Do we have any readers from Kolkata here? During a trip to a interior village in West Bengal, we stopped over in the city for a night. Flipping through the pages of a daily, I came across an ad for Green Mall that piqued my interest. Going over their website, I’m pleased to have discovered.

Is there someone here who buys plants and other accessories regularly from the place? I wish there was something like that in Bangalore. The place is a nursery-cum-restaurant that houses about 2,500 types of indoor and outdoor plants - a treat to any gardener. Yes, you read it right. 2,500. I’m drooling over the images and wish I had the time to drop in for a lunch and some garden shopping.

For folks like me, who don’t live in the city, I think we can benefit from the site by looking at the categorization of plants and picking ideas for house plants and plants that thrive well in semi-shade.

Image courtesy: Green Mall

I’m fond of bright, cheerful colors for the bathrooms. You know, like dashing green, flashy yellow, or perhaps bold red. The ones I have now are electric green in color, and I simply love them. Bright colors have a way of perking up my mood in the morning. But they are nothing out of the ordinary; they are the ones you see in every home décor  store. So, when I first spotted this metal bath accessories collection at Restoration Hardware, I wasn’t sure what was about it that appealed to me. Perhaps the shine, shape, simplicity or elegance?

Metal Bath Accessories

The two-tone collection is also not bad.

Two-tone collection

What colors and material (ceramic, metal) do you prefer for your bathroom accessories? Does it make a difference?

In other news, my Diwali cleaning is almost done. Organizing the kitchen cabinets is what is remaining which means 2 hours of work. I don’t follow the de-cluttering, painting, cleaning, and organizing routine every year which is usually the norm for Diwali in North India. But this year was different. The house badly needed it. So, I got the bathroom tiles cleaned and filled the gaps with white cement. The rest I managed myself - fans and furniture cleaning, the living room/bedroom tiles, washing the curtains/throws/cushions and bringing out the silken ones, polishing the silverware, giving away unwanted stuff, getting the shine back on mirrors and windows, washing all the doors ..oh the list was endless until a few days back.  I’m glad it’s all over.

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