Christmas tree is one of the main symbols of the new year. Therefore, to create a festive mood, most people prefer to install a living tree in their home. To decorate it, both purchased toys are used and self-made.
Regulations
Before you begin to decorate a tree, you need to find an ideal place for it in the house.
A fir must be installed so that it does not interfere with anyone from households. It is usually located at the wall or in the corner.
Do not put a tree next to the battery. This will lead to the fact that his needles quickly yellow and begin to crumble.
Choosing a suitable place for the Christmas tree, It is necessary to check the stability of its base. In this case, it will not fall at the most inopportune moment.
When decorating the Christmas tree, it is worth adhere to certain rules.
- The real fir should decorate the minimum amount of toys. If there are too many too much, the branches will turn under the severity of the balls and figures.
- The first thing on the Christmas tree or pine hire garlands. Do not put them on the very edge of the branches. So they may accidentally fall from them.
- Hanging toys are also needed with the mind. First you need to choose a place for the largest balls. After that, you can hang more minor figures. To the tree looked beautiful, large balls are recommended to be located below, and small ones.
- Mishur and beads are used to fill emptiness. You should not take too many decorative ribbons and threads with beads.
Listening to these ordinary tips, you can decorate the living tree with your own hands no worse than professional designers.
Color selection
When making a Christmas tree, which will stand at home during all New Year holidays, you need to use the right color gamut. There are several basic ways to combine colors.
- Monochrome tones . Fans of minimalism will like a spruce decorated in bright colors. On the branches of a living tree will be beautifully looking toys and tinsel white and silver flowers. Such a composition of monotonous LED garlands will complement.
- Related colors . A Christmas tree will look stylish for the decoration of which related colors are used. So called shades that are near the color circle. Beautiful eagle decoration in red-purple or green and blue color.
- Contrast shades . You can dress the tree using contrast tones. New Year's beauty, decorated in a red-green or yellow-purple color scheme, looks very bright and immediately attracts the attention of all guests at home.
Choosing suitable colors for decoration ate, it is worth considering the features of the interior of the room in which the tree will be installed. When placing the Christmas tree, it is important to take into account not only the popularity of the selected style, but also their personal preferences.
Stand design
Having finished with the decoration of the tree, you can proceed to the design of the stand on which there is a fir. As a rule, the cross is decorated in several ways.
- Mishuroy . This material is ideal for decorating the stand. As a rule, the base of ate is decorated with white or silver tinsel. In this case, it looks like a real snow.
- Textile . Now on sale there are special "skirts", which sew from crashing colored fabric. Most often, they are decorated with various New Year patterns or images of familiar characters. The same "skirt" can be easily made at home. All that is needed is a piece of fabric suitable size and some free time.
- Basket . Beautifully looking at special baskets or pots without bottom. They are most often used if the tree was decorated in country style or Scandinavian.
Free space under the Christmas tree can also be filled with boxes from last year's gifts. In this case, the New Year's composition will look even more elegant.
Stylistics
Tree is recommended in one style. The most popular today are several stylistic directions.
- Scandinavian . This style is ideal for the design of live trees. It is close as possible to nature. When designing a New Year's beauties, it is worth using a minimum number of decorative parts. To emphasize the natural beauty of green spruce helps garlands with transparent glass light bulbs and simple monophonic balls. Extraly on its branches will also look simple bows or clusters of red winter berries.
- Country . Fans of this style prefer to decorate spruce natural accessories. For her decoration, wood figures are suitable, simple bows, cinnamon sticks or citrus slices. Such simple details can be found at home or in the country.
- Floristic . This style will like romantic, as well as those who even misses warm summer days. Christmas tree, decorated with flowers, looks modern and stylish. For her decoration, you can use flowers made by your own hands.
White buds or red poinsettia are particularly beautifully looking.
- Shebbi-Shik . This stylistic direction is also popular among romantics. The tree is decorated with plenty of vintage toys, colored bow and sweets. When placing a tree, details are used in one color.
- American . This style is now popular worldwide. Spruce decorates in red and green colors. In addition to toys and bows, gingerbread and lollipops hang on her branches.
Decor
To decorate the fashion tree are used Different types of Christmas decorations.Tinsel
Tradition to decorate the Christmas tree by Mishuroy appeared in the XVII century. It was produced from thinly sliced silver sheets. Now Mishur enjoys the same popularity as a few centuries ago. You can see the decorations made in a variety of colors. . Mishuur can be used to decorate both the branches of ate and the stand on which it is located.
Beads
In addition to tinsel, to decorate modern firs used and Beads . You can buy them in the store or make yourself. The buc selection depends on what style the tree is drawn up. Wooden beads fit perfectly in Scandinavian style. Christmas tree decorated Country style You can decorate with almy berries on the threads.
Garlands
Create a magic atmosphere in these holidays helps and garlands. They can be both monophonic and multi-colored. Light girlands with unusual light bulbs are now very popular.
Dolls
Original on the branches of live spruce look and Christmas dolls . To the New Year's tree looks especially attractive, it is worth decorating handmade products. They can be bought on some fair, order at the master or do it yourself.
New Year's fir can be decorated in the style of your favorite movie, a series or fairy tales. Figures with the image of acquaintances to all characters beautifully look at the lush branches.
Decorative figures
Cute figures made of wood or paper were used to decorate Christmas trees a lot of centuries in a row. They can be made in the form hearts or cute animals . Such figures look perfectly on the branches of firs, decorated Country style.
Christmas balls
The most popular modern decorations are New Year's balls. To decorate a fir, you can use both ordinary monophonic toys and products painted manually. A good tradition will be the creation of original balls in a family circle. For a couple of years, you can collect a whole collection of such exquisite toys.
Colored ribbons
Christmas tree decorated with colored ribbons, looks like a real New Year's gift. Most often of them form bulk bows that are rolled right on the branches. Such decorations are perfectly suitable for Christmas trees decorated in American or Scandinavian style. You can choose both monophonic tapes, and decorated with sparkles.
Edible decorations
The first Christmas trees in Russia decorated with nuts, wrapped in golden foil, candy, apples and other delicacies. Now such decorations are also popular. The ate is decorated with candy ginger gingerbread and mandarins. Beautiful on the branches of a tree, dried slices of lemons and oranges look.
Salt dough crafts
Original decorations for fir can even make a child. From salt dough, both bulk figures and flat . After modeling, such blanks are dried in the oven, and then paint in the right colors. The only one minus Such toys is that they are not stored for a long time. But the children will gladly make new figures next year.
Beautiful examples
When placing the Christmas tree, you can use as inspiration ideas that have already been used in practice.
Beautifully will look a big tree, decorated with toys of all colors of the rainbow. Such an option will accurately like those who love experiments.
Luxurious and stylishly looks a tree, decorated with golden ribbons and toys of the same color. The tree is perfectly combined with the rest of the interior details.
No less impressive looks and lively A tree decorated with white toys, flowers and bows. Such a fir looks as if she grew up in a fabulous forest.
Any of these examples can be supplemented with some details. In this case, the tree will look luxurious and original.
