How to decorate an apartment for New Year

As we approach the New Year, everyone begins to feel the amazing atmosphere of a holiday: it's in the air, lifts us up and creates an aura of new hopes and expectations. It was at this time so easy to believe in fairy tales, which we were told as a child: of course, it's not magic and magic, fairy tale, we create ourselves. From ordinary people at a time, we transform into a wizard: fulfill the desire of close and turn your home into a real festive hall. This important event, which can bring the whole family and it will bring a lot of joy and pleasure. So, how to decorate an apartment for New Year?

According to the Chinese calendar, 2015 – This year the blue wooden goats, so it is advisable to withstand symbols in order to appease this useful animal. To do this, the entrance to the apartment can be decorated with bells, and the rooms are decorated with ribbons, bells and toys and statuettes in the form of a goat.

How to decorate a Christmas tree?

The main symbol of the New Year holidays – This, of course, the Christmas tree. With her and begins decoration of any home or apartment. Live or artificial – in any case, it participates in creating a Christmas atmosphere and located in the central room. In the other rooms can be arranged coniferous branches, decorated with tinsel and snowflakes. You can make them « frostiness » only one night: to make a strong solution of sodium chloride or sea salt, bring it to a boil for a couple of hours   or even all night to dip into it fir branches gently drag and dry. You can also soak them in liquid paraffin or showering pieces of foam (pre inflicting on branches transparent glue).

You can make your own hands and Christmas toys. The easiest way – take the foam preform or object rounded shape and wrapped in beautiful fabric flap. Along the edges pull the rubber band, sew the tape to the ball can be hung, edge ribbon bow tie. You can decorate these balls beads berries, buttons, beads – everything that comes to hand.

You can make beads and threads from: inflate a small balloon to smear evenly over the entire surface of PVA glue and winding thread, to get the ball, spider, it was left overnight to dry. Then the balloon burst in need, and carefully pull out, and in textile design Pass the tape and can be hung on the Christmas tree is a miracle. Originally will look at the Christmas tree and toys of paper made with his own hands, cones, painted in different colors from a spray, salt dough figurines, self-sewn dolls.

Decorations for Christmas trees can be edible: You can bake cookies in tins, thread the ribbon through it – and send to the Christmas tree on a Christmas tree can « increase » cookies, nuts, wrapped in foil, candy and other sweets.

If you are not alien to artistic ability, you can make sugar snowflakes. This will require 1 protein polstakana powdered sugar, citric acid. In dry pan protein break, stir it, but do not whisk (use a wooden spoon). Gradually pour the powdered sugar, then citric acid. The mixture should turn white, elastic and not very thick. Then take a sweet bag or a cardboard funnel: With its help, we « paint » snowflakes on a baking sheet, brush with butter. The main line should be thick snowflakes – then the product is more durable, and thin strokes they can be joined together. Put snowflakes to dry in a warm place. You can then attach to them a ribbon and hang on the Christmas tree.

You can make your own hands and garlands: it may be nylon ribbon entwined with Christmas beads, and at regular intervals tie bows. You can make garlands of unnecessary drives, cut the figures of the brightest pages of glossy magazines, to make lanterns from scraps of fabric and lace. Together with the children can glue a garland of white paper, and then spray paint the colors of a rainbow of colors. Dry pine cones, each needle puncture, and then seal it with a solid silk thread. You can alternate them with small Christmas balls suspension.

Photo: The original decoration of the windows on New Year

Decoration of windows and mirrors

The most simple decoration, which will be interesting to make the whole family – This snowflake on the window. Take the scissors, paper or foil square shape: fold it 2-4 times on the diagonal, and then start the cut. At the edge, you can make a wavy, patterned or zig-zag cut, cover the side lines geometric figures. The more you get cuts – and slimmer than the beautiful will be your snowflake.

The ceiling is also possible to decorate: print beautiful images, apply a temporary painting, order patterns transparencies – it will not damage the coating, and can be easily removed.

