Undoubtedly, New Year is the most magical holiday. You can create a festive atmosphere and appropriate mood using thematic home decor. How to decorate an apartment with your own hands for the New Year?
The festive tree is the main symbol of the winter holidays
The tradition of decorating a coniferous tree for New Year and Christmas is very ancient and widespread in many countries. In Russia, the main symbol of the holiday is the spruce. IN last years Pine has also become widespread. Freshly cut trees can be purchased at specialized Christmas tree markets. A spruce or pine seedling in a pot, which can be planted in the ground in the spring, is somewhat more expensive. Those who care about the environment will like artificial trees. Quality decorative spruce trees difficult to distinguish from living ones even upon close examination. What is especially nice, even the most expensive artificial tree will pay for itself within a few years of use. How to decorate an apartment for the New Year, how to decorate a Christmas tree? The traditional option is to hang store-bought toys on branches. On sale you can find sets for every taste. Many Russians decorate the Christmas tree with balls and figurines of all colors of the rainbow. Some people prefer the “European” style - a combination of Christmas tree decorations of 2 colors. If all this seems too boring to you, try decorating the New Year’s tree in an original way or even make it yourself.
Creative Christmas tree
You don’t have to buy a Christmas tree; if you want, you can make it yourself. Lay out the outline of the Christmas tree on the wall with tinsel or garland. You can complement the composition with Christmas tree decorations. To attach the decor to the wall, use double-sided tape or office plasticine, which does not leave marks. This DIY apartment decoration for the New Year will be an excellent substitute for the real thing. coniferous tree or an original addition to the holiday decoration of your home. Another great idea is to decorate a classic Christmas tree with unusual toys. Make bows from strips of bright fabric, ribbons, or try making real New Year's toys.
How to make Christmas balls with your own hands?
Homemade New Year's decorations are completely special - they always turn out cute and kind. Try to decorate New Year's balls. For this you will need the cheapest plastic toys, clear all-purpose glue and loose glitter. Apply the desired pattern to the surface of the ball with glue and sprinkle with glitter. The ornament will not be erased if you place the toys on glasses of a smaller diameter or hang them. Dry the balls well, then shake off any excess glitter. Beautiful decoration apartments for the New Year - Christmas tree decorations, stenciled or hand-painted. If you know how to draw, transforming factory-made balls with acrylic paints and a thin brush will not be difficult. You can also color toys using a stencil. Cut out the desired ornament or figure from paper and fix the workpiece on the ball. Carefully apply paint to the cut out shape, then leave the piece to dry. Christmas tree decorations can also be covered with sparkles and sequins, tied with beads and beads, covered with fabric and lace. Craft stores sell foam balls that are ideal for making Christmas decorations. You can also sew Christmas tree pendants from fabric or knit from yarn.
Each room has its own Christmas tree!
Still wondering how to decorate an ordinary apartment for the New Year? Use Christmas trees in decoration - the main symbol of the holiday. Let one of the biggest forest beauties stand in the room where the festive feast will take place. In other rooms you can place Christmas trees of all sizes and shapes. Making a Christmas tree is very simple - fold a cone out of cardboard and secure it with tape. The resulting blank can be wrapped in tinsel, covered with corrugated or regular colored paper, or simply painted. Now decorate your tree with small candies and toys small size, beads. Beautiful Christmas trees can simply be cut out of paper or cardboard according to a template, and then decorated and assembled into garlands or used as pendants.
Christmas wreaths in the interior
One of the most popular elements of Christmas decor in Europe is the spruce wreath. Making such a decoration is extremely simple. Take fir branches(real or artificial) and form them into a ring. Secure with thin wire. Now you can start decorating. Tinsel, Christmas decorations and homemade pendants - attach to your wreath everything that you usually hang on a holiday tree. The finished decoration can be hung on the door, on the wall or placed on the table. You can also make a wreath from wire. Use a ring of thick wire as a base. To add volume, you can wrap it in foam rubber or newspaper. Wrap the workpiece on top with tinsel, and then decorate it further. You can decorate your apartment in an unusual and stylish way for the New Year by making several decorative wreaths from various materials. Try using flexible tree branches without leaves as a base. Want something original? Place the entire wreath of Christmas tree decorations or real pine cones on the base, gluing it with universal glue.
Eco-friendly materials for holiday decor
In recent years, eco-style has become increasingly popular. Why not use natural materials in New Year's interior decor? Beautiful compositions can be made from ordinary tree branches. Rinse and dry them. Now let's get to the real magic. The branches can be painted with any color spray paint. No less interesting option decor - coat them well with glue, then sprinkle with glitter, polystyrene foam or coarse table salt. After complete drying, such branches can be placed in vases. An excellent addition to the composition will be fresh or artificial flowers. You can hang multi-colored balls on the branches, attach figurines of birds and butterflies. New Year's tinsel and rain will help complement the composition.
Candles for a cozy atmosphere
Compositions with candles will help fill your home with comfort and warmth. Use beautiful candlesticks or make your own. How to decorate your apartment for the New Year and save on decor? Use small glass jars or tired glasses with thick walls as candlesticks. You can decorate them with painting and multi-colored ribbons. Try making festive compositions - place tinsel and fir branches on a tray or plate. Install candles, place Christmas decorations around them and fresh fruits. Such compositions can be sprinkled with glitter or artificial snow on top. Candles can also be further decorated using various techniques. On the largest ones, try making decoupage; on the longer ones, you can cut out some patterns using a pointed sculpting stack. Candles decorated with ribbons and bows look festive and elegant.
Colored lights
Exist various options decorating the apartment for the New Year using electric garlands. They can be hung on curtain rods, walls, doorways or windows. It’s easy to find classic garlands, options with shaped light bulbs, icicles or nets on sale. You can use tape to attach electric garlands in the interior. LED decorations are lightweight. They can be hung on curtain rods or furniture without additional fixation, by hooking onto protruding elements. With the help of garlands you can decorate almost any space. If you have an empty niche, shelf or free window sill, place an electric garland on any of these surfaces. Interesting idea- pick up empty figured bottles and throw a garland inside them. If your budget is unlimited, pay attention to luminous figures made of acrylic and plastic. Such decorations will become bright accent festive interior.
Don't forget to decorate the windows!
As children, we all cut out snowflakes from paper and glued them onto window glass. Why not bring back this wonderful tradition? If regular snowflakes seem too boring to you, try cutting out something more interesting. Snowy landscapes, houses and entire cities - you can draw all this on a sheet of white paper yourself and then cut it out. A simpler option for making window decorations is to print ready-made templates on a printer. You can glue the cutouts using tape or soap solution. Garlands of Christmas balls are an excellent decoration for an apartment for the New Year. It is absolutely easy to make it with your own hands. Prepare toys of 2-3 colors that match each other and matching ribbons. Hang the balls on ribbons of varying lengths at random. You can also form a cascade - alternating the length of the tape from the longest to the shortest.
Holiday garlands
How to decorate an apartment with your children for New Year? Try making bright garlands. Attach bright flags cut from colored paper or cardboard to the warp thread. You can cut out some figures or draw fairy-tale characters. It all depends on the degree of your skill. Flags for a paper garland can be made from old New Year's cards or leftover gift wrapping paper. Garlands made from “rain” look no less elegant. Making them is also very simple: tie separate shiny strips onto the warp thread. Using ordinary medical cotton wool, it is not at all difficult to make snowballs. Form lumps of a suitable size, carefully moisten them in PVA glue diluted with water and leave until completely dry. String the resulting snowballs onto the warp thread - you have an original garland.
