The main winter holiday is approaching, and preparations for it are in full swing. It is important not only to choose gifts for loved ones, carefully consider the menu, but also to think about how to decorate the yard for the New Year with your own hands.
New Year's decoration of the local area and home
To decorate a house for the New Year, sometimes just garlands around the perimeter and a couple of bright accents are enough: a scarlet bow on a lamppost, a Christmas wreath on the front door.
In the dark, the yard will turn into a bright fairy-tale clearing with a gingerbread house
New Year's illumination
Winter is a dark time of year, and New Year's decoration of the site with illumination will also serve as full-fledged lighting.
Figures
Figures with built-in lighting will serve as a colorful decoration of the yard for the New Year. You can buy shining figures at any New Year's market. But it's better if you make them yourself. Take a thick flexible wire, fold it into a funny figure and wrap it in a garland.
Trees
Illumination of trees is a grand decoration of the site for the New Year. Boring gray branches immediately come to life, shimmer with bright colors and delight the viewer. Take several colored garlands and distribute evenly among the branches. And luminous icicles will turn the tree into a fabulous miracle.
House
Chic New Year's street decoration of the house outside - multi-colored garland on the roof gable. Light up the line of windows, make a Christmas tree on the wall from a garland and attach ready-made souvenirs around it: Santa Claus, deer, sleighs, fairy-tale characters and funny animals.
Snow figures
Can you sculpt well? Try to make a beautiful snow composition. There are many options:
- Snow Maiden and Father Frost;
- heroes of New Year's fairy tales;
- deer.
If a simple white figure does not suit you, paint it. Snow can be easily painted with regular spray paint.
You can also pour water over it to make it last longer.
This is a great option for the New Year at the dacha or for a rented private house, because... You won’t have to spend money on decorations.
Ice decor
Ice jewelry
Simple tips from designers on how to decorate your yard for the New Year with outdoor ice figures will help radically transform the space. Fill an ordinary ball with water and food coloring and place it in the freezer until it hardens. Make several of these.
Cut the balls and scatter them on the street in a visible place. You can freeze any shapes. Plastic cups, plates, bottles, plastic and rubber old toys are suitable as forms.
Place cones, leaves, spruce branches into the water, and the ice figures will sparkle spectacularly from the inside. This yard design will appeal to both your guests and the residents of the house. Distribute the ice decorations evenly throughout the area.
Bows
Luxurious bows will become an impressive decoration for the porch for the New Year. Take a wide satin ribbon and tie it in a bow on the handrails and balusters of the entrance staircase. This decor is suitable for any celebration. Bows look great on lanterns, fences, doors and exterior walls of the house.
Vases
Magnificent New Year's decor - flowerpots. Large and small, of different shapes and sizes and with different contents will become a noticeable street decoration. Paint the iron can green and tie a strap. Place fir branches with cones, rowan leaves or poinssetia in such a vase.
Decorating the house for the New Year
On the facade of the house there are several main elements that form the overall appearance of the house.
How to decorate windows
Windows can be decorated outside and inside. On the street side they hang a flowerpot with a composition of fir branches, toys, and garlands.
Garlands imitating spruce branches, tinsel or LED strips are fixed around the perimeter of the opening. The curtain garland can be hung on glass from the street or from the room.
The window is painted, decorated with homemade snowflakes and flags, decorated with wreaths and textiles with a festive print.
Entry group
The porch is the main element on the facade. If there are columns, they are decorated with wreaths and garlands.
If the width of the area allows, then you can install a small Christmas tree, flowerpots with fir branches or a backlit snowman figurine on it.
You can place lanterns-candlesticks along the edges of the steps. The railings are decorated with bows, flags, tinsel or garlands.
Gable
The roof gable is an equally noticeable architectural element on the facade. A large wreath or decorative lighting in the form of a star, snowflake, bell, or bow is placed in its center.
Curly garlands of icicles or snowflakes are hung around the perimeter of the roof.
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Christmas tree in the yard
If you have a spruce tree growing in your yard, be sure to hang toys, a garland on it, and attach a star to the top of your head. Decorating your home this way for the New Year will make the celebration especially memorable.
It is easy to replace a living plant with artificial products. Modern material easily tolerates low temperatures and high humidity.
How to choose high-quality outdoor lighting devices
According to the experience of FORUMHOUSE participants, most of the garlands are made in China, but “China is different.” Be sure to ask the seller for installation instructions and understand what restrictions this garland has for installation on the site.
Thus, many types of garlands may not be suitable for the street, and their light is quite dim, although sellers often keep silent about this. How to identify street garlands was explained by the guru of the “Lighting” section of our portal with the nickname Dale85, who professionally deals with these issues. Need to:
- Look at the thickness of the wires - they must withstand light, stuck snow and icicles;
- The place where the wire and LED are soldered must be completely insulated; it cannot just be a casing placed on top.
