How to decorate an apartment for the New Year 2020 with your own hands

The main components of the magical New Year's atmosphere are the smell of needles with a tangerine note, a decorated Christmas tree and festive decor. Want to immerse yourself in a wonderful New Year's fairy tale without spending a lot of money on interior decoration? We will tell you how to decorate an apartment for the New Year in a stylish and effective way with minimal investment to leave more money for a rich holiday table and the best gifts for loved ones.

Start with the basics

Decorating an apartment and a Christmas tree is a real art. Knowledge of design techniques, delicate taste and skillful hands are useful here. If you just hang out all the decorations in the house, you can get a cluttered and tastelessly decorated apartment as a result. But even beginners in this business should not despair: our tips will help you easily cope with the task and turn the process of decorating a home into a pleasant and exciting event.

Tip: before you start decorating, think over the concept of a festive interior, imagine in advance the big picture. This will help you choose the right jewelry and get a result that will delight you and surprise your guests.

First step: pick colors

There are 2 options: you can choose the classic New Year color scheme or refer to the eastern calendar, according to which the White Metal Rat will become the symbol of the coming year.

Tip: to make the interior harmonious and stylish, do not use more than 2-3 primary colors. Combining a larger number of tones is much more difficult.

Traditional New Year color combinations:

• red and golden;
• silver and yellow;
• brown;
• natural green.

Having decided on the color scheme, try to stick to it when choosing decorations: Christmas toys, garlands, tinsel, ribbons and other New Year attributes.

The good news for those who want to be in trend: the colors that "like" the hostess of next year - Rat - and correspond to the elements of the Earth, remain the same as last year, which means that you can leave some of the jewelry from the past holiday. Fit:

• blue;
• blue;
• lilac;
• turquoise;
• silver;
• golden;
• beige;
• pistachio;
• coffee.

You can revive and dilute these neutral and calm colors with red, orange, and gold. White is also acceptable, but in a limited number, to emphasize the basic tones.

Step Two: Select Materials

Preparing for the 2020 meeting, it is worth minimizing the use of traditional materials bought at kiosks and shops - tinsel, plastic balls, garlands. Rat - loves comfort, and in order for jewelry to correspond to the symbol and elements of the year, they must be made of natural and natural materials. They will suit us:

• wood;

• metal;
• stones and minerals;

• clay;
• ceramics and glass;
• paper;

• dry branches;
• bumps;

• spruce and pine needles;
• sweet decorations - sweets, candies, gingerbread cookies;

• fruits - tangerines, oranges, apples, dried orange circles;
• the cloth;

• tree bark;

• tapes;
• linen cord, threads and yarn;

• nuts (rat’s favorite treat);
• vine and straw;

• dried flowers;
• spices - cinnamon sticks, star anise anise, cloves.

Natural jewelry is a fashion trend, moreover, it is very inexpensive and very beautiful!

You can add elegance to natural accessories with the help of white, gold and silver paint, sparkles in cans (glitter).

By the way, it is desirable that the symbol of the New Year holiday is also natural. Let the artificial Christmas tree stand for another year in the pantry or on the balcony, and a real forest beauty will take pride of place. Those to whom the spruce branches do not seem lush enough can choose a pine tree. The ideal option is a living tree growing in a pot.

Step Three: Prepare the Decor

At this stage, we buy or make jewelry with our own hands, which we decided to use to create a festive atmosphere. Let's look at the most interesting and creative ideas.

Christmas wreath

The classic attribute of the New Year, which is usually hung on the front door, moved to us from Western countries. You can make it from anything: from fir branches, balls, cones, beads, paper, ribbons, tinsel and any natural materials.

1. Prepare the foundation. The flat base is a cardboard ring 10 cm wide, the voluminous - a newspaper rolled into a ring.
2. Using the wire and the glue gun, fix fir branches on the base, which should completely cover it. Or decorate the ring with fabric, beautiful paper, twine, twigs.
3. Fix hot cones, berries, dried flowers, balls, Christmas decorations, spices, ribbons, paper snowflakes or other decorative elements with hot glue.
4. Decorate the wreath with gold paint, sparkles, artificial snow.

Take beautiful photos as a basis or create your own original version!

Table Christmas trees

A large Christmas tree is usually installed in the hall, in other rooms you can put miniature copies.

The easiest way to create a small decorative Christmas tree:

1. Make a cone out of thick paper.
2. Apply glue or fasten double-sided tape, wrap with tinsel, cloth, thread.
3. Glue pebbles, beads, beads, bows, cones, jewelry, tiny gift boxes - whatever you want.
4. Add paint or sparkle if necessary.

Christmas candles

Beautiful candles will be a great addition to New Year's decor. Themed products in the form of houses, Christmas trees, snowmen and Santa Clauses are expensive and do not always fit organically into the interior. You can take ordinary candles, preferably thick ones, and decorate them or arrange interesting compositions, as in the photo.

