We decorate windows for the New Year
Most families happily decorate their homes before the New Years. After that, the house is filled with special comfort and warmth. In the article we will tell you how you can decorate the windows yourself for the New Year.
Design features
New Year's holidays bring real magic to the house, especially if the home is beautifully and elegantly decorated in advance. In such an environment it will be very comfortable and pleasant not only for children, but also for adults. Fortunately, today people have everything they can to decorate their home in an original, spectacular and festive way. The stores sell a great variety of decorative balls, candles, tinsel and other similar products, thanks to which the home interior begins to play with completely different colors.
You can decorate not only a Christmas tree and various pieces of furniture, but also windows.
With such decorations, the environment will look very unusual and positive. Moreover, it is not always necessary to spend a lot of money for this type of decoration. Many jewelry can be easily and simply made with your own hands, without spending a lot of free time on it.
Window decoration for the New Year will surely attract the attention of others and guests. Very often simple, but neatly made decorations look rich and bright. When creating and selecting beautiful New Year's decorations, households can be creative and let their imagination go free - there can be almost any composition. The main thing is to withstand the New Year theme to create a festive mood.
Variety of decorations
A variety of details can serve as a window decoration for the New Year.Beautiful decor is obtained from plain paper. Some owners prefer to make intricate compositions and appliqués on the window panes, or to effectively decorate window sills. There are a lot of options on how to implement this kind of design. Let's get acquainted with the most popular and attractive solutions.
From paper
Paper Christmas decorations are rightfully recognized as one of the most popular and beloved by many people. Both adults and children can make them with their own hands. It is enough to carefully cut and attach such details to the windows - and the home environment will immediately come to life.
Most often, it is white paper that is used to cut out New Year's decorations, since it stands out the most against the general background and attracts a lot of attention.
From it you can cut not only various shapes of snowflakes, but also various figures and whole plots, consisting of many elements.
Let's take a look at some helpful tips for decorating windows with paper cutouts.
- The templates and stencils that you decide to choose for the future decoration of window structures must be pre-printed and then cut out as accurately as possible. Try to act without haste so that all the details are neat and even.
- Before attaching the made paper decorations, the window panes will need to be wiped thoroughly so that they are completely dry. Watch out for this nuance, as it plays an important role. If this moment is missed, the cut-out figures run the risk of not holding onto the windows.
- After that, one of the sides of the prepared drawings will need to be smeared with ordinary soapy water and attached to the window glass.
Drawings and plots prepared from paper specifically for window designs can be very different. It is advisable to think in advance about what kind of composition you want to apply to the windows in order to get more interesting results with a certain idea.
When making paper decorations with your own hands, it is recommended to proceed step by step. Take your time and don't be discouraged if the first details don't work out the way you want them to.
Light
The most spectacular and bright New Year's decorations can be formed using light components. Many different types of garlands are sold in stores today. Thanks to them, window structures can shine with a rich light, which will delight the eye and households, and those people who pass by the decorated dwelling. This is how the festive mood is created.
The most spectacular lighting decoration is the so-called shining curtain. Such decoration looks especially catchy and enchanting on large windows. Light bulbs can glow in different colors, or they can emit only one specific color, for example, white or yellow.
The owners can turn on different modes of flashing of the garlands installed on the windows. If the bulbs are made in the form of small stars and at the same time they flicker, it will turn out to achieve a fabulous effect.
Another option for light decoration of window structures is a garland made of mesh. Such products are like a large fishing net with shining lights attached to it. Such decorations are often used not only to complement windows, but also for doorways, stairs or building facades.
Balls
If you want to decorate the windows in the house in a special way, you can use charming Christmas balls for this. Often they are fixed in the upper part of the window opening so that they descend neatly, while you can fix several balls in a row, or you can do it differently.
It will be interesting to look at the descending tinsel, to which shiny balls are attached along the entire length. In addition to them, you can attach other decorations to the tinsel, for example, hanging stars. Such decor will look very original and make the atmosphere cozy.
You can hang along the top of the window not only glass, but also plastic or paper balls. To make such a decoration look more interesting, it is worth complementing the balls with beads of bright colors, hanging socks and stockings in the New Year's style. The compositions are perky and bright.
Another interesting solution is to tie long strings or threads to the Christmas-tree shiny balls and also attach them to the top of the window opening. Then the Christmas tree decorations will descend lower and attract more attention. You can hang more balls in this way (they can be either one-color or multi-colored). The decor will turn out to be minimalistic, but very attractive.
The balls that decorate the window will look more interesting and brighter if you hang them not on ordinary ropes or threads, but on colorful ribbons. In this case, balls can also be chosen multi-colored, for example, white, purple, blue, pink. Such compositions are very simple to perform, but they look impressive.
Other
There are many more fun ways to decorate windows for the New Year. Let's take a look at some of them.
- Any decor, be it balls, glued snowflakes or ribbons falling down, will look much more elegant and thoughtful if you complete it with a window sill decoration. Place several cute candles, themed figurines, mini-Christmas trees on its surface. All of the listed details can be made by hand - it is not at all necessary to spend money.
- To decorate window openings, you can use not only balls and tinsel, but also large lush bows. They can be fixed in several places or only in one, for example, in the center of the opening. The color of this element can be any. For example, in an ensemble with red, silver and gold balls, a large blue bow will look harmonious.
- You can also decorate the window like this: attach large hanging stars to the upper part of the opening, and place small houses on the windowsill, similar to gingerbread from a fairy tale. Such a New Year's window decor will surely bring warmth and comfort to the interior.
