5 Elegant Handmade Decorations For The Home

Handmade ceramics by opulent ceramics on bellafricana marketplace

Home is where you feel safe to be yourself and where your heart is. Home should be a place where you can be at peace and feel warm and cuddled. We spend a lot of time at home and as a woman, home is our castle.

And the festive season is here again, you might likely be inviting your friends and well-wishers over for the season. Oh yeah, that’s what’s this celebration is for. But while having those guests around, you wouldn’t want your house looking like a complete mess. So I am going to showcase 5 insanely beautiful, handmade decorations for the home to light up your space.

1. Decorative Vase

These beautifully simple-shaped porcelain pieces are a lot of features to any space. It comes in different subtle colors, shapes and sizes. This will stun your guest as they look really appealing and elegant. Opulent ceramics never fails in curating aesthetically appealing ceramics. From teacups, flower vases, dinnerware, table decorations and lot more. Also, with its infusing of different hues, your effortlessly add taste and luxury to your space.

Handmade ceramics by opulent ceramics on bellafricana marketplace

2.Decorative Clay Pieces

When it comes to wellbeing, lifestyle and beauty. I chose to include this clay by Marienne craft, not because it’s only a decorative tool but because it is environmentally friendly and healthy too. clay by Marienne uses her craft to create adorning clay pieces that will serve as decorations for our hones, hygienically water bottles that contains alkaline that detoxifies the body and saves from germs.

clay by marienne products on bellafricana marketplace
3. Cup Holder

This beauty is a signature of Mitimeth Ng, this brand helps to transform waste into usable products using water hyacinth. Other than just producing table cup holders, its also uses fibers to make baskets, wall clocks, decorative pieces and even fashion pieces. When you let your home tell a story or create an emotion that brings out the aesthetics of such space. With Mitimeth, Versatility meets functionality in these carefully crafted coasters and caddy. Whether you are looking to add a touch of glamour to your table or wall decor, these one of a kind coasters are just what you need, nothing extra!

water hyacinth woven by mitimeth by bellafricana marketplace

4. Laundry Baskets

Yasmin crafts also makes use of fibers to create pleasantly looking home decorative pieces. This laundry basket will help the house look more interesting and less boring. It is time to get rid of that old looking cloth storing and adopt this contemporary storage. Yasmin craft uses her craft in creating usable baskets, nice interior items as well as dinning wares.

Laundry basket on by yasmin craft bellafricana marketplace

5. Pouffe

There’s nothing quite like putting your feet up after a long day of being out and about, and if your sofa isn’t quite big enough to stretch out on, a pouffe is an ideal fix for all your lounging needs. Not only does a plump pouffe prop your legs up, but it also acts as handy extra seating, a convenient side table, and a place for pets to sit, too. Plus, it’s an easy way to make your living room feel cozier in an instant. If you have a busy home, a pouffe with storage is also a great option if you want to keep soft furnishings tucked away when not in use. Talk about versatility. Grab your beautiful pouffe from Apoti of Lagos.

Boho square pouffee by Apoti of Lagos on Bellafricana marketplace

Conclusion

It’s the festive season, and it’s the time of the year where everyone gets together to celebrate, be merry and be grateful of what they have. We all love spending time with family and friends during the festive period, and in order to create a good ambience in your home, you can use some beautiful handmade decorations to make your home gorgeous and give a relaxed feel to your home. To order more handmade decorative items, click here.

 

 

From Metal Scraps to Breath-Taking Masterpieces- Dotun Popoola

Bellafricana celebrates the talented African Creative, whose works involves the transformation, from Metal Scraps to Breath-Taking Masterpieces.  Dotun Popoola is a synergetic metal sculptor who has carved a niche for himself with his monumental metal sculptures.

Metal scraps to an Art work [Lion] by Dotun Popoola

Esin Oba by Dotun Popoola
Esin Oba by Dotun Popoola

His works of Art infuses both the European and African culture all by transforming metal scraps into environmental art.

From Metal scrap to motorcycle artwok - Dotun Popoola

Double Bass by Dotun Popoola
Double Bass by Dotun Popoola

From Metal scraps to a Masterpiece

Born in 1981, Lagos, Dotun Popoola is a contemporary Nigerian artist (sculptor) who specializes in synergetic metal sculpting. He creates pieces of art works from discarded scrap metals. His works are focused on transforming trash to treasures, rubbish to rubies and waste to wealth by repurposing wastes that threaten the ecosystem. Some of his works were exhibited in ART X Lagos. He had a solo exhibition called “Irin Ajo” (Journey) in Signature Beyond Art Gallery, Lagos, where he presented around 24 metal works of his.

From Metal scraps to a Masterpiece

From Metal scraps to Hen Artwork -Dotun Popoola

From Metal scraps to Fish Artwork -Dotun Popoola

Metal Scraps to squirrel Artwork- Dotun Popoola

Recycling at its best and truly a work of Art!

 

Pictures and information culled from: Works – Dotun Popoola

Dotun Popoola – Wikipedia

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