The Guide runs you through two services that can give your home a funky and an eco-friendly makeover in a jiffy

Get Framed
When you walk into Chilli Billi, a fashion store in Indiranagar to stock your wardrobe with some bohemian clothes and accessories you will be in for a pleasant surprise if you happen to look around at the garage next door. This is where you will run into a plethora of quirky prints and posters framed and adorned on aquamarine and chocolate coloured walls. For Chilli Billi has decided to extend itself into another avatar: that of a design studio.
Quirkily named the Avant Garage by owners Jai Kapadia and Ankita Sarangi, the studio promises to perk up any wall in your home with its interesting range of prints.

"Ankita and I are from an advertising and marketing background and were always into art, photography and graphic design. This was like a further extension into a design space," Kapadia says.

According to Kapadia, there is a gap in the market in Bangalore as far as affordable interior solutions are concerned. He explains, "Either there are very high-end or very regular interiors available in the market. No one is doing funky, affordable art."

On offer are retro and new movie posters, prints of classic advertisements, pop art, vinyl art, designs done by artists and designers (commissioned by Avant Garage), traditional Indian handicrafts (Warli, Batik and Appliqu ufffd) and art replications and reproductions (such as Van Gogh's works) that are way past copyright issues. Kapadia and Sarangi have collected large number of these posters, prints and handicrafts on their trips around the world.

Avant Garage also offers customisation according to the client's space. Kapadia says, "We make suggestions based on the environment, whether it's a bedroom or a drawing room, the effect of lighting on the prints and the objects such as furniture, etc already in the space."

If you have a photograph or any print of your own, Avant Garage can turn into an unusual piece of art by framing it in interestingly shaped frames that they also specialise in. Prints are also given special treatments to make them look unique. The store Chilli Billi already has an album full of prints and posters that clients can leaf through when they walk in.