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If water gets into the cambric, hydrolysis begins and the contacts will rust or dissolve over time.
This is a street garland - the joint is filled with epoxy, a cambric is put on top:
Here is an indoor garland, with a simple cambric at the junction. It was not outside, it just hung in a warehouse for a long time and began to rust.
Present
Gifts, like a Christmas tree, are inseparable attributes of a merry holiday. Any cardboard boxes wrapped in gift paper, colorful ribbons and bows will make a colorful addition to your yard. Place “presents” under the tree. Better yet, put real gifts and surprises in them.
Decorating the yard for the New Year brings great pleasure both with pleasant chores and the opportunity to have fun with friends and family.
Important nuances to consider
They used to say: “a big smoke break is required before a big job”! And by this phrase it should be understood that you need a plan - a clear procedure that will greatly facilitate the work of decorating the house. The plan is something like this: exterior decoration of the house, decoration of the rooms, what colors and designs should be followed for this New Year, what accessories and decorations to use to complete a particular decor.
We remind you that the host of 2021 will be the Red Rooster!
And, if you adhere to the rules of the astrological design forecast in decorating your home, then you need to use red and shiny - what the Cockerel loves. And this motley-tailed village “guy” prefers store-bought products made with his own hands or by Mother Nature, and simple, but tasty and high-quality food over complex gastronomic delights.
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How to decorate the living room and other rooms of the house
Most often, the green “beauty” delights with its New Year’s decor in a spacious living room, where there are many windows, light and a high ceiling that allows you to install a 2 or 3-meter forest “miracle”.
This is also where the fireplace is located and where the main celebration usually takes place! From which it is obvious that this room should be well organized in terms of “spaciousness” of movement, the presence of comfortable seating and thoughtful New Year’s decoration.
Here's a sample living room design! We decorate the windows with a decorative garland along the cornice, painted pictures on the glass, or glue paper crafts - snowflakes, New Year's characters, Christmas tree decorations. On cabinets, tables or chests of drawers we place candles, clay plates or fruit bowls with pine cones, Christmas balls, and candies in colorful wrappers.
Since all the attention of family and guests will be focused on the Christmas tree and the fireplace, they should be “kept” nearby, and their decorations may well “echo” in design and color.
We will place New Year's candlesticks with candles and vessels with shiny toys on the mantelpieces. Often there is a photograph of the whole family vacationing in some exotic country or at some corporate event. Do you have one?
We will fix a beautiful decorative garland above the fireplace, imitating a Christmas tree with toys and pine cones. We will hang a Christmas wreath above the fireplace mantel. On the floor by the fireplace we will place large pots with pine cones, flowerpots with dry branches and decorations, or figures of flattering residents, Father Frost and the Snow Maiden.
If the festive Christmas tree is in the living room, then this is where the distribution of gifts takes place, which means we’ll hang New Year’s boots or socks on the fireplace.
If you plan to install the main Christmas tree in the hall, it would be more logical to hang gift boots there on the railing of a festively decorated staircase.
The remaining rooms of the house do not require such careful and lavish decoration as in the “main” hall. However, Christmas stars, artificial Christmas trees on the shelves, and crafts made from Christmas tree decorations look good everywhere and will enliven any room, reminding you that very soon the last day of the year will come, and the New Year will come into its own!
Just a huge selection of large artificial Christmas trees from Street Trees, see the website https://street-trees.ru/ - there are delivery and installation options, production of Christmas trees in Russia.
Giant Christmas decorations
Unfortunately, such an original design for courtyard decor did not catch my eye in domestic stores. But, as it turned out, giant Christmas tree decorations are not at all difficult to make with your own hands. For the base you will need dense balls and small pebbles for weighting.
For the rest, your imagination is enough: you can decorate the balls with snowflakes, tie lush Christmas bows and scatter them around the yard. Bravo to whoever came up with it!
Imitation of fire, creating a safe fireplace in the house
A garland can successfully imitate fire. To do this you will need a beautiful woodpile or basket filled with twigs. A garland is placed between them. The flickering of its lights will resemble the movement of flames. For realism, it is better to choose light bulbs in yellowish-red shades. Simple, unusual and tasteful.
Let's start making Christmas garlands from paper with our own hands
As a child, everyone saw a traditional garland of paper rings on New Year's Eve. Today even a child in kindergarten can make such a chain, but we are interested in more interesting products. Paper is the very material that is cheap, but very simple and convenient to work with. Therefore, we arm ourselves with scissors, high-quality glue, a simple pencil and sit down for exciting work all together.
