Music lovers today are not happy with just posters of their favourite bands and musicians. They want more and the market is catering to this increased demand of musicinspired home decor merchandising. From piano shower curtains to guitar book ends and having a drum set recycled into a chandelier to coasters with images of famous musicians, the market is full of them -you only need to know where to look.
"The trend is not new to India, but it's picking up only now and many people are adopting it," says Dhriti Bora an interior designer.
She adds, "Earlier people would have such decor only in their personal spaces, but today even common areas like the living room, kitchen or the living room have musicinspired decor." Dhriti recently designed a house for a tabla player, and was specifically asked to incorporate tabla elements. "After a bit of market research, I found a centre table in the shape of a tabla; it had beautiful coloured patterns and the top was made of coloured glass pieces fused together. I got cushion covers with Hindustani classical notes printed over it, too," she adds.
In the words of Frank Zappa, "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." One cannot agree more and this is why musical clocks were a rage when they came out. However today , functionality is also a concern and designers have come up with ingenious designs that have storage spaces as well. When Neha G, a self-taught interior decorator, first saw her Balkan friend, Petar's house, she was "blown away". "Till I saw Petar's house, I used to think that the most rad way a musician could do up their home is to put up album posters. Petar however, had added drama to each room by giving dramatic accents to the walls," she says.
Drama can be easily be achieved through a rich or unexpected item as it can through colour. And one of the ways is to use vinyl records on the wall -with their covers that have colourful designs intact -against a bright white wall. "It makes the colours stand out. When you want to listen to music, you just need to take out the records and play," Neha adds.
Records that are not in working condition can be stacked vertically, one after the other, at an angle, into a magazine rack. Interestingly, Petar used his amplifier as a bedside table and used to take it out when needed.
"His coffee table was in the shape of a guitar," she revealed.
Taking wallpapers another step further, now wall decals are used. Wall decals are trendy vinyl wall stickers that are affixed to a wall with smooth surface. It is an easy way to add personality to any room and emphasizes your passion for music. "The most common musically-inspired wall decals include The Beatles decals, staff-notations, a microphone, drums set or a guitar. I once did the interiors of a room where the boy wanted guitar hooks attached at specific places, over the decal, for him to hang his guitars," S Srinivas, an architect, reveals.
Music is not just confined to decorative items. Something like a curtain can also be used. "Piano keys on a curtain or painted on the stairs are the most basic ways in which one can experiment," says Srinivas.
"Sometimes using furniture or huge decorations can be too much for a person or his/her family . For those people I suggest a milder way to let out their passion," he adds. Srinivas had a drummer client in Bangalore. in Bangalore.
"Since my client was a drummer, I used parts of the drum as furniture," he adds.
Srinivas used the small drums (snare) as shelves on the walls.
"All you need are brackets and some screws to fix them to the wall and you can keep anything from books to small fig urines." Mahima Mathur, a music student, added a dash of retro to her room with a vinyl coffee table. Mahima reveals how she made it herself, "I had an old vinyl that didn't work and got a shop to fix it on a round wrought iron table." She says that a vinyl is the perfect way to highlight someone's interest in music.
Maria Sathyadas, a guitarist made a wall hanging using her old guitar. "I collected small colourful tiles, buttons, thread, pieces of old jewellery , coloured glass and whatever I could find and put them to my acoustic guitar," she explains. The guitar still hangs beautifully in her drawing room as an artistic piece of painting.
According to Srinivas, unlike a fashionable piece of decor, one cannot get bored of such interiors as it won't get dated. "There can be no such thing as waking up to a boring room with little twists like these."
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