The festival of colour brings with it immense joy and excitement every single year. This year as well, the festival of Holi is all set to add a splash of colour to our lives. If you’re surrounded by friends and family and want to decorate your house to mark the occasion, you’ll need some creative ideas to help you out. In this guide, we show you several different ways to incorporate DIY Holi decor in your home interiors to brighten up your life and your home.
The first DIY Holi decor idea that comes to anyone’s mind during the festive season is that of designing beautiful rangolis in and around your home. However, this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Rangolis are colourful and vibrant and can make your home look lively and inviting.
With just a few simple materials such as flowers or colours, stencils, and some glue, you can create some truly unique designs. For starters, if you want to create something truly eye-catching, you can use flowers instead of the traditional coloured powders. Take some time out to walk around your neighbourhood for the brightest and most vibrant flowers and bring them home to create some magic with them.
With the help of a stencil, which is optional, you can create beautiful rangolis that are truly eye-catching in every sense of the word.
Here’s a pro tip – if you don’t want your petals wilting too soon, spray them with water and a few drops of vinegar before you start decorating them.
Another unique DIY Holi decor idea to brighten up the interiors of your home is to create garlands or banners with bright and vibrant flowers. These can be a great way to liven up your walls or even the front door of your house, setting a truly festive atmosphere.
Alternatively, you can also use colourful paper to create these garlands. You can cut these papers into different shapes, soliciting your child’s help to create the process a lot more fun and memorable. Then, with a piece of string, you can tie these together and create beautiful and bright garlands to decorate your home’s interiors.
Pichkaris or water guns are a Holi staple, and while these are typically used when playing, they can also be the foundation of a rather unique DIY Holi decor idea. For example, you can take a pichkari and make a chandelier out of it. By hanging them upside down using colourful paper and ribbons, you can add fairy lights in a range of different colours that you can light up in the evening.
What’s more, you can even hang your collection of pichkaris on your wall to make unique patterns. This can be a fun activity, particularly in your children’s room, and can give them a way to spend time with their friends and loved ones.
If you love working with textiles, you’ll love this idea. Take a plain white or an off-white tablecloth, and buy yourself a few engraved wooden blocks and some fabric paint. The plain tablecloth can be the base for you to experiment with unique designs that you can create using the paints and the blocks.
With so many colour combinations to choose from, you can design this tablecloth in any way you like. This can be a fun activity for you to do alone, or even involve your friends and loved ones in. What’s more, if you want these designs to be temporary, you can use washable paint. Alternatively, if you want to retain the design for longer, you can use a permanent fabric paint instead.
Since Holi is the celebration of light over darkness, a truly festive DIY Holi decor idea is to paint lanterns and diyas to mark the occasion. To make the lanterns, you can repurpose old glass jars and paint them in a variety of bright colours. You can also paste flower petals on them for a more crafty touch.
For the diyas, you can consider making your own clay diyas if you have the time. Alternatively, you can also buy several diyas from the market and paint them in different colours yourself. A quick tip is to paint diyas white once or twice before you apply any brighter colour on them.
Holi is one of those festivals that truly allow you to unleash your creativity and add a touch of colour and life to your full home interiors. In this guide, we’ve shown you some of the best DIY Holi decor ideas you can take inspiration from. They can be a great way to spend time with your loved ones and neighbours to make the festival even brighter.
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