Secrets of table decoration for the main night of the year
The New Year is invariably celebrated with a magnificent feast. Make menus and shopping lists in advance. And also don’t forget to take time to decorate the room where the table will be located and serve it. Choose a bright tablecloth and suitable dishes and cutlery. You can choose napkins with New Year's designs. If you are using a plain tablecloth, you can add chic and sparkle by scattering confetti, large sparkles in the form of stars or Christmas trees over it. You can place a small composition of fir branches or candles in the center of the table. The most important thing is that the decor does not take up too much space and does not interfere with the communication of guests sitting opposite each other. How to decorate one-room apartment for New Year, where to put the table? It all depends on the area of your home and the number of guests. If space allows, you can allocate space for a table in the living room. Emphasize zoning with decor: hang a garland on the adjacent wall, use additional lighting.
What does the main symbol of the New Year “love”?
It is believed that when choosing New Year's decorations should be guided by eastern calendar. How to decorate an apartment for the New Year of the Rooster, what does this proud bird like? A feathered guest will definitely appreciate the multi-colored and joyful decoration of the home. If you want to use one color, give preference to the orange-red-brick color scheme. To make homemade decorative items, it is more appropriate than ever to use natural materials: branches, straw, nuts, cereals. Popular ideas for decorating an apartment for the New Year in rustic style. If you wish, you can transform even the most modern interior. Use linen curtains, bedspreads and tablecloths, choose for festive table simple ceramic and wooden dishes. Any image of a rooster is also appropriate for New Year’s decor. These can be small figures, silhouettes and drawings. And here chicken meat Shouldn't be on the holiday menu. Replace it with pork or beef, and be sure to prepare dishes that the rooster will like. These can be any recipes with cereals, legumes, corn and herbs.
A time of miracles, magic, unexpected surprises and expected gifts - New Year. Preparing for it gives you the opportunity to be a little wizard. With your own hands, turn your house into a fairy-tale palace, the home of Mother Winter or the palace of the Snow Queen.
What is needed for this? Available materials, the desire to create, perseverance and patience, rich imagination and a little bit of... New Year's magic. Preparations for the holiday begin, it's time to get to work!
Magic secrets and little tricks for decorating your home for the New Year
Before you start decorating your home for the upcoming winter holidays, you need to think through all the details and little things. They are the ones who create the unique charm and Christmas mood. Not a single corner of the house should be left forgotten.
Special attention need to be given color scheme and choice uniform style, ideas. All decoration elements must be in harmony with each other, create and maintain the chosen style, the special atmosphere of the winter holidays.
Consider the interests and tastes of your household. They are different, you will have to find compromises.
For children’s rooms, you can choose funny decorations and add fairy-tale characters and New Year’s cartoon characters to them. Bright colors children will like it.
Living room where New Year's table the whole family will gather, it should not only be beautiful, but also comfortable and cozy. To set the festive table, napkins with themed pictures, a beautiful tablecloth, plates and glasses with New Year's ornaments would be appropriate.
Compositions of pine branches, candles, and cones will complement the table setting. You can put small surprises and gifts near the devices for your family and friends.
You can use citrus fruits as candlesticks: lemons, oranges, tangerines.
The kitchen where New Year's treats will be prepared also deserves attention: gingerbread houses, arrangements of tangerines and apples, bright poinsettia flowers.
Oriental aromas will fill the kitchen if holiday candlesticks are made from cinnamon sticks.
The front door is where the home New Year’s fairy tale begins: traditional Christmas wreaths, twinkling garlands, animal figurines.
Decorating windows and window sills has become fashionable again - movable modules, cut out figures, paint designs.
Involve your children, spouses, and grandparents in creativity. Creating New Year's compositions is a labor-intensive task, extra hands will not interfere. Joint creativity will not only bring joy to everyone, but will also unite the family and give all household members the opportunity to be together.
If you have never done needlework, do not despair - choose a simpler jewelry option. Mastery comes with practice. If you want to change a composition you spotted on the Internet, feel free to do so. A little improvisation, a little imagination - and you will have an original decoration.
The most interesting, spectacular and creative decorations can be made from simple and available materials: paper, cones, twigs, fabric, felt. Preparing for the holiday and making decorations takes time. Don't put everything off until the last few days. New Year's chores should bring joy.
