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    9 Easy Steps To A Fabulous Entryway

    9 Easy Steps To A Fabulous Entryway

    The foyer or entryway of a home is like the first chapter of a book. It can make a great impression and leave you asking for more. Or it can be dull and boring and want you to stop your

    Rittika June 2, 2020June 16, 2020 Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Tips, Trends & DIY 2 Comments Read more

    All The Winning Pics of #MyDesiSwag 2019

    All The Winning Pics of #MyDesiSwag 2019

    Another year has gone by in the blink of an eye and I can’t believe #MyDesiSwag is already 2 years old! The highlight of this year was reaching 50000 posts shared on this hashtag party. That deserved a party of

    Rittika January 21, 2020May 28, 2021 Balconies & Terraces, Bedrooms, Festival & Party Decor, Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Kitchens, Living & Dining, Tips, Trends & DIY 2 Comments Read more

    Design Inspiration: Our Most Pinned Images From Oct 2019

    Design Inspiration - Our Most Pinned Images From Oct 2019

    We’ve gone from the 2 million monthly unique viewers we had when we wrote our last Pinterest post, 6 months back to 4 million viewers this month on our Pinterest page! Yup, time to be back with another round of

    Rittika November 12, 2019May 28, 2021 Balconies & Terraces, Festival & Party Decor, Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Living & Dining, Tips, Trends & DIY No Comments Read more

    Diwali Decor Shoot – Behind The Scenes

    Diwali Decor Shoot - Behind The Scenes - featured

    It all started with a short message from Ridhi Kale asking if I wanted to do a Diwali decor feature for India Today Home. A message like that makes you stop, and then stop again. India Today Home? Did I

    Rittika October 29, 2019November 1, 2020 A Little Bit of Me, Festival & Party Decor, Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Living & Dining, Tips, Trends & DIY 6 Comments Read more

    Modern Tropical Living Room Reveal

    Modern Tropical Living Room Reveal

    From the immense response we got when we introduced this room, I know you all have been eagerly waiting for our Modern Tropical Living Room Reveal. So though this was the last space we introduced from our ‘White & Light

    Rittika September 3, 2019August 27, 2019 Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Living & Dining, Projects, White & Light Home 22 Comments Read more

    A Modern Tropical Living Room – Part 1

    A Modern Tropical Living Room - Part 1

    Introducing the final, and what I think will be the most spectacular, space of our White & Light Home today… our modern tropical living room. We thought natural materials and greens would work perfectly with the light and airy look

    Rittika March 26, 2019May 8, 2020 Balconies & Terraces, Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Living & Dining, Projects, White & Light Home 6 Comments Read more

    7 Beautiful Ways To Decorate With Mirrors

    7 Beautiful Ways To Decorate With Mirrors

    I love to decorate with mirrors for many reasons. For one, they always look glamorous. Secondly, you can literally get them in any size to fit any space. Then, they always make any space look bigger, brighter and larger, so

    Rittika January 22, 2019January 20, 2019 Bedrooms, Foyers & Entryways, Living & Dining, Tips, Trends & DIY 1 Comment Read more

    4 Easy Steps To A Beautiful Home Entrance

    4 Easy Steps To A Beautiful Home Entrance

    Your home entrance is the first thing that anyone sees when they come to your place. They ring the door bell and wait outside your door for you to open it. Those couple of minutes it’s just your entrance keeping

    Rittika July 3, 2018May 2, 2025 Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Tips, Trends & DIY 10 Comments Read more

    Em’s Rental Living Room Reveal

    Em's Rental Living Room Reveal

    This week has been really exciting and really difficult. Exciting because we clicked these pics last week and I’ve been looking and re-looking at them and itching to write this post. Difficult because I have been DYING to share the

    Rittika January 23, 2018May 5, 2019 Em's Living Room, Foyers & Entryways, Home Interiors, Living & Dining, Projects, Rental Makeovers 28 Comments Read more

    How To Decorate A Christmas Garland: My Home

    How To Decorate A Christmas Garland

    This is a completely unplanned post, because I hadn’t planned on decorating our entrance with Christmas garland at all. It started with my son looking over my shoulder when I was browsing through Pinterest. He saw some gorgeous wreaths and asked

    Rittika December 12, 2017December 11, 2017 A Little Bit of Me, Festival & Party Decor, Foyers & Entryways, Tips, Trends & DIY 4 Comments Read more
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    Here’s an #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this living roo Here’s an #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this living room. (Swipe 👈🏻 for before)

We flipped the sofa to the opposite wall—and the entire space started working differently.

