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How to Decorate Your Home For Diwali

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

Diwali festival is coming. Everyone will think about decorating their homes in a good way. Diwali is celebrated enthusiastically in India. It is a festival of lights, it is believed that Diwali is a celebration of the victory of truth over evil. Therefore, everyone decorates their homes on Diwali, which highlights positivity. 


Dhanteras comes before Diwali when people buy utensils, silver, and gold for their home, it is believed that buying Vastu on this day increases its value 13 times more. For happiness and prosperity in your home, the house must be cleaned thoroughly and decorated in various ways. Today in this article we will know how to decorate your house for Diwali:


The Importance of Home Decoration During Diwali

Before Diwali, people start cleaning and decorating their houses, which is a thousands of years old tradition. According to the mythological beliefs, Goddess Lakshmi's blessings are bestowed only on a clean and well-decorated house.


Apart from this, on this day, Lord Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana returned to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile, in whose honor the houses are decorated.  All the members of the family clean the house together, which promotes unity and cooperation, due to which a festive atmosphere and some memories are created. Also, it gives everyone a chance to showcase their creativity.


Start With The Home Clean and Wall Paint

For Diwali decoration, you should first clean your entire house. If the paint on the walls of your house has become old, then it should be renewed. Because on Diwali, most people get the walls of their houses painted, which makes the house look even more beautiful. However, it has been seen that non-Hindus also decorate their houses during Diwali.



1. Start With The Lighting

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

You can decorate the outside of your house with many types of attractive lighting. In which you can use fairy lights. In this, you get beautiful lights of many colors. You can decorate the walls of your house with LED light strips. If you want, you can make any shape on the walls with external side lights.


If you have a garden in your house, then you can also put lights on your trees and plants, which look very beautiful at night. On the balcony of your house or any place from where your whole house is visible. There you should put Moroccan-style lanterns made of paper, which will add beauty to the decoration of your house.


2. Rangoli

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

When decorating the house on Diwali, rangoli along with lights also has great importance.  Whether you make rangoli in your house with flower petals or with colorful powder or rice etc., rangoli has played an important role in Indian culture as a decoration since the beginning, which creates a festive atmosphere at the entrance of your house.



3. Flowers

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

You can also use some types of fragrant flowers for Diwali decoration. However, usually marigold flowers are used to decorate houses during Diwali. Apart from this, you can also use some fragrant flowers from the market to decorate the puja room or any important place. However, marigold flowers are easily available in all seasons. And their fragrance is also good. 


It is believed that the yellow and orange colors of marigold flowers symbolize new beginnings and prosperity in life. Due to this these flowers are usually used as a decoration for any festival or auspicious work. You can decorate the entrance of your house by buying fresh fragrant flowers from the market. Apart from this, if you want, you can also add fresh green mango leaves in between these flowers.



4. Torans and Door Hangings

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

Sometime before the festival of Diwali, many types of fancy Toran and door-hanging items start coming on the market. You can buy any type of toran according to the color and theme of your house, and hang them on the door of your house. You should always choose a toran to hang on the door of the house, which matches the color of the doors and walls of your house.



5. Pooja Area

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

Be it Diwali or any other festival, the place of worship in our house is the center of all the activities of the whole house. You should clean your Puja Ghar thoroughly. You should put lights in the Puja Ghar, if you want, you can also decorate your Puja Ghar with brass diyas, apart from this, you can also decorate your Puja Ghar by giving some shape with clay diyas. 


Apart from this, you should decorate the Puja Ghar using fresh flowers, for this, if you want, you can put a garland of flowers, or you can give some shape by taking out leaves from flowers and spreading them in the Puja Ghar. After decorating the Puja Ghar, you can clean the Puja Thali thoroughly and decorate it by placing kumkum, rice, small idols of some gods and goddesses along with fresh flowers.


6. Table Decor

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

On Diwali, you must decorate the dining table of your house. This adds to the beauty of your house. For this, you can use a bowl of Urli. You can fill water in this bowl and keep fresh flowers and put candles or diyas in it. These look very beautiful when they twinkle.



7. Scent

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

On the occasion of the festival, you should keep your house fragrant. For this, you can use fragrant incense sticks, jasmine or rose fragrance diffusers in the house. Apart from this, you can also use scented candles to make your house smell good.



8. DIY Decorations

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

To decorate the walls of your house, you can make some stars, diyas, lanterns, etc. using colorful paper. Apart from this, you can make some colorful shapes like butterflies and stick them on the walls. These look very beautiful and enhance the beauty of the house.



9. Curtains and Cushions

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

Clean all the curtains in the house thoroughly. Hang the curtains in your house according to the color of your house. You can also choose dark-colored curtains to decorate your house during Diwali.



10. Sweets

How to Decorate Your Home for Diwali

People like to eat Kaju Katli and many other different types of sweets on Diwali. This festival is incomplete without sweets. You should also buy sweets for your guests and friends. This festival of Diwali should be celebrated together with love.



Conclusion

In this article, you have been told how to decorate your house for Diwali. All the ways that we have told here are very easy to do and with the help of these you can easily decorate your house to invite Goddess  Laxmi.

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