Getting the house ready for the new year

The New Year is an event that is looked forward to with impatience and a special mood not only by children, but also by us, adults. However, a special mood in the house must be able to create. What is needed for that? Not so much, just decorate the rooms according to the occasion. But is it really easy to make the New Year's decor of your home on your own, or is it still impossible to do without the help of professionals?

Undoubtedly, decorating is a creative process, which means it requires certain talents and imagination, and if you don’t have such inclinations, you will either have to peep home decorating ideas on the Internet and glossy magazines, or pay money to an interior designer. But let's not exaggerate. If desired, everyone can cope with this work, because preparing at home for this wonderful holiday will be a pleasant pastime for the whole family. Most of all, children love to do this, the main thing is to direct their restless energy in the right direction. When a fairy tale settles in the house, it will become easy even for absolute pessimists to believe in a miracle.

If over the years you sit down on the New Year's table with less and less enthusiasm, then you really need to refresh the sharpness of the festive sensations. Let's see in what environment you can celebrate the new year.

New Year's decor of the apartment

If you live in a city apartment, then the New Year mood should settle not only in the room where it is planned to set the festive table. That is, all premises should be involved in extravaganza.

We decorate the living room

We always prepare this room for the holiday with special trepidation, because it is planned to receive friends and relatives in it. Since not every apartment has a dining room, it is the living room that becomes the most suitable room for installing a Christmas tree and holding a night celebration. So, thinking, we came to the fact that the main components of the design of the living room will be a set table and a decorated Christmas tree. Original candles, themed napkins, dishes painted in the New Year's spirit may appear on the table. In the interior, garlands, wreaths, bouquets and other compositions made from natural materials will not be superfluous.

Decorate the bedroom

The components of the New Year's bedroom decor can be:

1. Beautiful underwear with New Year's symbols.
2. Cover with the same pattern.
3. Pillows in bright colors with gilding.

The unusual decoration of the central element of the bedroom decor - the bed, can completely transform a familiar room into the bedchamber of the Snow Queen or Snow Maiden. Replacing textiles is the easiest way to create a New Year's atmosphere, not only at home, but also in your personal life.

You can not resort to such global solutions and just hang tinsel in the room or attach a garland shimmering with magnificent mysterious lights to the head of the bed. Snowflakes on curtains, candles on a chest of drawers, balls in the window opening area will look good.

We decorate the kitchen

Since the kitchen is a room, usually modest in size, there is nowhere to place large New Year's compositions in it, however, for small decorative details, there will always be a place. You can bring a special mood with the help of dishes of a specific painting, garlands, hanging cabinets around the perimeter and cute New Year's baubles hung on rails and windows.

We decorate the nursery

The interior of the nursery is initially cheerful and elegant, so here you only need to slightly correct the picture with specific elements and the New Year's decor is ready. A good idea would be textiles with a portrait of Santa Claus, a pattern of a bag with gifts or a discharged Christmas tree. It is rational to decorate window sills with New Year's compositions, and walls - with garlands. You can hang a mobile with snowflakes above the crib or attach these beautiful creatures to the ceiling.

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New Year's interior in the house

“No matter how high-quality the luminous element of the New Year’s decor you purchased in the form of a garland or other accessory is, do not leave the decoration turned on in your absence”

For many, staying in an apartment on a magical New Year's Eve is complete nonsense, and they go to meet her outside the city. There, in the fresh air, you can decorate a Christmas tree, and fry a barbecue, and organize fireworks, and if you try, then the whole yard can be turned into a fabulous corner. Today, the assortment of stores has a sufficient number of various street garlands that will make your fence, house facade or trees in the garden play with colors. And do not spare the money spent, because you are buying not just elements of New Year's decor - you are getting in the mood! Moreover, this purchase will serve you for more than one year and every time it will be a real source of joy.

An integral attribute of New Year's Eve - candles - can be installed on the curbs of the alleys, a street table or a porch railing, however, place them so that trouble does not happen, remember that this is a small, but still open fire that can cause a lot of problems.

You also need to carefully approach the launch of fireworks. Make sure all guests are at a safe distance before launching the missiles, and stand aside yourself. Never break, even jokingly, the following rule: do not send firecrackers, bombs, or seemingly harmless sparklers towards people.

No matter how high-quality the luminous element of the New Year's decor you purchased in the form of a garland or other accessory is, do not leave the decoration turned on in your absence. A short circuit can happen, and everyone knows about its consequences.

When choosing an artificial Christmas tree, do not chase cheapness. Their branches ignite in the blink of an eye.

Very often, the elements of the New Year's environment carry a danger to pets. For example, cats will not fail to play with bright balls or ringing bells, so it would be more correct to place Christmas decorations and other accessories of this kind higher.

However, it doesn’t cost them anything to drop the tree as a whole, so try to take all measures to prevent such an excess. Do not leave tinsel hanging low in which the animal may become entangled.

Any holiday, and especially the New Year, should bring only positive emotions to every home.

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New Year's table and its decor

If we talk about the table, then on this holiday it is not just a place for displaying dishes, but also an element of New Year's decor, and an element of increased complexity.. It should be decorated itself, and at the same time be in harmony with the general situation. In table decor, color schemes are very important. Ideally, the colors of the blue, green and white spectrum should be present. If you prefer classic white porcelain dishes, then place them on a blue tablecloth and, conversely, put blue wine glasses or colorful plates on a solemnly white tablecloth. If desired, you can make an impromptu "chandelier" of candles and hang it over the table. Cones or shiny toys hanging on beautiful ribbons may appear on the frame of such a candlestick.