For these purposes, fit:

• glasses on thin legs;

• beautiful spices;

• fabric or knitted "shirts";

• rope and thread;
• cans and plain paper;

• natural materials.

Vases with cones

Unusually simple, but effective and original decoration. We paint the cones with paint in cans in bright colors, lubricate the PVA at will and sprinkle with sparkles, put into transparent vases.

If you alternate cones with Christmas balls, you can not paint them: the natural color will contrast well with bright toys.

Another option is silver and gilded cones mixed with nuts and balls of the same colors.

Tip: a composition with cones can be supplemented with a monophonic luminous garland.

Paper garlands

No need to think that paper jewelry looks cheap and solid. Made with skillful hands, they are admired. We offer you to choose the most beautiful and stylish paper garlands that can be made independently or with children.

• Christmas trees. Greens go well with red or gold stars. If the background is bright and colored, they may be white.

• Circles. Look spectacular on windows, shelves, chandeliers. Mugs are cut out of thick paper, sewn on a sewing machine. The distance between adjacent elements is 0.5–1 cm.

• Asterisks, snowflakes, mice. They are made in the same way as the previous garland, only the circles are replaced by the corresponding figures.

Decorative fireplace

It’s great when there is a fireplace in the apartment: it will become the second most important item after the Christmas tree and will make the room even more festive and cozy. It is not necessary to buy an electric fireplace; a high-quality imitation is enough to create a New Year's atmosphere.

Falshkin can be made of drywall, detailed instructions are here. Such a product is durable and will delight the owners for many years.

For the budget option, which will be used only on holiday, ordinary cardboard boxes will do.

You can put into the business any materials at hand - plywood, wood and even polystyrene, as in the following photo.

Tip: to imitate the fire burning in the fireplace will help candles or a garland with yellow or red lights. And you can decorate it with wreaths, tinsel, needles, socks for gifts.

Fourth step: decorate the house

Our main decorations are made, bought what cannot be made by ourselves, for example, electric garlands. The time has come for a fabulous home transformation!

Window

So, what can decorate windows:

• traditional paper snowflakes glued to the glass;

• whole fabulous paper compositions;
• drawings of toothpaste applied through a stencil - it looks like snow and is washed off much easier than glue;

• electric flashlights;
• Christmas balls hanging on satin ribbons mounted on a cornice;

• light paper garlands;
• paper composition with a hidden garland placed on the windowsill.

Walls

Walls can be decorated:

• balls;
• wreaths;
• snowflakes;

• compositions from natural materials;
• electric lights fixed in the form of a light panel;
• paper garlands or flags.

Tip: the composition of any materials laid out in the form of a New Year tree will look unusual. It will replace the symbol of the holiday in rooms where they did not put a large Christmas tree - in the bedroom, in the kitchen, in the nursery - or in a one-room apartment, where there is very little space.

Ceiling

The ceiling does not need a lot of decorations, but garlands, tinsel, hanging balls on ribbons, snowflakes and stars will be quite appropriate. They can be fixed both on the ceiling and on the chandelier.

Festive table

To decorate the New Year's table, you need to choose the right tablecloth. It’s good if it matches the general color scheme and has a beautiful border. And you can lay 2 tablecloths: the lower, bright, will be fun to peek from under the top, made in a neutral color.

Candles, bows decorating cutlery, festive themed napkins will look good on the table. In the center of the table you can set the symbol of the coming year - a figurine, a piggy bank or a toy depicting a rat.

We decorate the Christmas tree

To make the Christmas tree stylish and beautiful, and not tasteless and sloppy, you need to dress it up according to all the rules.

• First, an electric garland is hung, and only then - tinsel, balls and other toys. In this case, lanterns will shine among the branches without obscuring the rest of the decor.

• In order for the tree to be well lit, you need to use a sufficient number of bulbs. On a tree 1 meter high, at least 100 lights will be required.
• The size of the toys should correspond to the dimensions of the Christmas tree. It is desirable to decorate a large tall tree with large balls, a small one with smaller toys.
• The colors of Christmas decorations should match the tone of the decor of the room.

• It emphasizes the natural shape of the Christmas tree the proper placement of decorations: large items should be hung below and in the middle, small ones - higher.
• In addition to the usual Christmas balls and traditional snowflakes, you can use bows, small gift boxes, cute felt figures of baby rats, family photos and crafts made from natural materials.

• Rain, glass balls, sparkles, artificial snow will help to make the festive tree shiny and sparkling.
• It is better to drape the crosspiece or bucket of sand in which the tree stands, with a cloth or mask with colored or corrugated paper.

In the next video, the designer will give some useful tips for decorating the Christmas tree.

We hope that our tips will help you easily and with pleasure to decorate the apartment for the New Year and imbue you with the feeling of a holiday. If you have interesting decor ideas that you want to share with our readers, please write about them in the comments!

Mr. Build wishes you a happy New Year and a wonderful mood!