How to Decorate Your Home Temple?

Who doesn’t feel the need for a sacred corner at home? Almost all of us seek mental peace, which naturally comes from regular prayers and meditations. God plays a crucial role by making a mandir for home necessary in our lives. Amongst many other materials like marble, metal, etc., a wooden temple for home is the best choice as it radiates a positive vibe that enhances the spirituality of your home. DZYN Furnitures’ home temples are unparalleled in this aspect. You won’t regret it if you choose our home temple designs.

Now, just buying a mandir for home won’t do. You also must take measures and personalize the temple design, making it suitable for meditation and prayers. It would help if you had decorated your mandir for home to make it compatible with your home decor. So, plan thoughtfully with attention to minute details.

Points to be Considered while Placing the Wooden Mandir for Home

First, select a suitable pooja area. If your house is big, you may have a pooja room. But in the case of a small apartment, you may not have so much space. In both cases, the mandir for home must be placed in a quiet corner. This will make the atmosphere calm and you will feel more connected to God. At DZYN Furnitures you will get home temples suitable for both small apartments, as well as large spacious houses.

Follow certain Vastu rules while placing the mandir for home. Your home temple must face the northeast or eastern direction. Vastu says, this adds a spiritual vibe and brings fortune to your home. If possible, place the home temple design near a window, so that natural light and air flow in. Do not let the base of your temple design touch the floor. Also, do not place pictures of your ancestors inside the temple as Vastu doesn’t support this. Make sure, the deity idols that you keep inside your mandir for home are not damaged. It is considered inauspicious.

Keep your mandir for home well-ventilated. Do not place the home temple in the kitchen, bedroom, around the bathroom, or staircase. The temple design should be placed at a height comfortable enough for you to conduct the pooja. The deity idols you keep inside your wooden temple design must not be too heavy. While buying mandir online, choose a design suitable for the interiors of your home. DZYN Furnitures offers a wide range of wooden pooja mandirs for home online for you to select from.

Reasons for Decorating a Home Temple

• It makes the ambiance of your home holy, calm, and spiritual.
• It makes your home look more beautiful. 
• It helps you feel calm inside.
• It encourages you to meditate and lead an organized life.
• It builds respectful feelings in your mind.
• It makes you feel close to God.
• It creates a sacred atmosphere.
• It helps to retain your individuality.

Some Traditional and Modern Decoration ideas for your Mandir for Home

Floral decorations - In Hindu religion, flowers play a crucial role in praying and making offerings to God. Pooja is considered incomplete without fresh flowers. The sweet and pleasant floral aroma will help to make you feel holy naturally and bring peace to your mind. Being originally beautiful, flowers automatically can add to the glory of your mandir for home.

Beautify your deity idols with garlands of flowers like marigolds, jasmine, etc. You can also make your home temple look attractive by decorating it with other fresh flower garlands like roses, tuberose, etc. However, fresh flowers decay rapidly so, you can also use artificial flowers to beautify your wooden temple for home.

Alongside, arrange flowers in vases and keep those in front, on two sides of your mandir for home. Your pooja area will look amazing. Apart from the above measures, you can also make rangoli with the petals of flowers like marigolds, roses, etc. in front of your home temple design. This will give a natural vibe to your home temple decoration.

Decoration with lights, incense sticks, and oil lamps - For Hindus, every pooja is combined with aarti. Well-structured big oil lamps are needed to conduct this. Also, diyas (small oil lamps) are an essential part of regular poojas. Diyas can be made of clay or metal. Your mandir for home will glow naturally when you light up these lamps and incense sticks with fire during worshipping.

Apart from this, you can also use small fairy electric lights to decorate your wooden temple for home. Place strings of fairy lights on the roof of your home temple and if your temple design has domes at the top, the effect of these lights will be awesome.

Along with the diyas, you can also use candle-lights to enhance the beauty of your wooden temple design for home. However, all these are firelit. So, be extra careful when you use candles or diyas to decorate your wooden home temple design. To add a pleasing aroma to the atmosphere, you can use candles with sweet fragrances and burn incense sticks. All these measures will make you enthusiastic about praying.

Other traditional decorations - Creating rangoli with colors is common in almost every hindu household. Flower petals and vibrant colors combined with human expertise create these beautiful designs in front of the home temples. It shows the skill of many traditional women, who are seen as homemakers. 

Hang small bells from the ceiling of your mandir for home to make it look traditional. Ensure that your home temple design has swastika and OM signs. You can also use other decorative strings of colored cloth, artificial dry flowers, etc., to embellish your wooden home temple. Your deity idols, the temple, and its surroundings must remain clean always.

Use LED lights - Choose a sober-colored LED light for a modern home temple design. These lights create a spiritual and peaceful ambiance that naturally encourages you to pray and meditate. You can choose a wall-mount wooden home temple design if your apartment is not so spacious. DZYN Furnitures will solve this problem as well. We have a wide variety of such wooden home temples.

