Ombre Home Decor Inspirations

Shade up your decor with these quirky ombre do-ables.

In the fashion world, we’ve seen the ombre trend in everything from clothing to nail polish. Little by little, textiles in the ombre style are finding their way into home decor. From the French, meaning “shaded,” ombre refers to a centuries old technique for dyeing or weaving fabrics. 

The process is used to create a gentle progression of color from light to dark. Depending on the depth of tones and the range of the gradation, the effect can be dramatic or ethereal. Ombre textiles can add a light and airy feel to any space. 

They can also lend a nature-inspired touch to your home, as ombre shades can echo the deepening red and orange tones that are found in a summer sunset, the blues and greens of tropical ocean waters or the edging of blush to dark pink on rose petals.

Dino on my Jar

Mason jars lids made fun with colored dinosaur toys.

To play or not to play? I would say definitely to play. So why not play with mundane things to make it fun and cheerful! 

That's what we exactly do in this quirky, up cycling project - in which the lids of mason jars become our canvas of creativity.  

The technique is real simple - we use old dinosaur play mates (or we could use any animal). The animal size is important; it should be as per our lid size - not too big nor too small. Once we decide on the perfect animal toy, simply stick them in standing position on your lid with a strong adhesive bond. And allow it to dry. 

Once hardened and strong, then prime it and leave it overnight.  Then it's all about painting it with colors of your choice. We prefer to go pastel: to give our fiery dinos, some muted playfulness.  Let the paint dry. And you have created your own mini-jurassic world. 

Fill your tyrannosaurus, stegosaurus and brontosaurus jars with your favourite candies or stock up your stationery in it. But do make sure you flaunt your super cool & super colorful dinosaur jars.

Color Pop Book-Ends

Fun-filled and color-filled alphabet bookends.

If you love to read and you love to have fun, then your room requires a set of these super cool and colorful customized book-ends. We made this set for a dear friend so that she could gift them to her adorable nieces.

Personalization is really simple to do on bookends. The two L's serve as the perfect base to make elevated designs. For this one, we made alphabet cut-outs and funked it up with a bright yellow color and even more colorful felt confetti. 

Technically, all we need to make sure is that the brackets on which the books will fall on are strong enough to hold the books.

Place these quirky pieces of book-ends on your study; and we guarantee books would never be mundane anymore. 

Stationery Jar

Mason jar stationery holder with chalk-board lid.

Every wondered where does all the stationery hide in your house or gets misplaced in office? Well it seems there is a secret stationery hide-out, ‘cause all of us seem to lose all our valuable stationery all the time.

To keep this in check we have come up with a cool way to keep all our stationery in check. A mason jar which neatly tucks in all our stationery – including - pens, pencils, tape, clips, pins, post-its, stapler, etc.

To make it even more cooler, the lid of the jar is painted with chalk board paint, so we can write all our-little-sweet-messages on it.

Now we can flaunt our stationery, keep them in one place and make sure we find it whenever we want it!

The ‘S’ Lamp

Alphabet lamp filled with nuts of all sizes.

By now we all know that we have a soft corner towards making lamps; especially lamps that are personalized to represent oneself.

In our project we create an alphabet lamp for a client who had seen this concept lamp of ours at our exhibition. She wanted to customize the lamp with an 'S' design that depicts her names' initial.

To create this lamp we cut out a chunky piece of wood into an angular 'S' design. Then we coated the cut-out with a viscous paint of black. To top it up and give the lamp a quirky look we pasted hardware nuts of all sizes randomly onto the 'S' canvas.

For the lighting bit, a string of daylight LED was pasted over the alphabets' periphery.  With some final soldering, wiring and plugging, the lamp was ready to stand and shine.

Strong & smart…what do you think of our nut-filled lamp art?

The Domino Effect

A fun and playful clock made of domino tiles.

We've all loved playing this vintage game of thumb-sized tiled numbers. But today we play Domino of a different kind.

In this DIY, we stack these domino tiles in a circular fashion by using each number tile as a corresponding number to the digits of the clock. To make this super fun clock, all we need is a wall clock, some paint color of our choice and a set of dominoes of course.

 

To start off with, neatly paint the clock uniformly. After it dries we need to stick the domino tiles. It's best to put first the 12 and then in it opposite side place the 6. Then in between in the right side put the 3 and thus with opposite placements we'll get all our tiles neatly and appropriately placed.

In just 2 simple steps, our playful clock is ready. It would look great for a kid’s room or even in your study.

Happy times are ready to tick by - a sweeping domino effect I say.

 

Clip it, Frame it

An adorable personalized picture gift for an adorable 1 year old.

 

We made a pretty picture collage for the cutest little baby - Anaya. Her aunt wanted to gift her a memorable 1st birthday gift.  So we put in all the sweet-naughty memories of little Anaya over the past one year in a clothes-line fashioned picture frame.

With the theme of a pastel carnival we created various elements and pictures that were associated to the birthday girl: from her love for dance to her use of gibberish words.

When all the elements were put together it did make a pretty collage. And with every passing year when the little one grows up, there's room to replace the old memories with new loving ones.