Clippings
The technique of cutting (vytynyanka) has been known for a very long time, but over the past few years it has been experiencing a rebirth. The cuttings are not difficult to make, the technique is quite simple. The result exceeds all expectations - by window glass Frosty patterns bloom, cartoon and fairy tale characters appear.
You can make modules from cut out figures. Volumetric snowflakes, lanterns, Christmas tree decorations made of paper sway and turn at the slightest movement of air. From thick paper you can cut out an entire city or a snowy forest. The backlight “revitalizes” the composition. I want to look through the windows or under the Christmas tree and see who lives there. And come up with a magical New Year's tale.
Lamps, lamps, floor lamps can become magical and change their appearance. You can cut out any pattern and plot from paper. You can turn the most ordinary glass jar into a lamp.
Christmas tree cut-out toys with openwork patterns will decorate the New Year's beauty. Handmade toys create a special atmosphere.
I like any one I like New Year's picture You can turn it into a cutting template yourself. To do this, you need to enlarge the picture using any graphic editor and transfer it to a worksheet using carbon paper. Utility knives work well for cutting. To avoid cutting the table, use special mats.
The advantages of cuttings are the availability of materials and the simplicity of the technique itself. To complete complex compositions you will need patience and perseverance.
New Year's garlands
Garlands for home decoration are the most popular option. Store-bought and DIY, electric and natural materials. Paper, fabric, tinsel and glass toys, traditional and original - the choice is huge.
Electric garlands can be used to decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also the facade, windows of the house, stairs, entrance and room doors, fireplace mantel.
Compositions with LED garlands are not difficult to create. Glass flowerpots of simple or complex shapes are suitable for them. Ordinary glass jars or bottles can be used to create original lamps. Experimenting with the shape of cans and bottles, with color and light gives excellent results.
Christmas tree made of electric garlands? Unusual, but very beautiful. You can attach it using transparent tape or buttons with a wide head.
The usual interior becomes mysterious, mysterious when garlands are lit in houses. The most ordinary things become magical. The lights, reflected in the old mirror, beckon you into a New Year's fairy tale.
The most ordinary garland can be made original. A little imagination, glass Christmas balls - and your window decoration is ready.
LED garlands go well with garlands made of paper or fabric. Made with your own hands, they fill the house with warmth and love. Ordinary paper snowflakes strung on a string turn a room into a winter home for a Blizzard or Blizzard.
Multi-colored Christmas trees, gold stars, white circles, snowmen, penguins, mittens, socks - any New Year's figures are suitable for a garland.
Garlands made of fabric or felt are simple, but so warm and homely. Christmas gingerbread cookies and candy canes, gingerbread houses and a Christmas deer, a bearded Santa - it’s easy to make figures for a garland. They can be voluminous or simple. Bright felt figures will original decoration New Year's table or a good gift for guests.
The most creative New Year's decorations are learned from natural materials. Apples, citrus fruits, nuts, pine cones are the basis for garlands.
Variations New Year's decor incredibly much. Choose what will bring you and your loved ones joy and feeling magical holiday. Remember comfort and safety.
Unusual options for the New Year tree
Who said that there should be only one Christmas tree in the house? There are never too many Christmas trees. Surprise your family and friends with handmade Christmas trees. Funny and elegant, small and not so small. What can you make an unusual Christmas tree from: books and cookies, pasta and paper, pillows and logs, pine cones and Christmas tree tinsel.
The smartest Christmas tree will come from books. An option suitable for students - accessible and inexpensive, easy to make, quick to disassemble.
Multi-colored buttons of different diameters are needed to make a button Christmas tree. Buttons look like Christmas tree decorations - round, bright, shiny.
A coffee tree is the perfect decoration for the kitchen. Coffee beans will fill it with the aroma of roasted and freshly ground coffee.
The gingerbread tree is not only a decoration, but also a delicacy. You will have to cook it often if there are small and large sweet tooths in the house.
Unusual Christmas trees will not replace the beauty from the forest, but will complement home interior. Come up with your own versions of cheerful Christmas trees, get creative!
