Do you remember your favourite bedsheet from your childhood? How it felt and how snug you were in it? So much so that you won’t even fall asleep if you didn’t have that bedsheet? Now, let me ask you, do you remember what thread count it was? I for sure don’t. What I do remember…
Grey for May & Busting the myth on Thread Count
Light, Lumen & Layering: all you need to know about mood lighting
Reema and I were discussing lights and fixtures the other day and she filled me in with a very interesting topic for discussion. Lumen! What lumen should you opt for if you want to create mood lighting in your home? What kind of combination should you go for if you are opting for multiple light…
Summer Cozy Living Room, Houseplants & more from the Weekend
Summer Cozy living room details, an ulcer, no coffee or milk and milk products (includes chocolates) and lots of lacto ferments with a side of some water colour brush up. That is how my weekend was in a nutshell and I am also quite glad I took a break from social media. Frankly I couldn’t…
Easy DIY Country-Style French Windows
You’d think rentals restrict you from doing things but I’d say it only makes you a lot more creative by challenging you everyday! When I couldn’t get real, paned French windows in our rental apartment, I decided to stick masking tape or painter’s tape in the shape of panes and painted them over with light…
Tiny Apartment Laundry Area Makeover
Tiny. But full of character! Our really small laundry and drying area is almost done and I thought I’ll show you how I did it all! Because this laundry area is one of the most common features in most Indian apartments- and no shit sherlock, often with almost exact same layout & size, I thought…
Kitchen Storage: How to use baskets to your advantage in Rental Apartments
If I were to ever account a detailed narrative of my life, it would have a significant portion of me being disappointed of all the great home ideas I gave mom and she shush’d me saying, you cannot do much in a rental apartment. Aesthetically, my home was beautiful. The walls had photos, the floors…
Round Up: Think Pink for Pandemic
If you are feeling low, hopeless and stuck, I hear you. And I assure you, it is not you. It is everything around us. We haven’t seen anything like this before and while we are slowly breaking and building ourselves to be better equipped for something like this, the breaking does have an effect on…
Moving on & carving happy memories in stone
“Your mom and I had only Rumpa (my eldest sister) then. We stopped on the way to Darjeeling in Tindharia because Rumpa wanted to puke*. The last time when your mom and I went travelling, we took a photo there. Two empty nesters remembering what it was like back in the day. I asked them…
Get farmhouse style right in your home with this moodboard
Bringing our popular series #MoodBoardsYouCanUse from the gram to the blog because firstly, I have been depriving the 4950 subscribers of all the real time, good content, who may or may not be on instagram. And secondly, I think I like this place over the gram, any given day. You see, I am a writer.…
Summer in, Grey cottons out: Here’s a great bedroom addition
Peak summer in. Cool and calm solids out. Period! And contrary to what people say- that grey being a winter colour and all that- I think Grey is through and through a summer colour and I love the calm, coziness and poise it brings to a space. Read any colour therapy book and they dreadfully…
Summer Hygge: Celebrate Summer with us with Hyggelig ideas for the season
And one that brings all the nuances of the great outdoors, in so you and I can experience that beautiful thing called Summer Hygge or Sommarhygge! Oh, and if you thought hygge is hot chocolate cupped in a knitted-mitten clad hands and soft crackle of the fireplace, it’s that and more. It’s really that feeling…
What Happened when we Ditched the Conventional TV Console
Well, this happened! Our TV wall instantly changed from a sordid media square to a pretty little nook slathered in farmhouse goodness. And can I tell you that I absolutely love it! Now you may think this decision was based purely out of my love for vintage things- and you’ll be right to some extent-…
Keep The Hygge alive even when its boiling hot outdoors
So, who exactly told us that fireplace and flannel is hygge and not air-conditioner and mango icecream? That’s right. NOBODY! And guess what? You can very well keep that hygge alive, even when it’s 40 degrees outside. Question is, are you ready for some summer hygge? I always associate cozy with winter. And while at…