The fabulous time of New Year’s miracles is approaching. And, probably, it is no coincidence that for most of the peoples of the world the date of the transition from the old year to the new is set for the middle of winter. Over the long months of monochrome landscapes, the eye manages to miss everything expressive and bright. And here, at the right time, the multicolored New Year’s decorations are suitable: flickering bulbs, dazzling tinsel, multicolored toys and confetti. And the diversity of the plant world will help to make the New Year’s decor stylish, original and truly alive. We bring to your attention bright ideas for New Year’s decor that will help awaken your imagination and stimulate your creative energy.
Simple ideas for decorating an interior for the New Year
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Indoor flowers instead of a Christmas tree
For the New Year holidays, lots of live Christmas trees, grown specifically for interior decoration, are on sale. Also on the shop windows you can find thermophilic indoor plants from the coniferous family – araucaria and dwarf cypress. However, it is not easy to organize wintering for such pets in an apartment, since these plants need high humidity and low temperatures.
But buying new flowers for the new year is not at all necessary, take a closer look at the plants in your home. It is quite possible to show your creativity and decorate as a Christmas tree, for example, Benjamin’s ficus. The resilient branches of this indoor tree can easily withstand garlands, tinsel and small plastic or foam toys.
Ornamental deciduous houseplants, such as coleus, croton, hypoestes, calathea, fittonia, arrowroot and others, are so self-sufficient that they do not need to be covered with tinsel. Such flowers themselves can become a bright center of a composition of spruce branches, decorated with discreet toys and candles.
Tall thorny cacti, house euphorbia and prickly pears during this period become relatives of no less thorny trees, and are also often dressed by some growers in a sparkling outfit. Indeed, the similarity of some succulents with Christmas trees is quite easy to beat by adding bright plastic berries to their crown, toys that imitate icicles, sprinkling with dry artificial snow.
Note: it is better not to apply wet aerosol “snow”, sold in cans, to live indoor flowers. As you remember, the entire vegetative mass of plants is covered with pores, which well absorb everything that falls on their surface. The composition of these chemical sprays, at least, is not useful, and can interfere with the process of plant respiration or even lead to their death.
The resemblance of some succulents to Christmas trees is quite easy to beat. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Lyudmila Svetlitskaya
As a Christmas tree, you can dress up Benjamin’s ficus. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Lyudmila Svetlitskaya
Coleus in the center of the New Year’s composition. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Lyudmila Svetlitskaya
Spotlight on bulbous forcing crops
Fresh flowers to decorate the festive table are sometimes grown specifically for the New Year’s holiday. For these purposes, they resort to the help of bulbous forcing crops. The color scheme of the holiday will best fit bulbous with a flower color that matches the traditional backgrounds of the holiday: white (daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, galanthuses), blue-violet (muscari, hyacinths, crocuses, iris net), red (hippeastrum, some varieties of hyacinths ).
Of course, primroses are not able to instantly open up in the middle of winter, as in the fairy tale “Twelve Months”. It is always necessary to cook the bulbs in advance, the average time it will take for the plants to rest before flowering is three months. During this period, plantings are in the refrigerator, on a cool balcony or in the basement.
Depending on the type, variety and temperature in the apartment, after you transfer the bulbs to the warmth, flowering will begin in a period of two weeks to a month. Therefore, it is not always easy to make the perfect timing and make the flowers bloom on New Year’s or Christmas Day. But even if gentle arrows barely appeared from the ground, this does not prevent the inclusion of primroses in the composition.
If on the eve of the holiday you purchased flowering bulbs, or your plantings bloomed ahead of time, keeping them at a low temperature will help to prolong their flowering. To do this, you can, for example, put them in the refrigerator overnight or on a cool loggia (without freezing temperatures), and in the daytime, protect them from direct sunlight and not place them near heating appliances. Such a technique will allow the flowers not to bloom ahead of time and become an original decoration of the festive table.
Poinsettia and hyacinths are a great alternative to the Christmas tree
In a cool room, hyacinths can bloom for a month. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Kevin Lee Jacobs
Even if the delicate arrows barely appeared, this does not interfere with the inclusion of primroses in the New Year’s compositions. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com mxliving
Christmas decor from dry branches
Decorations based on dry branches will look no less stylish indoors and in the garden. For small bouquets, twisted branches of some varieties of willows (matsudana, Ural twisted) or hazel “Kontorta” are well suited; for greater persuasiveness, they can be silvered with “frost”, covered with acrylic paint and sprinkled with artificial snow. It is appropriate to plant small decorative birds on winter branches, hang plastic icicles and add a little tinsel.
Even small “trees” can be created from large branches, which are decorated with a garland and toys. In order to firmly fix the branches in a pot intended for decorating rooms, you can fill a planter with alabaster branches installed in it. But at the same time it is important that the container has no holes and is made of plastic, because brittle bowls can crack during the setting of the gypsum.
The most convenient in this regard are old pine branches, since they are quite thick, have an interesting structure and, most importantly, do not leave debris, due to the absence, as a rule, of bark. Particularly large branches can be fixed to the wall. Such a stylish decoration will be a highlight of the interior throughout the year, and on New Year’s holidays it is easy to hang charming glass lanterns with a small burning candle inside on thick branches.
Large branches can be used to create small “trees” that are decorated with garlands and toys. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Lyudmila Svetlitskaya
New Year’s decor based on dry branches is very stylish. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Cox & Cox
It is appropriate to hang toys and New Year’s tinsel on winter branches. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Jasmine Hayat
Pumpkin as the basis of New Year’s compositions
The most beautiful and many-sided truly winter vegetable – pumpkin, is successfully used for interior decoration as an independent bright element, or as a composition and material for various crafts.
The rounded shape of the fruit encourages the creation of funny snowmen from pumpkins. As you know, only a few varieties of this vegetable have a natural white color. Acrylic paints or coloring aerosols will help to solve this issue. Pumpkins are easily connected with each other using thin studs or pieces of wire, you can also easily attach carrot noses and beady eyes. Larger fruits are easier to plant on a thin iron rod, which can be purchased at a hardware store.
By the time of the New Year holidays, small decorative pumpkins of decorative varieties are already completely dry, becoming light and completely empty inside. This property allows these fruits to be used as original Christmas tree decorations and lanterns. Pumpkins can be painted in any color, painted with patterns, decorated with sequins, beads and sparkles. Children can decorate balloons according to their rich imagination.
New Year’s decor of pumpkin. Farmer Burea-Uinsurance.com Lyudmila Svetlitskaya
Dear readers! Hope these simple home decorating ideas for the New Year will inspire you to create your own Christmas decor.
For more ideas, see the material 50 bright DIY Christmas decor ideas.
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