Making Stone or Ceramic Coasters

Making drink coasters all by yourself can be real fun. One can easily make custom drink coasters and safeguard the table tops or other furniture items of the uninvited glass rings and spills. These can in fact be, a wonderful inexpensive gift option for your loved ones. Mentioned under is the step by step procedure of making a stone or ceramic beverage coasters. Read on to know how to make coasters.

Materials Needed

* 8 nos 4" x 4" stone or Ceramic Tiles
* 2 nos 12" x 12" peel and stick lamenate flooring tiles
* Measuring Tape or Ruler
* Straight Edge
* Pencil
* Razor Knife

Procedure

Step 1
Using the razor knife and straight edge, cut the peel and stick tiles into four squares, sized 3" x 3".


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Handcrafted Furniture: The Flexibilities

Handcrafted furniture boasts of exclusivity and elegance. These are such features which can hardly be achieved in an industrial mass produced furniture piece. An investment in handcrafted furniture sure reaps long time benefits as the wood does not wear off easily, the color, sheen and texture of the furniture also stays for long. Thus, it is indeed quite wise to invest in authentic solid wood furniture that is handcrafted furniture. Mentioned under are few advantages of custom made wood furniture. Take a look:

Space Utilization
Since the dimensions of handcrafted furniture are exactly as per the area of your premises, the space is thus utilized to the fullest and most aptly without rendering any dead spots or unused spaces. The setting of the interior looks more welcoming if done in the fittest manner.

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Marble mosaic medallions are beautiful add ons that can add oodles of interest to the floor. Marble medallions can be made in a number of styles and patterns. For instance, medallions can be used to create geometric designs, pictures etc. on floor. Mentioned below is the procedure of making a marble tile mosaic or a marble floor medallion.

Materials Needed

* Mosaic tiles
* Floor
* Tile Adhesive
* Design

Planning the Design
First of all design a mural that you are planning to create. This is done even before one starts building marble tile mosaic. Mosaics can be put to limitless number of different designs and patterns. So just play around with it and try and bring out the best out of it. The tiny marble tiles can be trimmed into different shapes to make wonderful designs. Measure the floor size and plan the design on a piece of paper. Graph paper or grid paper can be used for keeping the design in proportion. Colored pencils on the other hand can help in differentiating the areas and thus can help in bringing the entire look of the floor.

Marking the Floor
Once you are done with the design of the stone medallion on paper, plot it out on the floor using chalk. Mark the basic design on floor to have a rough idea of how things would move further.

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Indian Paintings : Glorious Heritage of India

Indian Painting reflects the glorious culture and heritage of India into incredible variety of colors and styles. Painting in India is a long practiced tradition. This creative form of art inspired generations of artists as their passion or profession.

The tenets of Indian painting and the various earlier forms of the art are to found in books like 'Mudraskshaka', 'Vishnudharmottara' and 'Vinayapitaka'.

The Indian handmade painting has several styles of paintings under its domain. Miniature Paintings are one of the most popular among them. Beautiful images from the epics and mythologies, idols of Hindu gods and goddesses and royal court scenes were depicted on pieces of glass, paper, marble, silk and leather in these paintings.

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