Pots from Gaia

Custom-made furniture from Fab India

Now, we weren't aware of this. It was only when we visited the store in search of a particular couch that we found out thta Fab India does custom-made furniture. It's too late for us as we are almost at the final stage of completion. But the word has to be spread. They have an amazing collection of side-tables, lampshades, coffee tables, chairs, dhurries, table mats, crockery, upholstery, futons and mirrors. Yeah, thi is apart from their clothing range for men, women and kids.

Fab India can do up your house (in India) if your order exceeds Rs. 1,00,000/-. The best part is yet to come. If you liked one of their designs but would want to go a slight variation, just let them know. Thay have artisans who will do the needful. Had we known this earlier, by now we would have settled down in our new house :-(

Nowhere near completion

I'm not updating the blog any more because the house is not nearing completion. It'll take another 2 - 3 weeks before we can finally move in. To add to our woes the workers have already started damaging things that we got from Crafters Antique. A beautiful chair that we'd picked up from Jew Town is absolutely damaged. Just hoping that they will mend it.

The Door

This door will soon get replaced.

That's how the house looks like now...

The living room. Fortunately no one lives here.

Stylkist.com

This is a new online store that I discovered. They have some pretty neat stuff on home decor. Do check it out!

P.S. Slightly on the expensive side (after all it's silk).

Green Somethings

Staying in Mumbai? Looking for planters? No time to walk around lanes hunting for a planter that would evoke your aesthetic sense?

Hmm....here they are. Green Somethings. An online store that can take care of your small indoor and outdoor gardening fancies. They also do the planting for you. What more can you ask for? You just need to pick your favourite(s) from the catalogue, pay online and promise yourself to attend to the little green member in your house. By the way, Green Somethings will deliver your stuff at your doorstep. And did I mention that they have kitchen herbs ?

Kara Ventures

A few enterprising women got together with a mission. A mission to revive the dying handloom industry in Kerala. The result - Kara, Weaves of Kerala.
I came across their website while I was in the process of doing my new house. As I was very keen to have handloom curtains that resembled the neriyathu sarees of Kerala, Kara ended my search at their online shopping store. But there was this inscrutable urge to prod a little further and to trek down to the place from where these weaves originated. I travelled from Mumbai to Kochi and from Kochi to Kanjiramattom. Waiting there was Indu Menon, Sreedevi, Suryakala Satish and Lakshmi Menon. I was bowled over by their sheer zealousness and childlike excitement while exhibiting their creations. Elegant off-white drapes with intricate weaves in gold adorned the windows of the little ancestral property from where these women were operating. They took pride in showcasing the works of the handloom weavers who were once part of the dying handloom industry. And the stuff what they have is what I was looking for. I must say...worth all the toil

They also have the traditional Kerala towels, torthu, alongwith cushion covers and hand towels.
I am imprressed. Aren't you?

Recycle

This is an appachatti that my mum had been using for more than two decades.

Now she got herself a new one and so I get to keep this, for floral decoration.