Glimpses

While we're on the topic of wood carvings, here is a plaque of the incarnations of Krishna in our second floor hallway. From one of my favorite shops in Stillwater, Minnesota -- Enigma Global Artifacts.

Glimpses ... of Sweet India Dreams

Here is a glimpse of other bedroom elements that the India bed shown below would join:

-- Kama sutra carved wooden doors from Seret & Sons in Santa Fe, once part of temple doors in India

-- Carved wooden candlesticks that were crafted as samples for our former business by a kind businessman in Delhi

-- Wallpaper of unknown origin. It isn't my head-over-heels favorite wallpaper but it would complement the bed. And having already removed wallpaper from five rooms, I know how either expensive (if someone else does it) or time-consuming (if you do it) it can be. So this wallpaper is staying for now.

Glimpses

These are images from one of my very favorite places in the world. Let's see ... Hundi lanterns, a sari, saturated colors. Is it India? No, it's not as far away as you think. I believe we should bring the things we love the closest to us. Why not. Why feel like you need to travel, go far away on a vacation to have a feeling of being far away. So these are glimpses of the guest room in my house:

The sari is from Nalli in Chennai, India. A Benares sari that I searched high and low and far and wide for. Among many wood cabinets and tall stacks full of saris. Then I saw it walk past me, in someone else's arms. Desperate times, desperate measures. I ask the nearest Nalli staff if there's another like "that one." Yes! Score! I love it so much, why keep it in a drawer. So it drapes gracefully down a wall, where I can see it every day.

The walls were sponged with four colors of Benjamin Moore paints in several hues of paprika, beige and gray, building color upon color.

The photos above are a bit blurry, taken without flash to better capture the deep color. Here's a better shot of the sari pattern: