How to decorate a house for the New Year with your own hands

New Year is a wonderful holiday. A festive atmosphere reigns everywhere, children have fun, rejoicing in the winter holidays and looking forward to soon gifts. To fully enjoy the holiday, you need to know how to decorate the house for the New Year, especially since this procedure will help maintain good spirits and excellent mood.

Decoration of an apartment or house

Before the New Year a lot of things always fall on a person, but you still need to find time to transform the apartment from a boring place into a cozy one. To create a good mood for all family members, you need to collect a little advice. On it you can discuss how to decorate the house for the New Year. To do this, answer the following questions:

• How much finance to allocate for this business?
• What style will the work be done in?
• Which Christmas tree to buy - live or artificial?
• Who will be responsible for what?

It is important to take into account the opinion of all residents, because who needs a disagreement on New Year's Eve? The following event will not appeal to everyone - it is a general cleaning of the entire house or apartment. There is no new information here - you need to thoroughly wipe all the glass coatings so that there are no stains on them, sweep and mop the floors, and wipe off the dust.

It is possible that the house already has the required amount of tinsel, toys and rain, but you can buy a new one. It is important to make a shopping list so as not to forget anything. After shopping, you can safely decorate an apartment or a private house.

First of all, you need to understand how to decorate the house for the New Year. The following areas are usually decorated:

• walls;
• all windows;
• ceilings;
• outer part;
• furniture;
• Christmas tree.

From this moment the most interesting part begins, which means that the time has come to show imagination. You can also connect children who believe in the New Year miracle to the process.

Facade decoration

The tradition of decorating the facade of a village house or a country cottage came to our country from the West. This direction is becoming more popular every year. Typically, this decoration is the installation of electrical equipment outside the building, in particular, in front of it.

In this matter, safety is very important, otherwise the holiday can turn into a disaster. Lighting is best purchased at trusted stores and from reliable manufacturers.

Before you start decorating the house, it is worth calculating the cost, because outdoor lighting is not cheap. Illumination is different:

• Flexible backlighting. Such decoration is made in the form of ribbons, fringe, nets. Bulbs in this design are attached to a solid base, protected from moisture and low temperatures. It differs from the internal illumination by large bulbs and wire diameter.
• Duralight. This is a one-piece wire, inside of which are colored lights.
• Hard backlight. Usually these are small lamps on legs and tubes. Most often they are fastened along the tracks, around the perimeter of the gazebo, etc.
• LED screens. This option can not be called budget. It is a flexible or rigid LED-screens on which moving patterns or even video materials are broadcast.
• Spotlights. They can be hung in height or sent to the facade of the building. Also are multi-colored.

Door decoration

The door is the first thing a person who comes home or to visit sees. The mood of the owners of the house, visitors and neighbors depends on it in many respects. This also applies to interior doors - they also need to be decorated.A perfect decoration for the front door will be a festive wreath, an example of which is shown in the image.

It can be purchased at the store or made with your own hands. Hand-made version will not only be cheaper, but also bring joy. You can make it from thin twigs, cones, tinsel, balls, rain.

Children can be entrusted with carving cardboard figures of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman, funny animals from cartoons. Let them color their crafts, and then they can be hung on double-sided tape.

Colorful balloons will be a wonderful decoration for any door. As for the door handle, it should not be decorated for greater convenience.

Beautiful corridor

The corridor is the first thing that a person entering a house sees. Many people are in no hurry to decorate it in vain, because passing through an unadorned room, you can lose the festive mood. Decorate it is not difficult. A wavy garland stretched along the walls will look very nice. If it is not, then you can decorate the corridor with ordinary rain.

A corner, a shelf for shoes, a chest of drawers, as well as cabinets for things can be hung with tinsel, but it should not interfere much. Mirrors should be decorated with garlands-garlands. It can be done as in the picture.

You can also hang luminous stickers on the cabinet. It is better to hide all the excess as far as possible, otherwise the mess will hide the jewelry. Aromatic oils can be sprayed at the entrance. The best of them will be, perhaps, tangerine. It will create a festive atmosphere already at the doorstep of the house.

Smart windows

Windows are some of the most viewed items in the home. Beautifully and tastefully decorated windows will delight not only the owners of the apartment, but also people passing by. Curly candles are great for window sill decor, although you can use regular straight lines. For candles, it is worth choosing coasters, which are also desirable to decorate with stickers, balls, etc.

The windows can be painted with gouache, which will look great in the darkness of a festive night. If there is no desire or opportunity to draw, then you can decorate the windows in the old fashioned with paper-cut snowflakes, Christmas trees and other figures. So that in the future there would be no problems with peeling, you need to fix the figures with glue-pencil or PVA. In addition, you can:

• Using tinsel, create a standard decoration in the form of the number of the coming year. Do not forget that you need to glue the mirror, otherwise from the street the numbers will look backwards.
• Frames are decorated with cones or Christmas toys on suction cups.
• For beauty, they put a few fruits, sweets and other treats on the windowsill.

