Diwali people like to explore recycle and reuse, you can use your old clothes, Sarees or old dress creatively to make a trendy curtains for Diwali decoration.Use beads and multicolored old dupattas to make a flowing decoration and light it up strategically.
	Bandanwars: Bandanwars are traditional door hangings. You can use good luck charms, strips of embroidered cloth and chimes to make your doors ring in the festive frivolity. Hang little bells on your doors which are decorative and this makes your doors ring in new guests into the house. Bandanwaars (torans) are the first thing that welcomes your guests and you can make Bandanwars with craft papers or reusable home decoration items. You can also use your embroidered or trendy dress to attract your family and friends by making embroidered Bandanwars. You can also use artificial flowers as Bandanwars.
	Indulge your kids: Get your kids to paint or graffiti goddess Lakshmi’s foot prints entering the house using paste of turmeric and kum-kum powder. Cut out a picture of Lakshmi or Ganesha and also encourage children to make their own Diwali greetings card.

Recycling brings out a whole new meaning into the festive season. The whole family gets together to make decorative Diwali confetti and this brings in a joyous atmosphere into the household. This Diwali make a pledge to not burst crackers and to spend it together with your family and let your creativity get the best of you while making your home look pleasant and inviting. Spread joy through sweets and warm hugs by letting go of your fears and old grudges. Light the lamp of your home and hearts. Try something new this Diwali. Prepare your sweets into shapes of Diwali crackers and lay it out on the table for your guests to relish. Name your sweets and savories like the names of crackers, e.g. Explosive rasgulla, sizzling sandesh , crackling crispy cashew etc.