Before:
• The seating interrupted the flow between living and dining

After:
• A clearer pathway through the home
• Better visual connection between living and dining
• A dedicated TV wall with layered artwork and styling
• Space for a decorative partition that gently defines zones without closing them off

One furniture move.
A completely different experience of the room.

Click link in bio for more pics and details
Photography: @bizou.photos 
#AI_Kai #ARIYONAliving #beforeafter
    Dining lights have a tough job. They need to make Dining lights have a tough job.

They need to make the food look good, the table feel inviting, and somehow avoid becoming the only thing anyone notices.

A few things we look for:

• The right scale for the table
• Light that feels warm, not interrogation-room bright
• A shape that adds personality without stealing the show
• Something worth looking at even when it’s switched off

These are our favourites. Which one is yours?

Photography: @bizou.photos 
#ARIYONAroundup #ARIYONAdining
    An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this boy’s bedroom. (S An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this boy’s bedroom. (Swipe left for before)

The biggest change here? We flipped the bed placement entirely.

Before:
• the bed blocked movement and made the room feel tighter
• bulky furniture + dark curtains made the space feel heavier than it was

After:
• the new bed position opened up the layout
• a full-height wardrobe streamlined the storage
• soft neutrals + layered textures made the room feel calmer and brighter
• wall lights freed up bedside space and added a boutique-hotel vibe

Sometimes the smartest design move isn’t adding more.
It’s simply rethinking the plan.

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Photography: @bizou.photos 
#AI_Shway #ARIYONAkids
    A dressing corner designed for a teenager who want A dressing corner designed for a teenager who wanted her room to feel soft, calm, and just a little bit Pinterest-worthy 💗

This nook was designed to do a little bit of everything:
• dressing table + window seat
• soft curves to keep the space feeling playful
• an arched mirror to visually open up the corner
• warm lighting that feels dreamy at night
• and layered blush tones because apparently “just one pink” was not enough 😄

Swipe 👈🏻 for the full setup and those floating butterfly lights quietly stealing the show.

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    Headboards are basically the eyebrows of a bedroom Headboards are basically the eyebrows of a bedroom. 

They do three main jobs:

• Stop pillows from escaping
• Give you something to lean on during late-night scrolling
• Make the bed look far more put together than it probably is

From upholstered panels to warm wood details and everything in between, headboards quietly set the tone for the entire room.

These are our favourites. Which one is yours?

Photography: @bizou.photos 
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    Soft neutrals, layered textures, and one chair tha Soft neutrals, layered textures, and one chair that quietly steals the spotlight 🤍

This living room was designed to feel calm without feeling flat:
• textural fabrics instead of loud contrasts
• curved seating to soften all the straight architectural lines
• sheer curtains that let the daylight do most of the work
• warm wood tones to balance the creamy palette
• and subtle patterns that reveal themselves slowly

Swipe 👈🏻 for a closer look at our favourite reading corner in the house.

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Photography: @bizou.photos 
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    An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this balcony. (Swipe 👈 An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this balcony. (Swipe 👈🏻 for before)

From drying rack zone to “just five more minutes with my coffee” zone ☕🌿

This narrow balcony needed to work harder without feeling crowded.
So we kept the layout light and simple:

• a swing chair for lazy evenings and long phone calls
• compact side table for coffee/books/snacks/random life admin
• layered plants to soften all the concrete around

Coz we think even the skinniest balconies can become the favourite corner of the house.

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    A study corner that doesn’t scream corporate cubic A study corner that doesn’t scream corporate cubicle energy 📚

We kept this setup simple, warm, and quietly functional:
• a compact solid wood desk with slim tapered legs
• an upholstered chair comfortable enough for long reading sessions
• open shelving for books, keepsakes, and the “I’ll read this next” pile
• soft natural light filtering through sheer curtains
• and just enough greenery to make deadlines feel slightly less dramatic

Swipe 👈🏻👈🏻 for more pics.

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