- Window glass can be pasted over not only with snowflakes cut out of white paper, but also with the image of a tall elegant Christmas tree with many small details - cut out lights and balls. The composition will be more expressive and attractive than options in which no Christmas tree is provided.
- If you like original solutions and natural scents, you can decorate the window with pine cones attached to threads or strings. Additional cones attached to improvised stumps placed on the windowsill will complete this creative decor. Such decor will look funny, it will definitely cheer up guests and household members. It can be supplemented with small candles on the surface of the windowsill.
How to draw pictures?
For the New Year, beautiful festive drawings are often painted on the windows. Such decor always looks interesting and original, because it depends solely on the idea of the owners. You can use different means to apply different images.
Most often, people depict different pictures on glass:
- marker;
- paints;
- gouache;
- toothpaste.
The most common option is gouache. Using it, you can draw very bright and colorful pictures. By itself, such paint easily and without problems lies on the glass surface. If necessary, it can be washed off just as easily and quickly by cleaning the windows.
The only drawback of this method is that the gouache is often curled up.
Ordinary toothpaste is also a good solution for drawings. If you use it, you can achieve an interesting effect of frost, frozen surface. When necessary, the resulting image can be easily cleaned from the surface of the window panes using only water. True, the toothpaste will allow you to make only a single-color image, which is a significant disadvantage for those users who have planned to make multi-color drawings on the windows. There are pastes that contain dyes, but you still cannot achieve the same effect as in the case of gouache.
You will get beautiful drawings on the windows if you use special markers.
They are also easily washed off glass substrates. But the same cannot be said about simple stationery markers, so you should not experiment with such "tools" - you can spoil the windows or spend a lot of time later on deleting what was drawn.
Consider, as an example, how you can independently draw a beautiful picture on glass using toothpaste. To do this, you need to take:
- the toothpaste itself;
- a toothbrush;
- water;
- brush;
- sponge;
- fabric (to remove imperfections in the picture);
- a wooden stick for drawing details.
The algorithm of actions consists of several steps.
- Cut out a small piece of the sponge. Select the size of the part so that it is convenient for you to use it.
- Dispense the selected toothpaste into a separate reservoir. Mix it well.
- Gently dip the cut sponge into the mixed toothpaste. Then draw the outlines of the future drawing with which you planned to decorate the window.
- Contouring is unlikely to be easy. As a rule, this process turns out to be quite laborious due to the fact that the lines usually "wag" strongly.
- Then you will need to take a brush. Using it, make the drawn lines clearer and more correct. And also with the help of a brush, it will be possible to draw all the small details and image elements that cannot be applied with a sponge. At this stage, you can also use a wooden stick.
- If you are not sure that you can draw a really beautiful "work of art", and your talents are not enough, you can use a stencil prepared in advance. Then it will be easier to draw pictures.
- With a toothbrush, you can paint small splashes on the glass - this will imitate frost.
Image Ideas
To decorate the windows in the house for the New Year holidays, you can refer to a huge number of images. Let's consider the most popular and beautiful ideas:
- classic - do-it-yourself snowflakes from white paper, but along with them, carved houses with snow-covered roofs, proud deer, balls and other cute animals can also be attached to the windows;
- using gouache or multi-colored special markers, the owners can draw various fairy-tale characters and animals, such as snowmen, penguins, deer, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden and others;
- all sorts of intricate patterns, simple and complex in execution, will look spectacular on the windows - it can be either elements cut out of paper or hand-painted painting;
- if you want to depict unusual pictures on the windows, you can draw cartoon characters (for example, Umka the bear), Snow Maiden, whose fur coat consists entirely of beautiful snowflakes, city silhouettes and outlines;
- a window decorated with painted bullfinches, which should be brightly decorated with appropriate paints, will look spectacular and original.
Of course, this is not the end of all the possible image ideas for window designs. Households can depict other drawings on the glass that they like best. Sketches can be both light and more complex - it all depends on the creativity and imagination of the person.
Beautiful examples
Decorating windows in the house for the New Year is a very interesting and creative activity. Here all family members can express themselves by coming up with a very original, bright decoration. Let's take a look at a few good and smart examples.
- Large windows in the house will look very festive and elegant if you stick large figures of fairy-tale characters and snowflakes on the glass. The completion of this decor will be shining garlands. Most often they are attached directly to window structures, but this is not the only possible option. The garlands can be installed exactly around the opening.
- A window will look beautiful, from the top of which thin ribbons or threads with shiny stars hang. A red woven fabric should be placed on the windowsill. Arranged figures will look spectacular on it: figurines of small snowmen, imitation of light Christmas trees, a figure of Santa Claus sitting on a New Year's gift. Of course, the figurines can be different, but it is better that they be sustained in the New Year's theme.
- If you want to decorate the window as brightly and effectively as possible, you can attach small soft hearts and stars sewn from fabric of bright colors to the frame. On the windowsill, it is worth spreading material that imitates snow, for example, a thick layer of cotton wool. An artificial Christmas tree twig laid next to it will be useful. On the windowsill, you can put a lantern with a candle exposed inside, and next to this element you can place wooden figurines of stars or figurines of New Year's fairy-tale heroes.
- It is not at all necessary to decorate the windowsill. Decorations can only be placed on top of the window structure. Hanging down wreaths of spruce branches (natural or artificial), fixed with bright red elegant ribbons, will look original and unusual.
If you wish, you can complete the decoration with a small figurine of a deer and a gift in red packaging on the windowsill.
- An elegant and magnificent firebird, made up of a large number of intricate snowflakes, will look spectacular on the window glass. Next to it, you can stick a congratulatory inscription cut out of paper. Such a composition will be quite laborious to perform, but its beauty is worth it.
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