70 ideas of a New Year's decor: we decorate the apartment and the house

The special atmosphere of the New Year holidays depends on many details: the general inner mood, the pre-New Year bustle with the choice of gifts for people close to the heart, the surrounding decor, which makes you wait for a fairy tale and a miracle. Factory decorations will not be able to provide sufficient uniqueness and coziness, which is possible to provide if you create a New Year's decoration with your own hands.
Every year new and bright ideas appear in order to create unforgettable jewelery made from handy or materials available in stores. At the same time, the New Year's interior does not contain any unusual elements: a Christmas tree, long beloved garlands, Christmas wreaths, various interior compositions, suspensions, etc.

Some rules

To decor for the New Year looked harmoniously, you need to follow simple rules.

From their performance depends on how stylish and tasteful the room will look:

  1. Do not combine too bright and catchy colors. Simultaneously used, for example, bright red, yellow, purple color in the interior, quickly tired and will persistently dazzle. This also applies to metallic colors: for example, a bronze or golden hue cannot be combined with silver. This is considered a manifestation of bad taste.
  2. Do not use different styles in the design. For example, classic glass angels will not be in harmony with homemade textile birds.
  3. Observe the dimension. Do not place too small elements on large surfaces and vice versa.
  4. Always know the measure in the decoration. Do not abuse the decor, arrange the room evenly, so as not to concentrate in one place. For example, a garland, a wreath with a Christmas tree in one corner will look a lot too.

Properly selected decorative items can create a full festive atmosphere.

The choice of style

When deciding to make a New Year's decor with your own hands, ideas for this may be different. It all depends on the overall style of the room:

  • Lovers of the classics will appreciate the tall spruce with the traditional decoration (angels, stars, balls in gold and white, beads as garlands);
  • For eco-style will be relevant crafts from natural materials, rags, felt, dried fruit;
  • Scandinavian style, high-tech will also be relevant to look at the "classics";
  • Minimalism can be present in any design of the house, as it involves the use of only a small amount of decor.

It is necessary to take into account not only the interior, but also the size of the room being decorated. Small rooms should not be plentifully forced with decorative objects, as they will interfere with the usual life activity. A few noticeable accents will suffice (for example, a Christmas tree, a Christmas wreath, a composition). "Spray" in this case is not necessary. Small details will steal space, it will not lead to high-quality New Year's design.

Many people choose the style for the Chinese New Year, the decor is different from our usual one. Red colors prevail in design, artificial trees are decorated with fresh fruits in sugar, candied fruits. It is customary to arrange trays with 8 different types of fruit in different corners of the house. But choosing this style should take into account that the dates for celebrating the New Year in our country and China do not coincide, therefore such a celebration may not be relevant.

Choosing the design of the design for the New Year, you should pay attention to each subject of the decor separately, make sure its relevance.

Christmas tree decoration

What a holiday without the main participant - the Christmas tree? You can decorate a holiday tree in various ways: you can buy toys, garlands in the store, or you can make them yourself. But before you decorate a fir tree, you should immediately determine the overall style of home decoration. The use of all decorative elements at the same time, will lead to a tasteless appearance of the room.

Purchased toys

The Christmas tree in the interior occupies a central position, so you need to dress it up correctly:

  • You should use the classic version of the selection of colors. Optimal for a decent appearance using two colors. Three or more will look tasteless. The trend is the selection of jewelry in one color with the use of different tones and textures of the selected color (for example, pale blue, blue, matte blue, dark blue, etc.);

  • Choose the size of the toys accordingly to the size of the tree. A small size for a large Christmas tree is not allowed, the same as a large one for a small tree. The best option would be to use the sizes “incrementally” - from the top of the Christmas tree to arrange the small size of the ornaments, gradually increasing the size to the bottom of the New Year's tree;
  • Tinsel and garlands should be positioned so that they do not cover the main decor of the Christmas tree - balls and other toys-pendants. Do not pile a tree with a variety of tinsel, but rather use beads not to match the toys, electric garland;

Decorating a Christmas tree, they follow a simple rule - everything should be in moderation. Then the festive center of attention will look stylish, tasteful.

Homemade toys

You can make all the necessary decorative elements by yourself. To do this, use different materials.

From food

To decorate a festive tree, you can prepare the following elements:

  • Gingerbread. Welcome forms of Christmas themes - Christmas trees, snow-covered houses, bunnies, stars, etc. You can achieve originality through the design of their colorful glaze.
  • Candied fruits and dried fruits. The latest trends are decorating the Christmas tree with dried fruit (for example, pineapple rings, kiwi slices, orange and lemon circles). Such specimens in combination with the smell of pine needles will fill the room with a special aroma.
  • Caramel and chocolate. Wrapped in transparent packaging colored caramel, chocolate figures will look advantageous on the Christmas tree. If there are children in the house, they will appreciate such edible suspensions.
  • Figured pasta. Compositions of pasta covered with glitters, metallic paint or foam chips will be the original decision in the decor.

For the New Year's decor, almost all food products from which crafts can be made (for example, cereals that are glued on a cardboard base and then painted) are suitable. The main thing is fantasy and the desire to surprise your loved ones.

