Believe in spirituality, Our country is widely known for celebrating 100s of colourful festivals throughout the year. Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the most awaited festivals celebrated every year. The ten-day Hindu festival is celebrated to honour the birthday of Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed God. People bring an idol of Lord Ganesha to their home, which is called Moorti Sthapna, a ritual of this festival.
Believe in spirituality, Our country is widely known for celebrating 100s of colourful festivals throughout the year. Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the most awaited festivals celebrated every year. The ten-day Hindu festival is celebrated to honour the birthday of Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed God. People bring an idol of Lord Ganesha to their home, which is called Moorti Sthapna, a ritual of this festival.
List of home decorating ideas during Ganesh Chaturthi:
Clean up first
To bring positive vibes to your home, keep all unnecessary old items out of your home. Clean it up from the dust and everything spread of non-usable. Hygiene should be followed to confirm complete cleanliness.
Moorti Sthapna (Idol placement)
Bring a Ganesha Idol to your home and keep it on a higher surface of the floor, probably on a wooden table. Offer varieties of flowers and also do not forget to offer sweets in front of the idol. Light up a diya full of oil or ghee or you can light-up numbers of diyas in front of the idol.
Decorate with Rangoli & Garlands
Draw Rangolis at the entrance and space where the idol is placed. Use flowers to decorate your home or you can hang garlands of artificial or real flowers all around. Change the garlands frequently if they are made of real flowers.
Lighten your house with Diyas
Keep diyas all around Rangoli or you can light up all the corners of your house with artificial lightning.
Decorate with Bells and Confetti
Use fancy little bells and confetti to decorate the Pooja house. Or there are so many decorative items you can purchase online from Goodease or Amazon to decorate your home.
Light-up your home beautifully
To get yourself to the complete prosperity, you must light-up your house’s balcony and windows with lighting strings.
Decorate with hangings items
Purchase decorative items such as little idols to hang on the walls of your home. The hanging decoration may include garlands, Ganesha idols, Peacock feathers, and flower plant pot basket. Apart from these, a house can be decorated with so many creative ideas like zigzag garlands, stylish lamps, and artificial flowers. People who are short on creative ideas can purchase decorative items from online gift portals like Goodease and Flipkart.
The festival is all about decorating homes and idols of Lord Ganesha. Every house is decorated with lightings, flowers, and amazing offerings to the Lord Ganesha. Everybody brings an idol of Lord Ganesha at home and keep it in the cleanest place of the house until the festival ends. Not only in India but the NRIs living outside India also celebrate and enjoy this festival.
How to decorate home during this festival?
First of all, you need to find a cleanest and most peaceful place to establish the idol of Lord Ganesha. North-east corner of the house is considered the most appropriate place to establish the idol. And you need to set-up a raised platform to keep idol and other offerings like flowers, lamps, and Ganga Jal. Now, perform rituals as per Hinduism.
Decorate your home with hangings
Also, you can decorate your home walls and ceilings with flowered garlands and little bells in a usual manner. People in India decorate their houses by hanging torans, made of Ashoka or mango leaves with a combination of flowers. The garlands of marigold flowers can be hanged on doors. People also make some unique decorative items prepared with coconut and banana leaves.
Stay creative with Rangoli Colours
Decoration cannot be completed without making Rangoli at the entrance of the door. Or it can be created beautifully in the room where the idol of Vinayaka placed. You can use a good combination of colours and flowers to create an outstanding Rangoli design at home.
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