You can paint and mirrors: a special artistic talent you do not need: quite a few templates. Draw will toothpaste, slightly diluted with water, and foam sponge. Foam rolled tube, fixed with heavy paper and glue. For starters, you can draw a spruce branch: to make it easier to navigate – Make a rough layout. Foam dipped in toothpaste and point draws the main branch, it attach small.

If the home there are patterns and templates with animals, fairy tale characters and beautiful figures, it's time to paint and.

After the paste dries out a bit, you can draws Details: trail scratched with a needle or toothpick thin: draws the needles on the tree, the body shape of animals, pictures on the jewelry.

Decorations for an apartment on New Year

You can   make a beautiful composition on New Year's theme. Take a small tray or dish – It will be the basis of ikebana, the composition may be made of fir branches, cones, nuts, wax figurines, porcelain angels, stuffed animals, candles supplement. To get really ikebana Christmas, it can be mounted on small iskroshenny penoplast- « raquo ;, snow sprinkled & hairspray. Interestingly will look and candle-tablet floating in a tank of water – they can be placed in a crystal vase or other transparent container. In the water you can pour a beautiful sequins, beads, shells. Even ordinary branches, brought from the street, and decorated with beads and figurines, turn to the original decoration. Instead of the traditional socks for gifts by the fireplace you can hang embroidered mittens: bright and neobychno.Chtoby to finish yarns and small elements, use a fine brush, dipped it in the pre-toothpaste. The last step in the design – decoration drawings additional furnishings. You can set on the windowsill or shelf under the mirror Beautiful candles, fir branches, the composition of dried flowers and toys and much more.

On the doors look very harmonious Christmas wreaths, decorated in traditional colors: green, red, golden. They may consist of fir branches, decorated with toys, tinsel, beads, ribbons, bows. Do not forget about the flower pots that even such a small thing should not be defeated attention. You can make special bags, wrap them rain or corrugated paper, decorate with beautiful ribbons. High colors can decorate the light and sparkles toys.

No less interesting is you can use a favorite with many balloons. Of these, you can make great snowmen. Inflate the balloons of different sizes, connect them together using double-sided tape, draw eyes, mouth, nose – and voila, original decor for the house ready!

Photo: Snowmen of balls - an excellent idea for decorating the apartment for New Year

The floor lamps and chandeliers replace ordinary light bulbs with colored: it would be great if each room will be illuminated in different colors.

You can braid silver vases, a thin wire (you can buy at many stores for needlework), weave wire « », nests decorate them with beads and tinsel, and then put candles in them.

Interestingly will look and theme decorations for the New Year table. For example, on the chairs, you can make beautiful covers in the style of dress of Santa Claus. Since the New Year 2014 theme, why not decorate cloth ribbons and bells? For this you need a piece of fabric that does not crumble at the edges (it can be wool or felt), it should be cut from the tape and attach them to the edge of the tablecloth (you can tack), at a distance of 5 cm from the bottom edge make cuts – « perforation » It must pass across the bottom edge of the tablecloth. Thereafter, through hole extends bright tape and the corners fastened bells.

Photo: Decoration New Year's table in the style of Santa Claus

Palette New Year's table can be bright: arrange on the surface of small thematic figure in the center can accommodate a beautiful flower arrangement. If you wish, you can embroider on napkins Christmas motifs, and bottled drinks to make an original decoupage using a three-layer napkins.

Photo: Example of table decorations for the New Year

It would be great if you contemplate « children » New Area. There you can put the figure of Santa Claus, snowmen, and all sorts of goodies, sweets, fruit. Contents can be in the white-red-green palette. Decorate with sprigs of greenery, unbreakable toys, compositions of natural materials.

The main thing to remember that the New Year – it is a time of miracles in your power to create for themselves and their loved ones a little, but the magic is welcome, which want to be remembered for years to come!

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