Dining Cum Pooja Room: Traditional Decor Ideas

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By Anjana Ns

Monday, November 14, 2011, 17:54

It is not very difficult to get the ancient south indian tradition to your dining cum pooja room. Some simple ideas of traditional decor will help you get a royal look without much expense. Take a look at our simple dining decoration ideas.

When two things are clubbed it is difficult to the designer to enhance the beauty of the house. In apartments, it is too hard to have a big pooja room and most of the contractors ask you to adjust by creating a false enclosure in a corner of the dining area and make it a pooja room.
Your walls cannot have modern artwork in such dining rooms as the pooja room carries the ethnic look (old photo frames of the god and the goddess), books and brass idols etc. For such a traditional decor, here are some tips.

Simple Dining Decoration Ideas (For Dining cum Pooja Room)
If you are planning to go for a traditional decor for dining room, it blends well with the pooja room also. The old wooden chest of your ancestors, the tables and chairs can be given a new look by asking your local carpenter to stick or replace broken portions, add polish and varnish.

1. Plan The Items For Dining Room: Those old metallic neelajanams, small and dull sculptures need not be scrapped. Washing them with tamarind juice or tooth powder will bring back the lustre and make them look new. Place these items on the corner shelves or small tables.
2. Choosing Furniture: If you haven't bought a dining table, look for a carved teak or rose wood table as it blends well with the other accessories.
3. Upholstery: Purchase a cane mat or a traditional zari mat for the floor. Small can mats can replace the table clothes. Even traditional cushion covers can be used instead of mats.
4. For The Walls: Traditional ravi verma art or Tanjavur paintings or Mysore art can decorate your walls. If you decide to decorate walls at a reasonable price, you can buy posters of the paintings and frame it with wood or metal. Brass moulds can also be hung on wall corners or small areas to cover the black spaces.
5. Choosing Paints: For traditional decor, do not paint walls with too bright or too many colours. An off-white/beige/white will be ideal for simple dining decorations.
Mirrors, jewel boxes can also be a part of the decorations. Choose Krishna with butter or ganesh with Laddus to make it more clearer in your decorations that it is dining cum pooja room.