Every person anxiously awaits the New Year holidays, because they are always associated with some kind of magic, childhood, warmth and fun among their friends and loved ones.
New Year's holidays are an excellent occasion to meet with your family and in a festive atmosphere, which is created with the help of various decorations and products, many of which are made by hand using improvised materials.
A beautifully decorated house will give you unforgettable emotions and leave a long, pleasant aftertaste after the winter holidays are over.
In order to creatively and originally decorate your home for the New Year holidays 2022, it is worth considering all the possible options for decorating the space that are available in this article.
New Year's garlands
Garland is the most common type of New Year and Christmas decorations. There are many options for its variations and ways of creating it.
Tinsel garland
Simple tinsel, which appears in supermarkets long before the holidays, is the most popular. But the most interesting thing is to make it with your own hands, using completely different materials at hand.
From colored paper
The snake garland is created from colored paper. It is necessary to cut out a large circle and, retreating 1 cm from its edge, you need to draw with a simple pencil several circles that converge towards the center and look like a snake that has curled into a ball. Next, you need to cut along the contour of the drawn circles, moving towards the very center.
The result will be a voluminous ribbon that resembles a hanging snake. Many of these “snakes” can be attached to a chandelier or to any other surface.
New Year's garland of socks
A garland of Santa Claus socks is an attribute of every American New Year's film, where parents put Christmas gifts for their children.
It is necessary to prepare several socks in advance in a color scheme suitable for the holiday and secure the socks one by one with a thick satin ribbon. This garland can be placed on the fireplace, on a cabinet or on a shelf.
From fruits
A citrus garland is a product made from citrus peels that not only looks beautiful and fits the holiday theme, but also fills the room with a pleasant light aroma.
From the peels of lemons, oranges, grapefruit or tangerines, you need to cut out various figures with scissors: stars, snowflakes, Christmas trees, bells and other silhouettes of New Year's attributes. Holes are made in the resulting parts, where they are put on the lace.
How to beautifully decorate your home for the New Year
Here's how to decorate your house:
- Attach garlands and lights all over the façade.
- Register your entry.
- Decorate all the rooms.
Festive lighting at home
We have already figured out how to decorate the rooms. Now - ideas for decorating your home for the New Year. The external design should please no less than the internal one. The main focus is on lighting. 3rd, the days are short, and the evenings and nights are long. Therefore, street lights and garlands create a special festive atmosphere.
You can try different color combinations
In addition to the facade, the gate is also decorated. Spruce garlands, bows, balls are hung on the fence or fence of the house. There are wreaths on the entrance doors, pine branches on the columns. You can place snowmen, light sculptures, and lanterns near the entrance. And if there are living coniferous trees growing in the garden plot, decorate them with LED strips and create a parking lot for Santa Claus’s sleigh.
Decorate the railings with spruce garlands and lights Decoration of columns and wreaths on windows - in the same style Holiday lighting is not only garlands, but also LED figures of animals and revya
How to decorate the exterior of a house
New Year's decoration of the facade is not common in the CIS and it is in vain. There are several methods to give your home a new look. It's worth starting with illumination! These deer will definitely make the house the most noticeable. To decorate the outside of your home like this for the New Year, you need to go to any supermarket on the eve of the holiday. It wouldn’t hurt to decorate the door for the New Year. It is enough to cover the jamb with spruce branches and tinsel. And of course you need a door wreath with bells!
Porch
The entrance lobby is the face of the entire house, the first impression of it, so it is very important to pay special attention to the design. The two main elements here are the porch and the door.
If there is a railing on the porch, you can hang a garland with light bulbs or a fluffy model “under pine needles” on them. On the steps, arrange a simple composition of vases, figurines, and lanterns.
Window
If in an apartment we decorate windows for the New Year mainly from the inside, focusing on the window sill, then outside the city this is not only part of the interior, but also a full-fledged element of the external design.
Christmas wreaths
Wreaths are an indispensable element of New Year's decor on entrance doors. They can also be located on walls and on fences. There are many creative options for making New Year's wreaths.
