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How to Enhance Home Designs with Decorative Onyx Slabs

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 Onyx is a truly unique stone. As a banded calcite, onyx has distinctive patterns and incredible color variegation that can feature tones of gray, white, yellow, gold, orange or even deep amber. Because of its intriguing aesthetic appeal, this natural stone is used in various ways throughout the home do add elegance and drama.  Onyx can be used to design a striking wet bar.                                                         You can dress up doors to create an inviting entrance with door panels mad of onyx slabs or onyx tiles.                                                    Onyx can extend from vanity or countertops to make an eye-catching accent wall.                                                  While these designs are certainly stunning, one of the most popular ways to decorate with onyx is to take advantage of its translucent qualities to create beautiful, illuminated surfaces. When a slab of onyx is cut to a 3 to 5mm thickness, it can be lit from behind to create a gorge

Home Décor Hacks: How To Make The Most Of Your Small Space

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 Ideas For A Beautiful Home If you are living in a small home or are planning to shift to a studio apartment, make the most out of the space by choosing the right colour schemes, décor and furniture. ​ Create A Cozy Corner It can be anywhere - the living room, the bedroom, or even the terrace balcony.                                                                     Just choose a bright corner of any part of the house. Add a colourful cotton rug, throw some pillows, a lamp (go for something unique, such as marble), a handful of tabletops, and a bright painting on the wall to tie it all together. Invest In Multi-Functional Furniture While choosing furniture, go for multi-functional ones. That's the best you can do to make the most of your small space. For instance, look for a storage ottoman that can be replaced as a coffee table or opt for a foldable dining table.                                                                 Do not pick bulky furniture that may make your rooms

Tips to bring wealth and good luck using elephant figurines

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 The elephant figurine holds an important place in Hindu mythology and is often used in home décor, to symbolize power, integrity and strength. The elephant figure has its own importance, according to Feng Shui, as well as Vastu Shastra. People often include statues and paintings of elephants, to bring positivity to a home.                                                               Here’s how to include elephant figurines in your home décor in the right way, to maximize its benefits. Where to place elephant statues at home? As elephants are considered to act as saviors and protectors, placing the statues at the front door is considered to be lucky. You can place a pair of elephants if your home as a wide entrance, facing inwards. If you want to guard your home from evil or negative energy, you can place it facing outwards, according to Feng Shui.                                                             According to Vastu, hang a painting of elephants in the bedroom, for strengthe

HOW TO DECORATE WITH SCULPTURE

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 Sculpture is all around us. From monumental public art to local war memorials, stone statues in religious buildings or stunning structures dominating horizon lines; we’re lucky to live in a world that celebrates the three-dimensional in art.                                                                    That’s where we come in. In our quest to help our wonderful visitors and online art-lovers fall in love with their perfect artwork, no matter the medium, style or interior, we’ve compiled a handy list of inspirational design hacks to incorporate sculpture into your home. For those who have dipped their toe into collecting sculpture already, you’ll know that investing in a 3D piece can really uplift your home. Choosing to decorate with sculpture is an amazingly simple way to overhaul a room and really add that wow factor. As sculptures come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, with materials ranging from bronze, marble, porcelain, wood and even paper, there’s no end to the interior des

HOW TO GET CREATIVE WITH YOUR HOME DECOR

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 Who says only interior decorators can be creative with home decor? It’s a myth. You too can be at your expressive best and add a lot of your colour to your home space. After all, your home is a reflection of you. In fact, the decorator may sometimes not understand your likes and dislikes and style the space in accordance to his or her own tastes. But when you do it on your own, you’ll enjoy yourself and more than anything, you’ll be making your imagination come alive! Use Antique Elements  Adding antiques and attributing other rustic features to your home will evoke elements of nostalgia, tradition and mystery. Take for instance an old, rusty shoebox. Looking at it will remind you of an idyllic time you would have wished to live in, right? So go ahead and use a lot of these antiques, and see how much character it adds to your home!                                                          Get Creative With Your Crockery There’s a new fad nowadays, of creating personalized crockery sets
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 WHAT'S YOUR LANDSCAPE STYLE? When we think of our personal style, we normally think about our clothes and our home décor as good expressions of our personality. But do you ever think of your yard as a place that represents your style? If not, you are missing a good opportunity to showcase your personal style in your outdoor space.  Your yard and landscaping are an important part of the overall look and functionality of your home; make it a place that reflects your style. Pick your personality type from the list below and learn how to make your landscape fit the bill. Are you….  The Life of the Party?                                                          If so, than you need a tricked-out entertaining space that works day and night, year round. A large patio area with a built-in outdoor kitchen and lounge seating around a fit pit or fireplace are the cornerstone of a great outdoor party pad and create warmth at night and in fall and winter. Night lighting for your deck or patio

Cairn Garden Art: How To Make A Rock Cairn For The Garden

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 Creating rock cairns in the garden is a great way to add something different, yet appealing, to the landscape. Using cairns in gardens can provide a site for reflection, as the contrasting colors and shapes of the stones create a calming, peaceful feeling.                                                          What are Cairns?  In simple terms, a rock cairn is just a pile of stones or rocks. Cairns have been used for thousands of years. In ancient times, they served as an intricate form of art, as small rocks were precariously balanced on top of smaller rocks, artfully constructed with no tools or mortar to hold them together. Cairns have also been used as monuments                                                  Cairns Garden Design Decide on the best location for the cairn. You can place it in a peaceful, wooded garden or an open area where growth is sparse. Remove weeds or turf where you want to build the cairn and smooth out the soil with a rake. Cairn garden art can be conical