DIY home decorations for the New Year
From an old light bulb
Traditional or unusual Christmas trees require decorations and toys. Let's make them ourselves. To do this we will need old burnt out light bulbs, primer and acrylic paints, acrylic varnish, brushes, sponge.
Wipe the surface of the light bulb with any degreasing solution
Let's cover it with primer. If it’s not there, we’ll paint it twice.
On top of the white base we make an inscription with blue paint. Apply blue paint around the inscription with a sponge, shading it slightly
We outline the inscription with a gold or silver outline
We draw out patterns on the surface of the light bulb with an outline - snowflakes, frosty patterns (you can first draw them with blue or light blue paint)
When the paint and outline are dry, cover the toy acrylic varnish. It will protect the toy from mechanical damage - abrasions and scratches
Having tied a shiny thread to the base, we cover it with acrylic varnish
We create the New Year's mood for ourselves, and decorating the house for the New Year is the easiest way to give your abode a fabulous, festive atmosphere. 2018 is ahead, which you need to meet especially brightly, colorfully and in a great mood. Start preparing now - many great ideas are easy to implement with your own hands!
If in normal times not every one of us is engaged in needlework, decoration, embroidery and origami, then in the pre-New Year period everyone, without exception, decorates their home. Intricate crafts can be done with children as a family, and this exciting activity will give you a lot of positive emotions. Make your home joyful and bright!
Window decoration ideas
Celebrate the New Year 2018 outside the windows painted with frost, even if the temperature outside is above zero. Window- the eyes of the house, from the outside they are visible to any passerby, and inside, decorated with garlands, lanterns, snowflakes, they serve extra space to implement design ideas.
- Snowflakes. Filigree work will become an exquisite decoration for your home. Paper snowflakes look very beautiful on the windows of a private house, but they can also make an apartment stand out from a row of boring window openings.
Advice! There are thousands of patterns for cutting snowflakes out of paper - from the simplest to the most complex. Arm yourself with comfortable scissors, be sure to think workplace and start creating window decorations. The more patterns there are on the plane of the paper, the more elegant the crafts look.
- Drawings. With water-washable stained glass paint and minimal artistic skills, you can create patterns that look very attractive from the outside and give warmth and coziness. If you are not confident in your talents, just write on the windows: “2018!”, “Happy New Year!” Give younger family members space to be creative, too. Don't forget to take a photo of the children in front of their work!
New Year's door
Here it is recommended to take advantage of the Western tradition and hang a wreath on the door of a country house from pine needles, cones and bells. The doorway is easily decorated with artificial snow, a horseshoe for good luck, and paper snowflakes. You can make the composition yourself, but there are plenty of ready-made options available in stores.
You can make a cardboard horseshoe yourself and decorate it with tinsel and rain. Write congratulations to your loved ones on it and give it as a gift when you go to visit. Any crafts are good ideas for a present or its New Year's addition.
Garlands are a classic way to decorate your home.
How to make a star from wire
We bring to your attention another idea for decorating your home for the holiday - an unusual frame star. You will get a kind of 3D effect if you make crafts in different sizes.
- Take a flexible wire. Bend it so that you get a five-pointed star.
- Prepare a sketch of the star from the photo.
- Cut it out of colored or wrapping paper and bend the edges so that they catch on the wire. Secure with tape if necessary.
- Glue the tinsel to the wire.
The stars can be hung from the ceiling in a checkerboard pattern, or they can be decorated with garlands, rain, and streamers. It will hang down beautifully and create a festive atmosphere.
Advice! If you live in an apartment with high ceilings, be sure to hang something from them. This will visually narrow the room and create the effect of floating decorations made by yourself.
Photo for memory
Every person has a framed photo in their home. Refresh them and give them a New Year's mood: hang them on a serpentine or thick twine along the wall. Fill the free space with small balls, garlands and hand-made drawings.
