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6 tips to select new window for your home
Anchor: Onal Kothari Photograph: Shutterstock Windows help to regulate energy effectively within your space. Architect Onal Kothari gets to details and lists factors you need to keep in mind to ensure you order the right window for your home. ...
Onal Kothari
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5 simple tips to decorating with mats
Text: Relin Hedly Photograph: Shutterstock Mats are below everybody's radar when it comes to interiors. Here are a few tips on how to decorate your home with this oft-ignored element. To begin with determine where you will place the...
Team Home Tips
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10 ways to make a statement with your windows drapes
Text: Vishanka Gandhi Photographs: Sebastian Zachariah I Photographix, Nrupen Madhvani and Pranav Ovalekar Long and flow-ey, "puddling" on the floor or sultrily “kissing” it? A touch of digital funk or the old embroidery that is still in vog...
Anu & Prashant Chauhan
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8 things to make your door and entrance vastu-perfect
Text: Priya Arya 3D image: Anjana Singh According to vastu shastra, says expert SK Mehta, the entrance gate of any place plays a prominent role in prosperity. Read how the direction of entrance doors and the signs and symbols used on the doors ca...
S.K Mehta
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10 basic facts that you should know about false ceilings
Anchor: Priya Arya 3D image: Pooja Chhabra A false ceiling, as the name suggests, is a ceiling that is not actually one. Also called as dropped ceiing, it is a layer that is created below the actual ceiling for reasons, both functional and decora...
Aman Gandhi
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15 flooring materials made easy to understand
Anchor: Priya Arya Photographs: iStock There are certain materials – such as marble, ceramic tiles and increasingly wooden flooring – that we always encounter as flooring materials. But there are several more. Interior designer Aman Gandhi he...
Aman Gandhi
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13 tips on creating environment-friendly interiors
Text: Saylee Soundalgekar Photograph: iStock Green Interior Designing or GID, is all about what is good and what is bad for people's health, for the environment and for saving energy. Of course, fashion is a big part of Green Interior Designi...
Swati Sheth
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6 external paving materials decoded
Text: Priya Arya Photographs: iStock Paving material falls under what is known as the 'hardscape' of your garden space. That is, portions that are not covered by the greens. Architect Mrunmayi Wadwekar lists out the various material optio...
Mrunmayi Wadwekar
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5 tips for selecting paving material for your home
Anchor: Priya Arya Photograph: iStock A paver or paving material is technically the material used as a surface outside the house which is not covered by green spaces. While there are various materials for paving, your selection will depend on the...
Mrunmayi Wadwekar
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8 façade treatment options for a lovely home
Anchor: Priya Arya Photograph: Aman Gandhi First impressions are important. It is true of people and it is also true of buildings. Architect Aman Gandhi tells us of a few façade treatment options that will ensure that your home presen...
Aman Gandhi
Exteriors
