Your home is a dream home where you love to go, relax
peacefully, have fun and enjoy with family, relatives, and friends; have
get-togethers; have parties; and have lunch and dinner in the comfort of your
sweet home. People want their homes to be cool, cozy, comfortable, and a
peaceful place to enjoy the company of their full family, children, and aged
parents.
Once you have a ready house, to make it a home, you
need to design and decorate it. It should have a personal touch, almost an
extension of the personality and lifestyle of the residents living there. To
decorate a home, you may hire an interior decorator or do it yourself. Many
believe that interior decorators will do the job for you so that you don't get
into all the minor and major details of decorating your house. But the problem
with most interior decorators is that they tend to give a formal appearance with
a readymade design and a clean look. The house tends to look more like a hotel
room where you stay and move on without bothering about the personal touch.
Apart from that, the cost also escalates as you pay professional charges for
interior decorators' services. The home should look natural and cozy.
Many believe that since you are going to live in the
house, you know your needs and requirements. And in case you have no idea at
all nor are you a creative person, you may consult your close friends or see
their homes and adapt it to your place. Ideally, you should think of a theme
for your house – formal home type, English home type, Japanese home type, country home type, cottage type, traditional
home type, or a purely creative type, or a mixture of all. It's your choice.
Then start working on those lines. Once this is decided it becomes easy to plan
the furnishing, furniture, fixtures and artefacts according to the plan. It’s
no rocket science.
I always believe the residents living in the house
should plan and decorate the house. They know their own choices and have an
idea of the space requirement. You don't have to be a genius to decorate and
design your home. Common sense, a bit of creativity, and a basic knowledge of
matching and contrasting shades and colours will be helpful. Avoid black or any
colour that attracts negative vibes in walls, furnishing, curtains and
furniture. People who don't have the time or are not keen on it can seek professional
help from an interior designer. But I am sure the person will miss the personal
touch, which is essential for a home as the home is an extension of the person
living there.
Take room by room, say sit-out, at the entrance of
your home where any one from delivery boys, repair-men, courier guys and others
come, and can sit, talk to you and leave. They need not come or sit in the
drawing room. Living room, dining room, bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom are your
private areas, make a nice plan. List out the requirements as per your theme,
modern, traditional or antique type. Make a matching choice of the material and
shades, from carpet, furniture, furnishing, curtains, light fittings, fans,
switchboards and other items, including indoor plants. Care should be taken
about proper ventilation and entry of natural light during day, especially
kitchen and bathrooms. I am sure your talent will blossom with new and
innovative ideas, and create something special.
And the best part is that when children see their
parents take interest in designing and decorating the house, they normally pick
up the trait and absorb the nuances of the art, and in later years, when they
have their own home, they would love to do up their place. They too realize
that to turn a house into a good home, they have to participate and take
personal interest. It's said that a home represents you. Looking at a
person's home, one can understand the personality, nature, and choice of a
person. A house becomes a home when the people residing there become a part of
the place.
Designing and decorating your house gives you immense joy and
satisfaction. It brings out creativity in space utilization and décor. It gives
great pleasure to select the color of the walls in different rooms, the
selection of the furniture and fixtures, the material and design of the drape,
curtain, furnishing, bedsheets, and blankets. It even teaches you to improve
your choices and skill in selecting material, artifacts, fixtures, kitchen
items, crockery, and indoor and outdoor plants.
For a house to become a home, it needs to radiate the
right kind of energy. According to a number of traditional beliefs, each home
comes with its own energy type. A person dwelling in a house comes under the
influence of a specific energy field, which in turn influences him in one way
or the other. Therefore, it's very crucial to understand the basic link between
the art of Vastu and our homes in honing positivity and good vibes, and ways
you can bring balance to your home. It shouldn’t look empty or too congested,
nor should things be placed in a haphazard way.
Designing and decorating your home, large or small,
gives you a unique sense of fulfillment—a true satisfaction that your home is a
cozy and protective shelter for the full family, children, and aged parents.
It's said that a happy home is a happy family. And this happiness tends to rub
off on friends who visit you. One can also upgrade the home by seeing or
learning about new gadgets and things you feel are missing or essential for
your home. Don’t buy things at random, it will make your home look crowded. And
when relatives and friends appreciate your work, it gives you a new high! And
you will feel proud that you designed your own home.
This was the heading in one of the prominent
newspapers in Britain. Surrey-born Bashir, a 20-year-old player of Pakistani origin,
was unable to join the rest of the squad flying to India from a training camp
in Abu Dhabi ahead of the series opener in Hyderabad starting Thursday
following a delay with his visa application. They didn’t tell the truth. The
visa was issued but not stamped by the Indian Embassy in Britain, and they
presumed that they can make Indian do the same in a third country; insist the
Indian Embassy in UAE to do it, bending the rules. They simply said no. This
hurt the British and wondered how could the Indian authorities refuse.
Britain has a complex with India and Indians in UK. They
still have colonial mindset and can’t digest India’s economic growth,
development and success of Indians around the world. Britain should realize,
they gave cricket to the world, but it’s an Indian game now.
The England and Wales Cricket Board had hoped they
could count on assistance from their counterparts at the Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI) in resolving the issue but things didn't go the way
they expected it to be. Given that the England squad was announced around a
month before the tour and there was enough time for visa processing, the media
in the United Kingdom lashed out at India.
How dare you? wrote Mail Sport. Shoaib Bashir
returning to the UK amid visa stink is a damning reflection of the state of the
game - was the headline of The Cricketer. They should know, a rule is a rule
for a wise and a fool!
Not Cricket India branded a disgrace after forcing
England spinner Shoaib Bashir to fly home on eve of first Test - wrote The Sun.
England livid with India as Shoaib Bashir forced to fly home and miss 1st
Test" - was the title used by inews.
It was unlikely that Bashir would have made his Test
debut on Thursday but the frustration for England is that the decision has been
taken out of their hands. Those are bygone days, when Britain could dictate to
India. Bashir eventually got his Indian visa late on Wednesday. Now Indians can
tell Britain – how dare you!
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