Garland symbolizing Christmas trees
Well, what would we do without the main symbol of New Year and Christmas? Let all the laurels go to the real coniferous tree, but we can decorate any room with small paper Christmas trees.
Old books look quite vintage in this guise: the edges of the Christmas trees can be treated with gouache or spray paint for greater decorativeness
Corrugated paper has found application here too. Half beads serve as decoration for a stylized Christmas tree
The brushes themselves resemble a Christmas tree in shape. If you hang a lot of bright colorful tassels in a row, you can easily transform the design of the room significantly.
Brushes are best made from corrugated paper
It takes very little time to create decorations in the form of a Christmas tree, but this is a task in which you can involve both an adult and a child.
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Garland of paper circles: add bright spots to the decor
A garland of paper circles is made not only by your own hands, but also by children: it is useful for younger household members to master the technique of cutting out circles and semicircles. In addition, they will see the result of their own efforts and feel everyone’s admiration for the decoration.
Depending on the interior of the house, they are puzzled by the selection of colors
The brightest colors of paper are suitable for children's rooms.
The main task is to cut a large number of circles of either the same or different sizes.
To create a template, we will use the bottom of any glass. We cut out the template, fold several sheets of paper together, and, attaching the blank, trace it. We hold all the sheets together, so by cutting out one circle, we get several small ones at once. If you have a figured hole punch with a suitable shape, this greatly simplifies the task.
Having prepared the circles, they are connected to each other. Either this is done with glue and a long thread, or simply by sewing all the circles on a sewing machine
There is another option of using multi-colored paper circles. Under the stitching of the machine, they place not one piece of workpiece, but several at once, pressed tightly against each other.
You just need to bend the edges of the circles in different directions, and the voluminous garland is ready
Paper accordion garland
Using two strips of different colors, you can create a very original craft: such a non-standard accordion folds and stretches. To make a long accordion you will need many strips of colored paper.
Advice! It is not necessary to take two colors - as soon as one runs out, you can continue the strip with another color.
You can arrange the colors in any order
We take two narrow and long strips and place them with their tips perpendicular to each other. We glue the ends with PVA. We begin to bend the strips on top of each other. As soon as the strip ends, glue a new one to it
Garlands made of corrugated paper, using the quilling technique, made of paper snowflakes
Soft corrugated paper begs to be used in crafts, and the richness of colors and length make it possible to use this material for New Year's decor.
Bright garlands made of corrugated paper
Almost everyone loves cutting out snowflakes, so we sit down everyone who passes by for such a pleasant activity, and we ourselves connect the snowflakes with glue and thread either vertically or horizontally
Quilling is applicable not only to postcards. Many narrow long strips are easily twisted into elements and patterns, which are then collected into original, unique snowflakes. But the snowflakes themselves are connected into garlands.
A vertically hung product looks fabulous
The assembly process requires perseverance
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Garland using origami technique
We offer a small master class on creating a paper garland using the origami technique.
| Illustration | Description of action |
| Cut squares of equal size from double-sided colored paper. Fold each square in half. | |
| We bend the half and fold it as in the photo. | |
| We bend the other half not to the middle, but by grabbing it. | |
| Let's unfold the envelope and coat the joint with glue. Fold the piece in half again and glue it. Cut off two corners opposite the fold with scissors. | |
| Lubricate each of the six triangles in the middle with glue and connect them to each other. | |
| Lubricate the last triangle with glue and connect it to the first. It turns out to be a star. | |
| We unfold the resulting six-pointed star, bending each free tip slightly in one direction. | |
| This is what the garland will look like. Each star is stitched through with a needle and warp thread. |
There is another example of how to decorate a room using origami paper.
An LED from an electric garland can easily fit inside a large flashlight
Thanks to the clear diagrams, they make it possible to reveal all the secrets of paper
Decorating the walls in the room
The lights shimmering in different colors on the wall will transform any interior. In the bedroom, the garland can be placed above the head of the bed. An amazing romantic setting will guarantee sound sleep and fabulous dreams. Thanks to the flexibility of the garland, you can play with all the different styles.
The pattern can be very different: a simple mesh, rain of light or in the shape of a Christmas tree (on the eve of New Year's celebrations).
To decorate your bedroom with garlands, it is better to choose pastel shades; these will set you up for a relaxing holiday.
For greater effect, you can create the illusion of a headboard through shimmering drapery, using branches and driftwood.
Decorating a vase with a garland
The garland can be hidden in a vase, a beautiful bottle or jar. This unusual decorative element will be a worthy decoration for any holiday, at the same time serving as a lighting fixture.
It is not difficult to make such a product at home. All you have to do is give free rein to your imagination and the room will be transformed. An unusual flashlight will become a source of soft, even light, so it can also be used as a night light.