The LED lights are not so expensive. So, for modern home decorations, you can easily select these lights. However, while buying a pooja mandir for home online, always consider the design and color of the temple. It should match with the interiors of your home. Choose a modern home temple design if your home has a modern look.

Avoid filling your home temple with too many artificial decoration accessories. A simple yet elegant look will make your mandir for home appear attractive. Personalize it. Your wooden temple for home will become unique. You will not feel deprived of a private corner for praying and meditating, even if your apartment is not so spacious.

Other accessories for decoration - Ensure that your mandir for home has enough storage space. DZYN Furnitures provides spacious drawers in all their wooden home temple designs. Keep the elements you need while doing poojas in these drawers, like holy books, prayer mats, sindoor boxes, oil bottles, etc.

Otherwise, you can also use handmade materials to give an ethnic feel to your home temple design. You will get these from local artisans. Some examples of such materials are handmade diyas, earthen incense holders, decorated and colorful earthen pots, embroidered cloths for the deity idols, etc. This way, you can give a personalized touch to your mandir for home. It will reflect your creativity and style.

Home Temple Decoration tips for Festivals:

Holi - This is a festival of colors. So, you can create a rangoli in front of your temple design with colorful dust available in the local market. Decorate the mandir for home with beautiful flowers and make your deity idols wear fresh garlands. Use sandalwood paste and vermilion while conducting the pooja. Do not forget to light an oil lamp and incense sticks.

Ganesh Chaturthi - During this festival, yellow and orange colors play vital roles. You can create a rangoli using marigold flower petals in front of your wooden temple for home. Alongside, keep a plate full of laddoos and modaks (Indian sweet) on the movable tray attached to the pooja area of your home temple design. However, do not forget to embellish your mandir for home with fresh flowers.

Diwali - This is a festival of lights and joy. So, decorate your home temple with small electric fairy lights or LED lights to reflect your inner happiness and wealth. Put handmade colorful diyas all around your temple design to show your unique taste and style. Also, keep large handmade earthen pots filled with fresh flowers on two sides of your wooden temple design for home. This will make your temple design look classy.

India is known for its rich and varied cultural heritage. Here, poojas are conducted on several occasions followed by celebrations. Every occasion is different from the other. So, you can change the decoration of your mandir for home following the season and the festival. However, you cannot do without fresh flowers.

Importance of Maintaining Mandir for Home: 

• Keep termites away.
• Make the home temple design last for a long time.
• Give a clean look and feel.
• Enhance sacredness and spirituality.
• Maintain peace of mind.

Simple Maintenance tips for your Temple Design:

• Wipe your wooden mandir for home with a dry and soft cotton cloth regularly. Use a suitable gentle fluid to clean your temple design if it is wooden made or of some other material.
• Take out all your pooja elements from the storage space of your temple design at least once weekly and clean the area.
• Regularly clean the deity idols that you keep in your home temple design. Make sure the idols are not damaged.
• At a household where you maintain a modern home temple design, make sure your pooja area remains clean. Remove wilted flowers regularly.
• Keep changing the decoration of your temple design at regular intervals. Follow seasonal themes.
• Do not leave the rangoli intact in your home temple design for long. Wipe it away after the festival ends.

Effects of a well-decorated Temple Design:

Brings mental peace - The first look always creates an impression. So, the decoration of your temple design will impact your mind. For a simple, modern home temple design, your mind will be calm and filled with peace and serenity. For a traditional temple design, you may feel more connected to your origin. In both cases, you will get peace of mind. Lots of temple design options are available if you are planning to buy a mandir online from DZYN Furnitures.

Bring regularity in life - When you look at a well-decorated home temple design, you will naturally feel the urge to conduct pooja. Gradually, worshipping will become a regular practice for you. This way, a suitable temple design will make you more disciplined and organized. It will help you to get noticed in your workplace as well.

Bonds the family - Suppose you are conducting an aarti early in the morning. The sound of the bells will wake your entire family and make them gather in front of your home temple design. A well-decorated temple design naturally encourages everyone to pray. This way, your family bonding will become stronger.

Enhances positivity in life - Whenever you feel low, look at your temple and pray to God. You can also open your mind to the almighty. He will show you the path to a solution. The diya that you light in front of your temple design removes all negative energy from your house and fills the atmosphere with positive vibes. You will never feel alone.

Retains individuality - While decorating your temple, you may use different materials. They may be handmade, modern, or traditional. For example, you can keep deity idols made of clay, metal, wood, etc. Each material has a specific significance and creates an idea of what kind of individual you are. Also, ideas like whether you use fresh flowers or artificial ones, small pieces of cloth with monograms, earthen pots or metal ones, etc., will help people understand your nature.

No matter what kind of a person you are, do not hesitate to create a personalized space for spiritual practice at your home. It will not only help you to develop as an individual but also will bring regularity and calmness to your life. If your life is good, you will also become more productive at work. Happiness will never leave you. God is there and will always be. Therefore, it's important to show respect in our actions.