How to decorate an apartment for the New Year 2021 with your own hands (58 photos)

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

Starting with the basics

Decorating an apartment and a Christmas tree is a real art. Knowledge of design techniques, delicate taste and skillful hands will come in handy here. If you just hang up all the decorations in the house, you can end up with a cluttered and tastelessly decorated apartment. 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 your home into a pleasant and exciting event.

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

First step: choosing colors

According to the Eastern calendar, the Year of the Ox occurs every 12 years. But every time the holiday is decorated differently, because each bull has its own characteristics.

There are 5 varieties:

• Earthy;
• Fiery;
• Wood;
• Water;
• Metal.

The symbol of the upcoming 2021 will be the White Metal Ox, its element is the Earth.

To create a festive decoration in the house for the New Year 2021, you should use any tones and shades of the following colors:

• White;
• grey;
• Brown;
• green;
• blue;
• "metallic".

 

Important! You should show respect for the patron of 2021 - the Ox, and do not decorate the Christmas tree or the interior of the house with red elements. This color traditionally causes the bull only anger and the desire to destroy everything in its path.

Popular New Year's color combinations for 2021:

• silver and blue;
• white and gold;
• gold and blue.

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

Good news for those who want to be in trend: the colors that "like" the owner of the next year - the Ox - and correspond to the shades of earth, water and grass remain the same as last year, which means that you can leave some of the decorations from the past holiday. Suitable:

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

Step two: choose materials

Preparing for the meeting of 2021, it is worth minimizing the use of traditional materials bought in kiosks and stores - tinsel, plastic balls, garlands. The bull is a noble animal, and in order for jewelry to match the symbol and elements of the year, they must be made from natural and natural materials. Suitable for us:

• tree;

 

• metal;

• stones and minerals;

• clay;
• ceramics and glass;

• paper;

• cones;

 

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

• fruits - tangerines, oranges, apples, dried orange slices;

• the cloth;
• tree bark;

 

• tapes;
• linen cord, thread and yarn;

 

• nuts;
• vine and straw (do-it-yourself compositions made from cones and sheaves of hay are perfect);

 

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

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

You can add elegance to natural accessories with the help of white, gold and silver paint, sparkles in spray 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 who find spruce branches not lush enough can choose pine. 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.

New Year's wreath

The classic attribute of the New Year, which is customary to hang on the front door, has 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 base. The flat base is a cardboard ring 10 cm wide, the voluminous one is a newspaper rolled into a ring.
2. Using a wire and a glue gun, fasten spruce twigs to the base, which should completely cover it. Or decorate the ring with a cloth, beautiful paper, twine, twigs.
3. From above, fix cones, berries, dried flowers, balls, Christmas toys, 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 come up with your own original version!

Table Christmas trees

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

The easiest way to create a small decorative Christmas tree:

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

Christmas candles

Beautiful candles will be a great addition to the New Year's decor. Thematic products in the form of houses, Christmas trees, snowmen and Santa Clauses are not cheap 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.

Suitable for these purposes:

• glasses on thin legs;

• beautiful spices;

• fabric or knitted "shirts";

• rope and thread;
• banks and plain paper;

• natural materials.

Vases with cones

Unusually simple, but spectacular and original decoration. We paint the cones with paint in spray cans in bright colors, if desired, grease with PVA and sprinkle with sparkles, put them in 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 gold-plated cones mixed with nuts and balls of the same colors.

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

paper garlands

No need to think that paper decorations look cheap and undignified. Made by skillful hands, they are admirable. We offer you to choose the most beautiful and stylish paper garlands that you can make yourself or with your children.

 

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

• Stars, snowflakes. 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 the apartment has a fireplace: 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.

A false fireplace can be made from drywall, detailed instructions are here. Such a product is durable and will delight the owners for many years.

For a budget option that will only be used on a holiday, regular cardboard boxes will do.

You can use any materials at hand - plywood, wood and even foam, as in the next photo.

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

Step four: decorate the house

Our main decorations are done, we bought things that we can't make ourselves, like electric garlands. It's time for a fabulous home makeover!

Window

So, how can you decorate windows:

• traditional paper snowflakes glued to glass;

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

• electric flashlights;
• Christmas balls suspended from satin ribbons attached to the 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: a composition made of any materials, laid out in the form of a New Year's tree, will look unusual. It will replace the symbol of the holiday in rooms where they did not put a big 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 itself and on the chandelier.

Festive table

To decorate the New Year's table, you need to choose the right tablecloth. To meet 2021, it is better to use a snow-white or milky tablecloth.

Candles, bows decorating cutlery, festive themed napkins in silver, gold or blue shades 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 Bull.

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, the 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 light bulbs. On a tree 1 m high, at least 100 lights will be required.
• The size of the toys should correspond to the dimensions of the Christmas tree. It is advisable to decorate a large tall tree with large balls, a small one with smaller toys.
• The colors of the Christmas decorations should match the tone of the decor of the room.

 

• The correct placement of decorations will emphasize the natural shape of the Christmas tree: large items should be hung at the bottom and in the middle, small ones should be higher.
• Rain, glass balls, sparkles, artificial snow will help to make a festive tree shiny and sparkling.
• It is better to drape a cross or a bucket of sand in which a Christmas tree is placed with a cloth or disguise it 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 decorate your apartment for the New Year and feel the holiday spirit.If you have interesting decor ideas that you want to share with our readers, please write about them in the comments!

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