After the celebration, print out new photos and add them to the old ones. This composition can stay in the apartment until the very end of January. You will love this idea, and perhaps you will leave the photos on the rope, making them a permanent interior accessory.
Balls everywhere
Ideas for the New Year are not limited only to the capabilities of the needlewoman. Use themed toys, glitter, decorations industrial production for room decoration.
Balls are a wonderful symbol of the New Year. They come in different colors, sizes, shiny, matte, with a rough surface, from different materials, expensive, cheap, vintage, modern, etc. A variant of the idea is to hang them on strings from the ceiling, secure them in the window opening in the kitchen and living room.
How to create a holiday in your home if you decide not to put up a Christmas tree this year? Maybe you have a very active puppy who is sure to knock over a tree, or you moved to new apartment and haven’t had time to buy a Christmas tree yet... In general, there’s no need to worry: there are a lot of cool ideas on how to make a New Year’s fairy tale with your own hands.
1. Arrange the candles
You can buy large red, white or blue candles, wrap them in tinsel and place them on the shelves. Or you can make small ones and make unusual candlesticks for them. We pour colored water into a vase, put confetti, small beads, berries, Christmas tree needles in it and set our candle afloat. Caution, do not forget about fire safety rules!
2. Place tangerines in vases
What is the most New Year's fruit? Of course, tangerines. Buy a few kilograms and arrange them in beautiful vases.
3. Decorate the chandelier
Not only a chandelier, but any lamps in the house. We hang toys, tinsel, and streamers on them.
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5. Color the glass
11. We attach cards with congratulations
You can decorate your home with New Year's cards with congratulations and wishes of happiness, health, and joy. They're guaranteed to lift your spirits throughout the holiday weekend.
12. Making decorations from pine cones
Pine cones are an excellent basis for New Year's decorations. We paint them with glitter, glue beads to them and hang them with strings.
13. Buy snow globes
Beautiful New Year's toy - snowball- familiar to everyone since childhood. If you have never had such a ball, then give yourself a small gift.
14. Place deer/snowmen/Santa Claus figurines around the house
What is the New Year without its main symbols? We place figurines of deer, little snowmen and Santa Claus around the apartment. Probably one of my colleagues for the holiday.
15. Set up a gingerbread house in the kitchen
Oh, he is so beautiful and so delicious. Nowadays you can buy a beautiful gingerbread house at your nearest confectionery shop: its main advantage is that it can even last for several months. If you want to increase the New Year's euphoria, prepare it yourself:
16. We hang Christmas balls throughout the house
Bright shiny balls can be used to decorate a chandelier and other interior items. For example, hang them on a curtain rod or on door handles, and also decorate the walls.
17. Using New Year's napkins
Have you already laid out holiday linens in the bedroom? Great. Now we are buying a tablecloth and napkins in the New Year's style.
18. Decorate the chairs
In addition to the table, you also need to decorate the chairs: you can wrap them in tinsel or hang several small balls on them.
19. Making decorations from cinnamon sticks
Try some cinnamon sticks. It could be a Christmas tree, a star or unusual craft from cinnamon and dried orange slices.
20. We hang paper garlands with inscriptions
Be sure to hang at least one garland with a greeting such as “Happy New Year”, “Merry Christmas” or “Happy New Year”. This stretching is very simple: you can print the letters on a color printer and then simply attach them to a thread.
21. Place an aroma lamp with the smell of spruce
New Year has its own special aroma, and for many it is the smell of fresh green living spruce. And since we decided not to put up a Christmas tree this year, we need to. For example, using an aroma lamp and essential oils.
22. Decorate the house with Christmas socks
Another traditional attribute of the New Year, which recently migrated into our culture from abroad, is the Christmas stocking, where it is customary to put gifts or candy.
23. Use artificial snow
Do you want your house to be “dusted” with snow? Then take it into account artificial snow. It is sold in cans and is almost no different from real snow, except that it does not melt.
24. Decorate ordinary glass jars
An original way to diversify the interior is to place glass jars filled with New Year's items on the shelves. A little tinsel, a couple of toys, snow, two cinnamon sticks... It turns out beautiful and stylish.
