Indian antique style room?

November 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , ,

I redoing my bedroom and was thinking about doing something East Indian like with antique-y things.

Okay, well clearly I need help coming up with ideas. Wall colours? I am leaning towards a dark one. Curtains? The floors? I was thinking about getting a few persian rugs (fake ones, I am on a budget), in dark colours, and covering the floor with them, so they would over lap and stuff. It looks good in my mind, but how do you think it would play out?

I know I can find a lot of cheap things on Main Street, which also has a little india.

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  1. luisejones
    November 17th, 2009 at 18:02
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    Gret to find someone with my decor taste atlast!! I think that for colour ideas why not look at the rich jewel colours of saris? using colours like deep reds peacock blues/greens golds and try to find somewere that you can get the bell bandles dancers wear to use as tye backs for curtaians made from saris (use 3, 2 joinedntogether withe a 5 inch seam and swept to the sides then tied back with the bandles of a slightly thick cloth and one hung across the whole window span of a flimsy cloth to allow sunlight in without destroying the decor)? Also Middle Eastern/ Asian people sit on floors alot so why not see if you can get some red and gold printed cloth sewn into big floor cusions in square and tube shapes all with lots of tastes hanging from the corners or in the centre of the flat edges of the tubes, too. Goto your nearest DIY shop and see about gettin 2 pieces of fret work boared and come fancey dado railing stroips cut to size of boards and then join them with gold hinges to make a ’sun’ screen and either spray paint it gold or stain it a mahogony colour. Boards cost about £10 the dado would cost about another £7 and the other bits about £5/6. Also if painting the walls remember this rule if you are going for reds then have orrenge or cerise pink with it and paint the wood work gold or hunt around for gold patternend wall paper and paste on with PVA glue. The Indian peoples also go big on reflective immages so find somewere that sells reflective mosaic tiles and glue them on to things so that they catch the light at all times. If you or someone you know is arty then get them to draw a murial on your wall ot the Taj Mahal or something surrounded by gold or white painted ‘frame’ in the shape of one of those ‘onion domed’ arches you see alot of on those places. But the focal point of the room has to be a coloured glass lantern type light shade that has atleast 6-8 sides hanging from the ceiling. Oh and see if theres a habberdashery (cloth selling shop) nearby as most of these things you could buy even cheeper tha in Little India or if not they could atleast provide you with the gold baubles and bells etcetra to embellish your room at a cast of a few pence. Look out for gold coloured sleigh bells, you get them in many different sizes and they can range from about 10p to £1 depending on the size you want. They also might sell sari type cloths by the metre, a lot cheeper than the real thing, and everything else too if it is a very good one (don’t worry if you cannot sew use PVA glue to stop edges fraying). Also look out for fake jewel coloured glass beadstrings too to add to curtains aswell. I do not know the place you are from but look in a phone book under Craft shops Habberdashery Shops or Cloth Shops and you could find somewere in you place or not to far away. For rugs why not get some cheep persian style rugs at your local market? I recently bought a 3foot by 5foot one for about £20 but if you shop around you could find things cheeper than I’ve said. Or buy come raffia mats and go wild painting them with your own sudo Asian designs. Also one last thing if you are thinking of having any elephants in your room remember that their trunks HAVE to be turned upwards otherwise, so th Indians say, their luck and the households luck will run away I have also thought of one more thing you may try adding to the decor see if you can get a cheep plain ’stone’ 3 foot vase with some peacock feathers in just to add another touch, providing you are not allergigc to them ofcause. I went for simillar design but as I’m more Middle Eastern orientated I used camels, wich has started me off collecting absolutely anything I can find with them on! But both areas have simmilar decrotive ideas. Just think ALi Baba and go wild as an Asian/ Middle Eastern room should be quite colourful and a little over the top. Have fun. Luise J.

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