Button wreath
One of the easiest wreaths for the New Year is a wreath made of buttons. The basis is a ring with a wide outline, cut out of thick cardboard. The surface of the cardboard is painted green, white or red, and on top the entire painted space is filled with various decorative buttons from clothes.
They can be either the same color or different shades. The resulting product is hung on the door or wall using satin ribbons.
From coniferous branches
For a coniferous wreath, you need to arm yourself with sprigs of pine needles or a fir broom, threads and strings for fastening, a durable frame in the shape of a circle and Christmas tree toys to decorate the wreath.
Coniferous branches are firmly attached to the circle with the help of threads, and excess branches that stand out too much from the overall picture can be cut off.
The resulting coniferous wreath is decorated with small Christmas balls, cones, bows, bells and other New Year's attributes.
Window decorations
Of course, you can decorate windows with paper stencils. But everyone knows this, but here are new ideas for the New Year's celebration.
Here is an interesting replacement - acrylic gel paints. They are easy to use:
You need to print a snowflake stencil or other design. We put a polyethylene oilcloth on top of it (precisely polyethylene, since adhesion to it is zero). The paints are squeezed directly from the tube onto the contour; a thin spout is provided for this. Once dry, just peel them off and you're done.
This DIY New Year's decor is very simple to make, and you don't even need glue to glue it to the windows. By the way, there are fluorescent gel paints that glow in the dark.
However, you shouldn’t give up stencils. You just need to diversify them. For example, such a cute Rudolph the reindeer or funny snowmen.
Here are 3 more interesting window decoration ideas:
- Small spruce. A simple Christmas composition is created from fir branches and balls. The window itself remains open
- Garland. Windows are often decorated with garlands for the New Year. But making it a regular Christmas tree is not the best idea. It would be more correct to buy a curtain garland that completely covers the window opening.
- Painting. If you know how to draw, then why not decorate your room like this? It is better to use gouache paints, because watercolors will not cover glass, and acrylic is difficult to wash off.
Wall compositions made of snowflakes
Three-dimensional compositions made of snowflakes look very creative on the walls. They are very easy to make. For the product you will need a lot of wooden popsicle sticks, which you can collect over a period of time or order at a very low price in some online store.
If the walls are white, then the red, golden or blue color of the composition will look very advantageous, so you also need to prepare gouache of the chosen shade. You will also need glue.
Wooden sticks are laid out on the floor in the shape of a snowflake. The intersections of the edges of the sticks are glued together. When the glue has dried, the snowflake design is placed on a newspaper and all surfaces are painted red, gold or blue.
After the snowflakes dry, they are hung on a satin ribbon and hung on the wall.
Instead of traditional decor, we decorate the hallway with New Year's installations
If one Christmas tree in the living room is enough and you want to create an original decoration with your own hands, then feel free to go to the nearest park for branches and cones, they will be very useful to you.
You can use a floor vase as a support for future decoration. Paint the branches silver, gold or white and hang Christmas tree decorations, cones, tinsel or a garland on them. You can also add candies, dried orange rings, tangerines in combination with cinnamon sticks. Such an installation will look very beautiful and unusual.
The wall can be decorated with an original Christmas tree made from any available materials - tinsel and wire wrapped in a garland, an avant-garde composition of cinnamon sticks or wood, complemented by fragrant tangerines. You can also make a forest beauty from sweets, fruits and berries, which are secured to the surface with tape.
Window decorations using toothpaste
Looking at the winter landscape from the window, you want to see something else New Year’s, besides snow-covered streets. Using a snowflake stencil and toothpaste, you can recreate beautiful holiday silhouettes on glass.
You will need a glass of water, toothpaste and a brush, and a snowflake stencil. The paste is diluted in a glass of water, where the brush is lowered.
A cutout of a snowflake is applied to the glass, and diluted toothpaste should be sprayed on top of it and along the contour at the borders. You need to wait until it dries completely, then carefully remove the snowflake stencil.