Walls and ceiling

It is known that walls press on a person’s consciousness, therefore it is better to decorate them, especially if the New Year is approaching. It is important to decorate their surface with bright colors during the holidays. Here are some practical and proven tips for decorating walls for the New Year.:

• A garland is an ideal Christmas decoration, so it is worth stocking it up.
• You can buy New Year posters in the store and hang them on the wall. They are good because they are easy to remove.
• If there is a little yarn at home, then Santa Claus, a snowman, a Christmas tree and other New Year characters can be laid out from it.
• In the living room you can hang traditional socks with small gifts on the wall. Usually they are hung one for each member of the family.
• Small twigs suspended on a beautiful thread or bells with ribbons will look beautiful. You can hang flashlights.
• For children should build a beautiful box in which they will drop letters for Santa Claus.

The next element that should be decorated in the room will be the ceiling, because it is very beautiful when decorations hang from it. There are a lot of ideas how to decorate it. You should be careful and fix all the decorations more firmly, because the glass parts can break and injure residents or guests of the house. In this case, a holiday can turn into a bunch of troubles. Some tips for decorating the ceiling:

• The safest and at the same time beautiful and stylish decoration will be a rain suspended on threads.
• On satin ribbons you can attach multi-colored Christmas toys, balls, sweets. The latter can be eaten during the celebration.
• Luminous stickers will be another great option.
• From ordinary paper, you can cut various stars, flowers, fairy-tale characters, and then hang them on a rope.

Stylish christmas tree

According to the eastern calendar, 2020 is the time of the White Metal Rat. This means that the spruce should be dressed up in rich colors. Silver tinsel, golden balls and bells will look perfect. These elements perfectly complement the deep green needles.

In addition to bright objects, the rat loves goodies, so you can combine business with pleasure and enrich the interior of your apartment with sweets, fruits, nuts, coffee beans. Under the tree you can put chestnuts and acorns.

Spruce is now customary to decorate in accordance with any style, and not hang on it everything that comes to hand. Such decoration will make the decoration of the house harmonious and atmospheric.

Country is one of the most comfortable and homely styles. Elegant and original, he is able to conquer the city. Buildings in megacities lack simplicity and warmth, so country has become very popular. The geography of the outback is practically irrelevant. Of course, French Provence will have differences from the decorations of the Russian villages, but they also have common features: funny and cute things made with natural textiles with their own hands. Natural shades should prevail.

In accordance with the country style, ordinary glass balls, wooden figures, gingerbread cookies and cookies are hung on the spruce. You can tie lace stars and snowflakes, bandage cinnamon sticks with a ribbon.

Shebby chic is a style that has inherited the traditions of the English. Residents of foggy Albion often decorated items and furniture that they inherited, so shabby chic is an antique decoration. Decor items and Christmas toys in this style are easy to find. When buying, pay attention to the following jewelry:

• Laces and ribbons. You can make bows from lace, but first you need to soak the fabric in the solution and dry it. A thin string of beads is attached to the tied tape. Vintage bow for spruce is ready.
• Beads and pendants. English ladies always had a jewelry box in which a string of pearls lay. When dressing up a Christmas tree, do not forget about these elements of shabby chic.
• Flowers, stars, hearts, etc. Delicate decorations are found in many houses decorated in the style of shabby chic. Doing it yourself will be easy.

Eco-style, minimalism and Soviet retro

Everything that nature is famous for is not only tasty and pleasant, but also beautiful. Nuts, cones, acorns, tangerines, cinnamon, grains are perfect for Christmas decorations. Classic balls and toys can be replaced with dried fruit slices, acorn garlands, cinnamon sticks and gingerbread. This unusual design looks very stylish.

If bulky decorations do not fit into the style of the house, then this is not a reason to cancel everything. In such cases, minimalism and the Scandinavian style come to the rescue. You can buy a compact Christmas tree and put it in a wicker basket or wrap the pot with craft paper. The tree itself can be left completely without decorations or hang only one original thing on it.

The older generation probably remembers New Year's Eve in Soviet times. At that time, Christmas trees were decorated with glass decorations in the form of fir trees, cones, watches, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. Perhaps your parents and grandparents still have them. Today, these items are almost forgotten, but sometimes you really want to put a little cotton, tangerines under the tree and watch Soviet New Year films.

That’s probably all.Christmas decoration of the house and the Christmas tree helps household members get close and have a good time, so you should not spare time or money on it.