How To Decorate your Home For Ganesh Chaturthi

Lord Ganesha is said to be extremely simple and jovial at heart. It doesn’t take much to please him (especially when that plate of laddoos is nearby!). When deciding how to decorate the home for Ganesh Chaturthi, you can let your creativity loose and make a colourful and regal pandal. Take help from this step-by-step guide on how to decorate the Ganesh pandal at home. After all, the festive season demands a home that’s all decked up!

9 Ganesh Festival Decoration Ideas for Home

Here are 9 beautiful Ganesha festival decoration ideas for your home. Light up the pandal and welcome Ganpati Bappa Morya with a bang this year!

1.  Spruce Up the Room

Before you actually start decorating the room with flowers, lights etc., it is important to clean and spruce up the room. Do a deep-clean of the room (as well as your house), removing any unnecessary items and shifting furniture around. If you see any paint chipping away or discolouration on the walls, you can quickly add a coat of paint and let it dry. Dust and clean the room thoroughly, making everything look sparkling and new.

2. Ganesh Mandap Decoration at Home

Once you’re done with basic dusting and cleaning, your main concern is setting up the mandap. One option is to get a readily available one in the market. You can also choose to build your own, using some simple Ganesh Chaturthi decoration makhar and sinhasan ideas. For instance, use thermocol sheets to build small temples and then spray paint them in colours of your choice. For more thermocol design and decoration ideas on how to make a mandap for Ganesh Chaturthi at home, add coloured ribbons as borders for the mandap. Place this in your pooja room or a centre stage location at home.

3. Decorate the Pandal and Surrounding Area

Flowers, whether natural or artificial, never go wrong when it comes to Ganpati Bappa. Red is his favourite colour, so you can use red hibiscus and oleander to create a flower decoration for Ganesh festival. Decorate the mandap as well as the walls behind with garlands. For the remaining part of the room, use colourful dupattas, streamers and even balloons.

4. Use What is At Your Disposal

Setting up the mandap and surrounding areas doesn’t necessarily mean you have to go out and buy decorations. You can easily use what is already available in your house, such as colourful sarees, vases, and more. They will add a regal look to the room, without requiring any additional expenses.

5. Theme Based Decoration for Ganesh Chaturthi

A lot of your basic outline is now done. But if you’re looking for Ganesh idol decoration ideas that really stand out, you can add some theme-based decoration for Ganpati Bappa Morya. Add a waterfall (painted on a canvas sheet or even a wall decal) behind the mandap. It could represent the Himalayas – the ultimate spiritual abode for our Gods. Why not add a cute crib to represent baby Ganesha, your little one’s best friend? Your child will love it too!

6. Bring Out the Lights

To illuminate the mandap, arrange for diyas, fairy lights and a few hanging lamps if possible. You can also keep a few floating candles ready. If you’re advocating for eco-friendly Ganesha decoration ideas this year, going natural with lighting is your best bet! Arrange earthen diyas safely in the pooja room and at the entrance to your house as well. This is an eco-friendly idea on how to decorate Ganesh murti at home. Make sure you teach your kids that fire can be dangerous and they need to be safe around the lights.

7. Make it Colourful With Rangoli

Rangoli is a crucial part of the festival, as you can use your creativity and create a beautiful artwork around the house. Look up different rangoli designs, depending on if you are a beginner or experienced, and draw different rangoli every day. You can buy different coloured rangoli powders and even add diyas and flowers as an embellishment for the rangoli.

8. Establish Lord Ganesha at the Mandap

When the auspicious moment arrives, bring Bappa in with fanfare and dhol and establish the idol on the beautiful mandap. Illuminate your house and make sure that the room remains clean and dust-free throughout the festival. You can now decorate the area in front of Lord Ganesha with flower petals, lamps, incense sticks and, not to forget, sweets!

9. Rainbow Theme Decor

VIBGYOR created using florescent sheets put together to make a rainbow makes for a perfect decor idea that you can try this Ganesh Chaturthi to welcome Bappa to your home. You can also add a cloud made with cotton and hang fairy lights behind it to give it a beautiful and starry look. Throw in some artificial lilies or roses and make the Ganesh idol (remember to bring home an eco-friendly Vinayak idol) sit comfortably on it. What will be more adorable than this to welcome Bappa to your home this monsoon?

Deciding how to decorate for Ganpati at home can be a fun experience for the family, while you look at many ideas and settle for nothing but the best. While decorating for the festival, make sure you add an elegant touch to the rest of your home too – a door-side rangoli, Ganesha wall-hangings and strings of flowers on curtains look really good. Have a great festive season!

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