10 Tips to make your home festival ready
With the festive season just around the corner, let us look at some tips to make your house festival ready. A well oriented and positive environment in the house not only attracts positive energies and blessings of the Gods, it also makes sure that the guests and visitors that come to greet you for the season festivities witness a serene and spiritual ambiance. Here are ten simple tips that every home maker can incorporate to make their home festive ready.
How to decor your home for this festival?
Keep home clean and organized: Keeping the home clean and well organized is the first step towards making the house festive ready. Festivals are all about purity and religious mindfulness, so cleanliness is as much a part of any festive occasion as the spiritual quotient. Make sure your house is sparking clean both from the outside and the inside.
Incorporate a festive look ambiance: Festivity calls for celebration, happiness and togetherness. Incorporating a festive ready look using flashlights and other festive nightlights to make your house attractive, serene and festive ready all at the same time.
Be prepared for unexpected guests: Festive season means there would be guests and visitors galore. With busy lifestyles everyone is running short of time, especially in the festive season. Do not expect guests to turn up after a phone call or correspondence. Always be ready to receive unscheduled guests even at odd hours. Plan accordingly so that you do not run out of hospitality options for unexpected guests.
Stack gifts and sweets: Festive season means a high demand of gifts and sweets. Indian sweets are very closely associated with religious festivities. Each festival has its own trademark sweet associated with it- ladoos for the Ganesh festival, Dusshera & Diwali, exotic cakes and wine for Christmas. Make sure to stack your home with gifts and sweets well before for all guests, to avoid the last minute jitters.
Make sure you have recipe ready foods: It is a good idea to shop for some recipe ready instant foods that can be cooked in no time for guests. Such foods are high in taste, quick and hassle free to make, offering you time to spend with the guests rather than cooking for them in the kitchen.
Go green: It is a good idea to incorporate a green ambiance around your home and its immediate surroundings making it attractive for visitors and guests. Use of lovely flowers and natural plants is advised compared to artificial plants.
Have an entertainment section for kids accompanied by guests: Guests often come with their small kids who find the special get together quite boring. Make sure you have a dedicated space where kids of all ages can relax and enjoy their time while their parents or elders accompanying them can share festive greetings with you.
Home decor from waste: Using waste wisely and making home free from unused items must be ensured. If you are following the mantra of converting old waste into beautiful artifacts and decorative items, chances are that your friends and visitors would take inspiration from you and adopt more eco-friendly lifestyle.
Festivals are all about spirituality: Make sure your house is complete with appropriate spirituality quotient. You can use posters of various gods and goddesses in your house and decorate the temple area of your house according to the festival. Using pleasant agarbathis is also a great way to enhance the spiritual quotient of the house.
Welcome guests with a smile: Welcoming guests with a smile and with the right ambiance is the most important thing to bring them a joyful experience of visiting you. No matter how bad your day has been, or how tired or frustrated you have been running out the whole day, make sure that you always welcome the guests with a wonderful smile and have a good ambiance at your home with music, lights and fresh smell.
