Preparing for the New Year: how to make your house festive in 6 steps

You can decorate your entire house for the New Year with justin six steps. We have prepared for you a selection of the most interesting, in our opinion, decorative techniques that will help prepare the interior for the holidays When we think about how to decorate our home for the New Year, the first thing that comes to mind is images of a decorated Christmas tree and glowing garlands... Boring! This year, we suggest you take a new approach to decorating a festive interior: find an alternative to traditional accessories and add bright decorative touches. To do this, you will have to "go through" just six steps. 1. Turn a refrigerator into a New Year's gift To be truly original, start decorating your apartment not with the living room, but with the kitchen. Just imagine how elegant an ordinary refrigerator will look, tied with a wide gift ribbon. Such simple to perform decor looks unusually impressive, original and fashionable. You can find a few more secrets of a fashionable New Year's interior . Our opinion:— Continuing the ribbon theme in the New Year's decor of the kitchen, you can decorate the cabinets, chair backs and cornice with stripes of fabric. In addition to the aesthetic, this method of decoration has another important advantage for the kitchen space - it does not interfere. Related articles 2. Make an alternative Christmas tree If you are not alien to the sad fate of coniferous green beauties, you can completely refuse to install a traditional spruce. An original wall panel made of balls, beads, garlands and ribbons will become a stylish (and most importantly - humane) alternative to a living tree. Read about what other decorative techniques will help you create a festive mood without using a Christmas tree. 3.Make exclusive New Year's toys together with children Nothing helps to create a festive mood more than joint creative activities in which all family members are involved. Inspect your drawers and cabinets for old buttons, beads, ribbons or burnt-out light bulbs. All these unnecessary, at first glance, things will help you make unique New Year's decorations that will look great in any room. You will find more ideas for creating homemade decor for New Year's toys . 4.Paint a window in a child's room Painting a window is a spectacular decorative technique. Nowadays, there are many options for glass paints and sets for creating temporary stained glass. However, if you are not a professional artist, do not rush to paint the glass of the living room or kitchen. But a child's room is perfect for creative New Year's experiments. And even if the snowflakes turn out to be a little clumsy, and the figure of Santa Claus resembles a drawing by a third-grader, the young inhabitants of the room will still be indescribably delighted with your idea, especially if you allow them to take part in its implementation. Read on for other ways to decorate a child's room for the New Year. 5.Equip a decorative fireplace Thanks to Hollywood films, a fireplace decorated with socks and pine branches has long been a symbol of the New Year holidays, no less bright and recognizable than a Christmas tree. If you have a fireplace - congratulations. Otherwise, we recommend equipping your apartment with a decorative fireplace portal, which, by the way, has even more extensive decorative potential than a functioning fireplace. Read more about ways to decorate a false fireplace . 6.Use a themed color scheme Changing the color palette always entails a change in the mood of the interior. Therefore, to give your house or apartment a festive mood, it is necessary, if possible, to fill the rooms with traditional New Year's color combinations associated with snow, pine needles, Santa Claus's costume, and so on. Related articles If the basic shades of the interior do not match the white-green-red decor, it is enough to use festive color combinations in the design of the New Year's table. Read more about this and other secrets of festive table setting . pinterest.com moninomama.ru