Unusual ideas for New Year's apartment decoration
If you want to decorate your apartment easily and without wasting extra time, contact a designer. He will help you professionally and turn barely formed ideas into reality.
The designer is familiar with the latest design trends, understands the options for color combinations and will add a “zest” even to a simple New Year’s interior.
At the same time, it will maintain a sense of proportion and keep the house from cluttering with decorations. The designer sees the big picture, understanding how every small detail affects the ideal image.
Involve children in discussing the project; they will be delighted to participate in such an important “adult” activity.
Free up more time for yourself, your family, loved ones and friends by entrusting the New Year decorations of your home to a professional. Eliminate the need to spend hours in stores or on the Internet looking for the right decorative elements.
It’s better to spend it relaxing on winter activities: sliding down a slide or skating rink, walking around an ice town or a colorfully lit evening square.
A beautiful and elegant house improves the image of its owners. He tells guests about their impeccable taste and sense of style. And the compliments of others will lift the mood of the hostess of the house and add another spark to the fireworks of festive emotions.
Volumetric balls for decoration
Volumetric balls made of frozen threads are the most common New Year's product that decorates many public places and educational institutions.
For the product you will need several simple inflatable balloons, PVA glue and a skein of strong long thread. The balls are inflated to the desired volume, and a thread is wound on top of them according to the volume.
The thread wound in random directions is covered on top with several layers of PVA glue. After waiting for it to dry completely, you need to burst the ball with a thread.
Jewelry made from natural materials
In cases where you don’t want to spend money on New Year’s decor, an excellent solution would be to use natural materials. They can make quite unusual compositions.
Each detail is covered with silver paint, everything is decorated with ribbons, dry leaves, berries, stylized flowers and other decorated things. Such compositions turn out to be atmospheric and immediately give the room a little New Year’s mood.
It’s easy to make something like a New Year’s tree from spruce branches. It doesn’t take much time, but the resulting craft will definitely please the eye.
Crafts from pine cones
It’s not at all difficult to construct original crafts from natural materials that will decorate the room for the holiday. While walking on the street, collect big pine cones, because they can make a good decoration.
- Using a colander, pour boiling water over them, then let cool and dry;
- Carefully open the scales and stick small balls made of multi-colored cardboard or paper between them. Cut out a star and attach to the top of the pine cones.
- Place the pine cone in a small pot and, if desired, paint the top with silver, gold or another color.
Products made from cones can become unique Christmas decorations. They can be painted like birds or animals, or even just painted in one tone. In any case, the toys will be unusual and original.
If you collect a lot of cones, you can make a festive wreath, which can also include leaves, berries and ribbons. When decorating a table or shelf, make the pine cones the main decoration, add branches and candles.
Christmas decoration on the ceiling
Various decorations on the ceiling look extremely enchanting and impressive. The most interesting ideas: a scattering of helium balloons on silver ribbons that fly to the ceiling and remain at its base, cut out snowflakes, bells, ballerinas and other silhouettes attached to numerous ribbons and threads.
You can also attach small Christmas tree decorations to the ends of the ribbons. With such decor, the room will truly turn out to be fabulous and magical.
Garland “Circles of felt”
You will need: pieces of felt in bright colors, scissors, glue, thread.
Master Class
- Cut out circles from felt. There should be about 50 circles. The more circles, the longer the garland.
- Glue the circles to the thread.
- Attach the garland.
I recommend watching the video master class!
Paper garlands [Ideas for life]
Homemade Christmas tree toys
To add more soul and warmth to your Christmas tree decorations, you can get the whole family together and make several Christmas tree decorations from scrap materials. You can make citrus aromatic toys consisting of dried lemon and orange rings, various figures from lemon peel and vanilla sticks.
Using thin, strong ropes or twine in a certain combination, these elements are fastened together and form an aesthetic toy that not only decorates the Christmas tree, but also fills the room with a pleasant citrus aroma with the presence of vitamin C, which is so necessary for the human body during the winter cold.
