At the mention of New Year's and Christmas holidays, in the fantasy of almost all people, there is always the image of a cozy house decorated with all sorts of tinsel, spruce branches, candles and toys. The tradition of decorating houses on New Year's Eve came to us so long ago that it is now difficult to determine its significance. One thing is absolutely certain - decorating an apartment, a house, a separate room and even an office for the New Year is the best way to tune in to the festive mood and recreate the aura of magic and fairy tales that has long been hanging around this holiday.
Reflecting on how to decorate a house for the New Year 2014, it is first of all to seek help from the Eastern teachings, thanks to which each coming year is endowed with its own symbol. Today "House of Dreams" will help to understand the peculiarities of the New Year's interior, namely, its decoration for the Year of the Horse.
Decorate a house for the New Year 2014 according to the eastern traditions of
The upcoming 2014 will enter its reign paired with the Blue Wooden Horse. This symbol is very favorable for strengthening family values and relationships, therefore, it is necessary to carefully decorate the house for this holiday. For a long time New Year is perceived by people as a great period for changing one's life for the better and fulfilling the most cherished desires. However, according to the ancient Eastern ideology, happiness in the New Year will "make happy" only the fate of those people who can correctly meet the main patron of the year. First of all, we are talking about preparing a home for the holiday.
Most often we decorate the house for the New Year, using a lot of rain, tinsel and garlands. However, the Horse is an animal very sedate and calm, which does not like an overabundance of light. Therefore, in the New Year 2014, you should decorate the house in a restrained color scheme, always using blue and green shades. For example, you can decorate furniture with blue veils, decorate shelves with blue statues and candles, or achieve interesting bluish lighting with the help of ordinary transparent lamps painted in this color.
An excellent ornament of a house for the New Year 2014 is a horseshoe, which, firstly, is an amulet, and secondly it symbolizes the Horse.
However, in the East it is accepted that in the house there were only an even number of horseshoes, the largest of which must necessarily hang over the front door. It is believed that this amulet, which in the year of the Horse will gain a special power, protects the house from evil guests.
In addition, at the meeting in 2014 in the house must be several items of wood.
As the element of the coming year is just this natural material, wood products will turn into happy amulets. Also, according to a long-standing belief, a tree gives people wisdom and protects them from wrong actions. It is especially good if the owners manage to purchase a wooden horse statuette.
When planning how to decorate an apartment in the New Year 2014, you need to prepare a large number of fresh flowers, Ikeban and, of course, fir branches. Flower-vegetable compositions should preferably be placed in the center of the table or allocated to them a separate place on the shelf or chest of drawers.
In the eastern teachings it is said that how we decorate the apartment for the New Year depends on our well-being and happiness. Very favorable New Year symbols are decorative or toy bells, as well as candles. So, according to the belief, the bell brings prosperity and health to people's lives, and candles strengthen love relationships and protect them from envy.
Decorating the house for the New Year 2014 in a chalet style
Decorating a home or an apartment on New Year's Eve 2014 - is a creative and exciting process. It is doubly pleasant that according to the recommendations concerning the Year of the Horse, the decoration of the house must be tending towards natural and environmentally friendly materials. Proceeding from this, the best style for decorating an apartment for a holiday is the chalet style. A key feature of this style, which is a bit like country, is the predominance of natural elements in the interior. The atmosphere of the chalet style recreates the cosiness of a country house, in the corner of which there is a fireplace, and on the shelves are arranged cute crafts and bouquets of flowers.
New-year decor in the style of a chalet can be recreated with the help of compositions from dry twigs, handicrafts from cones, Christmas wreaths and a lot of interesting figurines.
If the house has a fireplace, then it should be the accent of the interior. Enough to decorate it with a flickering garland, and on the shelf to put bouquets of spruce or dry branches, as the room will turn into an illustration to a good children's fairy tale. In addition, given that the hostess of the coming year is the Horse, you can decorate the apartment or house with a composition of dry hay. And in the East, hay is also tied with a red thread, because it symbolizes the bridle for the horse.
Traditionally, the chalet style is created using two or three shades. The new year's 2014 design will look best in brown, blue and white colors that are perfect for the Horse.
If the fireplace is not in the house, then the central part of the interior should be a Christmas tree, the adornment of which is as a separate topic of .
Christmas accessories to decorate the house for year Horses
New Designinterior gets its magic thanks to all sorts of accessories. One of the simple and, at the same time, spectacular ways to decorate a home is the use of wall stickers. Windows and mirror surfaces, as in the past carefree times, can be decorated with homemade snowflakes, or you can create a real masterpiece of painting, using stencils and special painting sprayers.
Some Christmas decorations for the home can be done through their own efforts - enough to buy a semi-circular transparent container or small semi-circular tank and fill it with decorative pine cones, fir branches or shiny beads. All kinds of figurines and stuffed toys horses, candles in beautiful candlesticks, Christmas fir wreaths, greeting, garland, tinsel, decorative socks for a gift from Santa Claus - it's just a small selection of accessories can give the room an aura of celebration and fairy tales. The main thing to remember is that at the meeting of 2014, the atmosphere in the house should be calm and joyful, so it is advisable not to use too bright and catchy colors.
Now you'll know exactly how to decorate the housefor the New Year 2014 and to please his patron - the Blue Wooden Horse. And may this year be bright, memorable, happy and prosperous for you in all its manifestations! Holiday greetings!