25. We write the numbers of the new year
Make a festive composition in which you can read the date of next year. For example, put a number on the wall with tinsel or hang 4 balls, each with a number written on it.
Happy New Year!
Is New Year's home decor the only thing you want to do from morning to night? So don't deny yourself this pleasure! If every day, starting today, you do a little bit, then on New Year's Eve 2019 you will find yourself in a fairy tale, and not just in your house or apartment)
“Cross” offers you DIY New Year’s decor ideas that are absolutely possible to bring to life without unnecessary time and money costs. Even if you work all day at work and don’t plan to spend a fortune on New Year’s decorations, you can still decorate your home for the long-awaited holiday!
Door of a house or apartment: entrance to a fairy tale
Just by looking at the decorated front door and porch country house one gets the feeling that the holiday is already close. Therefore, it is quite justified to first decorate the front door, hallway, terrace, veranda or porch, in other words, the entrance to the house.
As you can see, it’s nothing complicated: other containers, fir branches, cones and balls will do their job:
You can make such a simple but effective composition (it’s better to buy decorative apples):
If there are logs in the yard of your house or dacha, then give them the opportunity to participate in the New Year’s decor :)
All these ideas can be implemented for residents of city apartments.
Decorate the hallway, not the entrance group
If there is not enough space in the hallway for such large compositions, then you can always make them more miniature. Or decorate the windows! When you return home, be filled with a festive mood, looking at the cozy windows :)
Catch the idea! Miniature logs can also be placed on the windowsill
To the branches you can add fir cones, mounted on skewers for barbecue, as well as branches with red berries (viburnum, rose hips, elderberry, wild apple):
Very soon, decorative twigs with red berries will appear on sale, which are ideal for composing:
Channel CULINARY IDEAS shares ideas for home decor with twigs and berries:
As soon as in the yards apartment buildings Christmas trees are being installed, hurry up and collect broken spruce branches. And don’t let the puzzled looks bother you, your task is to collect twigs for soulful New Year’s compositions!
If you have the opportunity to have a branch with cones, the bouquet will turn out even more beautiful:
Festive tableware and textiles for the kitchen
The kitchen is the place where the whole family spends most pre-holiday and holiday days. If you have dishes with New Year's decor, then slowly begin to take them out of the cabinets and place them on open shelves:
Buying a New Year's service is not a cheap pleasure, but it does not have to be done at once. Most stores sell dishes from the same series PER PIECES. Build your collection gradually.
By the way, the dishes can be quite everyday, but if you add just a few themed plates or mugs, the mood will immediately change to exciting and playful:
And even if you prefer dishes of neutral colors (not red), they may well become part of the New Year’s decoration - put New Year’s figurines, a Christmas tree, and festive textiles on the shelves:
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As soon as you beautifully arrange at least part of the New Year's decorations, your kitchen will immediately be transformed, and you will want to continue decorating the house :)
Bed linen, pajamas and pillows, pillows, pillows...
Have you ever thought that you can literally immerse yourself in the holiday atmosphere with the help of bed linen? I didn't think about it either...
... but now, imagining how children would enjoy bed linen with snowmen, Christmas trees and snowflakes, I seriously thought that I should buy one)
New Year home textiles Of course, there is also one for adults:
If buying several new sets of underwear at once was not part of your plans, then you can start small - buy only one. If you like this idea, then by next year you will plan in advance to buy the missing kits.
And don't forget your pajamas! Or buy only pajamas - it will be cheaper, but no less atmospheric!
Blankets are also an alternative to bed linen. If you have not yet acquired your own, but have been wanting to do so for a long time, then start with one or two this year and continue in subsequent years.
Traditional New Year's colors: red, white, green.
Prints: all kinds of checkered patterns, New Year's ornaments.
Fabrics: cotton, linen, faux fur, knitted fabric
You can make your home blanket more festive using braid with balls if you sew it around the perimeter of the blanket. A wonderful idea, you must agree!)
