Navratri Decoration Ideas at Home 

The biggest Goddess Durga festival is the nine-day Navratri festival. This nine-day festival is celebrated twice a year to offer devotion to Goddess Durga. The Navratri festival honors Devi Durga for defeating the demon Mahishasura. The Goddess is worshipped in her nine different forms during Navratri, each with a different meaning. It becomes a significant time to worship, fast, pray, and meditate to show their deviation towards the Goddess. People fast during the nine days to cleanse their spirit and mind. Decorating their homes and making beautiful pandals during Navratri is a major part of the festival. In this blog, we will discuss some Navratri decoration ideas for home.

Navratri is a festival embracing love, dance, and beautiful as well as vibrant decorations. The Navratri pandals are always worth watching. Whether you are planning to have a garba competition at your home or just a simple Navratri celebration we got you covered. Read to know about the Navratri decoration ideas you can use to decorate your home for the arrival of Maa Durga and welcome your guests.

1. Start with Entrance Decoration

Your home entrance should be the eye-catching part of the whole decoration as it is the first impression of the whole decor. Flower torans, rangolis, candles, diyas, and much more can be used together to hint your visitors about the whole vibe of your Navratri decorations. Use fresh flowers to make a beautiful rangoli at the entrance to welcome the positive energies. Include flower torans to decorate the gate of the entrance. 

As Navratri lasts for nine days it becomes difficult for the flowers to survive this long. It is advised to use marigold flowers instead of any other as these yellow and orange flowers stay fresh for a longer time. You can change them in 3-4 days. 

2. Decorate a beautiful Mandap 

The most important part of the Navratri decorations is the mandir or the Navratri mandap. For the mandap decorations do not hold back in adding colors, flowers, and lights. Start with making the backdrop of the mandap. 

Flower Backdrop for Mandap

For the backdrop, you can choose to hang flower garlands in continuous form to make a flower curtain. To enhance this flower curtain you can also add some mango leaf garland which creates a contrast of colors. This is the good old way of making a backdrop of mandaps.

Drapes and Dupattas Mandap Decoration 

The other idea for the backdrop is cloth curtains with torans and lighting. If you want to avoid buying cloth curtains you can use the dupattas in your home by mixing and matching them. This is also a widely used idea of mandap backdrop. Use cloth curtains to make a beautiful backdrop and then decorate it with some decorative laces and torans. To add a more beautiful touch you can use string lights and hang them in between the curtains.

Decorating a Simple Mandir | Navratri decoration ideas at home

Most people do not opt for big mandaps with backdrops and a separate place for their Navratri mandaps but welcome Goddess Durga in their already present mandirs. For simple mandir decorations, you can simply choose flower garlands to decorate your mandir and use beautiful lights which can include candles, diyas, and even string lights.

DIY Backdrop for Mandap 

For this backdrop, you would require some patience and crafting skills. Grab those colorful paper and make some beautiful flowers. There are various tutorials over the internet to get help from. Use these DIY flowers to stick on the wall behind the mandap. You can mix a lot of colors and styles in this decoration. 

3. Navratri Decoration with Rangoli 

How can we forget the vibrant rangolis during Navratri decorations? Rangolis are a must-have decor during festivals. You can use either fresh flowers to make a rangoli or use the rangoli colors to do so. If you are not skilled enough to make it on your own you can use stencils to craft out a beautiful rangoli. Give your rangoli a more beautiful look by adding some candles and diyas to it. 

4. Incorporate Flowers in your decor 

We love those colorful flower decorations during Navratri. But how do we use them in the decoration of our home? We already discussed how to use flowers in the mandap backdrop and rangolis. Now let us how some more ways of incorporating flowers in our decorations. 

Flower Petals Decoration 

Using loose flower petals is a way to use flowers in your decor. There are many ways to use them. You can take the loose flower petals and sprinkle the area around your mandir. Another way can be adding flower petals to glass bowls and placing candles in them to keep them on the mandap. 

Flower Garlands for Home Decoration 

The flower garlands or laces can not only be used to decorate your mandap or mandir but also other parts of your home. To create a theme of decoration throughout your home use these garlands to decorate other doors, staircases, and walls of your home. Place these flower laces in the edges and corners to fill empty spaces. You can use artificial flower laces for this as using natural flower laces would not last long. 

5. Add Colorful Umbrellas 

You must have seen those colorful Jaipuri umbrellas with various prints and designs hanging upside down in big festive decorations. Add them to your Navratri home decoration this year. You can use these umbrellas to decorate the mandap or hang them in the garba ground upside down with support. They will complement your decor when kept at various places in your home. 

6. Bring in the festive vibes with Lights 

Festivals are incomplete without beautiful lights. Lights not only add warmth to your decoration but also give positive vibes. You can incorporate lights in your decor in various ways. Use the string lights to decorate the outside of your home, for the inner decor of your home use diyas, candles, and lamps. These are perfect for lighting up small spaces in your home. Use dazzling fairy lights and exotic lamps to decorate sections of your home. 

7. Decorations for Garba Stage

The Navratri festival eventually invites and unites all Garba lovers. Garba is a fun dance form and a way to pray to the goddess Durga. Whether you plan to organize a garba or dandiya night or just want to decorate your home with the garba theme, these ideas are for you.

Garba Matkas 

Garba Matkas are a very popular form of decoration for Navratri. They are earthen pots decorated with the theme of garba in mind which includes laces, beads, sequence, silk threads, and much more. These are great items to decorate the corners of your home. You can combine some different designs to place them together. 

DIY Matkas | Navratri Decoration ideas at home

For this use simple earthen pots, paint them with different colors, and decorate them with flowers. They are not only simple to make but also make an amazing decoration for Navratri. 

Torans and Bells 

How can we forget the peaceful sound of bells combined with beautiful torans. Use them to decorate the walls and areas around the Garba stage. They will complement the theme of Navratri.  

Colorful Umbrellas

As we discussed above about the colorful umbrellas, you can use them to decorate the Garba stage. They are an amazing decoration for the Garba stage.

In this blog, we discussed a few ideas you can use to decorate your home for this Navratri. Navratri is a festival that showcases beautiful mandaps, home decorations, and garba stages. Use these ideas to enhance your Navratri decorations. We hope these ideas and tips help you decorate your home. Happy Celebrations. 

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