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.
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 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.
Colors of 2022
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The symbol of the coming year is the Blue Water Tiger. He does not like bright, too aggressive colors, so when decorating a house it is better to avoid rich shades of red, yellow, and purple. What can I use instead?
- Any shades of blue and cyan.
- Gray, white, black - in monochrome or in the company of other colors.
- Brown, beige, muted yellow tones.
- Deep green - the color of pine needles, moss, bottle glass.
- Any textures of precious metals, silver and golden shades.
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To make the decor look harmonious, it is better to take 2-3 colors that will overlap in all elements.
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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.
Which coniferous branches to choose
For the New Year's composition, it is preferable to take branches of a living tree, but you can also start with artificial branches. Fir, pine, spruce spruce branches or thuja are suitable. Florists advise choosing Danish fir (Nobilis).
Fluffy branches 50-100 cm long with soft curved needles, green-blue, sold in flower shops. The cones of this fir grow upward, not downward. Nobilis does not need water for up to 30 days, and the needles do not fall off when they dry out.
Coniferous branches for a bouquet are processed with scissors and a sharp knife, then inserted into a special sponge or supported with a wire frame. A composition of 2-3 branches with needles of different colors or one spruce branch with natural cones and a branch of golden ilex looks original.
To preserve the freshness of the branches, it is recommended to moisten the sponge with a solution of 1 aspirin tablet and half a tsp. sugar dissolved in a glass of water.
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.
Ways to decorate windows
Snowmen, deer, snowflakes and other images are drawn on the window glass using regular gouache. By decorating a window in this way, you can please not only yourself, but also the people walking past outside.
Cut out Christmas decorations from paper with your own hands, taking ideas and templates from the Internet. Attach them to a string near the window. It’s a good idea to decorate the thread itself as a New Year’s garland.
Try a garland made from painted gingerbread cookies. The kids will definitely like it. But consider replacing the element with cardboard in case it disappears from the composition.
Using cotton pads, you can build something like a soft snowball flying across the sky, hanging them on a fishing line and securing several of the resulting structures above the window.
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.
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.
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.
Incredible snowmen made from socks master class
What would a New Year's decoration be without snowmen - this is a symbol of the winter holidays. They can be very easily made from children's socks.
All you need is a white sock, cereal for filling and any decorations. You can do New Year's crafts with children - there will be no difficulties with this.
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.
Transparent vases with New Year's decor and sweets
Transparent vases of different shapes and sizes. Fill them with candies, tangerines, colorful balls and cones. This always brings a colorful touch to the festive interior.
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.
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.
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Fireplace decoration
If you have a fireplace, a great solution would be to decorate it too. To do this, take garlands of spruce branches and small figurines of fir trees. Place candles, china and framed photos on the mantelpiece.
Taking any thing that comes to hand, for example, a cardboard box, it is easy to build something like a stylized decorative fireplace. It will be a stunning addition to the interior of the room and will give a festive atmosphere.
To make one, cover the box with paper with a print of stone, wood, or brick. The role of the flame will be played by a luminous garland placed inside along with spruce branches and twigs.
Thus, you can create absolutely any product to decorate your home for the New Year. The main thing is just to be patient, use all your imagination and call your loved ones, because working together is much more fun and exciting.