Oh, what! New Year's compositions with candles
The cuts can be not only round, but also oval. In addition to them, a straight board or even driftwood is suitable as a base:
In the video Vekoria Handmade as a base - a piece of tree bark:
You can supplement the composition with dried flowers, animal figurines, and all kinds of natural materials:
I want to creative ideas DIY New Year's decor? Please!
How to assemble more complex compositions, see the video on the channel Tsvoric:
Charming! New Year's garlands
Garlands have been associated with the New Year since kindergarten. And this means that the presence in the house New Year's garlands will only enhance the pleasant feeling of the impending holiday. In addition to the abundance of electric garlands found on sale, you can complement your New Year's decor with homemade garlands:
How to dry oranges, watch the video from the channel AmyFamily DIY:
Not everyone would think of using wooden cuts as the basis for a garland. But now will you take this idea into account?)
You can use anything as pendants for a garland: textile toys (,), bells and bells, and spruce branches, the same wooden cuts, and much more:
Easy to create channel garland Ideas for creativity:
Collect a collection of bullfinches and waxwings. Just imagine what a magical atmosphere your home will be filled with during the long winter!
If you have a suitable curtain, then you can make such a wonderful home decoration for the New Year:
Christmas wreaths, easy to make
It is impossible to imagine foreign homes without an abundance of Christmas wreaths. Of course, we would also like to decorate the front door with a wreath, but it’s a pity to give wasted money or time and our efforts to those who like to take what is “badly” lying around. Therefore it is safer.
From simple options, which do not require special materials and skills, there are these:
Simple wreath with paper star decoration
Wreath as a base for a mobile and a miniature wreath pendant
Tatiana Abramenkova shows how to make a wreath from the same flat piece of wood as in the photo above (you can also use thick cardboard):
Embroidery hoop - why not the basis for a Christmas wreath!?)
After seeing this photo, you will look at skis from a different angle :)
Christmas stockings and how to hang them
Not everyone is ready to hang Christmas stockings around the house yet. Having seen enough beautiful pictures from foreign sites, many people think that socks definitely need a real fireplace. But this is not true at all. Just look at how many ways you can hang them!
Hang your socks on a hanger in the hallway, or on the stairs, or next to it:
If you want to hang it by the fireplace (but there isn’t one), then make an improvised one:
Absolutely any hanger with hooks is suitable for socks, strong rope and just a thick branch:
It is not necessary to embroider socks, and then also sew them (not everyone likes or knows how to do this). You can knit socks and even buy regular ones, but with New Year’s prints.
Great idea with photos!
Another way to use skis in a non-standard way)
Socks can be any shape, size and color
You can knit not only socks, but also mittens!
Socks hung on a rope
Socks on a branch - minimalism in its purest form
A real “discovery” for me was the homemade decorative fences on which resourceful needlewomen hang knitted or sewn socks:
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But if you want embroidered socks, then a master class will help you
A decorative pole or holder for New Year's stockings is an incredibly cool thing!
The holder blank can be ordered from a carpentry workshop:
And if you don't want to bother with various kinds hangings, then knit/sew a giant sock for gifts and hide it under the Christmas tree:
Wow! Creative Christmas trees
What creative people can’t come up with (I consider it my duty to show you these finds)! Maybe among the readers of Krestik there will be those who want to place the same creative Christmas tree in their home?)
Christmas tree made from old boards
Christmas tree made from vintage rulers
Christmas tree made from the spines of vintage books
Christmas tree made of retro reels
Christmas tree made of wooden plinths
A Christmas tree can also be made from foam baseboards
The tree is clearly for a man)
“I made her out of what was...”
Different New Year's decor ideas worthy of attention
Ease of execution and excellent results - these are the ideas that underlie most of Krestik’s articles. We want you not to “suffer” creating this or that craft, and so that in the end you get really cool products self made. So catch a few more ideas worthy of attention!
Homemade thread lollipop
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Have a wonderful holiday, dear readers!
