Wooden Name-Plate with a Dash of Nature

An exquisite name-plate made of wood & flowers to adorn your home entrance.

Every house has a story, and every name-plate is the title to that story. Thus, it’s imperative that your title/name-plate be as beautiful as the story inside.

For our name-plate design project, we used polish wood as base and etched out the surname in golden, cursive fonts. Our idea was to give the name-plate a more stylish-naturesque look. So we pegged up a flask glass to the name plate to serve as a holder. We can put fresh flowers every day or keep artificial ones, as per our preferences. Lastly, a golden chain attachment helps to position the name-plate on a hook.

With this beautiful name-plate at your door, welcome guests and yourself with the freshness of flowers and the warmth of love. 

Let’s Get Twiggy

Twigs and sticks DIY home décor .

 

Nature has always been very kind to DIYers. Through nature we can draw an abundance of inspiration and every natural element can be transformed into wondrous & quirky stuff.

So through a stroll in the garden or a walk in the forest, and we stumble upon twigs scattered everywhere. These little wooden sticks are a perfect starting point for various DIY activities to make our home more naturally beautiful. Let us indulge in a few twig-fashioned indulgences from across various DIY blogs and help create juicy-woody ideas for up-cycling our own few little twigs.
 

Order in Chaos –through randomly stuck twigs to make a grand wall-art.

Color thembright and put them in a glass vase to bring in unexpected simple glamour.

Frame a branchinto 3 sections. Love this simple and sophisticated turn around.

Use twigs andbranches as natural hooks & holders.

Tie your twig with multi-color threads and wool. Perfect addition to make a dramatic vignette.

Hold onto yourmemories with photographs tucked into organic branch holders.




Beautify yourtables with sticks around jars with flower –pops or flickering candles.



A round mass oftwiggy mess – still beautiful!



Your home is your love nest – bespoke with natural hanging mono-toned twig.
 

 
 
 
 
 

Glow Willow from Below

A potted-leafless-branching tree, glows in a diffused-gold-bulbing undergrowth.

Leafless & lifeless branching trees have this ghostly beauty about themselves. The dendritic patterns & shadows create enchanting designs. I’ve always been spookily & creatively drawn to them, as I realize that these naked branches used just the way it is, can create quite a unique design experience.

The first task was to find the branch itself – which had just the right branching, just the right height and just the right strength. Boy! With an intense search of 13 days, 13 hours and 13 minutes – we finally found the perfect kind we needed.

Post getting the branch, we nicely cleaned it up - removed the years of dirt that settled on it. After the cleaning and drying, we touched it up with strokes of metallic gold paint. We painted it up to give our décor piece a more rich & suitable for home feel.

Once the branch was ready, we erected it in a simple cylindrical pot. The idea is to keep the pot as simple as possible, so that the natural beauty of the naked branch is not clashed with.

Our idea was to fill the pot brim with sprouting bulbs, so that the diffused light from below would subtly cast a golden-glow on the tree. In order to do that we firstly created a connection of the required 10 bulbs in parallel wiring (finally my class X physics come to use). The parallel connections seems at first difficult, but the idea is to just be sure that the same colored live wires are all connected together and the other colored neutral ones together, and all finally end in 2 terminal sources. Quite a few online tutorials are available to help better understand.

Post that we interspersed and injected these bulbs in a thick thermacol sheet. Being careful of the wiring always! The crate of thermacol & bulbs was then put around the branched tree. Since the wires are still visible, we put in small stones all over the pot and around the bulbs.

To finally reveal our masterpiece, just plug in and switch on the lights. Get aback… and absorb the beautiful-rich-soft-golden-glow of the haunted-leafless-branched-tree!

It is guaranteed to get you goose-bumps!

Always be careful when connecting multiple wires together. Be sure the the live and neutral wires never come in contact. Also wire-joints should be well connected and insulated. A quick and easy way is to twine the two ends of the wire and then add a drop of hot glue off the glue gun. Let it cool and dry. This will not only create a permanent joint but also create the required insulation.

Stick & Tied

Stray wooden sticks, all tied up to make hanging lamps that’s very slick

A stroll through nature amidst the woods is so awe-inspiring. Every sight, every tree, every leaf, every stick has a story of its own to be told.

On one of our family picnics on the outskirts of Mumbai, my wife and I, withdrew ourselves into the woods. On our trail we found these stray sticks in abundance lying all over the ground. These sticks were long, slender, smooth & beautifully curved. Instantly our eyes twinkled (thinking but obviously of up-cycling them) and we gathered as many as we could.

We tried quite a few combinations to make the best looking stick structure. I wanted to play with the gorgeous natural curves of the stick. So eventually a curved pyramid was what decided it to be as it looked absolutely stunning. And a hanging lamp made out of it would totally steal the deal!

We first made a hexagonal base by tying around wool in the center of 3 wooden sticks. After that we tied one-one stick to each of the 6 ends of the base. And finally, we tied the top of the loose standing sticks in the center, taking advantage of the stick curvatures. So what we got was a curved-up pyramid stick cage. We still had quite a few sticks left, so we made two of these.

Once our structures were ready, to make the lamp we hanged a bulb through a transparent bottle and let it dangle within the stick cage. To add more texture to the lamp-fitting we wound around wool on the bottle (stain painting the bottle would also look brilliant)!

So our stick & tied DIY lamp is ready to be hanged and light up our living spaces.

Who knew that the story of these sticks would have such a consequential & gorgeous end.

Make sure your home has enough natural light in the day and enough artificial light for the nights. Lighting up your homes is the best way to remove any gloom, and a well-lighted home is always more welcoming and more stimulating. 

Autumn Blossoms

A branched twig converted into a jewelry/ key holder

Nature is the best inspiration humanity is bestowed with. So is it with our homes.

I found this regular leafless branch lying de-rooted in my building compound. I thought, If used aesthetically, the angular branching of these twigs would provide a great visual treat for our homes.

So, I took the branch, and firstly, axed it to the required size. Also the length of the branches was cut to provide good visual balance. Then orange colored wool was wrapped around the branches till a sizeable mass was made.  These wool cocoons would act as bumpers to help make sure the keys or jewelry do not slide down; also earring can be pierced in them to stay. The branch is then potted with moss for stability. And that’s about it!

The potted-branched twig looks like a quasi tree: with colorful sprouting which helps lift the dead wood and provides the functionality for home use. Put this blossoming tree on your dresser – and let you and your reflections admire the beauty of it.

Nature is a brilliant source to make our homes look good. Use natural elements (like leaves, woods, flowers, etc.) with a twist of functionality to make it more meaningful for home utility.