Last updated on January 5th, 2024 at 08:43 am

Updated On: 04th, January 2024

The festive season has officially begun, and it’s time to decorate our houses in the best way possible. Our surrounding places have started to cover in beautiful lights and people have begun shopping for new home decor accessories.

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Read the details below if you want the latest trends to follow while decorating your home this festive season. By following the ideas mentioned below, you will not just make your home festival ready, but it will also look the best from past all the festive decorations you have done until now. So, brace yourself and continue reading all the festive interior decoration ideas below.

The right colors

First and foremost, you must begin with planning everything in your head, especially a homogenous theme that will follow to decorate your home. This theme should be color specific. Start with looking for festive colors of the season. You can pick a combination of two colors and then pick your new decor pieces, draperies, and everything else according to that color theme. This will make your decoration look a lot more planned and thoughtfully executed.

Pick handcrafted items

handcrafted items

Indian festive season should have a touch of Indianness and traditionalism in it. You can bring that touch to your home decor by opting for handcrafted items by our hardworking Indian artisans. Elephants made of mud and clay, clay pots, and handcrafted wall hangings will give your home a unique look. Isn’t that how our home should look at festivals, draped in a traditional look that gives the perfect vibes of uniqueness and festivity?

Do a thorough cleaning

cleaning

No matter how much we decorate our home and try to give it a new look, if it’s not clean, your festive vibes will not appear as they should. In India, it is a tradition for every household to clean their homes every festive season. People wash their curtains and clean all the spider webs. Everything is washed or dusted properly, from walls to ceiling and floors. This gives that much-needed detailing to the house and a base for all your decoration to glow and look their best, how you want them. So grab some valuable tips on how you can clean your home for festivities and get started.

Create an accent wall

accent wall

An accent wall is a wall in your home that is perfect for some new aesthetic touch, and you add your festive flavors to it to make it the best accent wall in your home. This wall is not difficult to locate. If you have an area in your home with a counter adjacent to a wall and the wall is otherwise majorly empty, you can use that space as your accent wall.

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Hand pretty wall hangings on that entire all and cover it with festival vibes. Place your new artifacts on the countertop and add fancy candles and diyas to them. Finish the look of the accent wall by hanging fancy lights on the walls that also perfectly cover the counter. And your gorgeous accent wall for the festive season is ready. Now dress up and click your best festive pictures in front of it.

That colorful rangoli

colorful rangoli

Who said you should only make rangolis on Diwali? They can be made on any day during the entire festive season. Like we talked about the color theme, in the beginning, you can include your Rangoli too in your decided color theme, or you can skip it and make a beautiful and colorful rangoli with pretty designs.

The point is to make significant and small patterns of rangoli all across your home on prominent days during the festive season so that your home will look a lot more welcoming. Also, always opt for different designs, colors, patterns, and even sizes of the rangoli to give a new touch to your home decor. Although, the place for making rangoli can be the same throughout the festive season.

Detailing the table

Detailing the table

Who said your festive decoration should be limited to flowers, lights, rangolis, and shopping for new decorative pieces for different corners of your house? You must also give a new look to the coffee/dining/center table of your house. And for that, you don’t have to buy anything new, be clever in arranging your new crockery beautifully on the table.

Take out that colorful tea set you occasionally use and place it on the table. Put a flower vase in the center and add fresh seasonal flowers. Please give it a finishing touch by adding table napkins or tissue cloth that matches the entire vibe of the table. Don’t forget to add all this detailing after putting a beautiful tablecloth on your table.

Whenever a guest comes to wish you on a festival, you will have a corner completely ready to give them a warm welcome. Then sit with your guests and have a chit-chat session over your favorite beverage.

A festive fragrance

Festive fragrance

If you are entirely into festive vibes, you must not ignore a pleasant fragrance in your home. This minor but crucial thing is vital to ready your home entirely festival. After all, you must give a new smell to your house after deep cleaning it for the festivals. Your guests will also find this small yet significant detail in your house mesmerizing and praiseworthy. So, buy a new fragrance and make your home smell like heaven this festive season.

That perfect lighting

perfect lighting

Undoubtedly, all the decorations and preparations we do during the festive season are for Diwali celebrations. And since Diwali is known as the festival of lights, one must not miss the crucial piece of decoration while preparing their house for festivities. Add a beautiful and decent touch of new, fancy and festive lights inside your house. While people also cover the exteriors of their entire house with fancy lights, this time, try adding them on the inside too.

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Look for small spaces where you can add battery-operated mini lights. If you have a corner where you can throw an entire string of fancy lights, give it a chic touch by putting curtains over there. Create spaces that give festive vibes to the fullest and add dim lighting to a few corners of your house. This will welcome festivities in your home greatly.

The temple

temple

Festivals mean performing rituals, and no ritual is performed without praying in the temple. So, the temple in your home has to be decorated for the festive season, just like other corners of your house. Here also, you must start with cleaning and then organizing everything beautifully. Add new lights, new cloth to spread underneath the photographs, and temple accessories like artificial garlands and a new pair of Ganesh- Lakshmi to finish the look of your temple.

Don’t forget the main entrance

main entrance

Isn’t the entrance of our house the welcoming point for guests, positivity, divinity, auspiciousness, and everything else, including us? So, that has to look its best and absolutely celebration ready to welcome everyone. Add beautiful hangings, new lamps, a chic doormat, and festival lights on your entrance, and prepare according to the theme of your house. This will make it look perfectly festival ready. Also, don’t forget to light candles and diya at night in a few spots at your home’s entrance.

Tip: Follow each idea given above but don’t overdo it. Anything overly done will take away the classiness of decoration, and you might end up with way too loud decorations and preparations for the festive season. Keep it simple, plan it properly, and do just the right amount of interiors, nothing more or nothing less.

And those are some of the best Diwali home decor ideas you must follow, as each one is very effective and easy to do. Start planning, as the festive season is already here, and you still have to shop. It would be best if you prepared so much as the festive season is already here. So, hurry up!

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