If you are expecting guests, then remembering that the New Year is a holiday of gifts, prepare modest surprises for those invited. Small gifts can be put in boxes, wrapped in brightly colored paper and tied with rain, to which you can attach a note or business card with the name of the guest. However, you will not put these nice little things under the Christmas tree at all, as you probably thought, but in ... plates. This is not just a great addition to the New Year's table decor. In such an original and pleasant way, you will indicate to the invitees where whose place is for him.

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Coniferous branches in the New Year's interior

On the eve of the New Year holidays, there are many outlets where you can buy not a whole spruce or pine tree, but also their branches separately. Fragrant paws can become the basis of an interior composition, but that's bad luck, in the heat, the needles quickly lose their freshness. To avoid such a nuisance, the shoots should be properly processed, then the coniferous decor will last until the very Epiphany. DTo prolong the life of the branches, they cut them with a sharp knife and put them in water for a day, after which the cuts are sealed with wax.

What can be done from these branches? Yes, whatever your heart desires! Would you like a bouquet? You are welcome! Choose fluffy branches and tie them with wire to keep them together.

Many people liked the American tradition of decorating the interior with such New Year's decor as a Christmas wreath. To make it, you need a wire base. It is easy to attach pine branches to such a frame. It is more correct to do this with colorful ribbons, but in their absence, just strong threads will do. The resulting wreath can be left in this natural form or additionally decorate it:

1. Tinsel.
2. Small figurines of Santa Claus.
3. Beads.
4. Garlands.
5. Golden bells.
6. Candies.
7. Apples.
8. Children's toys.

If you strictly follow the overseas tradition, then you need to decorate the entrance doors with such a wreath, fixing it just below the level of the peephole. However, in our country, few people will agree to hang such “good” on the stairs, so the decor migrated directly to the houses.

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New Year's ikebana

Decorating doorways is an undeniably successful solution, but the New Year's decor of housing does not end there, because there are still a lot of unattended shelves, racks, windows in the rooms, and each of these places deserves to be dressed up. The best way to decorate them is ikebana. You can simply put it on the leg of the table or the perimeter of the shelf, or you can collect the composition into a bouquet and put the basket on the fireplace portal or cabinet in front of the mirror.

A wonderful creation is created simply if you have a piece of foam at your disposal. You will insert selected coniferous branches into it. To hide the unsightly appearance of the base, the foam can be placed in a transparent bag and covered with multi-colored sand.You can go the other way and make mounds of salt directly on the foam. Thus, you improvise snow. Banal hairspray will help fix the salt. On the basis of this snow, you can grow a whole coniferous forest, which is very symbolic for the New Year's decor. Ribbons, cones, themed figurines can give a small forest a festive look. It will not be strange if a cute paper angel sits on a coniferous branch.

Instead of, or together with coniferous paws, exotic flowers may appear in the bouquet, which you can create with your own hands or buy on occasion. You can decorate spruce branches with gingerbread cookies, which are baked for this celebration not in the usual round shape, but in the form of little men. Spicy decoration is incredibly delicious.

An excellent accessory for the New Year's table will be a wreath-shaped ikebana, which can be decorated with colored candles. The composition is placed in the center and the light is turned off. New Year's Eve is immediately filled with romantic highlights.

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Fresh flowers in the New Year's decor

This is also a trend of the West. In many countries their presence is mandatory. It is believed that they fill the new year that has entered the house with positive energy. Similar decorations are exhibited in pots. The most loved and desired is the poinsettia, which, with its festive coloring, is really capable of giving a great mood. If it is not possible to get a live plant, try replacing it with an artificial copy. For flavoring, sprinkle the flowers with your favorite perfume.

In preparation for the holiday, you can grow a whole fragrant flower bed on the window by planting tulips, daffodils, garden lilies of the valley in pots.

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Decorate the window

Don't be afraid to decorate glass. Feel free to glue paper snowflakes on them or draw Christmas trees. Paints and soaps are easily removed without leaving any residue. Install garlands that play with light in the window opening. This is easy to do with tape. In addition to making you happy, burning lights will also cheer up people passing by, reminding them of the upcoming celebration.

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Christmas toys in the New Year's interior

"Brilliant accessories in the New Year's decor can decorate not only the beautiful Christmas tree, but also the home interior as a whole"

Shiny accessories in the New Year's decor can decorate not only the beautiful Christmas tree, but also the home interior as a whole. Tinsel and rain can end up on the wall or furniture. Moreover, you can not just hang them in waves, but lay out thematic figures from them, such as snowflakes, a symbolic Christmas tree, the image of a snowman, etc. This is where your imagination has the right to frolic in full.

If you have something to say to your loved ones in these fabulous and joyful days, make an inscription on the wall with wishes, allegedly left by Santa Claus himself. This may well be parting words for life in the new year. Adults will definitely like such inscriptions, while children will generally be delighted that such an important guest has visited their house. The easiest way is to lay out the letters of the New Year's decor with tinsel on a wire, which you can easily buy at any Christmas tree bazaar.

With the same success, balls, garlands and other toys can migrate from the Christmas tree to the wall. Shops today simply please with the variety and colorfulness of their assortment. And given that modern toys are mostly unbreakable, they can be placed in the most unpredictable places.

Place the colored balls in a vase and place it on the table. Such an accessory will enliven the feast and add a festive mood to the company sitting at it.

Conclusion

If you want to really have fun during the holidays, then you need to start creating New Year's decor today.Fill your home with comfort and love, then none of the household members will even think of going to celebrate the New Year in some cafe. Agree, this will be the best reward for your efforts. New Year is a family holiday, and therefore it is right to spend it surrounded by native walls. A little effort, warmth and good luck will certainly smile at you in the year that has come to the threshold!

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