Mood-board de Paris

Create a living room décor with the luxe & elegance of Paris.

Well we are obsessed with Paris. And why shouldn’t one be. The city with its all its architectural marvels, its buzzing street cafes and its glittering nights, all culminate to deliver the most romantic mood one could ever be in.

In order to re-live the romance, we created a mood-board inspired by Paris itself. We had this beautiful picture of Eiffel, lit against the purple sky. From this image we tried to create our very own version of a Parisian glamorous room.  

This glittering picture of the Eiffel served as our mood-board inspiration

To start off with, a purple-pink textured wallpaper helped us re-create the night sky. A tufted black sofa is perfect to replicate the classic nature of Paris. We put an opulent arching-gold-metallic chandelier to bring in the glamour & glitter.

Now for a couple of DIY activities: an old vintage leather suitcase is a brilliant candidate to up-cycle it as a centre table; all we need to do is just add 4 wooden legs to its base as per the height we require. Next we can make a clock out of a cycle’s tyre spokes. The metallic mesh of the cycle spokes give a great representation to the metallic framework of the Eiffel.

To add to the Paris-drama, we can blow up a vintage Eiffel picture and frame it in gold. Also, a Victorian-styled end-table compliments the entire décor and lends good functionality.

Our romantic mood-board is all ready. With purples, golds, blacks and all the vintage French glamour, it’s your time to re-create “une soirée à Paris”

  

The Clinking Chandelier

Glass bottles and golden ribbons make a clinking glass chandelier.

Glass, gold & light – these are 3 elements which can definitely up any house to give it a rich & glamorous feel. And in our next project we decided to take all three of them together. Time to exude exuberance.

Our starting point was whole lot of these mini-sized perfume bottles, which had abstract floral golden motifs on them. So golden became our obvious choice to supplement the bottles. The idea was simple: to bunch up the bottles together in random fashion, so that when they are slightly touched, they make this rippling-clinking noise effect. Music to the ears I tell you. And through the glass-bunch pass a hanging bulb, that would help give a shimmery reflect.

We used golden ribbons to tie the bottles at their neck and a holed utensil lid was used as our support a   suspender, from which the bottles would hang. The idea was just to randomly tie the bottles at varying     heights, so as to fill the bulk, yet let the bottles be freely inter-spaced.  
                                                    

Once all the bottles were tied, we suspended a light fixture from the center hole. And we were done!

The chandelier was such a quick work, as it just required tying the bottles and hanging them up. And the results are definitely quite richly dramatic.

In dark nights, the glimmer will cast. And with blowing winds, the clinking will last.

Tying and hanging is the easiest craft exercise to undertake. You basically require 3 elements totally – 1. A supporting body on top, 2. A suspender (rope/ribbon) and 3. Quirky elements that could be tied & hanged. A kid’s gym or a suspended fish-tank; the possibilities and themes to make are endless. 

Good Gold Times

Decorative golden plate converted into a decorative golden clock!

Good memories are made by good times, and good times are definitely made better by viewing it in a good clock! So all it takes is a good clock to make a good memory. As simple as it can be.

Let’s cut short the philosophy and focus on clocks!

Well, a clock apart from the elementary work it does of showing time can become quite an exquisite home décor article.

A couple of days back, we saw this gold-oozing, decorative serving plate at the local market. It was that kind of an item which drew your attention to it and made sure it never went away. So I bought the plate just with the sole intention of reforming it into a clock. Coz I knew that this one article would be enough to embellish any pale wall.

All we needed to do is drill a hole to through its center. Then put a time-piece from behind – (you can take from an old clock or just buy a new one). Lastly added the black hands in front – hours, minutes, and seconds. Time to tick on. Another look that can be tried is by attaching a pendulum to the clock. Time to tick on again.

As I thought, when we put this clock on a blank wall, the entire wall emblazoned with the solid golden beauty of the clock. It’s so cool to see that such small measures have such great impacts!

Good-gold times, ticking on…

If you have any old decorative plate, just drill a hole through its center, add a time-piece in behind and the hands in front. Hang it and that’s it; you have made a brand new clock which is ready to flaunt your walls.