Option 1
LED garlands on the walls will give you a festive feeling. Before hanging the garlands, check that the electrical wiring is in good condition to avoid fires during the New Year holidays.
Fir branches attached with tape or wire to the staircase railings would also be appropriate. These branches are additionally decorated with scarlet ribbons and shiny Christmas tree decorations.
New Year's candlesticks
Scented candles on the holiday table create an incredibly festive and special atmosphere. To decorate them beautifully, you can make a beautiful candlestick from several round-shaped Christmas tree cones.
On a strong cardboard circle, they are fixed alternately along the contour of the circle, also forming a ring.
You can spray gold paint or glitter on top of the cone. A candle is placed in the center hole.
Decorating mirrors and windows
The decoration of the hall will be incomplete if you do not take care of the mirror and glass surfaces. Frosty patterns and snowflakes in the corners of the mirror, on cabinets and windows will complement the New Year's decoration of the premises. It is convenient to draw patterns by tracing the finished stencil. Cut out a snowflake, Christmas tree or snowman figure from plain paper. Then apply the remaining sheet more tightly to the glass and apply white paint / toothpaste. Once the paint has dried, remove the stencil.
Composition of New Year's characters
To create a festive atmosphere, you can recreate an entire New Year's composition on a table or some other surface. There are a lot of ideas on this topic. Using two liter milk bottles you can make Father Frost and the Snow Maiden.
Santa's fur coat and hat are made from red paper and attached with double-sided tape or glue to the surface of the bottle. For the Snow Maiden, the fur coat is made from blue colored paper.
As fur for a fur coat and Santa Claus's beard, you can use ordinary cotton wool or padding polyester filler, gluing it in even pieces to the surface of the fur coat and cap.
New Year's decor ideas in 2022
In pursuit of a bright picture and a festive mood, keep yourself within the style. Decorate your apartment (or room) with all the most beautiful things at once - you will get tired of the holiday on the third day. Eco-bows made of burlap, transparent high-tech icicles, pulsating lighting and mechanical Santa Claus - from different “sandboxes”. Choose one thing and maintain the overall tone. Whether it’s minimalism, white and eco-friendly scandi or Soviet retro, it doesn’t matter.
If you are guided by the eastern calendar, then the Water Tiger likes white, silver, green, blue or blue shades in the decor. Advice: decorate the hallway, kitchen, nursery, living room for the New Year. And keep the bedroom for yourself. Maximum - change the aroma oil in the humidifier or lamp to citrus, pine, with the scent of ginger or cinnamon.
Lights, lots of lights
Entire curtains, individual strands of garlands, pendants and luminous patterns - let all the rooms be filled with the cozy light of garlands on New Year's Eve evenings.
Take models with light bulbs of the same glow temperature: cold white pieces of ice or warm yellow tongues of fire. Maintain balance; there is no need to decorate the entire apartment with massive garlands with large figures of deer, stars, Santa Clauses or Christmas trees. They look heavy, ridiculous and unnecessary. Let large luminous elements be concentrated in one place. A couple of deer or Father Frost and the Snow Maiden near the Christmas tree will already attract attention and will become an excellent backdrop for gifts.
It’s easy to update modern garlands: safe diodes can be wrapped in colored wrapping paper, candy wrappers and foil, made lanterns using the origami technique, hung rattan and thread balls, added flowers and organza bows, photographs, cute notes, fragments of children’s drawings and even tiny spruce branches.
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Candles
The most cozy New Year's decoration. Borrow a few samples of crystal from your grandmother’s closet (delicately turn away so that she takes out a stash, a passbook and a broken wristwatch from the vases), collect suitable bowls, stone mortars, shot glasses, and wine glasses with thick stems in the kitchen. And also nut shells, whole orange peels (cut off the “lid” and scrape out the pulp with a spoon).
