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    How To Make A Stunning Mirror Gallery Wall

    How To Make A Stunning Mirror Gallery Wall

    Exciting days continue on ‘One Brick At A Time’, and we are proud to have another first here today. Our first guest post, ‘How To Make A Stunning Mirror Gallery Wall’ by our very first guest writer here, Preethi Prabhu.

    Rittika January 30, 2018January 29, 2018 Home Interiors, Tips, Trends & DIY 2 Comments Read more

    11 Ways To Make Big Space In Your Small Kitchen

    11 Ways To Make Big Space in Your Small Kitchen

    After our post on 7 Ways To Make Big Space In Your Small Bathroom, I got quite a few requests to do a similar post on kitchens. And for all the same reasons that I did the bathroom post, it

    Rittika January 16, 2018May 4, 2020 Home Interiors, Kitchens, Tips, Trends & DIY 8 Comments Read more

    6 Easy Napkin Folding Ideas I Love

    6 Easy Napkin Folding Ideas

    Today I have some really easy napkin folding ideas for you. I’ve realised that one of the easiest ways to make my table look dressy is to add napkins to the setting. Now you can just place the square napkins

    Rittika January 9, 2018January 10, 2018 Tips, Trends & DIY 2 Comments Read more

    Top 5 Posts Of 2017: What You Loved Most Last Year

    Top 5 Posts of 2017

    Happy New Year all, and welcome 2018! Today, we have the top 5 posts of 2017. Posts that you guys really loved, shared, read and re-read!

    Rittika January 2, 2018October 19, 2020 Festival & Party Decor, Home Interiors, Tips, Trends & DIY No Comments Read more

    Ultra Violet In Your Home: Pantone Colour Of The Year 2018

    Ultra Violet In Your Home: Pantone Colour Of The Year 2018

    Pantone Colour of the year 2018 is Ultra Violet, and I am thrilled! The first 2 things that come to my mind when I think purple is my school colours, and the Wimbledon logo. Maybe that is the reason I

    Rittika December 19, 2017August 19, 2018 Accessories, Furniture, Shopping Hotspots, Tips, Trends & DIY No 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

    Beautiful Christmas Gift Ideas For The Home

    Beautiful Christmas Gift Ideas For The Home

    Christmas makes me think of mistletoe, reindeer and Santa Claus with a sackful of gifts. From the age of 3, when I hurried into bed wondering what Santa will put in my stocking or under the tree for me, the

    Rittika December 4, 2017December 15, 2019 Accessories, Festival & Party Decor, Shopping Hotspots, Tips, Trends & DIY 6 Comments Read more

    5 Simple Christmas Candle Decor Ideas For You

    5 Simple Christmas Candle Decor Ideas For You

    A few weeks back we kicked off the festive season with a post on Christmas decor ideas. That post had a list of 20 really easy ways to decorate your home for Christmas, and if you haven’t read it yet,

    Rittika November 27, 2017November 28, 2017 Festival & Party Decor, Tips, Trends & DIY 6 Comments Read more

    How I Get My Home Party Ready

    How I Get My Home Party Ready

    It’s festive time. Christmas and New Years are around the corner and that’s lots of reasons to have a party. Though if you like having your family and friends over there are always a gazillion reasons… birthdays, anniversaries, the first-day-it-rained pakoda

    Rittika November 20, 2017October 15, 2018 Tips, Trends & DIY 8 Comments Read more

    Decoupage Wine Glasses: A Sparkling Christmas DIY

    Decoupage Wine Glasses - A Sparkling Christmas DIY

    I’m in a chatty mood today, so I’m going start with how I got around to making these beautiful decoupage wine glasses. In case you’re not feeling so chatty or you’re simply short of time, you can skip right to

    Rittika November 14, 2017August 29, 2018 Tips, Trends & DIY 4 Comments Read more
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    Kitchen lighting gets treated like a practical aft Kitchen lighting gets treated like a practical afterthought far too often.

We don’t do that. ✨

Because the right lighting can take a kitchen from nice to quite the looker.

Here, we layered the lighting rather than relying on one ceiling light:

• Under-cabinet lighting — because chopping onions deserves good lighting too.
• Plinth lighting — a soft glow that makes the cabinetry feel lighter and adds a little drama after dark.
• Ceiling lights — for the overall illumination when you actually need to see what you’re doing.

The result?
A kitchen that works hard by day and knows how to dress up by night.

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    One room, two jobs, and a pretty lovely view! 🤎 T One room, two jobs, and a pretty lovely view! 🤎

This little study at Vahaal doubles up as a guest room when needed. We have warm wood, louvred shutters, a cosy sofa-cum-bed and plenty of storage. And a view of Mumbai’s skyline that isn’t a bad backdrop for a day’s work!

We’ve shared the full story of this room on the blog, from the layout to the little details that make it work.

Head over to the link in our bio to take a look. ✨ 
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    Tall plants: all the height, all the drama, all th Tall plants: all the height, all the drama, all the main-character energy. 🌿😄

They fill empty corners, draw the eye upwards and bring a little bit of the outdoors in — with plenty of personality.

These are our favourites. Which one is yours?

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    A little kitchen secret hiding behind the wall! 😉 A little kitchen secret hiding behind the wall! 😉 

This kitchen was too small to fit a dishwasher, so we got creative. The drawers to the left of the counter extend right through into the adjoining bathroom, making use of space we couldn’t spare in the kitchen.

They also hide plumbing and electrical points for a future dishwasher. When our client is ready for one, out come the drawers and in goes the dishwasher.

We always think two steps ahead!

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    Next up on our Vahaal tour... the kitchen! 🍃 It’s Next up on our Vahaal tour... the kitchen! 🍃

It’s a small one, so we had to get a little clever with the planning. Plenty of storage, good counter space, and even a provision for a dishwasher, despite the space crunch!

And then there’s the look. Warm walnut, soft beige, olive green tiles and brass handles, all coming together to make this little kitchen feel right at home with the rest of Vahaal.

Small kitchen, big personality. 😉

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    TV units: because even your television needs a goo TV units: because even your television needs a good supporting cast. 😄

So many ways to frame your favourite binge-watching spot.
These are our favourites. Which one is yours?

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    An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this gorgeous bedroom. An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this gorgeous bedroom. (Swipe 👈🏻for before)

The wall opposite the bed in Vahaal’s master bedroom had one job to do: fit in a TV without making the room feel like it revolved around one.

So we paired a sleek, wall-mounted TV with a warm walnut chest of drawers that doubles up as storage. No bulky entertainment unit, just a good-looking piece of furniture that earns its place.

And that lovely window seat beside it? That’s a story for another post! 🌿

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    An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this bathroom. (Swipe An #ARIYONAbeforeafter from this bathroom. (Swipe 👈🏻for before)

From raw concrete shell to a bathroom with serious character.

• Warm, textured walls to soften the hard surfaces
• A patterned tile feature wall to bring in rhythm and visual interest
• A large round mirror to break up all the straight lines
• A chunky black counter and basin for contrast
• Brass lighting to add a warm glow against the darker finishes

Small footprint, big personality.

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