How to decorate a house for the New Year: 20 ideas

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-18 00:05

How nice it is to hang garlands in the rooms, creatively decorate the Christmas tree and come up with unusual details like small candles floating in a beautiful bowl of water. Here are 20 Christmas decoration ideas, each of which will delight your guests.

Create a composition for the table

Create an elegant New Year's composition of bouquets of scarlet roses surrounded by decorative twigs. Wrapping tall vases with foil makes them look a little like birch trunks. The festive picture is complemented by a creative mess of artificial branches and garlands around.

Make original napkin rings

They can be made from scrap materials: separate the top of the cone and paint it with silver or gold paint. Attach the resulting "rose" to a wide red ribbon (about 5 cm wide), encircling the napkin. Don't forget about the green twig, which will give the composition a vibrant blooming look.

Decorate pendant lights in the kitchen

It will be easy and completely safe to attach spruce branches or artificial garlands to long kitchen cords of pendant lights. As a result, the kitchen can turn into another entertainment room during the holidays.

Make a composition with candles

Place some seeds or peas, artichokes and pomegranates in a large wooden deep plate. Place four wide candles of different lengths and colors in it. Decorate the candles by wrapping them with colorful threads.

Choose colors that are in harmony with the interior

Choose decorations that match the color of the interior of your rooms, even if it means that you will have to use colors that are not quite familiar and sometimes unexpected, such as beige or cream. By the way, silver and golden blotches are ideally combined with soft colors of light gray tones and ivory. In this color palette, metal accessories look especially advantageous. For example, a light transparent coffee table in the center.

Make a candy from the coffee table

Transform a regular coffee table into a New Year's gift by placing criss-cross wide golden ribbons on the top and sides of the table. The result is a "festively packed table". Heirloom silver will perfectly complement this unusual solution.

Fill glass vases with Christmas decorations

Fill tall cylindrical vases with New Year's attributes - pine cones, Christmas balls. It would be nice to pre-paint all this in silver shades, creating the effect of frost.

Just get some pretty pillows

Sometimes, for a quick change of scenery - from everyday life to a holiday - it is enough just to replace the pillows in the room. This is an inexpensive way to change the look of your apartment.

Organize a silver corner

A lot of silver or silver-plated items, collected in one place, are able to throw glare around the room and remind of the imminent holiday.

Create a New Year's island in the kitchen

A small table, some attribute of the New Year on it, next to it is a soft sofa. Such an island is an ideal place for quick snacks, teas and other New Year's pleasures.

Dress up the Christmas tree

Decorate the tree with long colorful ribbons. Attach the tape directly to the top of the tree and then straighten it all the way to the bottom.

Make a composition with fruits and herbs

The large glass bowls in which lemonade is poured can find another use for the New Year. A festive composition, for example, can consist of three layers of different colors: at the very bottom, on the bottom - a greenish lime, covered with rowan berries. Above - again citrus fruits, without which the winter holiday can not do - tangerines (although small oranges or lemons are also suitable). The winter composition is crowned with pine needles.

Place the tree in the basket

Usually, a metal tripod on which the tree stands is masked with white cloth and cotton wool (similar to snow). But you can do more original: use a natural wicker basket for this. Looks much prettier and hides the stand completely.

Let the candles float

Take a deep tray or something similar to a bath, set it in the center of the festive table, pour some water, lower the candles, light the wicks. A floating flotilla of Christmas candles is a very original attribute of the holiday.

Decorate the windows with winter scenery

Create a new view from the window: for example, figurines of birds, located under the spruce branches.

Get the kids involved

Children will be happy to tackle the decoration of Christmas cupcakes. For them, you will need to prepare confectionery coolies with multi-colored sweet cream and various colored curly sprinkles, small round sweets.

Organize self-service

To save time and not spend the whole holiday in the kitchen, leave the prepared soup on a slightly preheated stove, and let the guests put in as much as they want. Place sour cream and green onions next to it for garnish.

Experiment with your dessert utensils

Who said that the dishes should be from one set? Mixing shapes and styles is always interesting and fun.

Upgrade the look of the Christmas tree decorations

Make the tree decorations monochrome: repaint them white. This is a quick way to update old Christmas tree decorations or create a single collection from disparate incompatible items.

Make the tree higher

Have you already thought about how you will decorate the rooms?

	Already even decorated!
	Yes, I can roughly imagine what I will do.
	No, I haven't thought about it yet.
	I always decorate the house the same way.
	I don’t bother with decorations, a Christmas tree and a festive table are enough.

For example, place a fir tree under a paper lantern attached to the ceiling. Thanks to a ribbon threaded through it, going down further along the tree, the illusion of unity is created, and the tree looks higher.