Ideas for New Year’s apartment decoration: how to create a festive atmosphere?

Windowsill

Often the first thing your eyes fall on when entering a room is the window. Start by decorating the windowsill, removing the flowers and replacing them with New Year’s decor. Paper cities with garland lighting, decorative Christmas trees, and branches in a vase will look beautiful.

You can make candlesticks with your own hands by placing a candle in a glass container with a wide neck and pouring walnuts around it. The jar should be complemented with twine or ribbon. The composition in red and green tones will look very New Year’s.

Window

Add some magic by decorating your window with snowflakes or painting the glass with white paint. Replacing them with improvised means is easy: mix toothpaste with water until thick and start creating. You can use pre-cut stencils.

If you decide to decorate your tree in an unconventional way this year, balls will come in handy for decorating the window. Several pieces can be hung on the cornice by lengthening the threads.

Walls

Fill empty areas of the walls with homemade garlands. There are many options: paper stars strung on a long thread, Christmas tree decorations, dried orange slices, bows and tassels. If the walls are covered with wallpaper, attach the decoration to pins with balls, carefully pushing them under the canvas.

Create an unusual Christmas tree from branches and threads, complementing it with garlands and hanging it on the wall. Relevant for those who do not put up a live or artificial Christmas tree.

Shelves

To decorate wall shelves or a rack, you need to free up enough space for New Year’s decor so that it does not “get lost” among everyday things. Use the method of storing books with the covers facing inward: your trees and houses will stand out well against the plain background of the pages.

Create your own New Year’s lamp: put balls and pine cones in a wide glass vase, complementing the composition with a thin battery-operated garland.

Soft furniture

Don’t ignore the sofa, bed and armchairs: bright pillows with a New Year theme will attract attention and add coziness to the interior. Pillowcases are easy to sew with your own hands using unnecessary clothes: after the holiday, they are simply removed and put away until next year.

Tie a decorative pillow with a contrasting ribbon and add an accent detail: a spruce branch, a felt toy, a festive paper tag – this way the product will resemble a wrapped gift.

Coffee table

An empty coffee table in the center of the room is a great base for New Year’s decor. Take a tray, place candles on it, put fir branches and shiny toys: the festive composition is ready!

An interesting decoration is easy to create yourself. Make a cone from thin cardboard, apply PVA glue and wrap the figure with thick threads. Decorate the tree with beads or sequins.

Door

The easiest way to decorate a door is to tie a few pine cones with a ribbon and hang the composition on a self-adhesive hook. But a real New Year’s wreath, which is often used to decorate the interior, will look more picturesque.

There are many options for creating it: Christmas tree decorations, bows, artificial poinsettia flowers and pine cones can be glued either to a cardboard circle or to a woven base of branches.

Chest of drawers

You can also decorate the top of the chest of drawers: in addition to original candlesticks and decorative lanterns, you can put a vase with live spruce branches. A coniferous bouquet with a pleasant aroma will bring a festive atmosphere to the house.

To decorate the chest of drawers in the children’s room, create a three-dimensional craft in a frame with your child. Make 10 tassels from threads and glue them to paper to form a fluffy Christmas tree.

Fireplace

If you have a fireplace, put a spruce garland on the shelf, complement it with decorative houses, knitted socks – and the festive mood will not keep you waiting. But if you don’t have a fireplace, you can easily make one yourself from boxes.

Even the most laconic portal with a garland inside will create a sense of wonder, and assembling it will bring no less joy than decorating a Christmas tree.

Chandelier

If the design of the ceiling chandelier allows, decorate it with one or several bunches of shiny balls: the light reflected from them will create beautiful highlights, adding magical notes to the atmosphere.

You can also hang light paper garlands of snowflakes, stars or cotton balls on the chandelier to imitate snow.

Kitchen

Free up some space on your kitchen countertop to create a festive mood where the magic of cooking happens and where family members often gather. Place a deep plate in a prominent place and fill it with tangerines: their fresh smell will instantly take you back to childhood and evoke pleasant memories.

An advanced option is to create a candy bar in the kitchen. Place transparent jars with cocoa, marshmallows and sweets on a tray so that your family or guests can treat themselves to a hot winter drink.

Dining Table

Replace your usual tablecloth with a New Year’s one or put a runner with a bright pattern on the table. Even something as small as winter-themed napkins can add a festive touch to an ordinary dinner. And compositions of pine cones, fir branches and candles on the dining table are a guaranteed way to transform the atmosphere, because the table is considered the central element of the kitchen.

These simple budget ideas will help prolong the pleasure of the holiday, create a New Year’s mood for you and your loved ones, and also please guests.