The word urli originates from the Tamil word “urulai” which signifies a round bowl mainly of brass or iron which was traditionally used in areas of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Due to cultural development now urli bowls are widely used throughout India for festive decorations. Urli bowls are a versatile piece of decor that holds elegance and culture. Usually, Urlis are used as festival decoration items mostly during Diwali, most of us struggle to find ways to decorate our urli bowls to match the theme of festivals. This blog will discuss some unique and popular ideas for urli bowl decorations that you can use to create beautiful festive decor items.
1. Floating Flowers in Urli Bowl
This is the standard way of decorating urli bowls. It is a simple yet elegant method to utilize urli bowls for festive decorations. You would require some fresh flowers and water, instead of whole flowers you can also spread some flower petals in the water. This can become a good centerpiece for coffee tables and dining tables. Using only flowers or their petals in the urli bowl with water is the easiest way of decorating small and simple urli bowls.
For more details in the decoration, you can create contrast with a few green leaves and other natural elements. To create a pleasant festive environment, add a few drops of essential oils that add a good aroma to your home and relax your mind.
2. Pleasant Lighting with Urli
When it is Diwali season you cannot keep the lights aside. There are different kinds of urli bowls, one with inbuilt diyas and the other with no such diyas. If the urli bowls have diyas then fill the bowl with different flowers, add 1-2 candles to the bowl, and light up the diyas. If the bowl doesn’t have any diyas, place some floating candles or diyas in the flower bowl after adding flowers to the water. This gives it a warm aesthetic look.
If you want to avoid placing diyas inside the bowl you can fill the bowl with flowers and some leaves and on the sides of the bowls place the diyas and candles. This creates an eye-catching effect and lights up its surrounding area.
3. Modern Dining Table Centerpiece
Urli bowls are a major decorative item for center tables and dining tables. For such table urli bowls fill them with some fresh water and add flower petals. In the water, you can add some shells and colored pebbles. These colored pebbles and shells make your dining urli bowl more suitable for the area.
For the dinner parties and get-togethers surround the urli bowls with fresh fruits and flowers. This adds to the theme of the dining table.
4. Hanging Urli Decorations
Hanging Urlis is a common style of urli bowls. As the inside of the bowls is not noticeable you should opt for the ones that have additional designs other than the bowl. The other design can be a design or metal flowers around the hanging. For the bowl, you can use big flowers as well as other items like shells, pearls, or pebbles.
5. Therapeutic Urli Bowl Decorations
Urli bowl decorations are no doubt always therapeutic but we can enhance it more by adding a few more things that also add to the decorative factor. Aroma oils are one option that we discussed above. Some of the other herbs you can add to the water in urli are lavender, rosemary, and mint. These herbs promote well-being and relax your mind.
Benefits of using Urli in Festive Decorations
Urli bowls serve countless benefits, let us discuss some of them.
- Mental Relaxing: Most urli decorations utilize floating candles and flowers. Watching this has a calming effect on your mind which in conclusion reduces stress and anxiety, and brightens up your festivals.
- Cultural Significance: Urli bowls hold a wide cultural significance. They were previously used for medicinal benefits and much more. Having them in your festive decor symbolizes religion and prosperity.
- Vastu Benefits: These urli bowls are an auspicious item as per vastu because of their religious significance. The water element inside metal urlis invites positive energies and prosperity.
Where can you place Urli Bowls?
Urli bowls are cultural heritage and their placement plays a significant role in how they affect energies around them. The places you can consider to place urli bowls are given below.
- Urli bowls can be decorated and placed in front of the idols or near the pooja area.
- They can also be used to decorate your entrance or main door area.
- Urlis can be used in the center of your living room to spread their energy throughout the house.
- They can be used on the dining table or the side tables of bed.
- Not only in homes urli bowls are also used in temples and weeding. They find their place as centerpieces in weddings and other holy occasions.
Urli bowls during the festival decorations signify rich culture and heritage. In this blog, we discussed how you can use urli bowls in your home by decorating them the right way and placing them in the best possible positions. With the help of these urli decoration ideas, you can incorporate them into your home decorations this festive season. For the best urli bowls collection visit YF Decor’s festive decoration collection.
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