Turn all these into candlesticks and place them throughout the house, light them in the presence of adults, enjoy them as if you were children. Scented candles or incense sticks will add ambiance. You can make shaped candles with your own hands, especially if you have candles in glasses where the wick has burned out and the wax remains.
1. Twist a wick-pigtail from cotton threads (depending on the diameter, 10 to 30 threads may be required).
2. Dip the braid into melted wax and dry.
3. If you need to remove the candle from the mold, lubricate the mold with dishwashing detergent.
4. Secure the wick vertically in the mold (the lower edge can be pressed with the same wax, and the upper edge can be wound around a pencil).
5. Slowly pour the wax or paraffin into the container. You can add a few drops of essential oil.
6. Wait until the candle cools and hardens, remove from the mold (if necessary) - enjoy!
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Jars with snow
Remember glass balls with figures or houses inside - if you shake them, it’s snowing? You can do these things (well, almost like this) yourself. We put a little cotton wool, sugar, powder, semolina or starch in spice jars, tiny round vases, glasses and wine glasses. On top we put a toy car, a house, a Superman figurine, add a spruce twig, a couple of bright beads, sprinkle with gold or silver sparkles (confetti), and close with a lid. There is no need to shake, just put it on the shelf next to the candles and admire the reflections of light.
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Fairy lights
Create garlands with your own hands from photographs, postcards sent by your grandmother, drawings from kindergarten, wine corks, colored cardboard, sweets and cookies, pine cones and ribbons, apples, buttons, balls of colored yarn. Collect New Year's decorations using threads, floral ribbons, and twine. Decorate your apartment by hanging your creations on furniture, walls and windows.
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Branches
Make a beautiful and eco-friendly decoration option for your kitchen or room. Go for a walk in the forest, find a beautiful branch (it is important that the twigs are strong but thin, even birch will do), string dried orange rounds, tiny bows, colored dragees and hang them in any place you like: by the window, on the chandelier, above the table or right on the front door. Ready!
If you find a beautiful and thick curved stick, feel free to turn it into a candlestick on the holiday table. It’s great to stick sparklers into such wooden decorations and set them on fire during the chimes. But be careful: cover the wood with fire-resistant impregnation, choose safe LED candles and do not leave fire decorations unattended.
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Figures
Snowflakes, figurines of deer, snowmen, entire cities made of paper and cardboard are ideal New Year's decorations for your apartment. You can make them flat and three-dimensional, cut them filigree using stencils, or involve children in the process and give free rein to your imagination. Paint with paints, nail polish, hair spray, glitter gel. Sprinkle with confetti, powdered sugar, smoked paprika, pine needles, cinnamon, nuts, and tangerine zest.
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Christmas tree in a skirt
To hide the stand and create a beautiful place for gifts, make a “skirt” for the tree. If you know how to sew, create a patchwork cape using pieces of green, red and gold fabrics. Buy a large piece of felt and cut out a patterned circle in the shape of a snowflake. Finally, throw a fur skin from Ikea under the “legs” of the tree or wrap the stand with tinsel. The only problem is that all these things collect dust and are difficult to clean throughout the holiday month.
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Christmas tree in a basket
An alternative is to place the stand in a wicker basket, pretty bucket, gift box, decorative box or barrel. It’s great if the container is sealed: pour sand inside and don’t forget to water the tree - then your decorated Christmas tree will keep its fresh look longer. The sand surface, by the way, can be decorated with pebbles (in case you have some from the sea) or colored decorative stones.
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Tree of wishes
You kill two birds with one stone: you create decorations for the Christmas tree and your own bright future. All wish marathons advise carefully formulating goals, writing them down, and crossing out unnecessary, dubious words. Have you made a list? Write down each goal on a separate beautiful piece of paper (this can be a piece of parchment packaging, thin writing paper or tracing paper, colored sheets, candy foil), fold it into a star, an envelope, a bell, tie it with a string like a candy, and hang it as a New Year's decoration on Christmas tree
It’s great if the wishes of all family members appear on the Christmas tree. While the chimes are ringing, take off the first wish you come across (cherished!), burn or eat it - and you’re done! You won’t have to rush through time zones when you suddenly remember that in your haste you mixed up your name, position, or zeros in your salary.
