Home Is Where the Love Is!

This is the month when you want to cherish merry times with the loved one. Here are some trendy ideas to revel at home this Valentines.

There is no specific time in the year when you should profusely express your feelings to your beloved. Love is an emotion that is to be celebrated every moment!

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However, during this month, as we are gearing up to warmly send wishes during Valentine’s day, we sure need to go an extra mile. Here are some trendy ideas we can scout to revel at home with our dear ones. Those good at origami can go for the crafty gushy souvenirs of love while those who have a thing for wall decor can adorn them with flower wreaths or maybe you can go out of the box and create an entire photo booth for a picture-perfect evening! Here we have got you covered.

Balloon arch

Arches might remind one of the beguiling aisle that one may have walked during weddings and ceremonial functions. To relish this doorway as a romantic element, one can go on to decorate them with balloons. Symmetrically aligned balloons in monochrome will look as merry as a grig and shall uplift your partner’s mood. To make it more peppy and electrifying, one can dab some glitter onto the balloons before arranging them and make for a sparkling affair.

Wall decor with snaps

Walls big or small are perfect to transform them into a gallery. One can make the best use of walls, as allegorically, they stand as a testament of the time one has spent living with their loved ones. It would be romantic to encapsulate love within four walls by creating a string of snaps. These snaps can be of the most cherishable times, trips, dinners, dates, home life that you’ve shared with your partner. What can make this string of snaps savoir-faire is the addition of fairy lights to it. Get rolling with this ethereal idea to impress them!

Origami for tables

As you have welcomed your loved one with a beautifully designed arch and alluring wall strings, there’s time to come to the table and create some magic there. Let your creativity flow through origami ideas for the perfect dinner date! Add paper cutout bouquet planted into real pots of plants, or make paper mache jar bouquet for the table. To create an otherworldly charm one can add scented candles that have a soothing effect. For a more enchanting look, one can go for sparkling candle votives to go from wow to vow! For the table clothing, one can make hand-embroidered napkins scribbled with sweet messages or can match the linens with the tableware. Crocheted material heart-shaped table cloths and jar covers will just make the ambience more saccharine, so get going!

Photo booth

This can be the highlight of the day and can come off as a great surprise! For a perfect photobooth, one can make it as per sub-theme. For instance, one can add a string of pearls for a vegetal look or can add posters of good films or hand-created banners of love that you and your dear one likes. One can also create cardboard made photo frame to capture the moment of the day. Add lavish cushions and a table near the photo booth to complete the look. For the small table, one can create a lot of stuff made of baking clay. This can include ring trays, pen holders or flower vase that shall beautify the look of the photobooth and can make them full of joys of spring! One can also add a flower wreath coupled with tucked ribbon bows and fairy lights to grab attention.

Canopy nooks

After a joyful meal and a great photo session, all one would desire is to snuggle with the loved ones with a glass of mulled wine, movie or maybe a book to read to them! Canopy nook is exactly the place one ought to be looking for a serene cuddling time. One can easily create them using satin and netted silhouettes that manifest elegance in the parlance. A handmade table lamp near the nook illuminating in dim light will just accentuate the embrace of love. To create a whimsical world around you and your loved one, you can also add neon celestial elements on the roofs and walls. They shall illuminate in the dim-light milieu bringing galaxy at your home.

From the February 2021 issue of L’Officiel India.