designing life

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Pinterest, a place of our interest!

While reading daily blogs with a cup of tea in the morning today, I came across the post about Pinterest on My World... My Space. And since morning I am glued to this fantastic site! I figured it was time for me to join all you pinners out there. Now I can save and share my favorite photos with links to their sources. Genius!

Have a look on my Pinterest page here.

via Designing Life's Pinterest

So are you on Pinterest yet??

Let's start pinning and re-pinning!

notes:

Pinterest is via invitation, so if you want me to invite please drop your email
Pinterest is addictive, trust me! also said by Tanya Anurag

Monday, July 25, 2011

Design Star, episode 1

Task: makeover of an empty three-story New York City penthouse. 6 rooms, 6 teams of 2 designers each.

Rooms Before and After

for more, click here

HGTV Design Star

It's been one year now since I am here in USA and I have already told being glued to HGTV in my previous post here. I was already in love with different shows on HGTV and recently came to know about the reality design challenge show HGTV Design Star. It is the 6th season of the show which started just 2 weeks back, and of course, I am in love with this show too. The 12 contestants compete for their own design show on this. Each week, the judges decide whom to eliminate one. Each week, the remaining contestants participate in an interior design challenge such as designing a living space or creating a space in an empty room. David Bromstad won the debut season of Design Star, now he is the mentor of the contestants. I'll definitely talk about him in later posts. Since, this a weekly show, I promise to update you all week-by-week starting today!

The Contestants of season 6 with the mentor David and host Tanika

meet the judges, Genevieve Gorder, Vern Yip and Candice Olson

and finally the mentor, David Bromstad

official video

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Empty Frame Wall Art

I always loved picture frames and have a lot of them on my walls. Recently I came across this empty frames wall art DIY idea. I have seen these many times before but never thought it can be such an easy diy project. Now I am looking more and more about this wall art.
Look what all I found. (all pictures via various blogs and Google images)

via All Things Beautiful

what I am doing now?... I am collecting frames!

Ananya's Toy Room, before and after

daughter and mom before the decor

Ananya, also called 'shaitanu', 'nanya', 'aanannyaa' by herself! Mom's darling, Dad's partner in all naughty kiddie stuff, loves Minnie Mouse. Ananya is my 2.5yrs old niece and I am her Sonam Maasi, who loves to play with her, pamper her. All maasis love that! Well this cute, adorable just out from the disney's princess's world girl wished to have her own little play area. So her mom and I, went to Michael's for all the accessories and crafting stuff. Well the guidelines my sister gave to me were:

decor should be removable and reusable
very colorful yet simple
if on wall, should be hung little higher so that Ananya shouldn't reach and break it..
just as pretty as her daughter, (I say, room cant be as pretty as Ananya, she is far prettier)
things which has to stay in that room
and of course, we cant put paint or something like that in apartments.

Have a look...

room 'Before'

stuffs

little glimpse

Ananya's love for Minnie

the toy room 'After'

having fun!

come on in!, says Ananya

Well while working on this decor we remembered that we had bought few felt pieces too for some DIY stuffs, which we forgot. So now I'll do that soon and then add to the decor.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Art by Aarohi Singh

all pictures via Art By Aarohi

"It's fun, colorful and quirky.

It seems over the top and sometimes even disparate...

but it's all me. My love for my country, my culture, my people.

It's how I see colour and mood.

It's my take on life today!!", says Aarohi

Aarohi Singh is an artist. Started just like that 15 years back, is now a full fledged profession for this young painter. She paints in Oil, Acrylics, Watercolor, Pastels and works on Paper, Canvas, Metal, Cardboard, Wood, Fabric. No matter what the medium, Aarohi prefers to paint people, in their moods and colors.