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Christmas tree for children
Offer to decorate the tree with the whole family and allow them to use custom Christmas decorations. Let the children carry candy wrappers, kinder toys, or, what’s trending these days, paper clips?
You go to the kitchen, sip a glass, exhale and add to the offerings a few beautiful spoons, cinnamon sticks, dried orange slices and star anise, for example. Mixed with ordinary toys and garlands it will turn out very cute. And the smell of cinnamon goes well with pine, if you don’t have an artificial tree.
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How else to decorate the Christmas tree:
- Felt animal figures (download stencils, buy multi-colored scraps and simply cut them out).
- Gradient balls (hang toys by color, from purple at the bottom to red at the top - you remember the saying about the pheasant and the hunter?).
- Snowflakes and figures from piercing white paper (cut out, glue if necessary). It is important to have “straight” hands here - flaws are clearly visible on white.
- Colorful homemade toys, molded or cut out from the pages of glossy magazines.
- Photos of the whole family or your solo vacation. Photos from Instagram machines attached to decorative clothespins work well.
- Feathers, flowers, beads, ribbons, bows and glass from Soviet chandeliers.
- Knitted and self-sewn figures.
- Nothing delightful, except maybe a garland with warm light. Long live minimalism!
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Decorating your home for the New Year according to Feng Shui
To enter the New Year 2022 not only with a great holiday mood, but also with a clean home, ready for positive and happy changes, it is important to prepare your living space for the arrival of the new period with the help of several Feng Shui rules:
- It is necessary to do a general cleaning, throwing away all unnecessary things that pollute the space: old worn clothes, broken items, broken equipment, etc. Cleaning your home will free it from the negative energy that is found in old broken things.
- All windows should be cleaned so that before the New Year the house is filled with sunlight. The surface of the furniture must also absorb this light, so it is also necessary to get rid of dust.
- To update the space, you can rearrange the furniture in the room and definitely and definitely buy a new rug for the front door.
- The Christmas tree needs to be placed in a certain place depending on your intentions. If you want to improve your health, the tree should be in the middle of the room; if you want to improve your financial situation, it should be in the southeastern part of the room; if you want to find your soulmate this year, place it in the northern part of the room.
- The best color scheme for a New Year's outfit is silver or golden. Also an excellent choice would be the color of the symbol of the coming New Year according to the eastern calendar.
We hope our new New Year's ideas for 2022 will bring joy and inspiration. Below are the best photo ideas.
Choosing the right style
When we decorate the house for the New Year with our own hands, it is important to choose a general style. This way, individual zones will not look disjointed, and the interior will have a unified mood. Usually the decor is stylized to match the main style so that all design elements look harmonious. There are several trends in trend now.
Minimalism
Minimalism is gradually moving beyond a specific style and becoming more of a way of life. Therefore, it can take on any form, from high-tech to the cozy eco-style that we talked about above. Choose the one that suits the overall style of the house.
Country
Country style is not so common in city apartments, but if you are looking for ideas on how to decorate your home for the New Year 2022, then you should take a closer look at country style. This direction combines lightness, the charm of country life and the warmth of a family hearth.
Vintage
Retromotives have been dominating New Year's decor collections for the second year now, but it's even better not to buy new, but to use real vintage.
Eco
Eco-style is especially suitable for the interior of a private home, since outside the city there is an opportunity to be closer to nature in the literal sense. This direction does not imply pretentiousness; you can easily decorate such a New Year’s interior with your own hands. By the way, this process can be made an annual family tradition and gradually replenish the collection of eco-handmade items.
Scandi
Scandinavian aesthetics and the New Year's atmosphere go well together, and the style itself remains one of the most popular today. With its help, you can create the atmosphere of a New Year's fairy tale without spending a fortune on thematic decoration.
