Awesome Tips To Update Your Living Room!

Bored of a beige couch? Want build your own terrarium? Take a look at these quick, easy and innovative ideas to update your living space. 

- Twinkle Khanna

Do-it-yourself (DIY). These three words when strung together are at once empowering, inspiring and creative. The best part about such projects? They give you a chance to experiment and take your space from banal to beautiful, functional to fantastic and weird to wonderful. So, to begin with, here is a guide on how to create a terrarium in just ten minutes. As an added bonus, there's a quick-fix, easy-to-make tea cup garden. Also, since a couch anchors the entire living space, it is the foundation piece that you style the look of your drawing room around. It’s the furniture version of spanx—bland and boring, but holds everything together; and just like the iconic garment you can use it as a base layer to create diverse looks. Read on to unlock DIY secrets.

TEN MINUTES TO A TERRARIUM 

The materials you need to create a terrarium include a clear glass jar, vase, bowl, glass, or whatever interesting glass container you have on hand. Activated charcoal grains (not to be used in humid, coastal regions), marble chips, cocopeat mixed with a quarter part of potting soil, various succulents, like Haworthia, Crassula, grafted cacti or mini indoor plants, a chopstick or any thin short stick and scissors. Once you have all this at hand, follow these steps. 

STEP 1 Create the first layer by pouring marble chips or pebbles into your container. Ensure that you fill no more than one third of the container (of your choice). 

STEP 2 Create a thin layer of charcoal over the top of the first layer (around 1cm).

STEP 3 Next comes the cocopeat mixture. This layer has to be a lot thicker than the previous ones as this is what the root system actually needs. 

STEP 4 Using your stick, make holes in the soil. This is where your plants will be placed.