Plan for a perfect guest room

Plan for a perfect guest room

Do you love having house guests over? When you start to plan your guest room, think about what you expect to find in a five-star hotel room, and try to make your room measure up to that standard. Your budget may not be enough to let you create a getaway oasis, but you can arrange what's necessary, and provide a quiet place to relax.

For pet-friendly homes

For pet-friendly homes

If you have a pet at home and cleanliness is a constant worry, then here are a few tips to help you keep your furniture free of pet hair.

Wall tattoo, stencilling here to stay

The writing on the wall

Picture this: one bright wall with a mirror, or paintings or a gigantic clock. This out-of-the-interior-magazine covers' look, is done to death, so much that it doesn't even invite appreciative glances anymore.

5 tips to care for expensive oil paintings

5 tips to care for expensive oil paintings

Owning a genuine oil painting for your home or office is a matter of pride. But to make this long-lasting and durable art a part of the family for generations it needs proper care and handling. And preserving an oil painting is not at all a difficult task provided you do it the right way.

Kitsch art, chic or cliche?

Kitsch art, chic or cliché?

This unique, classy, ridiculously eye catching, and flamboyant Indian kitsch art is catching pace and is one of the most wanted art today specially by 'young India'.

Do up home with lovely bamboo furniture

Bring home the bamboo

It's strong, eco friendly, a tad more expensive than the usual raw materials used. But bamboo furniture and clothing is worth a try.

Deck up your home with Indo-centric designs

Opt for these Indo-Centric, sophisticated designs for your home

If you have a soft corner for creative, contemporary, Indian artifacts and have a keen eye for design and quality, then you need some quirky, Indo-centric works and affordable designs for your home

Living in the city

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  Home buyers want classy neighbourhoods and ample support systems when they choose a location.
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  A home with useful amenities is always a good investment, regardless of its location
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Tracking residential property prices over the past year, we find that infrastructure has played the main arbiter

As 2013 dawns, it is interesting to track how the residential realty market behaved in the year gone by and look for pointers for this year.

When space costs the earth

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  Raising parking rates in the most congested areas will free up space by inspiring thrifty drivers to park farther from their destinations.
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  Cars are parked near empty spots at a residential building.

Have we ever contemplated how uneconomical our huge parking spaces can be?

Madhubani walls

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  100Krafts gives Madhubani artists a new lease of life
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  Bring home a Madhubani artist

A new initiative brings traditional Madhubani art to your home

‘Build them green’

It’s people’s awareness that will help the clay brick industry move towards a sustainable building environment

Raise the roof

Choosing right: There are many options to help you combat heat

Making the right design choices

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  Designing a space is an art
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  The architect must understand the unstated requirements of clients

In this second article of the three-part series on design, SUMITRA VASUDEVAN talks about the client-architect relationship

What is your BIGGEST inspiration?

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  Chennai-based architect Mahesh Radhakrishnan started the Madras Office for Architects and Designers (MOAD) in 2004 with the vision of ‘building a multi-disciplinary practice that will pioneer in designing built environments of any scale that is timeless'.

Wish list for 2013

 

Measures to save water need to be in place to ensure abundant supply.

  

Declutter your space!

Declutter your space!

Follow these simple steps to rid your house of clutter.
If you're among those who keeps procrastinating tidying up and blaming lack of scape for not being organised, here are a few tips that will help you declutter for good...

Make use of that awkward space

Make use of that awkward space

We all crave the large, airy, light-filled rooms featured in interior magazines that promise relaxation and sophistication without the real life tangles of TV wires and cluttered surfaces, and unsuitable furniture.

Your home is a reflection of your personality

Luxury living

It is a well-known fact and an accepted society norm today, that the way you dress, your lifestyle choices and the home and environment you live in, reflects your social standing. It is therefore not unusual that the concept of 'luxury living', an ever evolving concept is definitely here to stay. At the end of the day, everyone strives to achieve the perfect home and lifestyle that not only becomes your comfort zone and an extension of your personality, but also a special space that can be flaunted to friends and family.

Decor must-do’s!

Decor must-do’s!

This year it's all about thinking and rethinking your life and looking anew at your work and living spaces with a critical eye.

5 tips to picking, buying a new guitar

5 tips to picking, buying a new guitar

If you love music, chances are you will, at some point of time, have toyed with the idea of learning how to play a musical instrument.