Handmade with love for Nepalese families
Your photographs, carved into glowing panels. A quiet lantern for the people who made a house into घर.
Early orders are open
Family motto
घर ठाउँ होइन। अँध्यारोमा चम्किने मान्छेहरू नै घर हुन्।
Home is not a place. It is the people who glow in the dark.
Made for Nepali families — in Kathmandu, Sydney, and every kitchen that still smells like momo on a Sunday. A gift for Dashain, Tihar, a wedding, or the night you miss someone across an ocean.
Family days, printed as lithophanes — handmade with love. In daylight they rest. When the lamp is on, the faces return.
Black or white frames. Warm white, a single colour, or a slow rainbow. Real lanterns, photographed in the workshop.
Every lantern holds three family photographs and a Light of Home door. Frame colour is black or white. Delivery is not included yet. Lights, photos, and frames stay replaceable for life.
AUD 65
One beautiful light — warm white, rose, green, or any colour you choose. Plug in, and the faces you love appear.
Three photo panels + Light of Home door
AUD 75
The lantern breathes through a slow cycle of colour, the way evening moves through a room. The photographs stay. The mood changes.
Three photo panels + Light of Home door
AUD 85
Carry it to the table, the puja, the garden. About 7–8 hours of glow. About 6 hours to charge again.
Three photo panels + Light of Home door
Delivery fee excluded for now.
A lifetime piece
Every lithophane is handmade with love. All parts are replaceable, so the lantern stays in the family even as life changes.
When life changes
Some memories we keep. Some we need to let go.
Life happens, and so do relationships. Some photographs we want close. Some we need to replace — even erase. We stay with you on that journey. Tell us which photo to take out, send the new one, and we will print a fresh panel. Any photograph, AUD 15.
Replace a photograph — AUD 15
Each panel is printed by hand, checked in the dark, and finished one lantern at a time. Not a factory souvenir — a family object.
Just tell us which panel to change and send the new picture. We print a replacement for AUD 15. Slide the old one out. Slide the new one in.
The lamp can be replaced. A new frame is less than AUD 20. You keep the lantern — nothing here is throwaway.
This is a lifetime purchase. The people in the photographs may change. The light stays.
See it with your family
This is a preview, not the finished print. Upload up to three photos. Drag to turn the lantern. Try black or white, a single colour or the rainbow. Nothing is sent anywhere until you reserve.
Drag the lantern. Click a panel to add a photograph.
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Clear faces, a little light on them. A wedding, a Dashain smile, a parent you cannot hug this year.
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Handmade with love. The picture is carved in thin white layers. In daylight it looks quiet. When the lamp is on, the faces return.
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Black or white frame, your chosen light, and Light of Home on the door. Later you can swap photos, the lamp, or the frame without buying a new lantern.
A photograph carved into a thin white panel. Darker parts of the picture are thicker; lighter parts are thinner. Light from behind turns the carving back into a face.
Close, well-lit faces. Avoid heavy filters and tiny figures in a wide landscape. We can advise after you reserve.
Yes. Life happens, and some memories we want to replace. Tell us which photo to take out, send the new one, and we print a panel for AUD 15. You keep the lantern — no need to buy another.
Both are replaceable. A new light can be fitted, and a replacement frame is less than AUD 20. The lantern is a lifetime piece, not something you throw away.
Yes. Every lithophane is handmade with love. We print, finish, and light-test each panel ourselves.
Not yet. Prices above are for the lantern only. We will share delivery once early orders settle.
About 7 to 8 hours of light, and about 6 hours to charge. Plug-in versions stay on as long as they are connected.
Early orders are open
Tell us who it is for. After we confirm, we will ask for your photographs privately. No payment is taken on this page — we are emailed the moment you send this.
Every reservation arrives in our inbox straight away. We write back to confirm.
Delivery fee excluded for now.