Tiled-in-piece

They travelled places with me;

wrapped, unpacked, put in boxes, in soft folds, unwrapped, relished when revealed,

subject of ideas, imagined murals, conjured collages,

stuff of dreams & escapades on the wall, corners, centerpieces

and finally rest(ed) in peace, piece-by-piece, in a wooden casket of Burmese origin,

of toil and labour of weeks and some.

Now standing Regal, centre staged, no more in parts, now as a Whole

bringing moodiness to all that surrounds :)

 

A Home in No Man's Land

Source : NYT

where the Berlin Wall stood

Am awestruck by the sheer audacity, visualization and romance of building a home of such material :-  on a stretch of land till very recently a death-strip, in such a home you live with your growing-up kids, a home designed with no particular desire to demarcate spaces or define privacy in the conventional sense; yet a Home built with an acute understanding and awe of the recent historical magnificence of the land where it stands.  As Ms. Schröder said. “Every day I look out on the foundations of a house from which people jumped from the windows to escape to the West. The paving stones my kids run over in front of our house map the route of the tunnels that were dug by people desperate to leave the G.D.R. It is living history for me.” Full article http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/garden/life-without-walls.html?ref=global-home

Whatever you do, don't miss the slideshow of the interiors:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/09/12/greathomesanddestinations/20130912-LOCATION.html?ref=greathomesanddestinations

a WIP life...

my precious handmade tile collection/
the Orange one is of Turkish men in a collective swirl symbolizing Joy, precious buy from Istanbul 

These are like the ingredients of a baking frenzy before they go into the oven, into different pies, cakes, cupcakes, and all the luscious bakes that you can dream of...

the exquisite Indonesian floral yellow tile, a chance find

Totally looking forward to some ideas come to life!

soon to be part of larger frames!

On an iMpulSe

What : Wood and sheer poetry in carpentry
Where : ओशिवारा  लक्कढ़ बाज़ार
When: How : while on a recce, after eons!
What : What could one do with this find?
Why : *silence*

A frame for a mirror ;
a wood crafted तोरन
just a wall mount,

or just beat up self for the impulse:)

कॉपीराइटेड  लाइमग्रीनवाल्ल्स 

My Day in a FRame

Was one of those days - a Sunday, in a timeless sort of rhythm;
my 5-yr old and me, and an inexplicable lethargic spontaneity
waiting to burst into some expression!

The urge almost weighing me down and out of any habitual activity
(dusting, ironing, making breakfast and you know the rest),
"are you crazy to waste away in the mundane today?!!"
on a morning awash in the willfully shaded rooms, with the Sun blazing away beyond my curtains.

I took the colors out (somewhat gingerly)
and everything else that was meant to be,
and with another inexplicable urge made myself a cup-pa Coffee (i am strictly a Tea person)
Decided to give-in to the Day.

some Days are better left unquestioned or simply, just surrendered to.

I feel rested now : Afternoon Sunday, July 5, 2013

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Work & Photographs Copyrighted to limegreenwalls.blogspot.com by Nivedita Das Narayan

I've got the bLues...

Summer's Springing at my doorstep when the Reds start to look too warm

I feel this urge to douse the warm in some cool cool hUes

so this, my friends, is of the bLues that invade me this weekend,

I allow them in -

calm, cool; in drops and shades; of the sky above,

as of the water across the end of this city - that is my Home !

Un Captionable

Fruit of temptation : My brand new Ikat printed Candle Stand

I know I'm soon shifting out and my pledge to self has been to freeze on any new additions; but tell me, tell me! - could you have resisted such gorgeous accessories, in shades that have seized your mind & being at the moment!

 Ikat continues to invade my moodiness these days - from the Reds to the Blues - just a climb down to cooler climes:)

Photo Credits: all pictures by me this weekend, copyrighted.

Prismma splashes Amar & Geetika's home colors!

So, my Diwali visit to Geetika & Amar's home in Noida had its culmination in Prismma's feature of their lovely home:). I'm happy as some of my favorite frames now look even more glamorous in a magazine format and more importantly, since the home owners themselves seem happy about it.

Do check out the feature in the March issue of Prismma http://www.prismma.in/tag/inspired-home-magazine/ on Page 54.

Some screen shots of the feature as prelude:

(All pictures my copyright and are screen shots of the magazine)