Colours of life
Online Design Inspiration
Google for interior decor blogs, and in all likelihood, the search engine will show results for rangdecor.blogspot.com.
Today, this blog has become the blog to go to, among a handful of Indian interior decor blogs, for any inspiration on interior decor, with specific reference to Indian sensibilities.
The woman who runs the blog is Archana Srinivas, a Bangalore-based former advertising and web-designing professional.
Her blog is full of colourful pictures, apart from simple do-it-yourself decor ideas. She started the blog way back in January 2007, immediately after she started her personal blog ‘Rang-the Colours of Life’ Rang Decor features interior design ideas which have an inherent Indian sensibility.
It also features various traditional Indian arts & crafts and showcases work by Indian artists & painters. The blog also features a space, where readers can share ideas and pictures of their homes. Some of the simple tips she offers on her blog include:
“Fresh flowers bring in happiness, positivity and cheer into one's home. I buy flowers from my local florist and keep them in special corners in my home.
“Most of all I love floating flowers in urlis, terracotta containers, brass plates and even in my Ikea cup.
“Try floating some rose petals or even wild flowers picked up from your garden in a bowl and see the beauty it brings in.
“Bring in some plants. Rather than just place the plants as it is, I like to place them in little ceramic mugs/bowls or brass vessels or cane baskets. Try it and you'll see how beautiful the space becomes. “ Elsewhere, on another blogpost on walls, she says:
“Paint them, peel them, stencil them, plaster them, madhubani them, block-print them, hand-paint them, wall-paper them....Gone are the days when walls were plain and their purpose was to house paintings, today they are the paintings.”
