New Year Decor 2019: Ideas, Hacks, and T...

In this article, we will guide you on how to beautifully decorate your apartment or house for the New Year, what mistakes to avoid, and what to pay attention to.

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New Year Decor

Every person, especially a designer, has their own unique perspective on New Year decor. However, there are some things that designers tend to agree on: for example, their love for unusual Christmas trees. Of course, you have seen trees hung upside down, as well as Christmas trees made of balls, bookshelves, lollipops, and even egg cartons. In this article, we will tell you how to properly decorate your apartment or house for the New Year holidays, what mistakes to avoid, and what to pay attention to.

Why do designers dislike ordinary Christmas trees?

Artificial trees look unconvincing and have no scent, while real trees shed their needles.
Christmas decorations are usually very mismatched; they lack a unified style and color scheme.
Designers enjoy when the perspective on familiar things changes, revealing new meanings. A green tree adorned with bright balls, garlands, and tinsel is not original.
The Christmas tree is a powerful visual dominant that overshadows other decorative elements.
Decorating a space should be comprehensive, highlighting the advantages of the area and creating accents.

How to make stylish handmade decorations?

Just before the New Year, children start their holidays, and adults have long festive weekends. This is a great opportunity for the whole family to create a festive atmosphere at home: decorate the tree and make decorations for it by hand. How can you come up with Christmas ornaments that won’t look tacky and will create a harmonious overall picture?

Beautiful Decorations for New Year

As a source of ideas, you can use the website pinterest.com.
Before you start making an ornament, sketch a preliminary design.
Limit yourself in color and artistic techniques.
Invite someone with taste to participate in the festive decoration: for example, a relative or friend.
Start decorating your home in advance, not at the last minute.
Take photos of the ornaments you made by hand and consult with professionals on forums and social media.
Don’t hesitate to copy successful solutions from others.

In New Year decoration, don’t limit yourself to just one room or only the apartment. If you live in a multi-story building, hang decorations in your stairwell or block. If you have a private house, decorate the facade and the yard. This way, you will expand the boundaries of the festive atmosphere and share the joyful mood with those around you.

Decorating the apartment for New Year: designer tips

Reduce the number of colors in the interior. Use a minimal number of shades in New Year decoration.
For decorations, choose shades that are already present in the interior as accent colors.
Do not treat New Year decoration formally. Instead of directly displaying New Year attributes, you can use a more subtle approach.
The decor you choose for the tree can also be used to decorate windows, doorways, stairs, and the fireplace. Often, such touches look unusual and fresh.
There are a number of enduring images that create a New Year atmosphere: cleanliness, airiness, lace-like designs, northern lights, sparkle, and matte translucence.
There is a color palette associated with Christmas or New Year: white, red, green, gold.
Shapes associated with New Year imagery include pyramids and spheres.
In 2019, decorate something else instead of a tree, something large and triangular. Decorate this element with your crafts: for example, a multitude of paper airplanes or other origami.
New Year decoration looks interesting when it consists of many different elements. To relieve the overload on perception, this diversity should be subordinated to a single principle. For example, an abundance of decorations can be unified by a single neutral color, while monotony can be compensated with varied and possibly colorful lighting.
3D ornaments made from New Year origami will look modern if they are small in size and have a restrained color palette.
New Year decorations should not “overwhelm” the architecture of the space they are in, so they should be airy, neutral in color, or few in number.
In private homes, it makes sense to decorate a live tree in the yard or buy a potted tree to later transplant it into the ground. You can find many ideas on how to decorate your home for the New Year in American Christmas films.

New Year Wreath on the Door

Establish your unique New Year traditions.
It is recommended to start decorating your home for the New Year with details that are already dominant in the interior: fireplace, aquarium, staircase, chandelier.
Make a real art object instead of a tree.
New Year decorations should create a rhythmic pattern – a kind of three-dimensional ornament.
If you don’t know how to decorate your home for the New Year, play with lighting. The right light creates a festive mood better than any decor.
The style of the interior and decorations should either match or harmoniously combine.
A good New Year interior must have a clear semantic and visual center, to which the other accents should be subordinate. Sometimes it is worth muting the dominant element, making it more restrained. If the tree does not fit well into the interior, make it less flashy. As an option, use few decorations of one neutral color.
Don’t forget about symmetry, which is important not only for humans but also for interiors. For the home decoration to look stylish, the right and left sides of the room should be equally filled with decor. This rule is not strict.
Use “quotation.” Specialists recommend choosing one color shade as an accent in the festive decoration of the entire home or apartment. Repeat a limited number of techniques and ornaments in different manifestations and contexts.
When to start decorating your home for the New Year? In Europe, this process starts earlier, as homes are primarily decorated for Christmas. In Russia, the main winter holiday is considered to be New Year, so it is not too late to start decorating the apartment in mid-December.
Use dark corners of the house to create festive light installations.

New Year Decorations from Different Countries

If you don’t know how to beautifully decorate your home or apartment, you can draw ideas from the New Year traditions of other countries. What ornaments are accepted abroad?

In Canada – angels, stars, and striped candy canes.
In Mexico – decorations in the shape of human skulls.
The Japanese build ice sculptures. For decoration, they use folded paper “cranes,” paper fans, lanterns, and bells.
In Sweden – straw toys.
In Germany, they love Christmas ornaments in the shape of nutcrackers.
In Ireland, Christmas ornaments are usually green.
In England, decorations made from mistletoe in the form of wreaths are very popular.
In China – various paper products: lanterns, garlands, flowers.

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