    

From textile or felt

To make a pendant on the Christmas tree, use bright textiles or felt. According to the pattern, parts for toys are harvested, stitched and stuffed with synthetic wool. According to the need of the product can contain elements of embroidery, beads, beads, rhinestones, stripes, ribbons, braid and so on. An integral element is a loop for hanging the finished toy on the branches of the Christmas tree.
Different elements can be depicted - angels, stars, Christmas trees, birds, hearts, etc.

    

From natural materials

The gifts of nature can be useful not only for decorating the Christmas tree, but also for making other New Year decorations.

What can be used?

  • pieces of bark;
  • cones, nuts;
  • twigs, sticks;
  • dried berries on the branches;
  • dried curly leaves, etc.

All blanks can be covered with glitter, paint of your favorite color.
Using various materials and techniques for making jewelry, you can make a unique Christmas decor and toys for the house with your own hands.

  

Room decoration

It would be right for the house decoration to match the style of the Christmas tree dress, then the whole decor will not cause dissonance and the overall look will be worthy. The decor of the room for the New Year with your own hands can be made from the above elements: garlands, wreaths, panels, compositions.

They should be at home evenly and not piled in one place. You can use different surfaces for decoration: walls, window sills, pedestals, floor, ceiling, windows, doors, fireplaces.

The simplest option would be a simple purchase of all necessary. If factory toys were used to decorate the Christmas tree, then you should continue to decorate the house for the New Year in the same theme.

If you decide to make the whole decor for the New Year with your own hands, then do not forget about the harmonious combination of elements. For example, dried oranges on the Christmas tree is incorrect to combine with sweets in bright packages. It is appropriate to combine oranges with beige-brown toys made of textiles or felt.

Christmas wreath

New Year's home decor, which involves the use of factory-made elements, can be supplemented with a self-made Christmas wreath, it can be hung on the door or put on the table as a decoration for a candle.

Having got spheres, they can be turned into a stylish element of a decor. To do this, you need a frame (wire, rattan, foam ring). Having chosen the necessary variant of the base for a wreath, balls are fastened to it (it is better to choose medium or small diameter up to 5 cm) so that they are densely arranged one to one. The final point will be a ribbon tied in a bow at the bottom of the wreath.

Making a wreath of dried fruit, the base (frame) is also necessary, but in this case it is better not to use wire. The chosen dried fruit is carefully attached to the frame with the help of hot melt. As a decor, you can use a ribbon made of organza, a flaxen cord or a string of natural material. Top can be covered with sparkles or small foam chips.
Similarly made wreaths of sweets, natural materials and sweets.

    

Garland

In modern interiors, garlands can be found less often. You can buy the finished version in different interpretations: foiled, cardboard and paper, on a tape basis with pendants, etc.


To make such a decor for the New Year can and personally. For a basis take a braid or a tape, a rope from flax. You can attach any elements: dried fruit, sweets, natural materials. Use the best hot melt. After work, the product is covered with glitter or other decorative elements.

It is appropriate to place such a garland in a contact way: against the wall, fireplace, furniture. The way of free hanging is more suitable for factory versions of the product.

Compositions

A recent trend that brings New Year's design to a new level are various compositions that are placed around the room on surfaces: pedestals, dressers, windowsill.


This decor for the New Year do it yourself is easy. The basics for it can be:

  • Vases for flowers. The composition may consist of dry branches, on which additional decorative elements are attached: balls, cones, beads, etc. The branches are placed in a flower vase and complemented with improvised objects: feathers, glitters, beads. If the house has a glass transparent vase, then it is also easy to fill with decor.
  • Vases for sweets. In a vase they put different elements that fit the overall style of the room.

  • Single composition of knitted Christmas balls with ribbons and candles, tree branches with dried oranges and chopsticks
  • Hanging compositions of balls, sweets, dried fruits can be fixed on the walls, furniture, windows.

  • Candle holders Making candlesticks occupies a special place in the New Year's decoration of the room. Both transparent glasses, in which short candles are placed, and ordinary banks, which are decorated with acrylic painting, decoupage, ribbons, rhinestones, etc., are used. The use of traditional wreaths around the candle is also relevant. It is worth using those materials with which the main part of the room is decorated.

Pursuing one design style and stocking up with relevant attributes, you can create a unique Christmas interior decoration.

         

Window decoration

The childhood snowflakes on the windows have never been canceled. That's just not limited to snowflakes.


There are stencils that simplify the task of applying artificial snow on glass. This is how you get cute drawings of Santa's sleigh, Christmas trees, deer, bells and other Christmas attributes.

In addition to the drawings on the glasses, a new trend was the design of paper-cut window sills. Elements in the form of houses, towers are cut out from the canvas of paper (the subject is varied). Houses are put on the windowsill in two or three rows along the entire length, and between them at the base they hold a garland of light. So the "town" will be highlighted in the dark.

The long familiar light strings on windows are also widely used. Only here the various shapes of them are not worth doing. In a concise way in a European way, the garlands are fastened around the perimeter of the glass. Such an arrangement will stylishly fit into any interior.

Results

If there is an opportunity to make a New Year's decor with your own hands, you need to draw ideas from your own feelings and mood. The usual ways to design a house should sometimes be changed, letting something new and unusual into your home.

For a fundamental change in the appearance of the room does not need to invest a lot of money. Handwritten creations from natural materials and old rags will help to update the annoying New Year's interior.

    
    

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