March 28, 2024

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Property design inspiration: A meditation home and area to gather for Diwali

Joyelle West

In the beginning, Soni Konduru was not sure that she desired to set apart an entire room in her Chestnut Hill residence for a zen zone, but, when the pandemic strike, she was happy she did. Not only does anyone in the relatives use it for prayer or meditation, it is grow to be a quiet room where her 20-year-outdated son and 16-12 months-old daughter hold out and browse. “People use it all around their own schedules for ritual time, and it is also turn out to be a hideaway,” the style principal of Daastann claims. For the duration of Hindu celebrations these as Diwali, the 5-day pageant of lights that starts November 14 this calendar year, the household gathers there to gentle oil lamps, chant mantras, and make offerings of fruit, flowers, and sweets.

1. The carved wooden table from an Etsy maker in Jodhpur, India, is a representation of tables made use of for grinding grains outside the house homes in India. This retains bronze oil lamps and prayer books.

2. Schumacher pillows beautify the room wherever Konduru may well be a part of her little ones for a chat. “The butterfly cloth demonstrates the cycle of existence,” she claims.

3. When area workrooms could not swing a quick turnaround for window remedies, Konduru designed midnight online video phone calls to distributors in India. “They showed me fabrics till I located this embroidered one,” she claims.

4. Pauline Curtiss of Patina Types applied Venetian plaster to the partitions and ceiling to develop a dreamy impact akin to the patinated partitions of previous temples. Then she added the tree of life with leaves and lotus flowers fading absent into the universe.

5. Bronze objects on the platform involve statues of the goddess Radha and the god Krishna, a water bowl, bells, and an elephant incense holder. The temple hosts representations of more gods and goddesses such as a substantial impression of Lakshmi, goddess of prosperity.

6. The marble temple that was personalized built in Bangalore, India, sits on a system. “We retain the gods on an elevated system out of regard and devotion,” Konduru says.


Marni Elyse Katz is a regular contributor to the Globe Journal. Deliver comments to [email protected].