Diwali is one of the most celebrated festivals in India. Every year the festival of lights i.e. Deepavali, is celebrated on Kartik Amavasya (dark fortnight of Hindu month). This year Diwali is celebrated on 28th October, it’s just 25 days away. One of the main features of Deepawali is large scale spring-cleaning of the house. The main aim of this large scale cleaning is to give a complete fresh and new look to your house.

Besides giving a new look to your house this diwali try giving a fresh bright and ethnic decor to your room. This deepawali decorate your room in your own special way reflecting your personality and taste. Here are some tips to decorate your room:

• Before starting with the decoration it is most important that you clean your room thoroughly. Make sure that you get rid of all the unwanted things, trash, spider webs, etc. from your room.
• After disposing the trash its time to plan the diwali decoration of your room. In case your room looks dull and dark its time to get it painted with bright colors. Make sure that you select color which reflects your taste as well as it should go with your decoration plan.
• Instead of opting single color for the entire room you can go for 2-3 shades of a color. Select brighter shade for the darker corners of the room, brighter shade will illuminate the room and will make the room look spacey.
• To add personal touch to your newly painted walls you can paint some design of your choice at a corner of the wall. In case you want to give ethnic touch to your walls then you can go for tribal wall painting or warli painting.
• Now to match up your room colors choose bright and contrasting colors for your bed-covers and cushions. It is better to select color really bright. To add ethnic touch you can use saree borders or zari borders on the cushion covers.
• You can use your old silk, chiffon, jorjet and crepe sarees as your window curtains. Prefer bright colors and material with good fall, bright colors will make your room look bright and spacious.
• After completing the basic decoration now its time to do the main decoration and give a completely different decor to your room this diwali. Since deepawali is festival of lights so be creative with the light arrangements of your room.
• You can use different types of earthen lamps or diyas, paper lanterns or kandil to light your room. You can place diyas of different shapes and sizes and a lantern at the corner of the room. Prefer a dark corner for the assortment of diyas and lantern.
• You can use flowers for decorating your room. You can go for fresh or dried flowers. You can use inexpensive earthen flower vase. Placement of the vase and urns totally depends on your style and taste of decoration.
• Another exciting way to add brightness to your room is to use candles. You can use different shapes, size and colors of candles to decorate your room for the special day. You can even use floating candles and aromatic candles.
• You can also decorate the entrance of your room with a colorful rangoli design. Even inside your room you can make beautiful rangoli design. You can use the usual rangoli colors or different flower petals. You can even place diyas around your rangoli.

These are some of the ideas to decorate your room for diwali. There could be many more ideas and tips to decorate your room the special way. You simply need to be more creative and try to give your personal touch to your room.